Well…up at 7:05 this morning but woke up an hour and a half earlier…and I still feel pretty worn out with only doing one ride yesterday…but I did get a swim in out in the waves and that was fun…but, the waves were all over the place and not very organized so I didn’t get many good rides….still fun, though, but I won’t be out there again until next week with all of the work I have to do around here…it did rain out here last night but the storms missed to the north and south and I think we’ll never get any out here….the rain lasted a couple of hours but there is none in the forecast until a week from now so I will have to water next week to keep my lawn green….I’m going to abuse my elbow again today with cleaning another side of the house with the scrub brush so it will mean another day with only one ride today…..and that will leave only the back of the house to do…..there are areas that I just can’t get to unless I buy an extension ladder and I’m not going to do that…..so I’ll have to figure out how to reach them without it….not much to do today…just ride and work and that will be enough for the day….still need to get out and get the exterior paint but that can wait till next week since I still need to do the prep work on the door frames…..more later….
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Dems getting things done…
Well…over the past few days, we have seen what can happen when a political party that actually wants to do things for the American people get things done…just yesterday, or this morning at 3:41 am, the dems got the 3.5 trillion dollar bill that will benefit everyone but the rich and corporations and that came after getting a skinny infrastructure bill passed in the senate…and will be followed by the John Lewis voting rights bill that will nullify the 400 repub sponsored voter suppression bills that have been passed on the “big lie” of voter fraud in the 2020 election. All of this in the first 7 months of the Biden administration and with little of no help from the repubs…okay, a few of them voted yes on the infrastructure bill but then went right back to being the assholes they are on every other measure and not one of them voted for any of the other bills that were put up this week…that’s to be expected since the repubs don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich….and you’ve heard me bitch about that before but it’s still true….let’s hope the dems keep the pressure on and finish all this work…personally it will mean I can get the thousands of dollars of dental work done I need with the expansion of Medicare and only be out a couple of hundred in co-pays….so get it done dems…..
August 11th
Well…the storms last night were pretty darn disappointing with just some wind and a little rain when I was expecting a little lightning and thunder but that didn’t happen…oh, well….I did have to put the air on last night with how humid it was and that helped some but I shut it off when I went to bed since in my small room it gets too cold…weird problem to have I know but I’m not used to ac….I did have some dreams last night about people trying to get me into a fight and that wasn’t going to happen…..have never been in a fight and that sure isn’t going to start now…although I was younger in the dream it still wasn’t going to happen….strange….I did get two bike rides in yesterday and mowed the lawn and that took a lot out of me so I think I’ll go a little easier today…haven’t been feeling right on the bike the past couple of days….just flat and not enjoying it much and I wonder if it’s the seat adjustment? It did come loose last week and I think it moved back some and that might be why I haven’t been comfortable and my butt has been getting numb and that never happens….so, I’ll take a look at the old bike to see where that one is set and move it to that setting and see on the ride this morning…..it doesn’t take much movement of the seat to screw up my feeling on the bike….not much to do today….need to do the grocery run and then get out on the bike….I may only do one ride today but we’ll see how I feel after the first one…and I may put more food on the lawn since it is supposed to rain again tonight and I’m sure it could use it….more later…
Chuck Grassley is a traitor…
Well…as the whitewash continues about the repubs involvement in the January 6th insurrection, the latest installment of that gaslighting was done just last week by Chuck Grassley on the floor of the senate when he spent an hour trying to normalize the idiot trump’s behavior that day as just “meetings” that all presidents do. He further went on say that every president has a right to talk to his advisors and that is all trump was doing that day and in the months after the election as trump and his minions plotted how to overturn the election. Yeah, Chuck…that was treason and no president has the right to try to overturn the results of an election…an election that was the most secure and accurate in the country’s history…and you trying to defend a traitor make you one, too….these attacks on the investigation are all part of the plan to make sure no one ever understands how deep the repub party and almost every damn elected repub was involved in this crime…and to make sure that trump is never held accountable for his role in it…but that is not going to happen….Nancy is going to get to the bottom of it and I hope that means the end of the repub party…and Merrick garland needs to prosecute every damn person involved…and lock them up….geez….
