Well…sitting here waiting for the F1 race to start after getting the first ride in and thought I’d pass on some facts I just read in an article I read on Kos…first since the end of the cold war, 50 million of 52 million jobs created happened in dem presidencies…middle class families in California pay less in taxes than in red states…California pays in 81 billion dollars in taxes while Texas takes 71 billion dollars…California is #1 in manufacturing, farming, new business starts, tech investments, and in public higher education…California has some of the strictest gun laws in the US and has a 43% lower gun death rate than the rest of the country…and the repubs are distracting the country with culture wars since they are failing on health, wealth, and the economy as they always do…so the next time you hear that red states are more successful that blue ones, just recite these facts back to them…every damn red state is a welfare queen and their politics are a failure for regular people….geez…
Monthly Archives: September 2025
September 7th
Well….I think I’m a little weird when I woke up today to the furnace running for the first time since April and I found that comforting…this has been a really reliable house since I bought it 4 1/2 years ago…going into the wind yesterday has left me pretty sore all over today but I’ll be back out there when it gets light…I’ll be in long pants today with the temp only 44 out there right now and it won’t get much warmer before I go out…but it’s going to get warmer over the next 10 days and we’ll be in the 70’s starting tomorrow…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I’m going to try to clean the kitchen today and finish up the last book…and the Lions play and there are races on so I’ll need to get one ride in before 9, then watch the F1 race, then back out for the 2nd ride so I have a plan for the day…but first, coffee and a bagel with cream cheese…I sure hope the wind is not blowing 20+ like yesterday…it says the wind is blowing out of the NW at 13 and I’ll take that…more later…
Book discipline…
Well…I’ve finally gotten some book discipline and have an unfinished book that I put down and watched some sports instead today…it was kind of strange to just do one thing this afternoon instead of multitasking and reading while I have sports on in the background…we’ll see how long that lasts…I did get two rides in with the wind still blowing 20 today and going into it I hurt my left thigh that is throbbing right now and I think I aggravated my left knee that I hurt in a crash a couple of weeks ago…and some idiot didn’t look and almost did the same thing by turning right in front of me as he tried to turn around…now, I’d never even change lanes without looking but this moron did and I damn near t-boned him…idiots…so I did eat two meals today…breakfast for lunch, and then a pork loin fillet with some fries…I won’t be buying any more of those since the price is up 100%, going from 99 cents each to 1.99…if food keeps going up like it is, I won’t be able to afford food in a few months…even DD’s prices have doubled lately so I haven’t gone there in 3 weeks…and even my coffee beans on Amazon went from around 14 bucks to almost 20 for an almost 50% rise….and I blame it all on the idiot trump and his stupid tariffs…back to soccer…
Poor farmers…
Well…I know I’ve talked about this before but damn, farmers are a bunch of dumb hypocrites who are now reaping the rewards from the idiot trump’s economic stupidity…and now since the tariffs are killing access to markets across the world, they whine that they need to be bailed out or they will go out of business..even though this is what they voted for…do they think they are special? More special than those with student loan debt that trump killed the relief from…more special than the hungry families who are being kicked off food stamps…more special than the cancer researchers who lost their funding…more special than the rural hospitals that are going to close with the cuts to Medicaid? You get the picture…why the hell should blue states pony up more cash to bail out these trump voting assholes? They shouldn’t…that is why we got the 2nd term of idiot boy…there were no consequences for voting for him so I say let these farmers go broke…it’s what they deserve after all….geez…
September 6th
Well…up and moving a little before 6 this morning and I’m pretty beat but the coffee should help with that after I get some of it in me…I can still hear the wind out there but it’s supposed to be down to 10 to 20 today so I’ll be heading out as soon as it gets light…I wonder if I need to do 3 rides today to make up for yesterday? Nope…I needed a light day and I didn’t gain 5 pounds from it so I can live with it…it’s a no leftover day today so I need to cook and I took some bacon out of the freezer so I can make breakfast for lunch and a blt for later…and I have breaded pollock fillets with fries for fish and chips for tomorrow…and I think I have pasta sauce to make some pasta for Monday…digging deep in the freezer now but I still have two containers of soup in there and two ham bones to make more ham soup this week…still have a book and a half to read before Monday but I don’t think I have enough to get through the weekend…oh, well…not much to do today…need to get the rides in by 9 and the math doesn’t work for that…it’s still dark and will be for the next hour and that will make me late for the MotoGP sprint race at 9…more later…
