Well…it’s going to be a tough one today with only having about 600 calories yesterday and I do need to do better…but I had other things to do other than eat and today is probably going to be the same…I may make some toast with PB before I get on the bike…and that needs to happen in a half hour or so so I can get the rides in by 9 or so…not sure I I’m going to the beach today but I probably should to complete the week…I’m still red from the sun yesterday and I probably should avoid the sun but darn, when I have the beach figured out with all of the new stuff, it’s easy to head out when I don’t have to think about it…it’s just so relaxing to be able to just go…but it may rain in three hours so it may end up being a reading day after I go to the library…I still need to take a day off at some point but I do need to go out and get blood drawn next week since they think I have a vitamin deficiency that is causing my loss of taste…hmmm…I do have chicken thighs to cook today but with the heat and humidity, I really don’t want to add any more to it…I really don’t want to eat at all but I’ll force myself at some point…so, I need to get moving…it’s 6:30 and need to get my day started….more later…
Monthly Archives: June 2025
A good day…
Well…today was a pretty good day…loaded my new beach bag up and hit the beach for the third time this week and got to swim…again…last year, I only got in the water about 5 times all summer it was so cold…and it was never comfortable like it has been this week…so I may go out there again tomorrow sine it’s supposed to be damn hot again…I really do wonder why I’ve never bought a beach bag when I moved out here? I mean it’s been 4 years of dragging a tiny soft sided 6 pack cooler and trying to fit all my stuff in it…and this bag is big enough to put the cooler in it along with my beach towel and everything else…and the extra small bag to hold my phone, glasses, mp-3 player, and car key is nice since I know where all that stuff is…oh, and I signed up for prime today…not sure if it’s going to be worth it but I’ll give it a couple of months…need to hit the library tomorrow since I just finished up the 4th book this week…I did figure out my car has a tilt steering wheel today and I have the wheel perfect now….makes driving the car more fun…and the car looked cool sitting out at the beach…tv time
Politics suck…
Well…as you know, I try to do apolitical one of these every day but politics in the age of the idiot trump just sucks and it is getting harder and harder to watch the damage he has done to this country…and the supreme court just took away another avenue that normal citizens had to hold the government accountable saying that people can’t sue the government to hold it accountable anymore…even though there is a specific law that allows that…and the right wing assholes are just loving making different classes of citizens…like it you have money everything id peachy keen for you but if you are poor, you don’t have the same rights…never mind that the 14th amendment guarantees “equal protection under the laws”…but we all know that this court and the right wing assholes on it don’t care about the constitution…they just care about pleasing the idiot trump and his minions…if we take back the senate in 26, the court needs to be reformed and rules put in place that won’t allow them to ignore the intent of the laws they are overturning…or we should just impeach the lot of them for lying at their confirmation hearings…geez…
June 26th
Well…damn, feeling pretty slow this morning and I’m dreading getting going…I did wake up around 5 or so but was able to get back to sleep until almost 6 and I’ll take that any day…when I woke up, I had the idea that I would grind some beans to make coffee and it worked out that I forgot to set the coffee maker up last night…so I have good coffee but can’t really taste it and that sucks…not much wind this morning but the inch of rain that was in the forecast is not there anymore and the radar shows that it missed to the north and that sucks, too…so, I’ll be out on the bike here in 30 minutes to get a dry 25 miles in…I am going to make a run over to Ollies since he has t-shirts on sale for 2 bucks and I can use a few new ones to replace worn out ones and x-large is too big for me after losing 30 pounds…I may even go to the beach today to try out my new beach bag…and I need to finish up the last book so I can get more tomorrow….I do need to clean the living room and couch today and just have to have some discipline to move forward and that is in short supply right now…oh, well…more later…
25 miles in the rain…
Well…sine it was raining when I got up and the radar looked like it was going to last all day, I did my two rides in the rain this morning and it wasn’t bad…haven’t done that in a while and I was a little surprised how many people were out in the deluge as I was…I could have waited to go out til it dried out but it’s hard for me to just sit around here and do nothing…but we did get almost 7 hours of rain so I hope it stops my lawn from dying more than it has…I did get my new beach bag today and it is really nice…big enough for both my oversized beach towels and anything else I want to take…lots of pockets on the exterior and even a zippered pouch that is waterproof and is going to have beer in it at some point…it also has a cool little detail on the inside…an aluminum bottle opener on a strap so you can open bottles with outside the bag…pretty cool…and worth the 25 bucks I spent on it…and it’s black and waterproof so no more gaudy colors for me…okay the towels my daughter gave me are pretty gaudy but I can live with that…time for reading…
