Well…this is what happens when you put an unstable moron in charge of the military…the idiot trump attacked Iran again this morning even with his generals telling him that we’ve already burned through 50% of the usable missiles both cruise and ballistic in the US arsenal…and he gave no reason other than he’s pissed off at Iran since they haven’t surrendered to him…actually, Iran is stronger now than when he started this stupid, stupid war…they still control the straits of Hormuz and have taken the cease fire to rebuild their military supplies and army and getting ready to attack our allies across the middle east…and the attacks from Iran so far have rendered almost 75% of our bases unusable…so much winning from the most stupid person in the world who has no business being in charge of a burger king let alone our military…I still think idiot boy and his cronies are using these attacks to make money on investments that they make once the idiot tells them what he’s going to do…all corruption, all the time with these assholes…geez…
July 9th
Well…have 15 minutes before I need t get on the bike to get the rides in before the rain starts at 8am or so and I really want to get both rides in before that so I need to get moving by 6am…a little out of synch this morning with doing the weight work before this just to make sure I don’t forget to do it since I don’t want to go flabby afterall the work I’ve put in…don’t have enough time to have a bagel before the rides but I think I’ll have time after them and before I go out to pick up the new prescription…and that makes me officially feel old with now 3 medications I have to take every day…feel okay this morning and the coffee is going down fast so I’ll be on the bike in 11 minutes…I did figure out that I have a fine adjustment for the front shifter on the bike after riding it for 6 years and I really hope it will allow me to get it working right without adjusting the cable at the shifter…I guess I’ll see when I get out here in a minute…out of leftovers so I need to cook today and that will be a chicken stir fry for lunch and maybe an omelet for later…I may buy a new coffee table since I have 150 bucks in cash back on my capital one card and the one I’m looking at only costs about 50 bucks…and then I can retire the makeshift one I made out of a plastic tub and an old top that I got 40 years ago….and the new one has lots of storage and even has an articulated arm for a laptop so that may be cool…I know it’s cheap but that’s me too…more later…
Worn out…again…
Well…just darn worn out again today and this time I’m sure it’s from not eating enough so I tried to fix that today and we’ll see how it worked tomorrow…I did get the loose heat shield on the cat fixed with a clamp today and it got rid of the annoying rattling that should last until I tear it off…I did get out to the beach today but forgot my phone so I had no clue how long I’d been out there but I guess I really do know what time it is…when I got back here around 11:45 just like normal…I don’t think I’m going to go after the owner of the rental and screw him…it’s just not right and it sure isn’t me…at least not the me I want to be so I guess I’ll just suck it up and stop fixating on those assholes…need to clear that crap out of my head if I want to feel good and that’s a good place to start…so now it’s back to reading…
What are groceries?
Well…up to a couple of years ago, the idiot trump didn’t even know what groceries were, calling groceries and “old fashioned” word…this from an asshole who has only ever been inside a grocery store for photo ops…he has never shopped in his life and has never had to compare prices or take advantage of sales like we all have to…and now idiot boy has gone into a walmart to brag that the normal weekly sales that every grocery has is all of a result of him…especially in walmart where he bragged that his calls to walmart resulted in the price of beef going down 15%…one little problem is that this was just a weekly sale that the moron didn’t know anything about since he has never set foot in any grocery store but to brag…and walmart wasn’t playing along by praising idiot boy and I think that is because when a walmart comes into an area, wages go down for everyone and the new store sucks up medicaid dollars since they don’t provide health insurance to anyone other than the execs…so, of course, the idiot would choose the store with the worst case of corporate welfare since that’s the only kind he believes in…geez…
July 8th
Well…that sucked…tried to have a cocktail to celebrate my good health last night and it just wasn’t any fun so maybe I’m over it completely? Seems that way and I’m okay with that…emby lost all my channels this morning so I’ll spend hours trying to get them back later but I have things to get done before I can do that…it’s going to rain tonight and tomorrow so that means I need to mow the lawn today and that means no beach today…I am going to try to get two rides in before I do the grocery run and that means I need to get out by 6am or as soon as it gets light…and that is in 15 minutes or so and that is just not enough time to get enough coffee down me to fuel it so I’ll be gulping fast…still need to plan meals for the rest of the week but there is lots of stuff in the freezer and I may just wing i for a couple of days…there is the old standby of pasta and I have pounds of it dry…and if I make a pound it will last the rest of the week…maybe some potato soup tomorrow if it’s going to rain? Might only need to mow the front of the yard since the rest of the lawn is not growing much with how dry it’s been…yeah, I know…it rained Sunday and I rode in it but it never seems like enough rain to keep my lawn from going crunchy and dying…more later…
I’m happy they lost…