Way too easy of a day…
Well…the wind has been blowing like crazy out here all day from 30 to 50mph but that didn’t stop me from trying to get a bike ride in this morning…and I did try but only got about 5 miles out before a gust hit and I pulled something in my neck…so I turned around and almost didn’t have to pedal coming back…so only a 10 mile day and that is the lowest this year…I could have gone downstairs but the bike needs maintenance before I can use it so I’ll get on that tomorrow just in case…and I can try out my new rechargeable compressor that I bought for the car…after I got back here all I did was read and that was nice but I’m already working on the 3rd book since Thursday so it looks like I’ll have some no reading time Sunday afternoon…oh, well…and I think I’ll go back to reading right now for an hour or so…
Jobs are in the dumper…
Well…who’d have thought that putting an illiterate moron in charge of the economy was going to push it towards a recession? The past three months have only added 34,000 jobs with June being revised to show that the economy actually lost 12,000 jobs…and this is in direct comparison to the last two months of the Biden presidency where over 500,000 jobs were added…and qualified economists are now warning that the job market is “frozen” and are predicting a bloodbath coming in the next few months as economic growth ends…and there is only one person to blame…and we all know it’s the idiot trump and his ignorant henchmen…soon it’s going to be that the people who voted for this asshole are going to be out of jobs and broke and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch…after all, they saddled this country with the stupidest president in history who has saddled everyone with the biggest tax increase in history with his stupid tariffs…geez…
September 5th
Well…damn, up at 5 again this morning but there wasn’t a chance of getting back to sleep so here I am drinking my first cup of coffee at 5:40 and resigning myself to a day of sleepwalking from being exhausted…and the wind is howling so I may have to do an indoor ride for the first time since April…and that will take some work to get the indoor bike ready…and emby crashed again last night so I don’t have any tv to watch and that sucks…I do need to clean the kitchen today and figure out meals for the weekend but I really don’t care since I can’t taste anything anymore…okay…that’s enough of that…I do need to keep my 700 day streak of riding the bike going but I may only do 8 miles today to give my body a rest or try to ride outdoors in the wind…it’s 62 out there so it will be warm enough if I decide to go out…not much to do today…just cleaning and reading…I did finish the first book yesterday so that only leaves me with 3 for the weekend so I guess I need to parcel them out a bit….more later…
Got some work done..
Well…it’s 2pm and I am done for the day…got the rides in but at 48 degrees it was a little cold…and I put the top down for the library run where I got 4 more books and have started the first one…then I tore the couch apart, vacuumed it, and rotated the cushions…then dusted everything in here…but before I did that, I had to find a replacement for a foam filter that had disintegrated and a scotch brite pad worked fine…I really do think I need to replace the vacuum soon since it is almost 20 years old and sounds like a 747 taking off…probably should look on amazon to see what’s out there…I only paid 49 bucks for this Bissel and I’ll probably look for another one…but it will probably be over 100 bucks…oh, well..time for more reading…
Prices are not going down…
Well…the idiot trump is lying his ass off again today with saying that prices for everything are falling and fast…I guess he wouldn’t know about food prices since he’s never set foot in a grocery store or even bought any food…let’s talk about potatoes…two years ago a bag of frozen fries was 2.69 and guess what I just paid for one Tuesday? Yeah, it’s not lower at 4.00…up over 50% and let’s talk about meat prices, too…two years ago you could get pork chops on sale for 99 cents a pound…and now? 1.99 a pound on sale, more than a 100% increase…and I don’t buy beef anymore since those prices are ridiculous…two years ago I could get ground beef at aldis for 1.99 a pound on sale…now they never put it on sale anymore and a pound goes for over 5 bucks…luckily for me, I can afford to absorb the increases but a lot of families can’t so they do without…and a lot of those people voted for the idiot…what do you think now, maga assholes? He is going to starve you out and you’d still vote for him again…what a bunch of morons…geez…