Well…along with the soaring gas prices which topped 5 bucks a gallon this week, I predicted that grocery prices were going to jump after the idiot’s stupid war with Iran…and just yesterday, it was reported that grocery prices jumped more in April than they have in any month for the past 5 years…and as I also said, you ain’t seen nothing yet…like a hurricane, these prices are just the outer edges of the storm that is coming that really is going to starve people to death but these assholes just don’t care…look at they did when ole elon killed USAID, the program that gave help to starving people around the world…it is estimated that over a million people have died after they gutted the program…but do psychopaths care about that? Nope, they don’t even think about it since they don’t even think about poor people as being people at all…they see them as a burden to be purged so rich white people don’t have to be bothered…and that is coming to the US as they gut programs like SNAP or put work rules in place that most of the people getting the help can’t meet…but they just don’t care…so get out and vote these assholes out so we can hold them accountable…geez…
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May 16th
Well…damn, it’s 6am and I feel like this day is already getting away from me and I need to get off my butt and get going or the day will be a total loss…have decisions to make right now about what rides I’m going to do…looking at the radar, it looks like I have a window to get an outdoor ride in as soon as it gets light but then another batch of rain is coming in that will push me back downstairs unless I want to miss some of qualifying day at Indy…it is warm enough to go out in shorts if I go this morning but I really don’t like having my day disrupted like this…or am I moving on into spring/summer mode on the bike? Whatever it is, I need to have everything done before 11 am when qualifying starts…I wonder why I feel like such a slug with only getting 21 miles on the bike yesterday…that should be enough to feel good about it but my brain won’t let me do that when there was a possibility of 34 miles…yeah, I know, that’s sick but that’s me, too…so today looks like Indy qualifying and reading for the day after getting cleaning done yesterday…really need to do the kitchen floor and do the baseboards but I’m not sure if I’ll do that or not…I am going to treat my left elbow and right thumb with lidocaine since they hurt like crazy this morning and I need my thumb to shift….more later….
Got some work done…
Well…I cut the riding back to only 21 miles today so I could get some work done around here…and I did get the living room cleaned from top to bottom including getting the couch cleaned and the cushions rotated along with getting the cover washed…it is nice to have a little firmness back into the cushions so I’m not sinking into them…I even dusted the tv and stand along with my stereo…and the rug really needed a vacuum so that’s done, too…didn’t get out on the bike in shorts today since it was only 49 when I went out and that is just too darn cold…but it was still a good ride…still pretty sore from yesterday’s ride and it’s weird that nothing hurt on the bike but my thumb and that always hurts so no big deal…made an omelet for dinner today to use up some of the mushrooms and green pepper that I bought to go on the last pizza in the freezer so that will have to be used in a few days…okay, the truck race is starting and I have reading to do…
FIFA is getting what they deserve…
Well…I guess sucking up to the idiot trump and giving him a “peace prize” is not working out for them…especially with the news that idiot boy is sending ICE goons to all of the American venues that are hosting the World Cup starting next month…at least a dozen organizations like Amnesty International have issued travel warnings to the US due to “deteriorating human rights” caused by idiot boy and his thugs and anyone with a brown skin who comes for the tournament is under threat of being arrested and held without cause…and these threats are showing up in the depressed bookings for flights and hotels at the venues holding the matches…with a majority of them saying that bookings are down even from the normal summer tourism and the boom that people were planning for is not happening…so we’re going to see half empty stadiums as smart people stay away as they already have since idiot boy launched his thuggish campaign against people of color…I really hope that FIFA loses it’s shirt since they knew that everything the idiot touches turns to shit and they sucked up to him anyway…geez…
May 15th
Well…still in the pattern of getting up at 5am but last night was the worst sleep I’ve had in a while and I even tried to go back to bed after I got up and that didn’t work…oh, well…I am really sore after the first 34 mile day yesterday and I’m not doing that again today…maybe…but you know that I’m almost compelled to do it and I need to get going right now to get the indoor stuff done before it warms up enough to go outside…I do have lots of coffee for this morning after making extra yesterday and drinking it all day…and it appears that helped keep me not lose as much energy and crash around noon…but I’m not sure if it’s the coffee or eating more and I really should have only changed one variable so I could tell what works…going to clean the living room and rotate the couch cushions today since the dust is getting pretty bad…my eyes are still pretty good and I was able to watch tv all day yesterday without glasses on and that is a major reason why I’m staying off cocktails for the foreseeable future…and I do feel better so that’s a bonus…I did make a pork chop for dinner yesterday but could barely taste it so the rest of them will probably end up in the freezer…not much to do today…just cleaning and the normal stuff…it may be warm enough to open this place up but that will mean my allergies are going to go nuts just like they did on the outdoor rides yesterday from the mowing along the trail…more later…
Coffee worked for a while…
Well…as I talked about this morning, I was trying out something new today with making extra coffee to see if I could avoid the noon slump that has been happening for a while now…and it did work until now…about 2:30 in the afternoon but I can feel the deflation of the coffee buzz happening and it’s not going to be pretty…oh, well…going to try that again tomorrow with having 9 cups for tomorrow left over….I did get a lot done today with the normal stuff…mowing the front lawn, and doing 34 miles for the day…and I had all that stuff done before noon since I got an early start at 5:15 or so…and I was able to get out in shorts for the 2nd ride and I look forward to doing that again tomorrow…and I may be able to get two rides in outdoors starting early and not doing an indoor ride…so, I’ll be back to 26 miles tomorrow probably…I do have some pork chops marinating for dinner and I’m not sure how my body is going to react to that…and I need to change up my eating since I got a dozen eggs at aldis for 1.46 yesterday and I couldn’t pass that up and I need to make the last pizza in the freezer to use up the green pepper and mushrooms that I guess I can use for an omelet, too…okay, need to get back to reading…
Here it comes..
