Well..running about on time today with not getting out of bed til 6:30…slept all the way through the night without getting up and I guess not sleeping at all Monday night had something to do with that…or maybe getting two rides in outdoors did it….still feel pretty worn out with the news of my medical problems yesterday but what can you do? Other than the rides, I didn’t get anything done yesterday and I only have the grocery runs to do today,,,it looks like we may get a winter storm tomorrow night with 5 inches of snow and high winds and I really hope that’s the end of it for this year…the temps are going to fall into the 20’s for a couple of days but it looks like the snow will melt over the next week…that’s my hope anyway….I do have some time to kill before the grocery run so I’m going to just sit here and read some news looking for topics for more of these later…it looks like the rides will be inside today with the little icon at the bottom of the screen saying “wind” and I can hear it’s blowing out there already….but it will probably only be one today with feeling as I do right now….not much to do today…just the grocery runs and then back here for the rest of the coffee…I do have to cook something since I only have leftover chili in the fridge….maybe some of the chicken thighs I’m getting at Meijers? More later….
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Some motion…
Well…you know how many times I have expressed my frustration that the idiot trump is still roaming around free when the evidence of his crimes is piled so high you can’t see over it…but, there seems to be some motion going on with special counsel Jack Smith and his investigation into the idiot trump’s stealing government documents…and it was just revealed that trump had ordered some of the top secret stuff digitized and it was found on the computer of an aide along with a thumb drive they found at the tacky golf club he calls home…and this digitization just make it easier for idiot boy to sell state secrets as I’m sure he and Kushner have already done…how else does the Saudi sovereign wealth fund give Kushner 2 billion dollars…is it thanks for giving MBS a list of his opponents so he could kill them and ascend to power? Whatever it is, I found it funny this weekend when ABC news asked one of the repub idiots running the investigations into Hunter Biden whey they haven’t investigated trump and kushner when the stench of corruption follows them around like a puppy…and this moron just sputtered and left…geez…
Darn…bad news…
Well…as you know, I had an appointment with a urologist this morning to check out a lump in my prostate and when I asked her after the exam what she thought, she is pretty sure we are going to find cancer when they do the biopsy at the end of March….one good thing is that they have refined the biopsy procedure so they only have to poke me twice to get what they need to confirm it…I do like this doctor so that is a a good thing…very friendly and outgoing…she didn’t really feel concerned, though, since 95% of prostate cancer is slow growing and is normally localized so those are good odds….and we’ll figure out what the treatment plan will be in April…oh, well…
February 14th
Well…that sucked…only slept about 3 hours last night and tossed and turned enough to hurt myself overnight…and I need to get ready for the urologist appointment at 8….I was good last night and feel pretty good this morning so I guess that’s something…had an okay day yesterday with having lunch with T and a lot of laughs and it was nice to be out for a bit…still uncomfortable going out and sitting indoors and I won’t be doing that again anytime soon…started to get a ride in outdoors yesterday since they said the wind was only about 7 but when I suited up and got out, it was blowing around 20 on the point and the temp had dropped 5 degrees so I gave up at only 4 miles…and today looks like I’ll be riding indoors with a gale warning in effect out here…winds of 20-30 and gusts of up to 45…but it is going to be 50 so that is nice…but it is going to get cold again…like it should be in Feb, for the next couple of weeks but that gets us to March and I have my fingers crossed that it will turn into spring soon…not much to do today…just the doctor’s appointment and then at least one ride….will try for two after not riding yesterday…should be back here by 9 or so and then I’ll have more coffee and figure out the day….more later….
