Well….damn…the battery on the laptop failed yesterday and I need to spend 37 bucks to get a new one…and this one has only lasted 4 years after I had to buy it when I got this computer…or maybe it’s longer than that…not sure…all I know is I feel like crap this morning and I don’t even want to go out for a ride since I have no energy either…I did get out to have a couple with T yesterday and that was fun…got to see her new car and it is pretty cool…and she is averaging 42 miles to the gallon which make me a little jealous since my tiny car never gets much more than 30…okay, just realized part of feeling so crappy is that I only had a half chicken breast and a sandwich for the whole day and did two rides yesterday….nowhere near enough fuel to support that but I don’t have any food here that is not frozen other than pasta so I guess I’ll have that for lunch today….I can make a bean burrito too I guess…I do have that stuff here, too but I am going to hit DD this afternoon to get some chicken…after I go over and paint today that is…if I can muster up the energy…more later….
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Okay Nadler, it’s time to lock them up…
Well…I have a message for Jerry Nadler, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee…lock them up, lock all or them up if they ignore you subpoenas or do what Corey Lewandowski did to you today…laughed in your face and refused to answer any questions you put to him…you need to protect the rule of law in this country and it appears the only way to do it is to cause some pain to these assholes who think they are above the law…and if you’re not ready to do that, you might just as well hand over the country to Putin since he already runs trump and you are allowing him to break the law every damn day and you are the only one who can hold him accountable…and yet, you sit there letting these pricks either not show up or lie to your face and you do nothing…you have the power, use it to save this country…lock these criminals up until they follow the law…every damn one of these smarmy assholes deserve jail time…they deserve to rot until you say they get out…it’s the only way to get the truth of trump’s criminality and you are blowing it in front of our eyes….get off your ass and drop the hammer…
September 17th
Well…running about on time this morning even with getting up at 3:14 for the first time but I was able to go back to sleep until the coffeemaker alarm clock woke me up at 6 so that wasn’t too bad…..and I’m not too sore this morning so it looks like a good start but we’ll see when I get out on the bike in a little while….I did start stripping the living room here and loading up the car to start the move last night and it looks weird without my stuff here anymore…will have to do that every day to be able to get out of here by mid October….I did get the living room done yesterday but today is a no paint day since I have more prep work to do and I only have a half gallon of paint left after putting a second coat on parts of the kitchen yesterday, too where the pink was bleeding through…I did get two rides in yesterday and the afternoon one was okay but the damn 5-6 shift that I thought I had fixed is hanging up again so I think I’ll WD it before I go out today…that is just damn annoying when it worked perfectly Sunday…I do have errands to run after I get back here today so it is going to be a busy one but the work at the house is going to be light so that will be okay…more later…
RIP Rick Ocasek
Well…another one of those that I just hate to do…Rick Ocasek of the Cars died yesterday at the age of 75…I know that as we age, this is going to happen more and more often, but it doesn’t make it any easier to take…I really liked the Cars from their first album when I heard “Let the good times roll” and it became the soundtrack of any time that I had to myself when my kids were little and school and work and kids got to be a bit much and I had to get away…and the pair of songs from “Heartbeat City”, “Moving in stereo” and “All mixed up” just spoke to me where I was emotionally at the time…and “Drive’s” protagonist saying “Who’s going to tell you when it’s too late? Who’s going to tell you things aren’t so great? Can’t go on, thinking nothing’s wrong…who’s going to drive you home, tonight?” just ached with the realization that a friend has done everything he can do and needs to let go….I still listen to the Cars in almost every playlist that I have and the fact that both Ben Orr and now Rick Ocasek are gone is going to make it a little more empty when I hear them…RIP Rick…
Trump gets told to stand down by Putin…
Well…I’m sure by now you’ve see that gas prices went up by 43 cents a gallon today in response to the attack on a Saudi oil production facility that cut their output in half…and of course trump’s reaction is that the US is “locked and loaded” and waiting for the Saudis to tell him who to attack…which should be an impeachable offense right there…but a funny thing happened today when the Russians issued a statement essentially saying that heated rhetoric is not doing any good for peace in the mideast…and an hour later a spokesman for trump comes out and says that “locked and loaded” just meant that we are okay here in the US and don’t need to import any oil to meet our needs, not that we are going to attack anyone…kind of a funny coincidence that just after Putin says “heel” trump kisses his ass and does what he says. When are we going to get rid of this traitor? Now that you can see that trump is taking commands from Putin, what are you going to do about it repubs? For the millionth time, nothing….we may just as well just shut down the government and just let Putin run the US, too, since he is doing it anyway…geez…
September 16th
