Well…another 5 hours of sleep night and I think the cumulative effect of that is wearing me out…I have been exhausted lately and I know it can’t be normal to be getting up at 5 every morning with getting to sleep at 11:30-12…oh, well…at least my legs and shoulder don’t hurt this morning so I guess I’ll take that…but I did have to take something for my shoulder and neck last night and I need to stop doing that soon…started feeling depressed again yesterday and I’m not sure if it’s the weather or what but it’s still here this morning so today may be a day to just survive it and not feel bad if I don’t get a lot done…it’s been quite a while since I’ve felt like this and that makes even writing this a chore that I am struggling with…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I will try to clean some today if I can get myself motivated to do anything…and that is not looking too likely right now…more later…
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Stupid people…climate is not weather…
Well…there are a bunch of memes going round out there about the polar vortex cold we’ve been having in the midwest over the past week or so and a lot of them show Lake Michigan freezing in one frame and then scenes from “the Day After Tomorrow” disaster film where the oceans freeze in the other…and they invariable try to use the cold weather as proof that climate change isn’t happening…and this crap is an ignorant right wing staple that starts with the idiot trump and winds it’s way through fox news and into the quite stupid trump followers. Hey, stupid people…weather is not climate…they are not the same thing and if you think climate change is not happening, give someone in Australia a call…and ask them about how hot it is this winter down under…..every damn record for high temps has been broken this winter all across Australia and most people there understand that this is not just weather that will change, as ours is here…when it is going to be 50 degrees with thunderstorms Monday…but it is long term, human caused climate change that will make a lot of Australia uninhabitable. Yes, it has been cold here…but any one weather event is just that…weather…which can be affected by climate change but no one that understands science would ever base conclusions on a sample size of one…something the science deniers on the right always do…just dumber than a box of rocks…geez…
February 1st
Well…woke up at 5 again this morning but did try to go back to sleep and, as usual, it didn’t work and that left me with another night of less than 6 hours of sleep and it is starting to wear on me…and my shoulder hurts like crazy again this morning for some reason so I’ll take the day off the weight machine and rest it until Monday….the warm up has finally started to happen with it being a balmy -1 this morning but I’ll still use the battery box to start the car today to keep the strain off the battery….it barely started at -9 yesterday morning and I didn’t take it anywhere so the battery probably isn’t charge up all the way…I have been having trouble keeping track of what day it is this week with thinking that today is sat and yesterday was Fri…I think that was from doing the grocery run on Tues…it’s weird how changing my routine has that kind of fallout….didn’t get much done yesterday but the two bike rides…I just noticed that my legs don’t hurt this morning and that’s the first time since I started using the trainer that I’ve been pain free…strange…not much to do today…going to clean some and run one errand but that is about it….still not too motivated with the weather being so wearing….more later…
200 miles in January…
Well….had a heck of a time getting the car started at 9 below this morning but finally got the booster hooked up and it started with lots of struggle…but, that’s not what this is about…hit another milestone of sorts today when I got to 200 miles for the first time in January…took two rides today to do it but it was worth it…at this pace, I may be able to get to 600 miles on the bike this year even before I get out on the trails in April…and that would put me on pace to hit my goal of 4,000 miles this year which would make it the second most miles in any year so far. Riding on the trainer is so different from being outside, though…when I’m out and get 10 miles out of twenty, I know I have to ride it back another ten miles so I don’t think about how far I have to go…it’s automatic…but, on the trainer, I am tempted to stop when my legs start to hurt since I can just stop…so I’m finding it takes much more discipline to ride indoors than out….but staying warm in the winter outweighs all of that….and that is 80 of these for the month…a new record!
Okay, there is going to be filler…
Well…sitting here with my 3rd cup of coffee and just noticed that I have a milestone of sorts in reach…I have never gotten to 80 of these in a month but I am only 2 away from it…so guess what? There is going to be filler today! If you’ve been here for any time, you know my use of fillers has dropped dramatically over the past few years since idiot boy has given me so much to write about…and yes, I know, reading about him is probably a little boring for you and it even gets that way for me, too…so, as I wait out the 9 below to get out and start the car, I’ll be doing one more of these to get to 80…can you tell I’m a little bored…already?
Where are the jobs now?