The Georgia grand jury report to be released today…
Well..it looks like the crap is about to hit the fan since a judge in Georgia ruled that parts of the GJ’s investigation can be released to the public…and I think Fani Willis gets the charging recomendations with this release so if I’m one of trump’s cronies that testified and had anything to do with trying to “find” 12,000 votes, I’d be making a run for it right now…I feel pretty confident that there will be charges from this investigation since the decision on indictments have been “imminent” for a couple of weeks and how can there not be when idiot boy is on tape committing the crime? Yeah, I know, we have all been predicting that the idiot is going to be charged for years now but I have hope that this is going to be the time it is going to happen…fingers crossed…
February 13th
Well…running a little late today with not getting out of bed until after 7…and I’m feeling quite worn out this morning with only eating a bowl of chili and a small slider burger and doing 15 miles outside on the bike…it looks like I’ll get an outdoor ride in again today and tomorrow but then back downstairs with the temps falling back into the 30’s for the rest of the week…but it’s still going to be above freezing so I guess that’s good…maybe no snow for the rest of the winter? Didn’t get anything done yesterday but get my pre doctor’s appointment check in done and that had a 5 page questionaire that I had to fill out and I realized that I don’t have any symptoms of prostate disease at all…and, at my age, that’s a good thing….I do have to clean a bit today and get some meals planned…have to look in the freezer to see what is in there…have had a lot of burger lately so I need some chicken or maybe some pasta….but not til tomorrow since I have enough burger and chili for today…I can’t believe I get 6 burgers out of a pound…not much to do today…just going to take it easy for a while and then go down for a ride just in case I can’t get outside today….the medical stuff starts tomorrow so no cocktails tonight and I go into survival mode until the middle of March….oh, well….more later…
A pretty good day…so far…
Well…have had a pretty good day so far with having fresh coffee, Man U winning, and getting an outdoor ride in on a Sunday when I normally take the day off…and I saw a pair of Bald Eagles flying along the shoreline of Muskegon Lake when I was going by…probably wouldn’t have noticed them but a family was standing on the trail trying to get a video so I wanted to see what the were looking at and looked up…pretty cool to see….now I’m just going to take it easy for the rest of the day and maybe watch the super bowl later….
February 12th
Well…that was probably a normal night for me with getting up at 5:08 and then out of bed before 6:30 to make a run out to get the paper…slept okay last night but I’m not as sore as I should be with doing 23 miles yesterday…not going to do two rides today but I am going to try to get out to do an outdoor ride today instead of taking the day off like I planned…but I won’t be getting out til after Man U plays at 9 so I have time to just relax a bit…I did make chili yesterday but probably shouldn’t have use the big can of crushed tomatoes…tastes way to much like tomato…I did go out and find the recipe that my daughter sent me years ago and I’ll go back to that one for the next batch….didn’t get much done yesterday but the bike rides and today will be the same…have leftovers to eat so I don’t have to cook and that’s good since I don’t feel like doing much right now…all of the snow is gone already out here except for some drifts out at the beach and it looks like we have a week or so before there is any in the forecast and I’ll take that…not much to do today…just going to ease into it and have some more coffee before I do anything….more later…
An effect of electric cars…
Well…with reading an article today about the effect that the adoption of electric cars is going to have, it reminded me that I had this same idea a couple of years back so I thought I’d talk about it a bit….in this article, the author posits that at the current pace of adoption where 17% of the cars in California are already electrics, there will be 50% less gas stations for the rest of us that will probably still have ICE cars…and the possibility of only having 1-2 stations in a town the size of Muskegon…right now, gas stations don’t make any money on gas but on the snacks and other stuff they sell…without people coming in for gas, though, they won’t have enough traffic to stay in business…so there is going to be huge disruptions in business related to ICE cars as less and less of them are on the road…I wonder if I’ll see a ban on them in my lifetime…could be…
Got an outdoor ride in..
Well…was just sitting here earlier with the sun pouring in my windows so I thought I’d check the temp outside to see if it was warm enough to ride…it was but the wind was blowing 13-20mph but I thought I’d give it try anyway….so I dragged a bike up from downstairs, suited up, and took the normal 15 mile ride to go with the 8 miles I did downstairs this morning…it was nice to get out to see people and I only had to walk the bike about a hundred yards through the sand drifts out by the beach…most of the ice is gone from Muskegon Lake and there is only about 20 yards of it along the edge of Lake Michigan and no big piles like it used to do….my back is going to hurt later but it was totally worth it…finally had some fun riding and not torture….and it looks like I can get outside the next three days so I may try to do a double outside…or maybe just do what I did today with an indoor and an outdoor ride…who knows?