Well…going to do one later about ole elon not showing up for questioning in France…
Unintended consequences…
Well…with the idiot trump causing the biggest energy crisis in history, one of the unintended consequences is that the rest of the world is now racing to build out the renewables that he hates to get out from under the oil blackmail…and this is just another incidence that proves the rule that everything the idiot trump touches turns to shit…he has tried and tried to reward his buddies in the oil business for giving him billions of dollars to get him elected but he really has just accelerated the move to clean energy after his debacle in Iran…and the smart move is to build out as much renewables as you can…after all, the price of battery storage has dropped 93% since 2010 as has solar cells at a 90% decrease along with wind power dropping 70% in the same time, making these sources the cheapest energy in the history of the world…along with the benefit of putting no carbon in the air and wrenching control of energy back from OPEC and the rest of the middle east…and we know that one of the idiot’s reasons for this stupid war is to take Iran’s oil when oil is quickly heading to the trash heap of energy history…just like what has happened to coal…so the guy who hates renewable energy is going to be the biggest factor in it’s adoption…pretty cool irony, huh? Geez…
May 8th
Well…that kind of sucked…woke up at 4:03 this morning but was able to get a little more sleep and out of bed a little before 5am…so, I’m going to be dragging later but still want to get out for and outdoor ride since it’s going to be in the 50’s and I may even be able to wear shorts…it’s only 35 here right now and that is just frickin wrong for May…I may have to make some extra coffee this morning to have some to take with me to get the tires balanced on the car…haven’t made any pour over coffee in a while and I think that’s going to happen today…need to hit the grocery store after the car work since I forgot carrots and want to make ham soup this weekend…so I need to take the bones out of the freezer this morning…have chicken in the fridge to do another stir fry and that may be today…but I have 4 lbs of pasta that I got last week for a buck a box and that would make an easy meal today…and I still have lots of breaded chicken patties to make sandwiches and I need to use up the free head of lettuce I got last week before it spoils…don’t have anything do to on the yard after getting the weed killer down yesterday but we do need some rain that is not going to happen til Tuesday…oh, well….more later…
Out in the cold today…
Well…after skipping the weight work today, my well developed sense of guilt wouldn’t let me skip two parts of my workout so I dragged the long johns out, suited up, and got 13 miles in…it was cold but I had my insulated work gloves on instead of the riding ones so my hands were okay…I’m hoping that this was the last ride in the 40’s until next fall but with how cold it’s been this spring, I’m not holding my breath…I did see some turkeys and deer today and that was fun…I did get some yard work done and got the weed killer on to keep them at bay for at least a couple of weeks…it’s supposed to rain a bit over the next couple of days and it’s even getting to almost 60 tomorrow so I can get a ride in wearing shorts…I do have to be at discount at 9:15 tomorrow morning to get the tired balance and I hope that the last time until I wear these out…just want some time to enjoy the car…time to read…
The idiot trump is helping criminals..
Well…as you all know, everything the idiot trump touches turns to shit and that is especially true of his stupid immigration crackdowns…to support his hatred of immigrants, he has focused over 90% of the budgets of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies on rounding up and deporting immigrant who are here just to try to make a better life for themselves and their families…and guess who has benefited from this stupidity? Yep, all of the homegrown criminals who are now free to traffic drugs and murder are saying “thanks trump” since prosecution of these crimes are no longer a priority…now, the people of America beg to differ with this distortion of our law enforcement resources but this is what you get when you have a repub party that just goes along with anything this psychopath wants…so, the next time you see a murder reported in the news, you know that the idiot trump and his minions don’t care one bit about that just as long as they can keep deporting hard working immigrants…geez…
May 7th
Well…it now appears that 5:23 is the new wake up time and I wonder if I should just accept that or keep trying to reach the goal of 6am to get out of bed? Probably not since all that does is cause me stress…I did sleep kinda okay last night and it does feel good to get things done around here…today is going to be a little easier with just the normal stuff and hitting the yard with weed killer again since the damn things are all over again…oh, well…I’m really sore from the string trimmer and mowing yesterday and I can’t remember the last time my forearms hurt from yard work…and that pain includes my hands that are not used to that abuse…I did get an outdoor ride in yesterday and I’m going to try to do that again today but the high is only going to be 51 and that is the lower limit of what my hands will take in the riding gloves…I did buy some chicken yesterday and am thinking of making another stir fry with the added mushrooms and green pepper that I got yesterday…I do have one last pizza in the freezer that take those same ingredients so that might be an option for the weekend instead of the ham soup I was planning…but I bought celery for that so I guess I’ll do lots of cooking this weekend…not much to do today…just the normal stuff I need to get on right now since it’s 6am and I don’t want to get behind for the day…more alter…