Well…I know some of the idiots on the right are ignoring the trump inflation saying it’s “not so bad” even though gas prices are up 50% the past 2 months and hit 5 bucks a gallon here in Michigan…but the ominous little report that came out yesterday said that producer prices, those seen by wholesalers soared by 6% in the past month…and you know every penny is going to be passed on to you and me soon…and this includes basically everything that we buy…and as I’ve said before, this is just the start of the trump inflation that comes from the war and tariffs…can you say 12% inflation over the next year…and that means that most Americans are going to have to make the hard decisions of what to buy…and since 60% of the country doesn’t have any wiggle room in their budgets, my prediction that people are going to go hungry is going to come true…and with the repub cuts to food stamps that they gleefully passed last year, there is no safety net left and people are going to starve…and as I said in my last post, 38% of the people are going to blame Biden since fox news will tell them to as their kids go hungry…and that is just wrong…nothing will shatter the fox cocoon they have been in for years and their kids shouldn’t have to pay for it…geez…
Why 38%?
Well…as all of us do in the reality based world, every day we wonder how 38% of the people can still support the worst person in the world even as they look at the walmart tags in their hands and the price at the pump and everywhere else that shows that all of the inflation we’re seeing is a direct result of the idiot trump and his ignorance of economics…but they don’t seem to care and now we know why…this same 38% only watches the propaganda on fox news and get their news from no other source…even after a million people died from covid as idiot boy did nothing to stop it, 63% of fox news viewers gave idiot boy an excellent rating of how he handled the pandemic…and the whole “feud” with the pope was largely manufactured buy fox by lying about what the comments he made about warmongers meant and that they are not following jesus…but fox turned that into a direct attack on idiot boy when it wasn’t…and the attempt to send lil marco to the Vatican to patch things up was widely reported as a failure in every other news outlet but fox as they crowed that the trip was a “huge success” and they pushed the idiot as a “great negotiator” when it was just another failure to pile on the mountain of them…so this is really why 38% of this country still thinks the idiot trump is the “savior” that the US needs…it’s all fox propaganda and an organized fraud to hoodwink people that don’t know any better…stop watching fox news is what I always say…and it’s still right…geez…
May 14th
Well…up and moving at 5:15 this morning but feel okay so I guess I can live with it…trying to dose myself with more coffee this morning so I saved the leftovers from the new pot I made yesterday and then set up a new pot that I’m brewing now…have to do something so I don’t crash at noon again…I guess we’ll see…it’s only 42 out there right now so there will be an indoor ride to start the day but I may be able to get out in shorts today if I wait til noon or so…I wonder if it’s worth it to wait? I do need to cook today and, for the first time in months, I’m going to make a pork chop and some roasted potatoes and I wonder how my system is going to fare with that? Now I’m just weighing if I should marinate it or just have it with just salt and pepper…who knows? I think I’m going to mow just the front today sine the rest of the yard is looking pretty bad with not getting any rain out here for weeks so it looks like I lose the lawn for another year…crap…I did get some work done around here yesterday with cleaning the kitchen and washing my bedding…didn’t get outdoors for a ride with the high only getting to 46 here and that sucks for the 13th of May…we do have a little warm up coming and may see temps almost normal for this time of the year this weekend…I’d like to get the windows open for a bit to air this place out…and then have my allergies flare and be miserable…yay…more later….
Still worn out…
Well…another day of feeling just damn worn out and I am getting a little concerned about it…I mean I had more energy when I was hungover and drinking and that just sucks since I started this out feeling great…and I felt great to start the day but then around noon the bottom fell out again and I felt exhausted all afternoon…I know I did do the weight work and an indoor ride and then stripped the bed and did laundry, cleaned the microwave and the stove but that’s not enough to use all my energy…oh, and the grocery run…maybe it had something to do with getting out of bed at 5am…or the old thing I always blame of not eating enough but today what I had was an orange for breakfast, then a bowl of soup for lunch, and then some rice stir fry for dinner…and that is close to 1K calories and I’ve been surviving on that for years now…and I didn’t even do an outdoor ride today since it never got to 50 out here…so, I’m going to stop bitching about the lack of energy and just shift into survival mode and try to figure out what is going on…reading time…