Well…not sure if it’s an accomplishment or not but I made potato soup this afternoon and had a bowl for dinner…but that’s all I did after the bike rides…oh, I did finish up the Orson Scott Card sci fi novel that I started yesterday and it was pretty good…I haven’t read any science fiction since I got into the thrillers I have been reading but I’m glad I chose the book…and the one I read has a cliffhanger that I think sets it up for a sequel that I will look for next week..still have a couple of books that will get me through the weekend and both are authors I haven’t read before…still trying to expand past the ones I’m running out of…I used the 2% milk to thicken to make the soup creamy and it worked much better than skim…I guess I’m a convert to milk with fat in it…oh, I just remembered that I did do something today… a load of laundry…not much work but work anyway…I did get a bit wet on the bike today but the big rain that was coming hit the Muskegon force field…again…an just dissipated without a drop falling and that sucks…so now no more rain…okay, nope, they are calling for storms overnight but I won’t believe it until it makes me wet…okay, need to look for something to watch tonight…
Stealing Venezuela’s oil
Well…we already know that the idiot trump is a thief but he has moved up to a whole other scale with stealing oil from Venezuela, selling it, and then running the transaction through a bank account he controls and having the 13 billion dollars that was supposed to go back to the people of Venezuela promptly disappear into his own accounts…now come on repubs…isn’t this enough for you assholes to get off your butts and make idiot boy pay for the theft? and idiot boy is lying his ass off saying that he will refill the strategic oil reserve he emptied to try to keep gas prices low so his cronies would be elected this fall…but there is a problem with that…the heavy, sour crude from Venezuela can’t be handled by the reserves that need light, sweet crude for the equipment to work…and if they try to fill it with Venezuelan sludge, the reserve caverns can no long be used since the crap he wants to put in them will ruin them forever…but this moron is so stupid that he can’t grasp any of that…to him oil is oil and the only thing he cares about is how much money he can skim off for himself…and all of this is illegal according to international law that should end with idiot boy in jail…so people, get your butts out to vote our side in so we can start holding the thief in chief accountable…geez…
September 3rd
Well…damn, it’s really humid here again at 96% and it never got under 71 degrees overnight so that is going to make for soaking rides again since I’m already sweating just sitting here doing this…oh, well…up at a little after 5 again today and I would say I’m running late but I don’t plan on getting on the bike til almost 7am today since it’s the only thing I have to do other than cook…do I make potato soup today to use up the celery I have in the fridge? Maybe…it would be nice to have one meal of the day just heat and eat but this is definitely not soup weather so I guess we’ll see…I did get the weed walk in yesterday and, with the rain we’ve had my lawn looks half green and I should plan on feeding it with winter feed when I get back from Italy…and I need to schedule my flu and covid shots and I may even do that before I go…will get online this morning to see if I can get it done tomorrow…covid is on the rise again heading toward a fall peak before the winter one…going to do the weight work here in a minute so I don’t have to do it later but I want another cup of coffee and a bagel first…didn’t eat much yesterday and I don’t want my legs to go flat today…more later….
Damn humidity…
Well…when I got up this morning and got ready to get out on the bike…early…6am, I noticed that it never got under 77 degrees last night and the humidity was at 100%…so when I got on the bike, I was soaked through before I got out 2 miles and by the time I was done with both rides, I had even sweated through my shoes and that hasn’t happened this year…it’s still over 80 with 70% humidity so I’m still sitting with the fan on trying to beat the heat…but really, it’s okay…I’m used to it and have always loved the heat…I did get the grocery run done today and bought some chicken from aldis and the breasts are just huge…I mean 11 bucks for 4 of them at 2.19 a pound…they look like turkey breasts they are so big…going to try a new recipe tomorrow with them…a creamy garlic sauce skillet recipe that doesn’t look too hard but it has half and half and butter in it along with a whole head of garlic…that’s a hell of a lot of garlic so I think I change that…going to make some mashed potatoes to go with it and spoon some of the sauce over them…it was pretty cool on the way back on the 2nd ride that the big blue cruise ship was coming into the dock for the first time this year…that thing is twice the size of the regular ones this summer…pretty cool to see…okay, I need to put more letters on my keyboard since I can no longer see the c,s,l, or b…will do that tomorrow but I need to clean them with alcohol first…time for tv…
Naming things is his only job…
Well…in my long lifetime there has never been a do nothing “president” like the idiot trump and it appears that the only thing he is still doing is playing golf and naming things…after the Lake Ontario debacle, idiot boy is back at it trying to rename the Straits of Hormuz the “straits of trump” saying the the US now controls it so he can name it whatever he wants…what a delusional asshole…no matter what he names and how the suck ups at google go along with it, when he’s gone all the names will be changed back…and the dems have started to follow my advice, with one of them being to the tell the idiot that when he’s gone, his idiotic ballroom will be torn down and the WH restored to it’s traditional footprint including rebuilding the demolished east wing…and a few of them have made the point that anything idiot boy has done will be erased just like it was in Germany when hitler was gone…there will be no straits, no Kennedy Center, no airports, no nothing remaining with his name on it and that can’t come to soon for me…geez…
