Well…when I was searching for some cheap whole coffee beans, I went into the comments for the Hills Brothers beans that I did buy and it made me laugh…I mean what did they expect? Some of the criticism would fit any whole beans that sit around for a while like “the aroma goes away after a couple of weeks” or “not as smooth as I hoped it would be”…I guess I have the luxury of history when I saw these…that my mother used to drink Hills Brothers, making it in her percolater that she put on the burner on the stove…and I can still remember the noise it made and watching the coffee splashing in the little glass window on the top of it…I know it’s difficult for us drinkers when coffee beans that used to be 13 bucks are now 39 but I look on the search for affordable beans to be a little fun and I do anticipate getting the beans in a couple of weeks and trying them…I know me losing my sense of taste is both a blessing and a curse…I can’t taste the things I want to but I also can’t taste the bitterness that comes with cheap coffee…after all, it’s just a CDS (caffeine delivery system) to me anyway…I do feel for people trying to deal with the stupid inflation of coffee caused by idiot boy’s tariffs…but I think they need to temper their expectations…after all, brisket in Texas is up to 49 bucks a pound and they could be paying that…
June 1st
Well…another month starts and I’m starting this without coffee as I wait for the pour over to finish…I did a little looking and last month was the most prolific I’ve been here since I started doing this years ago…does that have any significance? Nope…just had stuff to say last month that I’m not sure will continue in June…we’ll see…okay, I need to go pour coffee…that’s better…I did sleep okay last night and I had dreams about house fires and trying to save my house from it…weird…is dreaming worth it? Yep, it means I got into REM sleep that I very seldom accomplish anymore as I get older…it’s only 51 again here this morning so I will be waiting a while to go out on the bike and that still sucks no matter how many times it happens…I will get to the first 1,000 miles on the bike outdoors this morning and I feel like such a slug that it took so long..still over 1,000 miles behind where I was last year at this time and I’m still going to blame the crappy cold weather…I am still stressed out about having to renew my driver’s license in person tomorrow and take an eye test that I’m not sure I’m going to pass…my eyesight has gotten much better since I stopped drinking but it’s not what it used to be as is everything with this almost 73 year old body…and it doesn’t help that the inflammation in my eyelids has flared and I had to use the ointment on them…oh, well…the thing that pisses me off is the SOS lying and saying that I need to go there in person to get a “new photo” since the last one is 8 years old…no one really likes old people…not much to do today…just need to activate the new Capital One card if it comes…and hope my exhaustion doesn’t come back today…oh, and I need to run out to Aldis to get a loaf of bread to replace the one that went moldy…not having bread here is kind of strange…more later
The country says no and the idiot whines..
Well…what a whiny baby the idiot trump has shown he is throughout his life and he kept that up this week when almost every entertainer bailed on his DC trumpfest after they found out he was turning it into a maga rally…and of course, he whined his ass off about it saying “maybe we should just cancel it” showing he had no intent of these concerts being to celebrate 250 years of the US but to “celebrate” his awesomeness…poor baby…and he did the same thing earlier in the week when a judge ordered his name to be taken off the Kennedy Center and the gutting of it halted so idiot boy couldn’t turn it into a gaudy, tasteless monument to himself…and his response to the ruling was more whining…”I guess I’ll just turn it back over to the congress and let them deal with it”…whiny, whiny baby…how the hell do you get to 80 years old and whine like a toddler? I sure hope that the idiots who are enabling this crap get their names permanently tarred by history and hauled into the courts after idiot boy is gone…they are not immune and there are going to be a lot of disbarred lawyers working at BK…geez…
I’m exhausted…
Well…damn, just fell asleep reading a book and that just never happens…and all of a sudden I feel so exhausted that I just don’t know what happened to cause this…I mean all I did was get the two rides in today and that was about it…but, I didn’t make extra coffee this morning so I only had 3 cups and I guess that’s not enough…oh, well…after I saw that the Lavazza coffee beans I bought a couple of weeks ago for 21 bucks for 35 ozs has soared to almost 30 bucks, I decided to see if I could find any affordable beans anymore and laughed out loud when I came across some Hills Bros Arabica beans for 11 bucks for 32 ozs…and even though my mother drank that 65 years ago, I took the chance and bought a bag…I mean it’s a dark roast whole bean Arabica so how bad could it be? Still can’t taste the coffee much but I am used to what little taste I have of the whole bean stuff and how big of a risk is 11 bucks? One weird thing is it won’t be here for 2 weeks even using prime…oh, well…still have tons to use until then…
Why doesn’t this happen here?
