Well…I wonder if you can hold your breath for an entire day? I sure feel like I was with the election yesterday…but I’ll talk about that in another one later…it’s still over 60 here but rain is coming in so I may have to do an indoor ride but I’m going to have coffee first and see what it looks like…radar says it’s going to rain for a few hours so maybe I’ll take that easy day I’ve been needing since I got back from Italy and not ride in the dark today…going to start getting cold in the mornings but I have my thermasuits figured out and the heating pad ready to warm me up when I get back…I am so happy the the new door seals are working better than I ever expected and now I know I can replace them again at any time for 20 bucks when…and I do mean when I damage them not if…I really may need to make some extra coffee this morning to get jump started but we’ll see…have almost 8 cups in the coffee maker and probably shouldn’t have more than that….tried my toaster oven to make toast and toasted bagels yesterday and it works pretty good so I guess I can hold off on the new toaster for a while…it does take longer that a toaster but that’s okay…I’ve got all the time in the world….more later…
We did it!!
Well…just a short one for now but we did it! We won the senate and the house last night in what is being called a “blue tsunami” and I cheered out loud when I read that Abdul won here in Michigan…and Tallarico crushed paxton in Texas and the even elected a dem governor pushing the idiot abbot onto the trash heap…and it appears we won every contested senate race including Maine where the concerned susan collins, who was the deciding vote who gave us a supreme court that destroyed Roe…I’ll be back later to go over the detail but right now I’m going to bask in this crushing defeat of the idiot trump and his minions…thank you, Americans…
Wind is good for something…
Well…from the time I went out for the rides this morning, the wind has been blowing about 25mph out of the south and I figured out that it is good for something…I went to the back door to see if the new seals were leaking and they weren’t…no air at all coming through and if this is how they perform in a 25 mph wind, I think they’ll be fine for the winter…and that’s one less thing I have to think about getting ready for winter…I still do need to buy some new furnace filters and I’ll get them this week when I go out to look for a new snow shovel…I wonder if the roads by Menards are finished yet? The last time I had to wind through a mall to get there and that was a pain and don’t want to do that again…it was 60 degrees when I went out this morning before 6am so I was in shorts and I may have one more day before the bottom falls out of the low temps…I am already used to dressing warmly for the rides since we’ve had some 30’s already but I’m not used to the cold yet…that will take a couple of weeks and judicious use of the heating pad when I get back from the rides…okay…have been avoiding any and all reporting ont he election and I’ll keep that up all day…so back to reading…
Springsteen for Abdul…
Well…I’m really not sure if and endorsement has any effect in elections but it is nice to see one of the good guys weigh in on an essential race…and Bruce Springsteen just did that over the weekend when he wholeheartedly endorsed Abdul El-Sayed to be the next senator from Michigan…now let’s compare that to the traitor stevens who endorsed rogers for the same seat…and really, who cares about stevens and her sour grapes bullshit? I think Bruce has seen what I’ve seen from Abdul, a smart, accomplished doctor who is really a Michigan born and bred candidate, not like the carpetbagger rogers who parachuted in to try to steal that seat for the idiot trump…and from listening to Abdul he is the kind of person that Michigan needs to send to the senate…to protect Medicaid and people who depend on it to stay alive…Medicare for all to get the US to where the rest of the world is and has been for 50+ years…and to block any more trump judges including the supreme court…now that’s something I can get behind and I think we need more progressive ideas and to leave the centrists behind…their go along to get along bullshit has gotten us to where we are now and we need the big ideas the the dems used to support…they need to do that again…geez…
November 3rd
Well…I think it’s going to be a full pot of coffee day today so I just ground some beans to make another one…don’t want to run short…it’s still 60 out there so the rides will be in shorts again this morning and that’s pretty cool in the dark…need to pick the right music but I’m not sure what that would be yet…maybe The Who’s greatest hits…going to do the grocery run this morning since I don’t have to wait for the ads to come out tomorrow since there is nothing in them I really need…I am running out of rice and Meijers sent me a coupon for 2.25 off but I’m not sure what strain I’ll get…have been buying Jasmine but maybe some Bismatti? Going to try to toast my bagel in the toaster oven since the toaster is dying and I’m not sure what to buy next…got the leaves done yesterday so I just to clean a bit and do some meal planning…making Masala Thursday but I’ll need 2nd meals and have lots of pasta and sauce that I got last week so that may be it…oh, and some omelets since I have green pepper to use up along with the dozen eggs in the fridge…I did get the back door working right so I have nothing else to do before winter but put the hose in the garage when it gets close to freezing…but I want to wash the car one more time before that…not mush to do today…just need to get moving so I can be on the bike before 6am…more later…
A bit of a day…