September 2nd
Well…damn, it didn’t get under 75 last night and it’s supposed to stay warm for a few days yet…I guess it’s the last gasp of summer and I should enjoy it…need to get on the bike in the dark to get 2 rides in before the grocery run…getting a little tired of racing around in the morning to get things done and I may just do one ride before I go and that would mean I don’t have to get on the bike before 6:30 or 7…going out in the dark is starting to lose it’s allure after not being able to see at all in the tunnel of trees yesterday…but we’ll see…didn’t get anything done yesterday but go to the beach but I am going to need to cook today…thinking of making a creamy garlic chicken recipe I’ve never made before and I need to remember to get bread crumbs this morning or that won’t work…or maybe I’ll just cook some chicken to make sandwiches…have lot of potatoes to use up so I may make some mashed potatoes with the chicken…I did take some bacon out of the freezer so I’ll use up the eggs to go with it…not much to do today…just need to get moving but I just don’t feel like it right now…I think the heat is wearing me out and not sleeping is not helping…more later…
Transmission is better…
Well…okay, it was warm enough and humid enough that I made today the last beach day of the summer…and to get there, I had to drive the car with the new transmission oil in it and it feels better…easier to get in all gears even cold which is a big improvement…and from the comments on amazon, it takes about 500 miles for the full amount of difference to show up…but I can live with it the way it is so it was worth the 65 bucks the oil cost…but the biggest thing I noticed was that the slight whine that I could hear in 5th gear is now gone and that matches what a few people commented…so far, so good…the water was a little chilly but warm enough for me to spend a half hour swimming…and I went out without sunscreen to get a little more color one last time…not burned at all but just a little pink since I went out at 10am and was back here before noon…it is a little bittersweet that another summer is gone but I know that I’ll have the rest of my life to enjoy the beach and water…hope it’s not only a year..but we’ll see…
They just don’t get it…
Well…the stupid in all of the people working for the idiot trump is just breathtaking…they seem to believe that because they are not being prosecuted for their crimes now, they will get a free pass for the rest of their lives…and let’s get this straight, idiot boy can’t pardon them from war crime charges at the Hague…like the drunk hegseth who continues to use “double tap” attacks to kill people who survive his unjustified attacks in the Caribbean…just last week it was reported that he ordered two of those attacks on people in boats that he says were transporting drugs but that independent investigators have found were just fishermen going about their lives..and that is not war but just murder and he has been warned that consequences are coming for those murders after we take the house and senate…and after we take the WH in ’28 and regain control of the justice department, this asshole is going to find out that only idiot boy has immunity, not his cronies who he doesn’t give a damn about…we’re coming for you petey boy…how does the rest of your life in prison sound? Geez…
September 1st
Well…another month starts and it starts late since I didn’t get out of bed til 5:50 and now I’m running late already…my ribs are sore from trying to get the drain plug out before I used the impact wrench and crawling under the car…and I don’t know why I’m still doing that at 73 but I really can’t pay someone to do something I can still do…and it does feel good to do things and not give in to age….not sure how buying coffee beans got away from me but, with the bag that is coming today, I’ll have over 11 pounds of them here and that’s enough to cover any more shocks in the market…but how could I resist getting a kilo for 13.47? That’s only a buck and change over the price when I bought the first bags a year ago and these deals are going away…I’m sure the next time these come up they will be well into the 20’s for a kilo…even though I can’t taste much, I can taste the difference between the cheap ground coffee I bought and grinding my own beans…and I have whole bean this morning so I’ll probably drink the whole 12 cups…it did rain here yesterday while I was working on the car and we had a little storm come through in the afternoon and that is how it should be instead of the damn drought we’ve had all year…going to wait to get my flu and covid vaccines until I get back from Italy and I hope that will keep me healthy this winter…I think I’ll take a look and see if I can get it done this week for protection as I travel…but that will be later…right now I need a bagel and more coffee and to get on the bike…more later…
I just realized this…
Well…after I worked on the car, did the weight work, and got the 2nd ride in, I just realized something…when I was pouring the old oil back into the bottles that the new stuff came in, it didn’t fill two bottles all the way…and it’s supposed to have 2.5 quarts in it…and there are no leaks so either they changed it and didn’t put enough into it, or over 18 years some of the oil just dissipated into the air…whatever the reason, it probably wasn’t good to have it so low on oil and I’m glad I serviced it to fix it…and now I have the rest of the day to read and take it easy and it’s only 11:50am…one problem with the old oil was that it smelled and no matter how much I scrub, I still smell that old oil and probably will for a few days…nothing smells like old gear oil…time for a break…100 of these for the month is not bad…