Well…running really early today and the weird thing is I’m waiting for the sun to come up to get on the bike…need to get it in early so I can watch F1 qualifying at 9….and there should be soccer on, too…haven’t looked at that yet…Man U isn’t playing until tomorrow…didn’t get anything done yesterday…that’s not right…I did get the car cleaned and I am wondering if it will start….probably not but I can deal with that….feel a little crappy this morning and I hope the coffee will help with that…I am going out to hang out with the group for the first time in a long time and I wonder how that will go….it will be a nice ride anyway and I have to remember to put some sunscreen on and get my Michigan gear ready….more later….
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It didn’t start…
Well…..it didn’t start this morning…so I guess the battery will need to be replaced in the near future….I’ll have to put the starter box in the trunk until next week….I wonder if I still have the receipt in the junk drawer? I did get the car washed and waxed this morning so I guess that is something….more later….
A bit of good news…I found the receipt for the battery and it is only 17 months old…and it has a 36 month free replacement guarantee…so, if it is bad…I’ll get another one for free….yay….I’ll see after the long run out to Spring Lake tomorrow if it is the battery…..still think it’s from not driving it…but, if you run this type of battery dead, it essentially destroys them….
September 15th
Well…feeling a little slow this morning and I guess I earned it….but, I did sleep better last night so maybe that’s a good trade off….it was an okay day yesterday and I did get the bathroom cleaned so that was better than nothing…and I am going to clean the car today after I get more coffee in me….okay…need to go out and see if I can find…nope…the Cassini death is on now…..so I’m going to watch that…be back later for more…
Well…that was poignant moment when the signal from Cassini ended….will do another one on that later today….but, right now I need more coffee and to get going and wash the car…sure hope it starts…more later…
Trail coolness…
Well…with the fog this morning, I hustled to get out on the bike early to be out in it since it just looks cool….but there is one really cool thing about fog….it makes invisible things visible…normally, you never see the spider webs that are in the weeds along the trail but this morning, the droplets in the fog made the hundreds of them visible…and some of them were really cool…just the perfect designs that I marvel at….one thing that happened made me laugh out loud with it’s absurdity….when I was heading across the bridge that leads into the woods, I noticed a couple of deer at full speed off to my left that were going to cross in front of me…the first one made it, flying in one leap across the trail and into the woods…but the second one saw me just as it was getting to the trail and put on the brakes…or tried to put on the brakes…it looked just like a cartoon with the deer backpedaling furiously but with it’s momentum carrying it across the trail until it hit the other side and then took off running…and the only thing that went through my head as I laughed was the deer thinking “I meant to do that”….just too cool….
Cassini dies tomorrow
Well…just wanted to do a short one on the end of an era for exploration of the Saturn system and for us as humans….tomorrow morning, the Cassini probe will dive into the clouds of Saturn on it’s last act in a decade long run of exploration and discovery….before Cassini, we really didn’t know anything about Saturn other than from the few fleeting pictures take by the flyby Explorer and Voyager probes…but Cassini opened our eyes to the wonder of this mini solar system…the complexity of the rings, the 62 moons and the possibility of life were all discovered by this wonderful piece of human imagination….and I will be a little sad that it is gone…one of the highlights of the past decade for me was the surprise of new findings and new jaw-dropping photos that were regularly delivered to our computers…one of my favorite photos was done by accident…when Cassini was taking a photo from under the rings and, by accident, a pale blue dot showed up and one of the scientists on the project recognized that it had captured the earth from a billion miles away….and the vastness of space was brought home to me….so, goodbye Cassini…..and thanks to the hundreds of scientists that worked for so long to make the mission a success….
September 14th
Well….running on time this morning but I should be early with getting up at 5:30 and not sleeping at all last night…and the car barely started again this morning so I think the battery might be going bad….might take the car out for a run today to try to charge it up….the battery is only 2 years old so it should be under warranty but I think I’ll try to find the receipt to make sure…I can afford a new one after wed so I guess I’ll get the jumper box charged up and put it in the car just in case it goes dead until then….the damn chain on the bike started to skip again yesterday so it look like a new bike is in order soon….was hoping to get a few months extra on this one…lubed the chain again to see if that helps but I’m not holding out a lot of hope….not much to do today….need to clean some and the car needs to be cleaned before making the run out to M’s on sat…more later…
Boycott Motel 6
Well…just read a little article that reported that Motel 6 is working with the ICE gestapo to help them deport undocumented workers in Arizona. Yep, every morning, the managers at Motel 6 e-mail ICE the list of the people who are staying at their cheezy little motels and then ICE shows up to interrogate and arrest anyone with a hispanic sounding name….now, this is all being done without any warrants or any oversight by any government agency…it’s just the gestapo of ICE breaking the law with the help of this corporation. We need to call for and boycott all Motel 6’s in this country until they stop this illegal action…after all, would you want the government to know where you are staying when you travel? Boycott…
Tax cuts will fix hurricane damage?
Well…are you really surprised the the idiot trump came out today with tweets saying that the damage done by Harvey and Irma can only be fixed by big tax cuts for the rich and corporations? It is the repub mantra that we have heard over and over for the past 30 years that whatever problem happens, tax cuts will fix them…unemployment high? Tax cuts will fix it. Huge deficits? Tax cuts will fix it. People starving? Tax cuts will fix it. Now, I wonder what the economic mechanism is that will convert tax cuts for the rich into replacing the homes destroyed by the hurricanes? Is is magic? Are the rich going to swoop in and repair homes out of the goodness of their hearts? Are corporations going to turn the tax cuts into fixing the destroyed infrastructure in Texas and Florida? If you believe that, you’ve drunk the repub kool aid and facts don’t mean anything to you anymore….let’s put it bluntly, tax cuts don’t do anything but enrich the rich…and make ceo’s even richer…they do nothing for anyone else…geez….
September 13th
Well…running a little early this morning and there is no reason for it…I think I just wanted to get to the coffee….it’s a fresh pot this morning and that is always a good thing…had a good day yesterday and got a few things done and today looks the same…slept okay last night but not as well as I have lately but I guess that is the normal pattern now….have been good for 10 days now and I am almost over the boredom from it…feel okay and I have been losing weight so I guess that’s a good thing….I just figured out that I have enough food to get to next wed so that takes a load off….I am getting tired of pasta and chicken so I need to change that up when the cash comes in….I’d like a home made pizza so I think I’ll get that on the list….not much to do today….just the normal stuff and cleaning…..more later….
I’m at peace….
Well…a strange thing happened when I got on the bike this morning…it washed over me that I am finally at peace for the first time in my life…there were no thoughts of looking for work or being broke….or anything else…was just in the moment, feeling what it feels like to be on the bike and seeing everything on the trail…enjoying the music and just feeling right for a change….not sure if it will continue but I sure hope it does….