Well…I really wasn’t planning on doing another 30+ miles today with the rain that was forecast but it didn’t rain here so I kept going to get two rides in…I noticed a funny thing on the ride, that the road through the rich people’s development is a “private” road and I really do like pissing off rich people so that is a bonus for the detour…I’m expecting them to come running out of their houses and yell ‘get off my lawn” or some other bullshit as I ride through…and I will laugh my butt off when they do…I did see some of my deer from the dunes in that development today eating the newly planted shrubs that the owners had put in…and that made me laugh out loud…then just down the street my big flock of turkeys were in a yard that had a hand painted sign that said “turkey crossing” and had a cartoon turkey on it…pretty funny…so it looks like the detour is going to be okay and I realized that doing a half mile hard climb results in a cool thing…what goes up, must come down and I got to coast back down the hill at almost 30 mph…and I did see more than houses and cars and I just had to open my eyes and look up to see it…I did start packing for the Italy trip today and got some stuff done and I’ll keep that up over the weekend so I’ll be ready to go on the 18th….okay, time to watch a little tv…
Lying about 9/11…again…
Well…we all know that the idiot trump is the biggest liar in the history of this country, and he is at it again as we run up to the 25th anniversary of that shitty day…first an aside…my MIL who I loved like a mother died that day and it still hurts all of these years later…now, back to the idiot…his latest lie is that some “huge firefighters” pulled him from the rubble that day when, in fact, he was miles away when the buildings came down…and that is easily proven…but, as always, he makes even even tragedies all about him…I mean, how frickin delusional do you have to be to lie about that…and how far in the tank is all of the media in this country when they don’t call him out in huge headlines about the lies…and his followers are still eating this crap up and praising him for his actions on 9/11…let’s remember one of his other 9/11 lies that Muslim people in New Jersey were “dancing in the streets” when the attack happened…that one was clearly debunked when no one could produce photos or videos of any of it…and yet he was allowed by the media to get away with it and he still uses that lie to attack Muslims in this country even 25 years later…how many more tragedies will it take trump crapping on before people get tired of it? Get out and vote…geez…
September 9th
Well…this is too weird…didn’t get out of bed til almost 6:30 this morning and that is going to make me late for getting on the bike…and rain is coming in so it looks like only one ride outdoors today and one ride indoors and that gives me no time to eat anything before I go out…will pour down at least one cup of coffee that I’m working on right now but I really need 2 but there is no time for that…I really am not sure what the hell happened to keep me in bed 8 hours but I’ll take it…have some energy this morning but I don’t like that I’m expending it racing around here to get on the bike…will probably still get wet but it’s 70 here so that will be okay…maybe I’ll take coffee with me on the bike for the first ride and then think about making more after I get back…but I do need water so probably not…going to keep the car clean by not driving it in the rain today but I think I need to get over it…but isn’t that what being retired is all about? Doing things when I want to without a schedule? Think so but I do need to get off my butt and get going….more later…
More miles…
Well…today was the first day of the new detour around the road construction and it does add more miles to my daily ride…checked the computer and the new mileage per ride is now 15.2 with finding a shortcut through a rich person’s development that cuts 1/2 mile off each ride…and the development is another one of those “affordable” ones that starts at 850K and goes up to 1.3 million…now sure where they got affordable out of that but I think they need a new dictionary…payments of 4,000 a month is not “affordable” to anyone I know…and the new route has two climbs in it that are brutal…the first one is 100 yards of 23% to get up on the plateau and then there is another long one of a half mile at the same difficulty…needless to say, my legs are pretty sore from the climbs and almost 31 miles today…I’m not really sure if this is going to be the standard ride every day or if I may do 8 miles indoors and then 15 outdoors…I guess we’ll see…didn’t get anything else done today but write checks and read…oh, I did cook too and that means I don’t have to tomorrow…I may push the grocery run back to Thursday since I need to pick up my cholesterol prescription that won’t be ready til after 3 pm Wed…oh, I did service the outdoor bike since the chain needed lube and it needed air in the tires but I need to really clean it up but not until after the rain tomorrow and tomorrow night…it will just get gunked up again so I’ll wait til Thursday when it’s dry…and I don’t want to get my nice clean car dirty in the rain…okay, just finished another book and want to get another one started…
Is there anything more ridiculous?
