Well…sitting here waiting for the rain to stop so I can get on the bike and thought I’d just get a few random thoughts out while I wait…I found it funny the other day that over 2,000 alumni, teachers and administrators at the Wharton school of business signed a letter asking the Donald to stop talking about going to Wharton…a nice long letter objecting to basically everything that Donald has said during the campaign…good on them….just read about some damn Pokemon game that people are playing on their phones that bad guys are using to rob people…first, who plays these games? And second, has humanity sunk this low? I mean, come on people….the Baton Rouge police department didn’t learn anything from the bad publicity that beating on protesters usually brings…they did it again over the weekend, arresting a bunch of people using their constitutional right to protest…but the big laugh was a post commenting on the pictures that came out of it…by a combat veteran who was amazed how armored these idiots were…saying that he never wore that much body armor in the war he was in….I can’t wait to see the loser that gets selected to be ole Donald’s vp….should be a great laugh with the “deep bench” the repubs have….okay, that’s it for now…will try to get to another one later today….
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July 11th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done with all of the sports that were on…from F1 to soccer to indy car…it gave me a good excuse to just veg out the day….oh, well….slept okay last night and feel okay this morning but it is raining and I won’t be able to get on the bike for a while…so I guess I’ll run a couple of errands after I work out…..still not sore again today and I can’t figure it out…last year I had the moving pain in every joint that really did hurt….but, nothing this year….weird…..it is nice that it is raining and the car is getting cleaned from all the bird crap….maybe I’ll have to take the day off the bike with the rain…but, I think I’m going to the beach tomorrow and will take the day off the bike if I do….and I can’t have two days in a row off…not much to do today…errands this morning and then maybe clean the bathroom but that is about it….and I will come back with a political one later today…have been a little burned out on the whole process but I know I need to get back to it…more later…
152 bikes…yikes…
Well…as you know, when something unusual happens on the trail I like to count just to quantify what happened…like the 42 tiny bunnies from last year or the snake counts I have done earlier…and today started out normal…the shifter was working great and I even got rid of the squeak in the bike but I noticed that there was a lot of traffic on the trails…bikers especially so I thought I’d count them…and yikes…in the 15 miles on the ride today, I counted 152 bikes…almost 10 a mile and it is something I’ve never seen before…at the start of the 9 years I have been riding this bike, I could go the entire ride without seeing another biker but today was a little ridiculous…and there were a lot of the spandex boys out, too…wonder if that has to do that the Tour de France is on tv…it seems that every year when it is on, there are a lot more people out on bikes…at least I hope they go away after the tour is over…it was a pain moving through the traffic…maybe I’ll just have to go out earlier….who knows?
July 10th
Well…you know about the day I had yesterday so I won’t go into that again here…slept okay last night and had some dreams that were boring so I won’t report on that now…didn’t get anything but the bike and cleanup done yesterday and today looks the same since there is soccer on this aft….not sore anywhere again so I’ll take that…I do have to comment on gluten-free aspirin later along with the garish color of the new ibuprofen I just picked up a few days back….not much to do today…watching F1 right now and will probably watch the tour later….more later…
What a day…
Well… I was going to comment on all of the killings that have gone on here in the US today but what more can I say that hasn’t already been said by me and others? So, I think I’ll just update everyone on the day I’ve had today…the whole thing started out with that damn squeak in the bike coming back and it is just so annoying…still haven’t found it yet and I’ve taken the entire rear suspension apart and greased it so we’ll see tomorrow if I found it or not…but, the worst thing was I broke a shift cable out on the ride and had to ride it back with just 2 speeds and that was a pain…so, I went to the bike shop and got a new cable and decided to put the new shifter on that has been sitting here for almost a year now since I would have had to adjust the old one and it was getting too worn out…now I remember why it has been sitting here for a year…what a pain in the butt…worked on the damn thing for almost 3 hours to get it right but I think it’s close….the bike was so greasy that I spread grease all over everything and had to clean until just now to get it cleaned up….I think it will be a few days until I can get the grease out of my hands….not something I really wanted to do today….
