Well…finally have the the new Fire stick working but it took my son hours to figure out why emby didn’t work…but it’s working now and the video is so darn clear and the video and audio is synched up on the race I’m watching and that is pretty cool…I really should make the Masala today but we’ll see…I did put the chicken back in the freezer but it’s only been in an hour so I may just take it back out and still cook it for dinner…the interfaces on my streaming services are all completely different and much more modern on the stick…will take some time to get used to but for 39 bucks for modern kit isn’t bad….
Monthly Archives: August 2025
Any other president…
Well…with Russia’s economy cratering and their invasion of Ukraine at least a stalemate and possibly being lost, any other president would be taking advantage of these facts to crush putin and Russia once and for all…but the idiot trump is such a putin fanboy and just plain stupid so he can’t do a damn thing…the easy thing to do would be to drop the restrictions on using American weapons to attack inside Russia so Ukraine could destroy more Russian infrastructure and take the pain to the Russian people…and idiot boy could stop giving putin a place on the world stage to further isolate him and he could even work to get the world to go along and actually treat him as the war criminal that he is…but no, idiot boy fawns over putin and sides with him against the rest of the world…when history is written, it will be found that trump wasted the golden moment where putin could have been removed from the world stage…and it’s all trump’s fault…geez…
August 31st
Well…up a little after 6 this morning and I need to get moving before the F1 race comes on at 9 and get the first ride in…it’s still pretty cold out there at 48 degrees so I’ll have the long pants on again…not coughing much today and it’s been a week since it started so I hope it’s over…I’ll run another test Tuesday to see…talked to my son yesterday and emby is not going to support old Rokus anymore so I bought myself a Fire stick to replace it and it is supposed to be here by 11 am today and then I’ll have to set it up and that will be a pain in the butt…I’ve had this Roku for over 10 years and the button labels have all worn off so I guess it’s time to modernize…the new stick has all kinds of features that I probably won’t use but it only cost 39 bucks with it on sale for 33% off…new tech is always a pain in the butt…but if I can get my channels to synch the video and audio I’ll be happy…so, I need to have more coffee and drag my butt off this couch and get going…man, I feel worn out this morning..but I will get going as I always do…more later…
One sentence…
Well… got a letter from the court today with one sentence: “you are permanently excused from jury duty”…yeah, I know you’re probably going to say everyone should do their civic duty and serve on juries…all I say to that is I’ve done my civic duty my entire life paying my taxes and volunteering at my kids schools, running the AYSO league in Kentwood, coaching soccer and baseball teams, running a cub scout pack and serving on more building committees than I can count…so no, I do not feel guilty using a legal loophole that was put in the jury process just for old folks…I am old after all…
Boy, farmers are stupid…
Well…just read an article over on Kos and the only thing I took away from it is that farmers are really stupid…in the article they quote a couple of farmers whining about a shortage of workers and saying that they will need to leave 33% of their crops in the field because of the mass deportations that they voted for that are carried out by ICE thugs and the only thing you have to remember is that 87% of the Florida Farm Bureau’s political donations went to repubs…who’d have thought that these guys would be hurt from voting for repubs? Just everyone on the left that’s for sure…and you know what? They will never learn from it and will continue to vote for repubs that don’t give a damn about them…that is why I have no feeling for these people…they got rich off of undocumented laborers and now they are gone and none of them will learn a damn thing from it….geez…
Coughing again…
Well…I really didn’t think that the coughing from covid was going to go away so easily as it did Thursday…and it came back today…not as bad as it was earlier in the week but some coughing is still annoying as hell…and I noticed that my energy level on the bike was a bit lower today…but I still got 25 miles in every day since the whole thing started Sunday and that is pretty unusual for covid…and it’s only 11am and I am done for the day with both rides in and the weight work done…and I don’t have to cook til tomorrow when I’ll make the Masala…Michigan plays their first football game tonight and I’m kind of excited about that…just found out that my friend T fainted and had a fall yesterday which broke a bone in her face and is in the hospital…man, I’m worried about her…
August 30th
Well…damn, didn’t get out of bed til after 6 this morning but I don’t feel better from it…still pretty worn out but I guess I should be fighting off covid…just poured the first cup of coffee and I’m waiting for it to work it’s magic…only 47 degrees out there right now and I wonder if I should wait for the temp to come up before I get on the bike or put warm clothes on…I did dig my long riding pants out yesterday so I may use them today…my damn left knee is cracking and in pain and that is two weeks after the big pop and I wonder if it’s going to be permanent…college football starts today with Michigan playing tonight and I am looking forward to that and Man U plays at 10 this morning so I need to get my butt moving to get the rides in before that..not sure if I can with how cold it is out there…F1 qualifying is on at 9 so I’m going to have to miss something but I’m losing interest in that with Lewis no longer having the car to compete…not much to do today…just need to get the rides in somehow this morning and then clean the living room…more later…
Not getting better…
Well…after going almost the entire night with no coughing last night, I really expected to feel better today but I can’t feel it…still have a little cough and sore throat and feel like I have a cold…I did get 25 miles in again today and that was pretty normal…was able to go pretty hard when I really should have throttled back more…oh, well…I’ll do that tomorrow…so, all I did today was make some more pasta salad and then read all afternoon…I did go out to get 2 more books this morning so I have 4 to read this weekend but they have to last til Tuesday since the library is closed Labor Day…going to watch the F1 movie tonight but I have some work to do first…no rest for me…
What a petty prick…
Well…that the idiot trump is a petty little prick is on display every day whenever he opens his mouth…and he goes about revoking security clearances from anyone who doesn’t kiss his butt…he reached new depths of petty today when he revoked Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris even though there have been recent credible death threats against her…yep, I guess he is now living out his fantasy of killing his political opponents and that is exactly what this about…and gee, do you think it may have something to do with her being black? Of course it is…he hates women and blacks and doesn’t even view them as human so if she gets killed, why would he care? This action is just depraved but it is all idiot boy since he spends his days thinking only of revenge and how he can use the government to do it…this asshole needs to be removed…geez…
August 29th
Well…up at 5:14 this morning and there was really no point in trying to sleep more just like always but I’m okay with that…how else am I supposed to feel…not going to waste any energy whining about it…the bad coughing just stopped last night so maybe I’m getting over covid already? It’s damn cold out here at 47 so the rides are going to wait a while…my doctor told me to take is easier but I’m already down to 25 miles a day on the bike so that is easier to me…need to go to the library for two more books this morning to get ready for the library being closed Monday…and to make sure I have enough to read until next week…think I need to make some more pasta salad today to have that for a side for sandwiches…don’t really have a big meal planned but I should take the chicken out for Masala so I can make it Sunday…and I should take another container of soup out so there is room to make more from the two ham bones I have in the freezer…not much to do today…just need to clean and get the rides in and then take it from there…more later…