Well…instead of doing any part of a normal president’s job, the idiot trump is now trying to change the name of New Mexico to “New America” by using his most awesome tool, the sharpie marker that he uses whenever he wants to visually lie to go with all of the other lies he spews every day…is there anything more ridiculous than this orange asshole? Has he done anything to make anyone’s life better other than his own and the billionaire oligarchs who bought the last election for him? The question that has been asked multiple times in many campaigns is “are you better off?”…are you better off than when Joe Biden was running the show…if you think it’s a right to vote, you aren’t….if you are trying to buy a house you aren’t…I mean 6.75% interest on a home loan has priced most people out of the market and yet the idiot does nothing about that…and let’s talk about the cost of living and the thing that’s on everyone’s mind, the stupid trump war with Iran that has sent diesel fuel to it’s highest price ever and that cost is being paid by you and me, let alone gas prices that have gone from 2.60 a gallon to 4.58 because trump is so stupid…so no, idiot boy is not doing anything for anyone but himself and his cronies…and yet people keep voting for this asshole…and that makes me question the intelligence of the people who did…of course they’re stupid, and racist, and hateful…but why should we have to pay for that? Geez…
September 8th
Well…damn, what a crappy night of sleep…up and down all night and finally woke up for good at 4:25…laid in bed for almost another hour, though, and none of it was sleeping…ick…had a skin tag that I removed with clippers and it bled for over 3 hours but that is normal since it does that every time I clip the damn thing off…might have to get something to remove it permanently…this old body is getting weirder by the day…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I need to get cleaning and packing today and that will continue until I leave…don’t think I ate enough again yesterday with just a bagel, bowl of soup, and a chicken wrap for the day and I really don’t know how I can do better than that….so I will start today with a bagel again just to keep my legs from going flat but they don’t hurt so no ibuprofen…but I may have some more electrolytes at the ride break when I get my coffee for the 2nd ride…need to get going on drinking coffee since I’m still only on my first cup and I do need the jolt from the caffeine…it’s still in the 50’s right now and I hope the humidity is still down like yesterday…that makes it much more comfortable…so, coffee, coffee, coffee and a bagel before I get on the weight work…more later…
A better day…
Well….after the dead legs and huge amounts of pain I had in them yesterday, I was expecting that to continue today so I took an ibuprofen before I got on the bike this morning and the rides weren’t bad…I also made up a quart of electrolyte water to drink after the first ride and I think that may have helped since I had energy through the 2nd ride and could still go pretty hard right to the end….and my legs weren’t stiff or puffy so I think I may be past that…I did get a little work done today with sweeping out the garage and vacuuming, washing and waxing the car…and I even read half a book as I was watching the drag races that were on all day…so while I didn’t get a lot done, I did get more done than yesterday and that’s not bad…I have been reading a lot about the new trend where people are getting tired of always having to accomplish something more that just living and I laughed that it describes me perfectly…I do not ever remember allowing myself to just live and do what I want with no guilt for it…that’s going to take a lot of work on my part and I’m not sure I’ll ever get there…I did see a couple of huge puffballs along the trail this morning and they were almost 18 inches across…the biggest ones I have ever seen…pretty cool…okay, back to reading…
The SC is going to interfere in the election…
Well…if they haven’t already done enough to allow the idiot trump to rig this fall’s elections just on partisan political bullshit, they now have a new reason to do all they can to help the repubs win…with the now mainstream dem vow that they are going to reform the SC if they take control of the house and senate, John Roberts has already sat down to start scheming how to prevent that from happening…and that just shows to me how much reform is needed…roberts has done more to damage the court with his bullshit ignoring of settled law and precedent and allowing the use of the “shadow docket” that allows them to destroy the constitution without explaining how and why they did it…and the ethical issues that he allows to fester, like thomas getting to be a multimillionaire on his 200K a year salary and kavanaugh getting a 250K debt disappeared while he was being vetted for the court are just two examples of how he has created the most corrupt court in the history of the country…so watch for roberts to continue to destroy the court to protect the grift that all of the conservatives on the court are knee deep in…geez…
September 7th
Well…damn, running really late this morning with not getting out of bed til 5:45 but it wasn’t from good sleep but from being in pain and just trying to find a way to get comfortable all night…now my frickin ribs hurt and I have no clue what the hell is going on…so I took an ibuprofen a few minutes ago to see if that helps…don’t feel bad about that since I haven’t taken one in over a month and sometimes you just need it…it’s only 57 here right now and that’s okay after the low being around 70 for the past week…the humidity went away yesterday and it was so clear here I could easily see all the day down to GH 12 miles away…things just looked sharp and after all the humidity haze, it just didn’t look real…didn’t get anything done yesterday but today I’ll start cleaning this place up and start getting ready for Italy…have to make a list of everything I need to take and start getting it packed…it is kind of cool that I have a roller suitcase that can fit two weeks of clothes but I hope my daughter has found a hotel with a laundry like the UK trip…so today is going to be winging it a bit and watching the US Nationals drag racing that is on all day starting at noon…good background noise for reading….more later…
Owww
Well…damn, I can’t figure out what the heck it was with my legs this morning but they were completely dead on the bike and have since hurt all day…and they just didn’t feel right…like they were really stiff and looked like I just sprinted 20 miles with how pumped they looked…just the weirdest damn thing…so, of course I didn’t get much done today but make guac and read a lot…all of the races today were boring and the one that’s on right now is boring, too…maybe I’m just bored with life right now…that could be it…so I’ll keep this one short since nothing happened today so I really don’t have anything to say…