Iran attacks were a failure…
Well…no matter how much the idiot trump wishes it, his attacks on the Iranian nuclear facilities were an utter failure and might have set them back at most a couple of months and nowhere near “obliterated” them as idiot boy lied the other day…and even the DIA (defense intelligence agency) reported that they just left holes in the ground and did not stop the program…not bad for spending 200 million dollars, huh? This is what you get when you have a moron for commander in chief…he doesn’t understand anything about the use of military power and thinks that the show of bombing is the same as effective targeting…and as I said yesterday, he and his other morons telegraphed the attacks so blatantly that Iran was able to move everything to other sites that weren’t attacked…stupidity is not a tactic that works too well in using the military but these guys can’t see that…they think they are the smartest people in the world just like other morons do…geez…
June 25th
Well…damn, I feel old this morning…I’m sore and sunburned and exhausted and I’m not sure if the coffee is going to help…but I just poured the first cup and haven’t given it a chance yet…it’s supposed to rain today but the spitting is almost over until after noon so I’ll be able to get out on the bike as soon as it gets light but I’m not sure if I have the energy for it right now…it would be so nice to have more than one hour of rain every month…just the sound of it and the ending of this stifling humidity would be welcome but it doesn’t rain here ever…oh, well…did the grocery run yesterday so I’m set for food until next week or longer…going to make potato salad today along with a blt and maybe some chicken thighs…I do need to clean this place up today and continue working on the windows but I really need a day off to lounge a bit…it’s still ridiculously humid here and I’m pretty sticky even with only being up an hour or so…another morning of getting out of bed by 5:33 and I really want to sleep more after tossing and turning all night…only had a dog and a turkey sandwich to eat yesterday and I’m still under 1K calories daily but without taste, that’s the best I can do…not much to do today…just need to get jump started and on the bike by 7 but that looks like a steep hill to climb right now…more later…
Another beach day…
Well…after I got the rides in and had the danger freckle removed, I did the grocery run and then out to the beach for the second day in a row water was good again and I got a good swim in…but the divot they took out of my forehead hurt like crazy when I got it wet…so I hit it with some antibiotic gel when I got home and it’s okay now…I’m really loving the new, small chair for the beach and I ordered a new black beach bag to carry my stuff down to the beach…lots of pockets and zippers and cup holders and even an extra waterproof bag to put the electronics in…and that should be here tomorrow so I can use it Friday…I did get scorched again today with no sunscreen on again but I was only out there for an hour and change…okay, need to get ready for some tv and cocktails….
A hollow victory lap…
Well…little donnie is so proud of himself as he crows to the world that he is the only one who could have gotten a cease fire between Iran and Israel…and how is that working out? It lasted about 8 hours before Israel attacked again and Iran responded in kind…oh, that’s the idiot’s definition of a cease fire that has no meaning whatever…hey, media…remember that the idiot lies about everything…why should this be any different…just like he lied that Iran’s nuclear capability was “obliterated” when it wasn’t…damaged maybe but the entire world knows that Iran moved it’s enriched uranium and all of the personnel from those facilities since trump and his idiots telegraphed it a few days ago…and they have no clue about where to go from here since they really don’t do nuance…can they bomb Iran to peace? No one has been able to so far and I don’t think idiot boy is up to the challenge..geez…
June 24th
Well…that kind of sucked..up and down all night and then out of bed at 5:33..but I feel okay so I’ll take it…didn’t do a lot in the heat yesterday and it’s going to be a little cooler today and it may even rain a bit later…ha,ha…yeah, it doesn’t rain here ever…twice in two months? But the weather widget says an inch of rain Thursday and again, I’ll believe it when I see it…going down to 25 miles a day has helped my body heal and I think I’ll keep that going for another week or so…I am going to do that before I go to the doctor appointment at 10am then I think I’ doing the grocery run right after that….need to remember ginger so I can make Masala later in the week…and the piece I got last week spoiled…will be out on the bike before 7am again and will have two rides in by 9 or so…and it appears that the wind has died down and that will make for nice rides today…then I need to clean more windows….there was a huge line of storms that stalled out over the lake overnight and then just disappeared…and the Muskegon force field works again…not much to do today…just the surgery and then groceries and then I’ll wing it the rest of the day….more later…