Well…with washing my outdoor bike and moving it downstairs this afternoon, I guess the decision to not ride outside anymore is final…it’s going to snow 4-8 inches out here in the next day or so and continue all next week with the cold coming in…so we’ll lose the trails anyway…I do need to organize the bike room better since I put the spare mattress in there yesterday but I had other things to do today….I did get out to pick up the items I forgot at Meijers yesterday so I’m good to not go out anywhere until next week and I can just sit here and watch the snow come down and then go out and shovel…and do two rides downstairs that I’m getting used to…I may shift up to three a day if I get bored but should probably use that time to start prepping the dining room for paint….I did get laundry done today and it looks like the timer on it is still working so that takes a load off…thought I was going to have to get a kitchen timer to use for it but don’t now….I did get another big ham today that I am going to cook Sunday but I have chicken and soup thawing until then…I do need to put the last ham bone in the freezer today and then I’ll make soup from the three I’ll have later….I guess I should get going but I needed the heating pad on my back and it feels good….maybe more later….
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The Peripheral…
Well…haven’t talked about tv in a while but with “The Peripheral” showing up on Plex, I thought I’d do a shorty about it. I’m on the 3rd episode out of 8 and so far, it’s keeping me interested…more than that, it’s quite interesting with gamers, gun battles, time travel and lots of twists and turns…the story is set in 2033 and the main protagonists being a brother and sister who live in a small town down south and are using virtual reality for a standard shooter game when the show starts but then a new piece of equipment arrives from somewhere that allows them to project themselves to London in 2100 where the sister gets involved in intrigue there so there are a few story lines running at once…and her brother is an ex Marine who has electronic implants that allow him to communicate with others in his squad and they band together to fight off killers from the future who drive invisible cars…yep, it’s kind of weird but I like weird shows…the reviews weren’t too good but I decided to give it a try anyway and I’m glad I did…can’t wait to watch another one tonight…
Now it’s only about the grift..
Well…I’m sure there were some folks who were waiting breathlessly for the idiot trump’s “big announcement” that he telegraphed the other day…was he going to run for speaker of the house was the one that gained the most traction but that would mean he would have to actually work and he’d never do that…I really had hoped that he would be announcing that he was fleeing to Russia to avoid going to jail…but no such luck…it was just the announcement of another grift, and that is all he is about any more…to try to fleece the rubes one more time before he’s indicted and this one is just so tacky that I’m even shaking my head….now, for a limited time only, you can be the first to give idiot boy 99 dollars for a tacky card that has the idiot dressed up as a superhero…and that’s not all, it’s part of a set that every maga asshole needs…so get them all before they are gone…they will be collectors items and you can display them proudly in you living room….so get on it magas…give the idiot the rest of the money you have left…you don’t need to eat…geez…
December 15th
Well…damn, running late again today with waking up at 5 but not getting out of bed til almost 7…and I should be on the bike right now but just started my first cup of coffee and I need to have it start working soon….man, I forgot so much doing the grocery run yesterday that I have to go back out this morning and do it again…and that is not normal…and I have a weird taste for bagels and cream cheese but I can’t afford the calories so it will remain a taste…and substitute an apple I guess….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but the two rides and I’ll probably do the same thing today after I get the errand run but I am so damn worn out I don’t want to do anything….at least my back isn’t hurting much so I guess that’s something…..I do have to do laundry today but that will be about all for me….the attraction of taking the day off is pretty strong today but I know that all I have to do is get going and I’ll be okay….it looks like it is going to rain all day today but at least it’s not snow…yet…but the cold is coming next week and that will mean hibernation for me….but I do have to get used to winter weather here pretty soon since it’s going to come no matter how I feel about it….not much to do today…going to get on the bike right now and should be out to run the errand by 8:30 or so….and then I can do the second ride by 10 but I’m not sure what I’ll do with the rest of the day after that….don’t want to do anything right now…just frickin worn out….more later….
