Well…damn, I am breaking my routine this morning with not going out to get the Sunday paper…they haven’t plowed the streets out here and there is at least 8 inches of snow on them and I don’t want to get the car stuck….and I only get the paper for the ads anyway and I got the ones I want in the little paper they deliver on Friday….feel a little crappy today and still think I’ve got a cold so I’m going to act like I have one and take care of myself today…and that means taking it easy and no bike rides…I am going to make a big meal today with a ham and all of the sides that I will need to get in the oven by 10 or so….and the world cup final is on at ten, too, so I’ll have something to watch…and the Lions play later so it will be a lazy day that I am looking forward to…will have to go out and shovel the snow again and I guess there is another big storm coming so I need to go out for supplies at some point but I’ll wait til they plow to do that….not much to do today….just need to have lots more coffee to get my brain jump started or maybe I’ll just let the morning unfold slowly and sit here a bit….more later…
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Joe Biden makes us some money…
Well…are all the right wingers so stupid? The answer to that is yes by the way…and it was shown today with the latest attack on Joe Biden that has been floating around the dead bird site where these morons are bitching about Biden buying oil to refill the national reserve after using some of the oil in it to try to keep the prices down…and they are going on and on that Biden is stupid since they think the price is higher than what he sold the oil for a few months back…but, of course, they have all wrong…when Biden sold the oil, the price was in the mid 90 dollars per barrel…and, as of today, the price is anywhere from 74 to 78 bucks a barrel…so he’s MAKING 20 bucks a barrel…so, right wingers I’ll explain it for you…if you sell something for a higher price than when you buy it back, you make a profit off the sales…and by profit I mean you get to pay less than you were paid for the same oil…see how that works? Do you understand now? No? I didn’t think you would…morons…
A conundrum…
Well…have been having computer problems today with it getting really slow…it wouldn’t even restart so I had to unplug it and take the battery out of it…and then getting my browsers reloaded took me about a half hour but here I am…I have a conundrum…just noticed that Meijers has turkeys on sale this week for only 55 cents a pound…so, what do I make for the holidays? I am going to make another ham tomorrow but do I buy a third ham later in the week or do I get a turkey and make that instead? I think I may do that since I can get a 12 pounder for around 6 bucks and I’m down to only one container of soup in the freezer from the last batch and I should make ham soup first…and I probably shouldn’t have anymore salty ham…so it looks like I’ll get a turkey wed and it should be thawed or close to it by Sunday so I won’t have to think about protein for the next two weeks….and then I need to just stop eating at all for about a month when I get off the bike for three weeks…ick….okay, time to shovel the slush off the walks….and then salt them…
I think I have a cold…
Well….damn, I think I may have a cold…have been coughing and feeling a little worn out today and my head is completely plugged up, too…so how the hell could that happen with always having a mask on when I go out? It does feel a little like I’m not eating enough and I wonder if a chicken leg and a handful of baked fries is enough for the big meal today? All I’m going to have for dinner is a bowl of turkey soup and a couple of crackers and that is the same as I had yesterday…let’s see, how many calories is that? 300 for the leg quarter and probably close to that for the fries and 100 for a glass of milk…so 700 or so and the bowl of soup is about 200 and the crackers are about a hundred and a hundred for another glass of milk, so 400 so that makes it 1100 for the day for the past two days…but I’m still gaining weight and I just hate it…I did do two hard rides this morning but that’s only about 700 calories burned…okay the calculator on the internet says that riding as I do burns 700 calories per ride but that just can’t be…if it was I wouldn’t be gaining weight…crap…oh, well….
It’s a sports day…
Well…after a brutal second ride, I’m now settling in for a big sports day with a cup of coffee and the heating pad on my back…and it has started out good with Croatia and Morocco each scoring a goal in the first ten minutes of the match…and after that, I’ll go out and shovel the snow for the first time and I’m sure not the last time since we are supposed to get 4-8 inches out here today…and then lunch and football games start and run for the rest of the day…so, I think I’ll veg out and just watch sports all day…I may clean a bit but I may not…who knows? More later…
December 17th
Well…up before 7 this morning after waking up at around 4 and my legs are hurting like crazy for some reason…I wonder if it’s fallout from doing 16 miles a day on the indoor bike? Don’t know but I do know I need to get on the bike soon if I’m going to get two rides in before the third place game in the world cup comes on at 10…hmmm…maybe my legs hurt because I shoveled snow twice yesterday? I do need to get out there and do that again after I get off the bike and it looks like two a day or more with all the snow we are forecast to get…oh, well…it’s December in Michigan and that’s to be expected….didn’t get anything done yesterday and don’t really have anything to do today since I have leftovers to eat but I am going to make the next ham tomorrow and that will get me through for a week or so and I wonder if I’ll get one more if they are on sale next week? That would give me a lot of ham bones to make soup…at least three or maybe 4 so that will make some hearty soup….and I think I’ll do that before the new year….didn’t get the little paper with the ads that normally comes on Friday so I guess I’ll have to go out for the paper tomorrow to see them….not much to do today…just need to get on the bike here in a few minutes and get the day started but I want another cup of coffee and to read the news first….man, I’m tired….more later….