Well…Yeah, I never thought I’d write that about the US soccer team but after the idiot trump stuck his little corrupt fingers in to get the red card rescinded, the US was dead to me…didn’t watch it last night…and here’s the thing…idiot boy doesn’t know a red card from a red hat but in his tiny little mind, this is just another way for him to cheat…and he loves cheating as he has his whole life…but the thing that pisses me off even more is that the coach and team went along with it…bolugun should have faked an injury or the coach should have benched him or the rest of the team should have protested by not playing…there is no honor in sports anymore and to have the team allow themselves to be used and tarnished by the worst person ever to walk the face of the earth shows they are just as corrupt as idiot boy is and don’t deserve any respect…after working so hard for 4 years and to throw it all away for corrupt reasons tars every damn one of the team and now they will be known only for the rescinded red card, not how well they played or how much fun it was to watch the before that…they just have to remember this one thing…everything trump touches dies…as did the US men’s soccer team…geez…
Not too bad…
Well…had the checkup this morning and it was better than expected…when I got there they took my BP and it was under 130 which is so unusual when it is normally over 150 when I get there… and my weight is under 170 for the first time since I was young and the no drinking and starving seems to be working…every other test was okay with nothing raising any red flags…except my cholesterol which we have been tracking since I moved out here and the doctor recommended that we try the lowest dose statin and see if that will be enough to prevent a heart attack or stroke…and my doctor said to “keep doing what you’re doing” and said my health is better than 99% of his patients…whether or not I believe that, I don’t know but it does feel good that the work I’m doing is helping…so I’m going to enjoy that a bit this afternoon and do some reading…beach was nice but the water appears to be ready to turn over and get cold again…oh, well…
July 7th
Well…didn’t sleep for crap last night and I’m having coffee to help even though I’ve got my checkup at 9am this morning…not sure how much coffee effects my BP but I really don’t care…getting the rides in this morning are even worse for it but I’m not skipping them either…skipped the US world cup match last night and is it bad that I feel good they lost 4-1? I don’t think so but I’ll do one about that later…my sonicare toothbrush almost didn’t turn off after I used it this morning and I’m glad I have another one coming today…the switch started to collapse a couple of weeks ago and I knew it was only a bit of time before it failed…and I don’t feel bad about getting 4 years out of it for 20 bucks…not sure what I’m going to do today but it looks like a run out to the beach after the checkup but I need to hit aldis for some cukes to make some more pickles that I have figured out…and it’s pretty cheap…only a buck and a half for a quart jar? That’s pretty good and it only takes about 10 minutes to make them…and I found that the long English cukes hold up the best to pickling leaving them crunchy and not mushy like regular cukes…and I can see aldis from my doctor’s office so it’s no big trip…not much to do today…just the doctor, the beach, and figuring out what the meals will be later in the week…and some reading this afternoon….more later….
Excited about aluminum foil…
Well…I lost the crimp on the end to the rear shifter cable on the bike yesterday and I was sure that I bought some of them online in the past…couldn’t find them on the bike shelf or anywhere else so I must not have bought them…so I went to amazon to order 120 of them for 4 bucks but didn’t want to have an order in a box with just that tiny bag…so, I remembered I am running out of heavy duty aluminum foil and was going to buy some this week…the normal price for Meijers house brand is 4.59 for 50 sq ft and they never have it on sale so I looked on amazon for it and found 2 rolls of 125 sq ft for 15 bucks when 1 from meijers cost almost 12 bucks…so now I’m excited that I have a two year supply of foil here since I use so much of it to line pans and wrap food…yeah, my life is that boring when foil can make me excited…little things…
A better ride…
Well…today’s rides were much better with nice weather that was even a little cool when I went out…but no rain but I had to spray off my bike to get the shifters to work with all of the dirt and sand from yesterday…saw a lot of deer and even found a nice Nike hat that was floating in the weeds in Ruddimann creek so I considered it finders keepers and brought it home to wash it…must be a 30 buck hat that is in perfect shape and I don’t feel bad about fishing it out…it’s been in the creek for over a week and I was leaving it there to see if anyone would come back to get it…it may have been dumped in up stream and lost…can always use another hat and this one fits pretty good…and I don’t have to worry about getting it all sweaty since it can be washed…I finally got my absentee ballot today and that was a relief since I was going to have to go to the city clerk to get another one tomorrow after my checkup…so now maybe I’ll go to the beach since I got the weed walk done and shouldn’t have to mow the lawn until Thurs or so…I’m sure they have found something they are going to want to treat and I sure don’t want any more pills to take every day…I did get the chicken in the freezer today before it spoiled and have enough leftovers for tomorrow so I can figure meals out tomorrow…maybe just some pasta since that’s easy and I have some mushrooms in the fridge to add to it…we’ll see…time to read…oh, I did have to buy another Sonicare toothbrush since the switch on this one is failing…got 4 years out of it for 20 bucks so I bought the same one since I still have 3 new heads that will fit it…okay…now it’s time to read a bit…