Respect for Marriage Act…
Well…Dark Brandon is at it again when he signed the Respect for Marriage Act yesterday that will protect same sex and interracial marriages from Alito and his corrupt Supreme Court….and this had to be done since the only thing protecting these rights were court decisions that Alito telegraphed he was going to do his best to over rule using his stupid logic that if these rights were not specifically enumerated in the constitution, they don’t exist…and he wouldn’t allow them to go on….this time, even 12 repub senators went along and voted for the bill since almost 80% of voters in this country wanted these rights to remain….this is one of the things that I had hoped that the dems would do as they prepare to lose the majority in the house…and they are going to fund the government for a full year if they can get that done this week…and it looks like they will, as I again hoped they would…now let’s get to the other thing I wanted them to do in the lame duck and pass the women’s right bill that would give bodily autonomy back to women after the SC took those rights away….oh, and while they are at it, they need to reform the SC and pass an ethics code that they have to follow at the very least to start cleaning up the corruption that is stinking up the place…geez…
December 14th
Well…damn, not sure if I can get going fast enough to be on the bike in 5 minutes…got out of bed a little earlier that has been the norm lately and broke the string of getting up at 7:30 with dragging my butt out at 6:30 today….I do need to keep up the two rides a day so I have no choice but to get going soon….but I feel so damn worn out that I could just sit here and get ready to do the grocery run….but I won’t and I wonder what that says about me? I did get a few things done yesterday with moving the spare mattress downstairs to get it out of the way for me to work on the dining room and I wonder why I let it sit there for almost two years when I have tons of room in the basement? Oh, well…now I just need to keep going on the trim in there but I’m going to be so busy that I may not get to it today…and I do want to watch the world cup match today….not much to do today…just the grocery run and then back here to ride the bike again and do a couple more of these…kind of boring, I know, but that’s my life…..more later….
Another reason…
Well…as you know, I continue to be careful about getting infected with covid by social distancing and still masking up whenever I go out anywhere…and with reading more about the damage the virus does to your body, it gives me another reason to continue being careful. Just yesterday, I read an article that said a recent study of infected people found that the virus suppresses the immune system by up to 80% making infected people much more susceptible to the other viruses going around like RSV and the flu…and this effect lasts from 8 months to a year…and this is in addition to the debilitating effects that you get with long covid that many people still feel years after their infection and is going to result in a tsunami of permanent disability in the near future…and don’t get me started on the 1,000 people a day who are still dying and adding to the total of 1.1 million who have already died…so, am I trying to justify my being careful? Nope, I’m comfortable with what I’m doing to try to avoid this disease and I really don’t care that no one else is…it’s their lives…
First two ride downstairs day…
Well…even with getting a late start to the day, I was able to get everything done I wanted to do…an that included doing two rides on the bike downstairs to give me 16 miles for the day…but man, that second ride was pretty brutal and I started to shake getting off it and I’m not sure what that was about…but it stopped within a minute so I guess I can live with it…and in between the rides I finally got the bathroom cleaned and it sure needed it so I feel good about that…and I got all that done before Argentina plays Croatia in 20 minutes so I will be able to just hang out and watch it…I do need to put the grocery list together during the game but that will only take about 5 minutes so I will be able to just sit back and enjoy it…okay, just did the math and I have about 200 miles to hit my goal for the bike this year and at 16 miles a day, it will only take 13 days to get there while I have 18 days left in the year…so I am going for it…and that should get me to about 6100 miles for the year…and that is 57 over the record from a couple of years ago….and I can even still take Sundays off….yay!
Ole Rupert is in the hot seat today…
Well…finally, the one person in the world who has done the most damage to everything good is going to be in the hot seat today…Rupert Murdoch, who has turned fox news into a weapon against democracy, is going to be questioned in the suit that Dominion Voting Systems has brought against fox for lying their asses off for a year claiming that their machines were used to steal the 2020 election away from the idiot trump…and at 1.6 billion dollars, a win would put a pretty big dent in murdoch’s wallet…the whole case is going to hang on whether or not there was a corporate mandate for those lies and they knew they were lying…which isn’t a stretch given that almost everything that is broadcast by fox is a lie and they know it…in fact it’s one of their most used tools to spread disinformation while pushing the right wing bullshit that pollutes the world….but, I’m sure he will take the fifth for every damn question just like the idiot trump did in the NY suit against him…but that shouldn’t even matter…there is plenty of evidence to convict without his testimony…gutting fox would be a christmas wish for all of us over here on the left…and it can’t happen too soon….geez…
December 13th
Well…damn, running really later again today…I mean it’s after 8 and I’m just getting to this…so is that sleeping in when I didn’t get out of bed til 7:30 for the 3rd day in a row? It sure feels like it but my body doesn’t feel like I’ve been sleeping in at all…I know I tossed and turned all night and remember looking at my phone at 2:34, 3:51, and 4:44 before getting out of bed so I guess that kind of cancels out the sleeping in….when I got up and looked at my couch I had to laugh that it looks like an old person’s nest with blankets, pillows, and a heating pad on it…and the various lotions for my hands and feet on the coffee table….damn, it’s strange getting old…I am going to try to get two rides in downstairs today but to do that I have to get off my butt and get going in the next 15 minutes or so….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but start on the bathroom and I need to put in an hour or so to finish it up…I made the mistake of having my glasses on when I went in there the other day and that showed me how much dust and dirt was in there and I need to scrub the shower to get rid of the soap scum…but I need to do the ride first and need to get off my butt and get going…but more coffee and some news first….more later….