Really starting to enjoy my car…
Well…when I go my new car, it really felt like a car that had been sitting for a long while…it didn’t run right and the clutch was so hard to get a smooth take off and it made the shifter very notchy…but lately, all that has changed after I worked on bleeding the clutch, putting a new set of spark plugs in it and hitting it with injector cleaner…all of that has come together to make the car a lot of fun…have been tearing around just behaving like a nut…now I can just drive it and enjoy it without having to think about what needs to be done to fix it…pretty cool…it’s been a busy day today with getting the indoor stuff done, doing the grocery run, mowing the lawn, and getting an outdoor ride in that was cold but fun…I did get some chicken at aldis that I’m going to use to make another batch of stir fry using some mushrooms and green pepper I got at aldis, too…only spent about 30 bucks this week even with the 12 bucks worth of chicken and I am still amazed how cheap it is when you’re not having cocktails…so now it’s time to go back to reading and to start thinking about meals starting tomorrow…probably some ham soup to go with the stir fry…but then I’d better take the ham bones out of the freezer..
Remember this maga…
Well…as the idiot trump and his minions try to gaslight the country and put the blame for 5 dollar a gallon gas prices on Obama and Biden…I want the maga folks to remember this…it’s all the idiot trump’s fault…and I’ll say that again…it’s all the idiot trump’s fault…out here in Muskegon we were down to 2.62 a gallon before he started his stupid war…and today gas out here is 4.89 a gallon and it’s all idiot boy’s fault…without this stupid war, Spirit airlines would not have gone out of business…without this stupid war people didn’t have to choose to buy gas to get to work or to put food on the table…now that’s the daily discussion on every kitchen table here in the US…and guess who profits from all of this…trump’s cronies who run the oil companies…their costs have not gone up one penny and yet the price of gas has doubled…and the kicker is that the US produces enough oil to meet all of our needs but trump and his idiots are exporting oil to make sure the price stays high and he can count on campaign contributions or to build his stupid ballroom…have you hears one repub say that gas prices are too high? Nope, only to try to blame Biden not to criticize the idiot, who again maga folks, is the one reason you are not eating…good job for electing this asshole…I really do hope some of you starve…geez…
May 6th
Well…I’m really not proud of the fact that I had to take something to sleep last night to try to relieve the exhaustion I’ve been feeling lately…not sure if the trade off of feeling like crap is worth it, though, but I guess I’ll see as the day wears on…it’s damn cold here at 36 and the high is not getting over 50 so I won’t get an outdoor ride in today or tomorrow…but I am going to mow the lawn after the grocery run so at least I won’t feel guilty about not doing enough…need to get some weed killer at menards today since I’m out and there are still damn weeds all though the lawn…will probably treat it tomorrow…I did get a few things done yesterday and will again today but I’m not sure what that would be after doing the lawn…don’t have much to get for groceries today with no protein on sale but I may buy some boneless/skinless chicken to use in recipes that I’m not sure about yet…the ham bones in the freezer are calling out to me to make another batch of ham soup while I still have celery to use and I may do that over the weekend…and I have 4 pounds of pasta to use and I am going to make some pasta salad this weekend, too…not much to do today…just the grocery run and the lawn and I’ll use up the leftovers so I don’t have to cook…but I am going to have a bagel to get some fuel in me before I start the weight work…more later…
10 am and everything is done…
Well…getting up so early really does help get my day done early…got the normal stuff in and was done with that by 7:03am and then read the news and put the laundry in…then I suited up and went out to run the string trimmer all over the fencelines and the front of the yard…it’s not easy getting a 2 stroke running when it’s 45 degrees but after what seemed like a hundred pulls, it fired up and I got the work done…the I used the grass killer to do the sidewalks and the growth in the back corner of the yard and then put poison on the ant nests in the sidewalks…then I put the laundry away and now I’m going to read a bit before lunch…I did get the wheel balancing scheduled for Friday morning…on two of the wheels the adhesive for the stick on weights is all that is left so it has to get better after I have it done…and I think they have special weights for cast aluminum wheels like are on my car and I hope I don’t have to ever have that done again….