Well…you know it may not be an optimal day when you break a pedal on the bike 7 miles away from home…and that happened to me on the 2nd ride when the right pedal failed on the boardwalk and just fell off the shaft that it rotates on…so I had to ride back here pushing the pedal back on the shaft all the way…what a pain but I got pretty good at keeping it on and still made good time coming back…and I always have spare pedals in the cabinet just for this kind of thing and I didn’t need to dip into the new pair but used a new one that was in another box in the cabinet on my bike shelf…so, I changed that out pretty easily and will be back out there in shorts again tomorrow with the low only getting down to 56…and I have one more day of that before it gets cold again…after I got back here, I jumped right into picking up the first batch of leaves that took longer than I expected with filling 8 bags and I wasn’t done til almost 11am making it 6 hours of busy, busy…but then all I did was read off and on this afternoon…I did get my new medicare card today so I’m all set with that for another year and that takes a load off…tomorrow looks pretty easy since I’m doing the grocery run on it’s normal day this week and that leaves me free to work on the back door if the part gets here…okay…time to look for something on tv for tonight…
What a delusional ass…
Well…with his debacle of a war with Iran still going after 8 months…the delusional asshole trump went on and on in a speech yesterday that he would have won the Vietnam war in a week…yeah, do you see the irony in that? I sure do since he fraudulently got 5 deferments that kept him out of the draft for that war…and people a hell of a lot smarter than him had a hard time figuring it out…so this moron is going to lose the elections for the repubs, lose a war with Iran, and lose his mind and the repubs are still following him and what that means to me is that most repubs are not too bright, either….like the turncoat Stevens here in Michigan…did she even think past being pissed that the senate seat she felt entitled to went to El-Sayed? No one in the world is going to trust a thing she says ever again unless they are maga asshole…oh, wait…the idiot trump did invite here to become a repub but she was one all along with how she took 30 million from AIPAC in the primary…she just had a thin veneer that helped her pass as a dem…no longer…geez…
November 2nd
Well…I’m not adjusting to the time change very well and didn’t sleep much so I’m pretty worn out today…and it’s going to be a long day of work as I’m going to pick up the leaves for the first time and then have to repair the back door when the part gets here…and I just hate working on locksets since they never go back together as they are supposed to…it’s 53 or 56 right now so I’m going out in the dark in shorts this morning and it will be a little cold but my phone says 56 so it shouldn’t be too bad…and that means I can do the leaves in shorts, too…then it’s going to rain off and on for a couple of days so I really do need to get the leaves up…and will have to do it again later in the week if the rest of them finally come down…still in leftover mode so no cooking today but I will need to make a batch of Masala later in the week…want to get out on the bike before 6am and that should be easy since it’s only 5:20 right now but I still need to have a bagel…I think my toaster is dying after only 2 years and I may have to buy a better one next time…oh, well…so I have a day of work today so I probably should get going and get started…more later…
Haley Stevens immolates her career…
Well…this is why I’m so happy that Abdul El-Sayed beat Haley Stevens in the dem primary for senator from Michigan…just yesterday, this traitor endorsed Mike Rogers against Abdul and the whole thing stinks of sour grapes on her part…and to top that off, after this supposed dem endorsed Rogers, she cut off the press conference she held to announce her treachery when someone asked her tough questions of her taking millions of dollars from AIPAC to try to buy the election for her…and to even top that, most of her staff has quit after this betrayal and will leave her with no one to do her work for her…does she really think that maga is going to give her wingnut welfare? Or is she planning on a sweet lobbying job to make her millions…whatever, she has burned every bridge to the dem party and it just shows that we really do need to purge these DINOs and reclaim the party for real dems…go Abdul…geez…
Some good news…
Well…I forgot about this good news I got in an e-mail Friday…my Medicare insurer, Priority Health sent me an e-mail saying I don’t need to do anything to continue my coverage…no changes for this year so that takes a little bit of stress off my back…I am really loving the repairs I did on the bike and it hit me this morning it hasn’t ridden the well in years…just so smooth and I can just pedal and not think about it…so the rides this morning were great but I haven’t done anything since other than finish a book and read the news…I did look at the broken door latch on the back door and it’s made by some random company I’ve never heard of, Atlas Security so I hope I can find a replacement that will work…I think they are pretty much all the same and getting the old part out will be easy with just 4 screws…2 to take the knobs off and 2 to take the latch out that should take less than a few minutes and I’ll run to depot tomorrow to see if I can match up a generic one…after I get the leaves done and the rides in…then the doors will be ready for winter as the car is and everything else is…should look for a new snow shovel tomorrow, too since the one I have is 5 years old and I’ve worn through the aluminum strip on the back of the scoop…going to look for one just like I have that has a fiberglass handle and plastic scoop…okay, races have started and I am going to watch some of it and pick out a new book…