Well…when I got up this morning I thought I’d have a short wait to get the temps high enough to get out on the bike and it was…55 by 8:10 and I was even able to go out in shorts…with the wind tolerable and the temp coming up to almost “springlike” temps, I decided to test my fitness level and do 3 rides for 39 miles this morning…so, I survived it and just feel a little stiff from it…energy held out and I still felt good at the end of the 3rd ride so that means I can train up and get ready for doing the “ride my age” day in June…now, it may hit me badly tomorrow of Wed but I guess I’ll just have to wait it out and see…a little stiff and sore right now but I’m only going to read this aft so it will give my body a chance to recover…I hope…reading time…
I think there’s a recession on it’s way…
Well…you know I’m always predicting things and sometimes I’m right…okay, more than sometimes it appears…and now, from observations of the past couple of weeks, I think there is a recession coming for the US…and there are a few things that make me think that way…first, houses out here are no longer selling in one day like mine did…there are some out here that have been for sale for months and there is even a purpose built VRBO vacation rental duplex that went up for sale a couple of weeks ago…and even in my neighborhood, there are about a dozen houses for sale and the only reason I see is they are distressed properties that the owners can’t afford when they bought at the top of the market…second…the city owned marina is only half filled and there are only 3 boats on the 50 buoys that were almost filled last year…and I take that to mean that people are tightening their belts with the soaring inflation we are seeing in everything…and boats are the first luxuries to go…third…they held a boat sale at the condo development last weekend and no one showed up…salespeople outnumbered customers 10-1 and I saw that as I rode right through it over the three days of the sale…and all of this goes with the surveys that say almost 60% of people have cut back going to restaurants and are seriously watching what they spend…not good omens since the economy is driven by consumer spending…here it comes…geez…
Ha, ha…I was right..
Well…as I wrote before a few days ago, the new Iran “deal” was just so much vaporware that the idiot trump was lying about and this morning, news reports are saying I was right…there is no “deal” and the sides are as far apart as ever…hey, idiot…diplomacy is harder than it looks, isn’t it? As every day passes, Iran grows stronger and idiot boy flounders even more that his stupid normal…and even his own party thinks he is giving Iran everything they want to just get a “win” and say he is a master negotiator…and with a few repubs peeling off his support, he won’t get the giveaway through congress…the House maybe with Johnson coming out yesterday lying his ass off that only idiot boy could have gotten Iran to negotiate…conveniently forgetting that it was Obama and his team that led a coalition of our allies in getting the last agreement with Iran signed in 2015 that worked but that idiot boy tore up because Obama did it…so now we have the idiot out there blustering that he will attack Iran again for some reason that no one can fathom…a failure to go with all of his others…geez…
May 25th
Well…that was better…didn’t get out of bed til almost 6am this morning and that makes it a huge success in my book…and I slept okay and feel okay right now and that’s without any coffee…but I just poured a cup and I’m going to chug that one to get me started…it looks like I have an easy morning ahead of me since it’s only 50 out there and I am going to wait for the temp to come up before I get on the bike and that won’t happen til 9am so I have some time to ease into the day…and it is foggy out there so I have to put the rain gear on when I go…still have three books to read so it looks like I won’t be hitting the library til Friday for more books…the highs are going to be in the 70’s this week so maybe spring is here? Ha, ha…no, the lows are still going to be in the 40’s some days and that is not spring to me..don’t have to cook today with all of the leftover chicken and potatoes I made the other day but I will need to do some meal planning later in the week…have lots of chicken in the freezer so I think I’ll start by thawing some today…not sure what I’m going to make with it but I may just bake it for sandwiches…thought about some chicken fettucinni alfredo and I may do that in a couple of days…we did get rain yesterday and I hope it salvages my lawn but with no rain in the forecast all week, I don’t have much hope….more later…
Too many races..
