Well…with the release of 6 years of the idiot trump’s taxes by a house committee, we can see what everyone knows…that idiot boy doesn’t pay taxes like the rest of us. He even got a 13 million dollar refund in one of the years that he used to offset taxes that he did owe…a pretty damn good trick when he doesn’t pay taxes…and let’s just remember that his company was just convicted of tax fraud and I’ll be surprised once the forensic accountants get at this paperwork that there isn’t some kind of fraud in there that he’ll blame on his accountants…on other thing we should remember that the NY times did a story of where the idiots money came from and it was shown that he helped his parents commit tax fraud and then inherited all that money when they died…oh, and he cheated his niece out of her part of the money when that happened….so to find his returns done by the book would be the first time he ever did it….geez….
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Got an outdoor ride in…
Well…when I got up this morning and it was 46 degrees, I decided to try to do an outdoor ride just to scope out the trails and see if they were passable…and they were for the most part…I did have to walk the bike in a few spots but it was okay…the road by the beach is closed with sand drifts over both it and the boardwalk and I had to ride in the road coming down the hill from the beach with snow drifts over the trail at the top of the hill…I left the bike in the garage so I can ride outside for the next week..it’s even supposed to be over 50 one day next week and I hope that clears the entire trail…will still have to ride in the road a bit with all of the sand over the trail out by the beach….I did hurt my back and I will have to heat it here in a few….more later….
December 30th
Well….damn, I really do need a day off to recharge but I know I won’t do it….my back hurts and I feel run down and that seems to be the new normal and I don’t like it one bit…had an okay day yesterday and got sucked into a Star Wars marathon with the last of the series and it was cool that I didn’t remember them at all…it was 5 years since I’d seen them and I hope that was not from memory loss….I did do two rides yesterday and I am going to try to do that again today but I sure don’t want to….I am hoping that I can get back to the zone where I can just get on the bike, let my mind go off on it’s own, and then it’s over….but that hasn’t been working lately and it’s a chore to just think about going down there…I wonder if I should drag the bike up and do an outside ride today? It’s 47 degrees right now and most of the snow has melted and it could be doable….and I don’t hate riding outside like I do inside…okay, that will be the goal for today….but I still need to wait til it gets light out there…can I just do one ride outside and accept that it is enough? Not much to do today….I am winding down the year and I’m not sure what I’m going to do mark that….I think there is football on later today and maybe even some soccer so I can stay amused for the day…more later…
Elon Musk…super genius…
Well…I sure hope none of you guys has any Tesla stock…over the past year it has lost over 75% of it’s value and musk has cost stockholders over 800 billion dollars…so, is this some sort of elevenety level chess, or is he just some right wing asshole who started out rich and got richer by accident? His moves with both tesla and with twitter seems to show that he is not the super genius that he played on tv but just another hack with too much money and too many sycophants and yes men who he has surrounded himself with….and while we’re at it, let’s just remember how SpaceX got to be successful…it was all of the government contracts and subsidies it got from NASA…without them, it wouldn’t exist so no, it wasn’t elon’s genius but yours an my money that did it…it seems that people liked tesla when he still had that undeserved veneer of genius but now that people see the true elon, they don’t want to have anything to do with him…and I don’t, either….
December 29th
Well…it looks like I’m back to the 3-5-7 pattern again…up at 3:03, up again at 5:37 and out of bed before 7:30….but getting up that late make me run late for getting on the bike by 8 so it looks like I’ll not get to that until 8:30 since I do want to have some coffee in me before I get on the bike…it’s always a struggle when I ride without a jolt of caffeine…..it looks like we’re going to get a lot of snow melt over the next week or so with temps in the upper 30’s into the 50’s and I’m okay with that….cripes it’s 44 right now and getting to almost 50 today….watching a show on British tv right now that has Motown music from the BBC and I’m transported back to when I was 11…and I’m still here at 69…what does that say? Nothing I guess….didn’t get much done yesterday with the plan to take the day off but I’m not planning to do much today…not a day off since I’m going to ride the bike twice…Marvin Gaye is on from 1965….strange….not much to do today…my back hurts for some reason and I’ll probably heat it between rides to keep it from seizing up…this has gone on way too long…..still have leftovers so I don’t have to cook anything today but I probably should plan meals for later in the weekend but I don’t want to…I have 18 minutes to get on the bike and that is too soon….more later….
