Well…got through the vision test at the SOS and I can see that my vision is worse than it used to be but I still passed easily…so no more stress and that feels good…I had a very friendly clerk who was funny and we had a good couple of laughs while getting things done…I will say that everyone at this office is really nice and it has been pleasant going in there…and I like the idea of setting up an appointment online and not having much of a wait when I get there…I do remember the cattle call days when I was younger that could take an hour or more but today I was walking back in my door here by 9:30 with a 9:10 appointment…so I’m grinning a bit and need to get back on the bike for ride two in a minute or so…and then I’m going to wash the car and bike when I get back…both are really dusty with not getting any rain here for 10 days or so…
June 2nd
Well…up again at the normal time around 5am again today and the day of reckoning is here with having to go in to get my driver’s license renewed and pass the vision test…it’s been stressing me out for weeks but my eyes have gotten so much better after quitting drinking that I may just have no problem…but the inflammation in my eyelids has flared and I’m treating them with the ointment I was given last time…not sure if that helps or hurts but I can’t stand the feeling of sand in my eyes…need to get moving in the cold again this morning to get a ride in before I head out for my 9:10 appointment and it struck my I’m going to be wearing the same black polo shirt that I had on the last time I had a photo shot 8 years ago…or was it 12 years? I do know that the shirt was tight back then and now it’s loose so I guess that’s a good thing…I did go out to get some more chicken and some asparagus with a loaf of bread yesterday and I’ve got meals planned to use it the rest of the week…omelets, chicken soft tacos with pickled red onions and avocado, some turkey dogs again with pickles and red onions and baked chicken breast with roasted asparagus…so no boring stuff for the rest of the week starting tomorrow after I get the ingredients for everything…and I may throw a four cheese pizza in there…not sure why I’m even trying to make flavorful food when I can barely taste anything but I’m not going to give up trying….not much to do today…just need to survive the appointment and then the day is mine…as is the rest of the month…more later…
A nice day…
Well…it’s been a really nice day today and started out good with getting out on the bike around 8am…it was still cold at 51 degrees but I know how to dress for it so no big deal…and, by the time I got back here after the first ride, it was warm enough for just a t-shirt and shorts and I had hit 1,000 miles for the year on the first ride…had Joe Walsh on the player all morning since I needed a little lift after being so exhausted yesterday…on the way back from the second ride, I was riding along the shore of Muskegon Lake and a stoat ran across the trail in front of me with a garter snake in it’s mouth…a stoat looks just like a ferret since they are both in the same family of weasels, but it has silky brown fur that looks cool…after it crossed the trail, he hid in the big granite rocks that protect the trail from the waves and kept popping his head out between them…while this was happening, a nodding acquaintance walked up and I told him about it…this is the guy who pointed out an eagle roosting in a tree above the trail a few years back and who I see almost every day…and this turned into a half hour conversation where I found out his name was Bruce and he lived over in Lakeside…pretty cool…and when I got back here my neighbor Dan was working in his yard and we stopped to talk for a nice conversation since I hadn’t seen him since winter…it’s funny that he took a stainless steel tub like they have on farms (3 feet deep) and turned it into a pool with a sand filter and everything sitting in their driveway…after that I went out to aldis to replace the moldy bread and get some chicken and asparagus to have later in the week…and I had a hoot in the car with the top down…and I’ve even had a couple of hours to read…just a good day…and my laptop just froze up and I remembered what the tech told me to do last time and I fixed it myself…yay!
Here it comes…
Well…even though there is some complaint about high prices for gas, and it is a problem for most people…including me…we have been insulated from the true effects of the idiot’s war against Iran…and this is something that CEO’s know but no politician is talking about…all of the inventory of goods we see now were purchased before idiot boy’s war but those stocks are coming to an end soon and the real cost of this stupid war will become clear when things that people in the US are used to buying any day will be gone and bare shelves will become the new norm…I sure hope you remember during the pandemic that there were shortages of everything but all you had to do was substitute something else for what you really wanted…this time there just won’t be anything to purchase…how about 10 dollar a loaf bread or 3 pounds of rice for 30 bucks? That is what were going to see if any of this stuff is available at all…I’m buying as much coffee as I can because it has already tripled in price but will become unavailable after the inventories are used up…and it’s all one person’s fault and the repubs let him get away with it since they don’t give a damn about anyone but idiot boy…remember this in the fall when the election comes…this didn’t have to happen if the repubs would have invoked the war powers act instead of cheerleading this moron…we are all going to pay and it is the idiot trump’s fault…geez..
Cheap coffee beans and snobs…
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…