Well…you know, if the repubs would make as much effort putting together policies that help people as they do figuring out new ways to cheat in elections, they may just be more successful then they are. Just the other day, I read an article that exposed the newest way for them to cheat…by flooding the country with biased polls like the one from Rasmussen that always favors repubs, they are trying to discourage our side from voting since these polls make it appear the the outcome is a foregone conclusion with the repubs winning…and with the hundreds of roadblocks that the repubs have thrown up against voters on our side…it makes it easier for our folks to justify not voting if it looks like the votes won’t matter. Damn, I am sick and tired of these assholes trying to ruin this country and stealing elections…but we all know why they do it…without cheating, the repubs would never win another election since they have no policies that anyone wants….but I am also confused why dems won’t come out to vote since the dems do…okey dem voters and independents…get off your asses and vote like your life depends on it…in my case, it does since the repubs want to destroy the very Medicare that is going to pay for the treatment I’m going to need to survive…and you could be next…geez…
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Wouldn’t it be ironic?
Well…after finding out about the big C, out on the bike today a thought came to me…wouldn’t it be ironic if the thing I’ve been doing for many, many years to try to stay healthy is the thing that causes the cancer that kills me? And to add to that, it would be the ultimate irony if I won the 600 million dollars in cash in the powerball tonight and the cancer kills me before I have the chance to spend it…okay, this is the last time I go to black humor as this process plays out…probably won’t mention it again since I still do have a life to live…although I may re-think doing any more work on this house…why should I make it nicer for the next owner? Okay, that’s it..I am going to take today off to digest everything but then back to normal tomorrow….more later….and I will do a political one in a few minutes…just need to read the news a bit first….
One I hoped I’d never have to write…
Well…with the doctors appointment yesterday and what was discovered in my colonoscopy last week, along with my elevated PSA test, this is one that I had hoped to never write about…my doctor is worried that I have prostate cancer…yep, the big C and that really, really sucks. So the process starts to find out for sure in the next couple of weeks with a referral to a urologist for more tests and probably a biopsy to see what is going on…one tiny bit of hope is the weird effect that riding a bike hard has on the PSA test…it is supposed to raise the PSA like crazy and I did a full hour on the indoor bike going as hard as I could yesterday morning before they drew blood so I’ll bring that up when I have the urologist appointment…at least this will give me a topic to write about over the next few months…I’m glad we have found out about this early so the prognosis should be pretty good and normally prostate cancer grows pretty slow unless I have the aggressive one that could kill me next year….so, maybe there won’t be a UK trip after all…oh, well….
November 2nd
Well….damn, I was so worn out after the doctors appointment and the yard work yesterday I fell asleep sitting up on the couch last night…and I am having a hard time getting moving today and I need to…it’s 7:30 and I need to get on the bike downstairs no later than 7:45 so I can do the grocery run on time this morning but I don’t want to…slept okay last night but sure don’t feel like it this morning…had a couple of cocktails last night and that really hurts after taking so much time off…so I may have to re-think that….it does feel good to have the yard work done and only the last of the leaves to pick up but that will wait til all of them fall over the next week or so….damn, only 12 minutes and I need to get on the bike…I do feel good that I have gotten control of my weight and I’m under 180 pounds for the first time in over 20 years…and that makes me want to continue to 170 or even 160 over the next year…and that will be 52 pounds down from my highest weight of 212….I do need to remember to get some powerball tickets today since the jackpot is up to 1.2 billion dollars for tonight and I have Monday’s tickets to check to see if I won anything….not much to do today…just need to get on the bike here in 7 minutes and then out to do the grocery run…after that, it’s just one more ride and then winging it for the rest of the day….have some chicken thawed that I need to cook today and I am getting some thighs that will be my protein for the rest of the week…then it’s to the freezer to get it cleaned out….more later….
Poor Lindsey…
Well…finally, the SC today told Lindsey Graham that he has to testify to the grand jury that is investigating the attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia…and it wasn’t just the idiot trump doing it..ole lindsey called the SoS there, too, and asked if they could “look at” certain absentee ballots that are detrimental to trump’s election…and those certain ballots were all from a minority area of Georgia where it was almost a certainty that the majority of votes there were for Biden…so poor lindsey…you’re going to have to pay for your un-American bullshit and the sooner you and the rest of the maga assholes are gone the better…geez…
I think I did enough today….