August 10th
Well…I call sleeping in….didn’t get out of bed until 7:30 this morning and that is sleeping in for me…but I don’t feel like I slept at all and it is going to be tough to get going….it was nice that it rained almost all day yesterday and it is pretty cool out here right now…and that means I need to mow the lawn today so it might be another one ride day today…have been trying to take care of myself better and not wear my body out as I get older….not sure if it’s going to work or not but I need to do something since I feel so worn out all the time….I did get out to play in the waves yesterday and that was fun…I was the only one on the beach and that was pretty cool…need to do that more since the summer is coming to an end in a few weeks….the water was perfect and didn’t take any time to get used to…I wonder how long I’ll be able to swim this year? A few years back I was in the water at the end of September when it was 85 degrees….not sure if that will happen again but it was cool when it happened….I do need to ride to the post office this morning to mail some bills…wrote almost a thousand bucks in checks yesterday and that stings a little…so there will be no gains in the checking account this month and it will be a couple of months until I get to 20K….but the car insurance and the property taxes are paid so I don’t have to think about them for a year….not much to do today…just the ride and mowing the lawn but I should get to cleaning the side of the house today and I may….but, I don’t feel like it right now…need coffee and to read the news….man, I’m running late….more later…
Stunning hypocrisy…
Well…I have never been a fan of Andrew Cuomo and with the latest revelations of his boorish behavior toward women that included unwanted touching that can be construed as sexual assault, I really believe he should resign and go away….but I also want the repubs who are calling for his resignation to shut the hell up. They have no leg to stand on to criticize Cuomo after they spent years ignoring the 50 women who accused the idiot trump of the same or worse behavior, and it is just stunning hypocrisy for any of them to open their mouths and comment at all….hey repubs, clean up your own house first before you stick your ugly noses into anyone else’s business…those of us on the left have already called for Cuomo’s resignation and for criminal charges if the facts warrant it…and it appears they do. After protecting a rapist for years and years, repubs have no moral ground to stand on, and this is just a purely political attack, they don’t give a damn about women at all and that is never going to change…geez…
August 9th
Well….darn, thought I was going to get a forced day off the bike with the storms that were supposed to start this morning but that has been pushed back til after noon so I can get two rides in…and I was up at 6:04 with one of those wake ups when you just know you can’t get back to sleep so you just get up….it almost stormed here last night and I was able to watch the lightning from my porch for the first time and I hope I’ll be able to do that this afternoon and into the night…and it is weird that it was the first time when summer is almost over…but you’ve heard me bitch that it never rains out here and that is pretty true…much less rain that I expected and that has been forecast…if I only do one ride today, I may be able to mow the lawn this morning since it will need to be done this week and it is supposed to rain off and on all week…but it is not too long and it will be hard to see where I’ve mowed…maybe I’ll wait til tomorrow….not too motivated right now and need more coffee to jump start my brain….not much to do today…going to just ease into it and get on the bike when it gets light….I am going to make that pizza I’ve been talking about and I have to pay some bills so I can get them in the mail tomorrow…and I am going to enjoy the storms if they come….nothing on the radar yet….more later…
I’ve lost respect for Eric Clapton…
Well…I know this story has been out there for a while and you may have already read about it but here goes…I have lost all of the respect I had for Eric Clapton with his just asinine statement that he won’t play any venue that requires proof of vaccination or for people to wear masks to attend his concerts….okay, so just cancel all of them venue owners….you can’t let a stupid entertainer dictate health policy and possibly kill people with this crap…this is just beyond selfishness, it is ignorant and shows he doesn’t care about anyone but himself and his grandiose sense of entitlement…okay, that’s about all I have to say about it…it’s a little deflating when someone you’ve looked up to and thought was a good person turns out to be a selfish jerk….
August 8th
Well…running late today with going out to get the paper first thing after I got up…it looks like it rained pretty good out here last night since all my windowsills were wet when I got up but I didn’t hear any of it with having earplugs in last night….and it looks like it is going to rain a bit now so I’ll be late getting out on the bike today….but, MotoGP is on right now so I can deal with it….still feel pretty worn out today and I probably need to eat more and I’ll do that today with making a homemade pizza today….can’t wait for some variety in my diet after having ham and turkey sandwiches for better than a week….but, 4 bucks for a weeks worth of meals? That’s a pretty good deal….and the pizza will last for 4 days or so and for about 3 bucks that a good deal, too….and I have enough toppings to make two so I’ll be having pizza for a week or so…it looks like it’s going to rain later in the day and almost all day tomorrow so that will give me time to get some cleaning done and get the rest of the moving stuff unpacked and put away….still need to donate all of the clothes I don’t use anymore and that could be a project for this week….and I still have windows to clean on the side of the house that I’ve already cleaned so I need to get on that….not much to do today…just going to sit here for an hour or so and then get on the bike when the rain stops…but first, more coffee and some news….more later….
Some thoughts….
Well…with the big christian music festival going on here next week, a thought entered my mind when I rode by the landing where the setup is being done…what do christian rock roadies do on their off time? It’s well known that normal rock roadies fight, drink, swear, and chase women…so what do christian roadies do? Bible study? And what kind of person would do that kind of work…Ned Flanders? Just curious….oh, when I was riding by the marina today I saw a sad looking dog on a 20 ft sailboat and I wonder if dogs on such small boats get bored? There’s nothing for them to do and no place for them to go…but I guess it’s not much different from dogs in small apartments…never could figure that out, either…oh, saw another stoat last week in a different place so I don’t think it is the same one I saw a month or so ago…and I can’t figure out how I never saw one when I was a kid with all of the time I spent in the woods…one last thing, I’ve seen more Kingfishers since I moved here than I have in my whole life, too….saw two of them at one time yesterday along the same stretch of trail and that is pretty unusual for me, too…kind of cool, though…