Indictments are coming donnie…
Well…there was a little bit of good news that came out this afternoon when the January 6th committee announced that it is going to refer the idiot trump to the DOJ for prosecution on three charges: Insurrection, Obstruction, and Conspiracy to defraud the US….all felonies and all with jail time attached…now, of course the DOJ could decline to prosecute but once the evidence is released in the report that is coming out next week, I think they are going to have to drag his ass off to jail…and the DOJ has been asking for all of the evidence the house committee has gathered so they can proceed with indictments and prosecutions of not only idiot boy but at least Meadows, too…and we should know that Monday when the committee is going to hold one last hearing to summarize it’s findings and make the referrals official….now I haven’t read anything if idiot boy has exploded today, but if he has a good lawyer he or she should be stuffing a sock in his mouth shut him up because anything he says will make it worse for him….can’t wait for Monday….
Dodged a bullet…I think…
Well…man, I think I may have dodged a bullet with my depression today….yesterday, it felt like a bad one was coming on but I don’t feel it today at all…and that never happens but I’ll take it…it’s been a good but unproductive day today and all I did so far is get the two rides in and make lunch and then read the news on mastodon for a couple of hours but I will need to go out and shovel the snow before long but I want it to stop snowing first…looking at the radar that isn’t going to happen for quite a while so I probably can do the snow after dark if it keeps snowing that long…and it looks like snow for the next week so I’ll be out there a lot and I don’t mind that at all…looks like I’ll have to heat my back after shoveling since it has had low grade pain all day today but just on my right side and that is more normal than it hurting all across my lower back…..okay, it’s getting lighter out there so I think I’ll go shovel….maybe more later…
Elon’s meltdown is going to cost him…
Well…with the Thursday night massacre at twitter where ole elon started to permanently block a bunch of journalists including Keith Olbermann for some pissy little reason, the thin skinned moron is going to pay for that in the UK where regulators are already readying fines since it is against the law to do that there…and it is just what I talked about a couple of weeks back when I noted that facebook just paid a 250 million dollar fine for running afoul of the content moderation laws there and this could cost elon at least that and maybe more…and the whole thing started when elon blocked a teenagers account on twitter that followed where his private jet was at any time….and then it escalated when reporters started calling elon on it and posting links to instructions how to set up an account on Mastodon…so then he blocked any account that mentioned Mastodon…oh, and do yourself a favor…go over and set up an account on Mastodon…no ads, no right wing crazies, and no elon…and lots of nice people….so in addition to losing a lot of his ad revenue, elon is going to be on the hook for big fines in both the UK and EU…can’t happen to a bigger moron….
December 16th
Well…up at 6:09 this morning and that is a little more like normal…but the depression that I could feel coming on last night is here so I’m not sure how the day is going to go…just poured the first cup of coffee and I sure hope it starts to work soon…had to put two pairs of glasses on to read my tablet this morning and I find that a little funny…but I can read my laptop just fine so I can do this with no problem….damn, I seem to be compensating a lot lately as I get older and I don’t like it much…it did start to snow last night and the lawn is covered and I wonder how much we’ll get today….as I said before, it is going to be kind of a hibernating day today and probably tomorrow with a winter weather advisory on for the day and I wonder if I should go out and walk around in it? I need to do something…okay, no I don’t…I’ve lived with depression my entire life and I know how it goes….it’s more of a nuisance than anything else and I’ll get through it….I do need to cook today and I’ll bake some chicken for lunch and then have some turkey soup for dinner and that will be what I’ll have for the next two days…still feel like I’ve gained back most of the weight I’ve lost but that can’t be true…but I do have to cut back to one meal a day to get ahead of the three weeks off the bike in January but I don’t want to do it now…the next couple of weeks is going to be as normal as I get around here…not much to do today….going to get on the bike in 30 minutes or so but I really don’t have much else to do today…so I’m just going to try to not put any stress on myself to keep to a schedule…after all, I have the entire day and the only thing I need to do is the two rides but that doesn’t seem to be too attractive right now…more later….