Well…it really is nice when I feel that I did enough to keep the guilts at bay and today is one of those days….started out really early by getting on the bike downstairs by 7am and getting a good ride in…I did have to replace the earpieces on my ear buds since the rubber ones had rotted away and looked pretty shabby…so, I dug out the box for the betrons and found that there was a spare set of silicone earpieces that fit perfectly and do a better job of keeping the wind noise out of them than the rubber ones did…and I am still amazed at how long these things have lasted…going on 5 years now and I’ve never gotten more than 6 months out of any other ones…okay, back to the day….after I got the ride done and got cleaned up, I headed out to my doctors appointment that went well and I am waiting for the results of the PSA test to be sure that I’m in the clear…then, as soon as I got back here, I jumped on the bike for the second ride of the day, had lunch, then back out to work on the yard and spent 2 1/2 hours running the string trimmer and edger then cleaned all that up and finished about 2:20 or so…so, I think I did enough today and plan on taking the rest of the day off and having a couple of cocktails tonight after being good for the past week and getting my blood pressure below 130…and now I have tomorrow afternoon off after getting the work done today…yay…oh, I did hurt myself more today but it’s not my back or any parts that hurt before…it hurts on my side just under my shoulder and that is a familiar pain that I’ve had every time before when I abused those muscles doing the edging…oh, well…
57 Russian bots…
Well…when ole elon said that nothing would change on twitter after he took over, he was either stupid or lying…since he took over last Friday, I’ve had 57 Russian bots follow me when I had a total of about 8 followers who were real people before…and there is really no reason for anyone to follow me on twitter, I don’t post there very often and when I do, it something about music or riding the bike or some such nonsense that it would not interest anyone but me…but now I have over 60 followers and the funny think is the pictures they have attached to the accounts are all good looking women…kind of a clue to the fact that they are Russian bots. So, again ole elon is doing Russia’s work for it by cutting the content moderation and the bot detectors back to the point that most of twitter is going to be bots, not anyone you want to hear from…and that will mean that Russian disinformation and lies about our elections is going to explode over the next week…basically making twitter useless…good job elon…geez…
Broke the 180 pound barrier…
Well…had a bit of good news during the doctors appointment this morning…when they weighed me, I was under 180 pounds for the first time in over 20 years…and that was with jeans and my shoes on…almost 3 1/2 pounds less than the last time and that makes me smile a bit…I’ve really been working hard at losing weight and I’m happy I’m still going the right way…only about 9 pounds more to get to my goal of 170…but, when I get there, I’ll probably move that goal to 160…going to have to buy all new clothes for the trip next year if I hit that goal…but I need them anyway….more later…
November 1st
Well…I could just say 3:11 and then 5:54 and you’d know what I was talking about and that means I need to change things up a bit…still pretty sore around my trunk but it’s not the gasping pain it was a couple of days ago…but it’s still annoying and I am going to hurt it more again today with running the string trimmer and edger to finish up the lawn work that I need to do for fall….there are more leaves to be picked up but I think I’ll wait til they are all down to do that…probably early next week…had a good day yesterday but today is going to start out a little slow with skipping the coffee to keep my my blood pressure down for the doctor’s appointment at 9am….I still have some health problems that need to be resolved today that came from the colonoscopy last week and I sure don’t need to have this stuff hanging over me…I did buy some powerball tickets yesterday but I didn’t win but no one else did, either, so the jackpot is going to be 1.2 billion dollars for the drawing wed so I think I’ll blow some more money with the off chance I could win some bucks…damn, it’s November and I still haven’t started on the dining room and that is a little depressing…still too many other things to do and I think I’ll just have to suck it up and start next week…it won’t take more than a couple of weeks to finish it and it would feel good to have another room done….not much to do today….just the doctors appointment and then back here to do an outdoor ride…going to do an indoor one here in a few minutes since it won’t be light early enough to get out before the appointment….haven’t edged the walks in a few months so it will be some work this afternoon but it is going to be about 60 today and that will make it easier….but it is still going to hurt…oh, well…more later…
New bird on the feeder…
Well…since I cleaned and filled the window bird feeder a couple of weeks ago, there has been a lot of activity on it and that is fun to watch…have had a lot of chickadees and didn’t have one last winter so that is pretty cool…and today, I got a new bird on the feeder that looks like a chickadee but has a long beak instead of the finch-like ones the chickadees have…so, of course, I went out to the internet to take a look to try to find out what it was…it appears to be a white breasted nuthatch that has the same black cap as a chickadee and similar coloring…and that is pretty cool to see a bird I’ve never seen before..but I am still confused that the sparrows haven’t found the feeder yet…I’ve seen them around a block away but none of them in my yard so far…just had a huge bluejay on the feeder and I think he’s the one who has been coming all year and through last winter….it is nice to have my bird tv to watch as I sit here and do these…lots of fun…