Well…damn…my neck is back to hurting again and I thought that was over with quite a while ago…in exactly the same place as before and it makes it tough to even turn my neck at all…oh, well…slept okay last night even without the sleeping pill so I’m done with those again and I do feel better this morning without it….I’m not sure what happened yesterday but I can’t remember feeling that rotten in quite a while and thought it may have been a bug of some sort….or bad allergies again which I have all the symptoms of….but, the flonase I have been using to help that screws with your immune system so I have had to curtail that use along with no red dots to keep my blood pressure down…you would think that all the riding I do would control that but it doesn’t and that is pretty frustrating….so, I suffer with the allergies and hope the pollen goes away soon…didn’t get anything done yesterday and today will be house work all morning so maybe the kitchen will be cleaned this afternoon? Who knows? More later…
Felt like crap all day…
Well…what a wasted day…felt like crap all day and so damn exhausted that I didn’t get out for a second ride…just didn’t have the energy for it so I just laid on the couch most of the day…but that didn’t help since I still feel exhausted and I didn’t do anything all day…I wonder what it could be? Yeah, I know…have been working a lot and riding way too much but it has to be more than that…must not have gotten enough calories yesterday and haven’t made up for it today at all…I did have a chicken breast and some tots for lunch and then made a bean burrito for dinner but the two of them were only about 1200 calories and I burn that much on the bike…all I know is I don’t like feeling like this at all…so damn tired that it is even hard to just sit here and type…so, I think I’ll stop here and make some popcorn or something to get some more calories in me…I need to get the rest of the living room painted tomorrow and get started on the filling and sanding in the hallway so I can paint that later in the week along with the bedroom I’m going to use…and then I have to make a trip to Mt. P Saturday for some business…so it’s not going to be an easy week…damn….
September 15th
Well…running a little late today since I wanted to get the bike ride in before it started raining…and I almost did…it held off until the last half mile or so and then rained like crazy…so I did get wet but it’s almost 70 out there so it wasn’t bad…slept okay last night but I do need to stop the sleeping pills because they make me groggy in the morning and I feel like crap until noon or so and it’s just not worth it..and I do need to think about my blood pressure…I did get the bathroom cleaned yesterday and that made me feel good but I’m not sure how much I’ll do today….need to watch soccer this morning and have more coffee….I finally have the shifter on the bike figured out and it worked perfectly today and that makes me want to do a second ride today even though I could use a little rest to let some of the pain go away….just sore everywhere and feel pretty creaky today and I refuse to think it’s because I’m old…I am but I still refuse to think it…more later…
Barr gets slapped down…
Well…hey it’s Saturday and I’m doing a political one…that’s pretty unusual as you know…but, this one made my day and I thought I’d pass it along if you haven’t read about it yet…as you know, trump and his minions have had a concerted effort to try to destroy Andrew McCabe, the former FBI director for not being trumpy enough and actually following the law while he was director…and the latest was that Barr tried to use the Justice department to pursue the vendetta that trump has pushed since about when he got into office but that didn’t work out so well for him over the past few days. Just Friday, the grand jury that Barr took his “evidence” of wrongdoing to laughed him right out of the building…voting a “true no bill” which the Justice Manual compels the justice department and the AG not to resubmit the case to the same or a different grand jury…what that really means is that the evidence is not even strong enough for the grand jury to indict let alone get a conviction in court…now, part of this is speculation based on the fact that the GJ was dismissed with no indictment revealed and you can bet that if there was an indictment, idiot boy trump would be tweeting about it right now…but, not a peep so where is it? This won’t be the last time that trump and Barr try to use the justice department to go after their enemies but I hope the people that sit on the GJ’s will continue to tell them to follow the law…
September 14th
Well…the moon sure looked cool this morning when I got up…filling this place with that cool, bluish looking light that allowed me to walk around here without any lights on…but, it is cold in here this morning after I left the window open overnight…I did sleep okay last night but was up at 5 again and it was the cold that woke me up and I was able to go back to sleep until 6 so that looks like a win to me….I really do need to clean this place up today and I will after I get the ride in and watching Man U at 10…have been feeling really beat up with the work on the house but my elbow is better this morning and I think it was the ibuprofen I took last night that did it….I’m still having problems with the 5-6 shift on the bike and that is really, really annoying but I don’t want to put the new shifter on yet…this one should last at least to 10,000 miles and that would be another 3K to get to that point…I did get some WD the other day and soaked it in it last night so we’ll see how that works this morning…I am a little depressed that I know that the cold days are coming and there will be no more t-shirt rides in the morning…but, not today…it is 60 out there right now so I can get out as soon as it gets light enough to see and I am going to savor this one knowing it may be one of the last ones…more later….