Well…if you’ve read the news out of Wisconsin over the past year, you would have seen the idiot walker and the double idiot trump wielding their golden shovels at a groundbreaking for a manufacturing plant for Foxconn, a Chinese company whose previous claim to fame is that they make most of Apple’s I-phones and the working conditions at it’s plants are so terrible that they had to put up anti-suicide nets to keep their workers from throwing themselves off the roof. trump has been touting the plant as evidence of his dealmaking prowess and this has been joined by the repubs in Wisconsin who gave Foxconn over 3 billion dollars to buy their plant for them but guess what? As of yesterday, Foxconn has said nevermind…they are not going to build a plant or hire the 15,000 people they promised….it was all just a scam and one that Foxconn has pulled in multiple locations across the world and in the US. I wonder how the idiot trump is going to spin this one? The people of Wisconsin are already on the hook for site improvements like roads, sewers, and electricity to the site and there are hundreds of families who had their property seized for this debacle who can’t go back to the nice little small town that is no longer there….and the repubs still don’t give a damn…they specifically set the whole deal up with walker and his cronies so there would be no consequences to Foxconn or anyone else involved in the “project” if it failed…they won’t fund the schools there since they claim poverty but they have hundreds of millions to invest in this scam…this is normal repub bullshit folks and they all need to go…impeach…
January 31st
Well…running really early today with getting up at 5:08 and I’m pretty tired of it…and I am tired of it being 8 damn degrees below again this morning….but I don’t have anything to do today so I don’t have to start the car until later this morning…it started okay yesterday morning at the same temp with the booster box attached so I expect it will start again this morning…didn’t sleep well at all and my shoulder hurts from working on the weight machine yesterday so today will be a day off…I did get two rides done on the bike yesterday and it is much more fun spreading the 40 minutes across two than doing it in one boring stint….will probably do that again today but I will wait to start the car until I stop sweating from it…it’s just too damn cold to go out like that…didn’t get much done yesterday except the errand I ran in the morning but I am going to clean the bathroom today…and maybe the kitchen, too but that may be too ambitious with the lack of motivation I have been feeling lately…more later…
These new polls are making me laugh…
Well….just a shorty on some news that I just read a few minutes ago that made me laugh out loud…the question that was asked was “would you vote for trump in the next election” and the answers kind of made my faith in the American people re-kindle….almost 60% of the people asked said they would not vote for trump…and that was confirmed with another poll that said basically the same thing that 56% of those asked would not vote for trump and only 28% said they would…so his hold on his “base” is slipping and the rest of the country have had enough of the idiot boy and want him to just go away…and that makes me smile…can’t wait for the perp walk when he is indicted and arrested when he’s out of office…impeach…
Who would you believe?
Well…the stupident keeps getting more and more stupid as each day goes on…the latest is a spat with the entire intelligence service of the US after they testified in the Senate yesterday that all of the things that trump said are great accomplishment by him in foreign policy are all just he delusions of a sub-standard mind. The heads of all of the agencies agreed that Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons, that North Korea is never going to give up it’s nuclear program, that ISIS is not defeated, and the withdrawal of troops from Syria is a huge mistake…all things that idiot boy has used as talking points to puff himself up but the reality is that his stupid, toddler moves have made ISIS and Iran stronger…and anyone with a brain can see that. That is one thing that trump has never been accused of, having a brain that is, and he showed that with tweets this morning where he attacked his own intelligence service heads as being “naive” and implying that he knows more than they do…that is something that almost everyone knows is not true since trump really is the stupident…the question that needs to be asked is who do you believe? Intelligence professionals or the dumbest person on the face of the planet? I know who I believe…impeach…
January 30th
Well…that was a little better…didn’t get out of bed until almost 6 and slept okay…for me, that is…and it was my first night with no ibuprofen for the shoulder and it is just stiff today…not really any pain and I know I slept on it for a while so that is progress…I think I have a cold with some coughing and sneezing and generally not having a lot of energy so I think I’ll take it easy again today…the only thing I have to do is clean off the car and get it started later and run an errand if it’s not too bad out there…this weather is taking a lot out of me and doing the grocery run yesterday has me thinking that today is Friday….it’s bad enough normally when the days just run together and I have to think about what day it is…oh, well…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but ride the bike and today will be much the same…I am going to test out the shoulder by working out on the weight machine and then I’m going to do a half hour on the bike…that much time hurts like crazy and it is much more work than riding on the trails where you can rest on the down hills…it feels like my long uphill sprint but for the entire time I’m on it and my legs show it…they feel like rock after I’m done and they hurt…I can’t wait to get back outside and see how easy it is to ride there…more later…