Well…not sure if there were too many races today or if they just aren’t as much fun without having cocktails, but I’m a little bored with the Coke 600 so here I am…I did read an article this afternoon about the backlash about huge AI data centers that are sprouting like poison ivy across the country, the resources they suck up, and the costs increases for people who live near them…so is this one a political one? Hmmm…in the article they talk about a town in Arizona that has seen their electrical rates go up by 278% after a data center was built there and now the electric company has warned residents that they may lose electric service altogether since they have limited capacity and they’d rather sell it to the data center since they make much more money doing that…and even the tech companies are warning that building all these centers is a bubble that is soon going to burst leaving hundreds of huge empty buildings that will have no use…and all the tax breaks these towns gave them are going to be worthless as they declare bankruptcy and walk away from these white elephants…and don’t get me started on the worthlessness of AI…it’s a nothing technology that adds nothing to online productivity…it’s only purpose is to make money for the tech companies..for now…
The idiot trump’s new “deal” with Iran…
Well…as the repubs fall all over themselves touting the new “deal” that idiot boy is cobbling together with Iran, I sure hope the media does a little comparing with the previous one that idiot boy walked away from…from what I can see, it is not anywhere near as comprehensive as the JCPOA was that Obama negotiated…and let’s remember…Obama didn’t need to spend 100 billion dollars attacking Iran to get them to negotiate…or cost the American people 60 billion dollars in higher gas prices…so far…he and his diplomatic experts just sat down and talked to Iran for a couple of years and got the job done…and let’s also remember that Iran came away from this war in a stronger position than they had before the moron attacked them and are left with more than 80% of their military capacity that the liar in chief said was “obliterated”…so, as they try to spin this, remember that gas was 2.85 a gallon before the moron attacked and here in Michigan is is 4.99 now…and it’s not going down anytime soon…geez…
A nice little storm coming through…
Well…we have a nice little storm coming through right now at 9:15 am and that has made it an interesting morning…the initial forecast called for rain around 10 am or so and that appeared to give me enough time to get 2 rides in…after the first one, it got so dark here that the street lights came on but the radar said I had an hour before the rain would get here so that motivated me to haul butt on the 2nd ride but I put on my rain gear just in case…when I got out to the beach, the front fender on the bike came loose and fell off so I had to stuff it inside my rain gear to get back since I never carry tools with me… within a minute of getting back and putting the bike in the garage, the sky opened up and the storm started at 8:45…and it’s still thundering like crazy…so, I flipped the bike over and took off the front wheel so it would be easier to put the fender back on and it was after I WD’d it…so now all I have to do is the weight work and reading until Man U plays at 11…
May 24th
Well…darn, out of bed a little after 5 this morning and need to get moving in a few minutes to get the outdoor rides in before the rain comes in around 10am…so I’ll be on the bike at sunup even though it’s only 51 out there…but we have a nice run of upper 70’s coming all week this week so that will be welcome after the damn cold here…and we did get rain here yesterday that we needed but we’re still inches of rain under the average for this time of the year and I think I’ve lost the lawn for the 4th of 5 years I’ve lived here…oh, well…going to take an ibuprofen here in a minute since I’m still sore as heck and doing 2 outdoor rides is not going to help that…and I do need to eat something before I go out with the light meals I had yesterday not giving me enough calories to fuel the rides…didn’t get anything done but the rides yesterday and cooking but I don’t have to cook today as I need to finish up leftovers of what I made before the chicken yesterday…not much to do today…it’s supposed to be the best race day of the year but with them moving the F1 race and all the rain postponements, it doesn’t appear that they’ll get Indy or the Coke 600 in today…so I guess I’ll just read and watch old movies today…more later…
Should have added rice…
Well… I did make the chicken/potatoes/carrot Italianish dish today but didn’t put rice in it since I turned it down to low and went out for a bike ride while it cooked…it was still yummy but a little too watery so I’m going to make rice tomorrow and pour the veggies and sauce over it…I did find that I had some green pepper and 3 mushrooms that needed to be used so I put them in, too…and I used my cast iron half dutch oven that my daughter gave me since it gave me plenty of space in it to get all of the food and liquid to cook it…and I did get a nice ride in and the wind was only 15-20 out of the east so that was easy coming back…but tomorrow looks like another day of an indoor ride since it is supposed to rain all morning and that may move the outdoor ride to the afternoon after the Indy 500 ends…still pretty darn sore but didn’t take anything for it with being pretty used to being in pain..both races tonight appear that they are going to be rained out so I may be able to watch “Svengoolie” and an old horror movie…almost took a nap today but the extra coffee I made today wasn’t going to let me…oh, well…and now I have extra coffee for tomorrow…yay!
I almost died from the same thing…
Well…with the announcement today that Kyle Busch died from a severe case of pneumonia that turned into sepsis, and I remember the same thing almost happened to me…when I was in my 30’s, I came down with what I thought was a cold that just hung on for weeks…and then one night I started to shake uncontrollably and my temp spiked to 104 and I couldn’t breathe so we headed to the hospital and when I got there I was gray and my ox level was down to almost 90% which is usually fatal…they said that if I would have gotten there 15 minutes later, I would have died…luckily, I responded to the tons of antibiotics they filled me with and the full stream of O2…but I was in the hospital for 5 days and when I got out it took me weeks to be able to breathe right again…before they announced it, I knew what killed him since I lived that same thing…and he was just living with the illness how I did and it just got away from him…I feel sorry for his family…