July 9th
Well…it was an okay day and I won at pool so that was cool…slept okay last night and feel kind of okay this morning…have already been working on the bike to try to get the squeak out of it since it is so damn annoying…no pain anywhere and that is getting kind of weird with the normal being pain somewhere…but, I’ll take it….didn’t get anything else done but didn’t expect to so I’ll have to fix that today….it is nice that it is cooler and less humid…I was getting really tired of everything being wet all the time….okay…F1 qualifying is on so I am going back to the couch and having more coffee…more later…
July 8th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I am a little disappointed that the storms went north and south and missed us…slept okay last night but feel a little slow today but I hope that will be fixed when I get on the bike in a few minutes….don’t hurt anywhere today and I am a little confused about that…maybe the ibuprofen before the bike ride has been working? I am getting a little tired of the humidity and the heat…would not mind a few days in the 70’s for a change but it doesn’t look like that is happening….we do need some rain…looked at the berries yesterday and they are so small and the bushes are wilting so I need to pick what I can get today…I did get ice cream yesterday so I can have my yearly berries and vanilla ice cream this week but it looks like there won’t be enough berries to go through the whole half gallon…last year there were too many…not much to do today…pool, I think, but that is about it….might wash the car this morning after the ride to get the bird crap off it but that will be about it….more later…
Trump word salad…
Well….if you have ever listened to the Donald talk…I won’t call it a speech because that would imply that the rules of speeches apply…that there is subject that you state, and then you proceed to make arguments to support your thesis….but, I have never seen that in a Trump “speech”…they seem to be a word salad of him saying totally unrelated things, doubling back, and then driving off on any tangent that strikes him at the time….kind of like listening to a three year old…but, it is even worse when you read the transcripts of these “speeches” and then you see that they never make any sense at all…and yet his followers take that as “telling it like it is” or some such nonsense…and I wonder if it is because they are just not too bright and don’t understand how the English language is used….as I have said before, in my time when I was younger, the rants that pass for Trump speeches would have been shouted from a soapbox in the town square by a homeless guy wearing a tin foil hat….not the candidate of a national party…at least we can hope that when ole Don is done, they might no longer be a national party….geez…
July 7th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and a I got a few things done so that is cool…got a little wet on the bike ride but that was enjoyable with it being so darn hot…and today looks the same with a high of 92 so I need to get out as soon as possible…one of the damn sprinklers here set itself to spray on my bedroom window last night and I am a little irritated about that…but, I’ll talk to Brian and he’ll take care of it so no big deal other than it woke me up…so, needless to say I didn’t sleep too well last night but I feel okay this morning….got the grocery run in so that is why I’m running a little late today….and it was nice to have made the cash for groceries earlier in the week….not much to do today….need to get the normal workout stuff in but with the heat, I think I’ll take it easy today…may even put the air on today if it gets too hot….more later…
Let’s investigate the investigation of the investigation…
Well…did you see this one coming? That the first response of the repubs to the FBI not finding any crime in the Clinton e-mail “scandal” is that the investigation the FBI did needs to be investigated? Because everyone just “knows” that Hillary is guilty and there must be a cover up going on since nothing was found…just like nothing was found in the 9 Benghazi investigations, like nothing was found in the Whitewater investigation…but the repubs continue to think that it is because the Clintons are “above the law”, not that there is nothing there…and now they are going to waste more of our money holding hearings on the investigation…I have had enough of these partisan hacks using our government for scoring political points….why don’t you do your job for a change? To go along with the obstruction that has been the centerpiece of the repub agenda for the past 8 years, we now have the idiot Ryan opening a new front by saying that he will ask the DNI to withhold security briefings from Hillary since she just can’t be trusted with the information….and Trump can be? God I hate these guys….they have done more to destroy the trust in the institutions of this country than any terrorist group could ever do…geez….