Well…going off on a lighter note this morning to talk about the meteor that came in over the northeast yesterday…a double bioom was reported and I just watched a 15 second video that had the sound on it and it was pretty loud…NASA says that the meteor was about 3 feet across and hit the atmosphere at 75,000 mph…the explosion was the equivalent of 300 tons of TNT…and my only question is: “why doesn’t that happen here?” It would be so cool to see/hear something like this as long as it doesn’t hit anyone or cause damage like the Russian meteor did 15 years or so ago…I just love natural phenomena and I still remember the earthquake I felt when I was having lunch with T at the Cantina in GR…shook like a huge truck was driving by and we bounced up and down for a few seconds…and that is really unusual for Michigan with no fault lines anywhere in the state…I wonder if I should hold up a target with the caption “hit here?” I would if it would work…
May 31st
Well…at this rate, I’m not going to be able to go swimming until August this year if at all…it’s only 47 degrees right now and I can’t believe it’s this cold and tomorrow it’s June…and this sucks since I love the water…oh, well…up at 5am again today but it’s too damn cold to go out on the bike til about 9am and I’ll still have to have long pants and some layers on top…I really do think this is a record for these things for a month and I’m not sure why I did so many…hmmm…going to have to cook something today and I’m leaning toward making one of the 4 cheese pizzas I got for 1.29 since I didn’t thaw anything else and don’t feel like pasta…had a new loaf of bread go moldy on me yesterday so the squirrels are going to have a lot of treats out there for a few days…with all the power outages and the trip coming up, I bought a new power bank that will charge everything I have a few times over before it needs to be recharged itself…can’t have too much power…and I bought batteries for my watch for 3.99 for 10 of them and that is just strange when locally they are 4.99 each…and now I have a 40 year old cheap watch running again and I’m not sure when I’ll use it…getting the time from my phone has become such a habit that I’m not sure if I’ll break that…and I got this watch from my father in law 40 or 45 years ago so it does have a little sentimental value…not much to do today…got the door mats cleaned yesterday so I really don’t have a lot to do today but let the temp come up and get the rides in and cook…more later…
Another power outage…
Well…right after I took off for the first bike ride this morning, the power went out again and lasted until about 5 minutes after I got back from the 2nd ride…and it was caused by another squirrel discovering electricity and I wonder how many more will do that? Sure hope it stops or they figure out why they’re doing it…the rides were brutal today with winds out of the east at almost 30 which made the way back pretty hard on each ride and I am going to feel it tomorrow…when I got back from the first ride, I saw a scraggly fox running through the neighbor’s yard next door and that made me wonder if it was skunks or the fox that tipped my animal water container over the other night…didn’t do much so far today other than the rides and scrubbing the front and back door mats that really needed it…still waiting for my new power unit to come and it will come in handy if these power outages continue…I can charge three things at once with it and multiple times so that’s cool…and it only cost 10 bucks so it’s worth it…and I bought batteries for my only watch just to see if it still works…haven’t worn a watch in 20 years so that will be weird to do…okay, back to reading…
Ha, ha…the loser keeps losing…
Well…you would think that the idiot trump would be a little self aware after getting slapped down by courts across the country that he can’t just do whatever he wants even with the corrupt justice department in his pocket…just this week the loser lost twice again when a judge shut down his scheme to reward the traitors of January 6th with 1.8 billion dollars in “reparations, ordering the justice department and trump to explain how suing himself to steal money is even legal…that should be an interesting read…and just yesterday a judge ruled that his defacing the Kennedy center by adding his name to it is illegal since the center and name were created by law and he can’t change a law just because he says so…and the judge shut down the destruction of the center that idiot boy touted as “improvements” just like the east wing of the WH was torn down for “improvements”…now, any self aware person would step back and think after losing so may lawsuits but not idiot boy…he still thinks he’s king of the US and laws don’t apply to him so the courts will continue to slap down his bullshit until he’s gone…geez…
May 30th
Well…tossed and turned all night and was up twice but I feel okay so I guess I can live with it…my back has started to heal and at least I can move around without it hitching on me and causing spikes of pain…it was sure odd with the power outage yesterday and the sound when it went out was like an M-80 going off in my side yard…must have surprised the hell out of the squirrel that did it…it’s 57 out there right now so I’ll be out on the bike at sunrise and that is in about 20 minutes so I have to haul butt to be ready…yeah, old bodies to take a lot of prep work to get started in the morning and I miss the days when I just got up and got going…oh, well…as you can see, I did get over 100 of these for the month and I think I may be heading for a record if I do three more today and tomorrow…can’t remember having a 6 post day before yesterday but don’t expect that out of me more often…damn, my allergies are bad, bad, bad this morning and will probably get worse as the day goes on so I need to remember to use the spray before I get on the bike…not much to to do today…just the normal stuff and cleaning the front door mat to have the porch done…and I do need to figure out what to cook since all of the leftovers are gone…more later…
Power went out…
Well…sitting here reading around 5 and there was a huge bang and the power went out…I had settled in on the porch couch to read in the light for a while when I heard a chime from the living room and had to see what it was and the power was back on and the fire stick had chimed at me…so, of course, everything is back on the chargers and I even went out and bought a new power bank that will charge three things at once and it has usb and lightning plugs on it so everything I own can be charged from it…and it will give me a new aux battery to use with the mp3 player on the bike…it’s about the size of a phone and has a power indicator to tell you have much charge it has…oh, just got a text from Consumers with the one word cause of the outage…”animal” so it looks like we have one less squirrel out here…