Just couldn’t do it…
Well…as you know from my earlier post, the plan was to take the day of the bike as a little reward for getting to the goal this year…but at about 2 I just couldn’t take it anymore and my guilt got the best of me so I suited up and went down to at least get one ride in today and put in a burner, averaging over 16mph and I was drenched when I got done…but I feel much better both physically an mentally for doing it…and now I can sit here and watch soccer without feeling guilty…and I’ll get back to the routine tomorrow to try to get to 6,100 for the year…
I guess the furnace didn’t work too well at the WH…
Well…with the release of the January 6th transcripts of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony and the fact that she saw Mark Meadows burning papers in his office fireplace at least a dozen times, the only conclusion that anyone on the right is going to draw is that it was all innocent and that the furnace doesn’t work too well so he had to do something…after all, he couldn’t have been obstructing justice by burning incriminating papers, could he? No, never with the squeaky clean trump administration that was one of the most law abiding in history….and since they were all so honest, I wonder why they didn’t just ask Meadows why he was burning papers in his fireplace? Oh, now I remember…they tried to ask him and he ignored the subpoena that the committee sent him as did quite a few of the trump cronies…I don’t think even Nixon was caught burning documents during Watergate…so I guess it will be up to the DOJ to ask him if they haven’t already…this has got to be obstruction of justice at least and he needs to pay for it…and before I die I would like to see someone held accountable for this crap…just like the two yahoos who were sentenced to 20 years each for plotting to kidnap our governor here in Michigan….all of these idiots saw the idiot trump breaking the law with no consequences so they thought they could do it, too…think again morons…geez…
Am I taking the day off?
Well…I was able to get out this morning to do an abbreviated grocery run and I even got gas for the car for 2.90 a gallon so I won’t need to do that again until the end of January…and I am sitting here right now without having ridden the bike today and I am wondering if I’m taking the day off? Have already had the heating pad on my sore back and I really could use some rest…and I did make my mileage goals on the bike yesterday so maybe I’ve earned it? A nap on the couch would be so luxurious but I’ll probably get on the bike after lunch…man, that’s sick…what do I have to do to have one day off? Okay, I know…I’m taking Sunday off as normal so I probably shouldn’t be so damn lazy….we’ll see….
December 28th
Well..damn, can I just sit here instead of getting on the bike this morning? I am so damn tired today that I could go back to bed…but you know I won’t….so, I need to get on the bike in 21 minutes and I just started my first cup of coffee….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but ride the bike and today will be the same other than the grocery run…don’t really have much to get today but I do need bird food since I am out of it and have been for a couple of days…it is going to be warm for a week or so and I think a lot of the snow will melt with the rain that is coming in…haven’t been out in the car since last Thursday and I hope I can get out of the alley today…it would be a pain to bury the car in the slush since it’s already 31 out there….have been having problems with my eyes lately and I think it’s from stopping the allergy meds that have been suppressing my immune system…I wake up every morning with my eyes full of crap and a stuffed up head that is putting pressure on them that is distorting their shape…have had a headache since I stopped the meds and that is miserable….not much to do today…I just need a day off to do nothing but I can’t do that….I wonder if there is a control alt delete for my brain? I sure could use a reset right now…not getting on the bike…just can’t do it with how I feel….more later….
Busy morning…
Well…damn, it was a busy morning around here with being on the go from the time I got up until just now at 1pm…started out with getting on the bike and getting the first ride in, then on to making the ham soup that I had all the ingredients for and that meant doing all the veggie chopping that took over a half hour…before then I got the ham bones in the instant pot so it could cook as I did the first ride…then the veggies went in the pot and cooked for 12 minutes and then added the beans and tomatoes to let them get warm…after that I got back on the bike for ride two and then had a bowl of soup for lunch…then it was clean up time and I just finished that and came here to do two of these…so, I think I’ve earned some soccer time with the first game and then Man U comes on at 3…and once that happens, I’m done for the day….oh darn, I do have to do the grocery list this aft, too…so I should get at that right now…