Well…I am just so damn surprised today that the fascist, racist “rally” that idiot boy put on at MSG Sunday is being reported for what it was…pure hate for anyone who is not a white…calling Puerto Rico (whose residents are American citizens) a garbage dump and the people there nasty names that I won’t repeat here…so now you know who the attacks are coming for…and that is everyone who the idiot trump doesn’t like…doesn’t matter if you’re white, black, or brown…if you don’t kiss his ass, you are a target…this time it’s more than one paper that is not sanewashing any of the fascist bullshit that was on display all day Sunday…and even some repubs are backing away from the idiot…especially downballot repubs who are in fights and who know that the independents they need to get elected are just not down with full on fascism…gee…who knew? I really do hope they keep trotting trump out for this last week to remind people who he really is…cripes even Barbary Bush is out campaigning for Kamala…that’s how much some repubs hate trump…they know he’s ruining the repub party but where were they 4 years ago when they could have convicted him in either impeachment and we wouldn’t be dealing with idiot boy right now…it’s on you repubs, you did this…geez…
October 29th
Well…darn, another night of up and down but that gave me the chance to see a little thunderstorm roll through at 3 am…mostly to the north but we did get a little rain…need to haul butt today to get the indoor ride in by 8 so I can get outdoors before the gale warning kicks in…but I can already hear the wind howling out there so I’ll probably get hurt on the outdoor bike today…steady 17 mph wind with gusts to 25 and it’s a shame that is happening with the temp already over 60 right now…but the wind is coming out of the south and I can usually cope with that…didn’t get anything done yesterday since the leaves still haven’t fallen much but it looks like 31 degree low Thursday night will get them dropping…still have leftovers for today but there is no protein on sale this week so I’m not sure what I’m going to plan for the rest of the week…have two pork chops in the freezer along with some pork fillets but I can’t eat any red meat until after I get my blood drawn on the 12 of November to get my cholesterol down…so lots of veggies til then…not much to do today…might do some raking to get the leaves out of the fences and take my angle grinder to the stump with a cut off wheel to try to free up the fence from it…and I do have to make up the grocery list that is almost all veggies this week…going to have to get used to that….more later….
Spent some cash…
Well…over the past week or so, the bike chain started slipping when I hit bumps while pedaling so that means that the driveline is wearing out so I spent some money today to get all of the replacement parts I need…93 bucks with tax for the front crankset, chain, rear cassette, a bottom bracket tool, and a new set of handgrips…but, I had cashback to spend with Capital One so everything was free…I was going to buy some heated gloves to ride in the winter but even the 40 dollar ones were crap and I’m not going to spend 50-60 bucks for a pair…so I’ll look another direction for that..didn’t get anything else done today but take the left rear tire back off the car since I forgot to lube the suspension bushings when I had the wheel off to clean it…I decided to try a nickle plated rear cassette to see if it will last longer than the anodized ones I’ve been using…and it looks like chrome so that is cool…decided to cut back on my salt intake that I’ve been getting from snacking on pretzels so I won’t be buying any more of those…going to replace them with carrots, celery and cauliflower and see how that works out…it won’t be the same but I only have 3 weeks to get my blood pressure down before the checkup…and an article I read the other day said that extra salt intake is the most common cause of high blood pressure…and cocktails are another bad one so I’ve stopped those, too…and the calories from both have made my weight plateau so I’m hoping to now get down to 160 pounds and stay there…but I am going to have cocktails after the checkup…have to remember to get my blood work done next week and then I can have red meat again, too…okay, time to read….
A burner phone?
Well…now, I wonder how many times a burner phone has been used to not commit crimes? Probably should ask the idiot trump since he is good at using them to hide his criminality…during his attempt to overthrow the election of 2020, idiot boy used a burner phone that was routed through Egypt to call and try to pressure the Michigan speaker of the house to reject the certification of the election and get him to send the fake electors to DC…now, let’s just think of that again…do you think this is an “official act” of any president? Where does it say in the constitution that the president’s duties include committing a crime to keep himself in power after he lost an election? This phone call happened and no denying it by the right is going to change that…they go on and on that this investigation is dems using the government to go after the perfectly innocent trump…and that is delusional…just plain delusional…but that’s what cults are…delusional…geez…
October 28th
Well…”just one more morning…I had to wake up with the blues…pull myself out of bed…put on my walking shoes” just a little quote from the Allman brothers “Dreams” to get the day started…didn’t plug the laptop in overnight and it still had 54% of the battery left and that’s pretty cool that the battery lasts a whole day…the old one lasted about a half hour…and after being plugged in for 5 minutes, it’s already up to 61%…damn, I’ve been so cold for the past day that I had the heating pad on me just to sit here but I’m sure it’s just the transition to cold weather that I haven’t adjusted to just yet…it’s going to warm up over the next two days and it looks like it will be the last two days of 70 degree weather here for the rest of the year but that is still a little weird for the end of October…have to drag the thermasuit out soon to be able to ride when I want and that’s a transition that I don’t relish…haven’t bought the heated gloves yet and I am struggling with buying them on Amazon after Bezo’s betrayal of the US by killing the endorsement of Kamala in the Post last week…I think I’ll do one last order to get the parts for the bike and then delete my account and go back to the olden days of buying individually…gonna suck but I won’t support anyone who supports the orange idiot…going to start to pick up the leaves today after the rides so I’ll be working outdoors all afternoon..and I need to clean out the flower beds along the house with the string trimmer and get the flower stalks raked up and bagged…more and more work…and more later…
No walnuts this year…
Well…last year about this time, I had to kick a path through all of the walnuts that fell on the trail from a tree that is right next to it..and I still have boxes full of them downstairs…but this year, there is not one walnut from that tree anywhere to be found…now, I saw the same thing a few years back when I lived in Cutlerville and rode through Kentwood where there were three walnut trees along a hundred yard section of the trail that covered it with nuts every fall…and then one year, nothing…I am a little curious about that since we had walnut trees on our property but I don’t remember them ever having a year where there were no nuts…walnut trees are weird…
Here’s the thing…
Well…with the refusal of the Post and La Times owners to endorse Kamala after their editorial boards already had the endorsement statements crafted, it’s pretty easy to see that there are a couple of things happening…one is that Bezos and that LA Times asshole really do want to keep every damn dime they can steal from the rest of us by getting the tax cuts that idiot boy has promised them…but the second thing is that they are scared of what the idiot can and will do to them if they don’t kiss his ass and he is elected…trump is a fascist, after all and will illegally use the government for payback and these guys don’t have the guts to buck him…just a couple of scared little men who are already bowing to trump’s fascism even when he has no power…how lame is that? And these assholes aren’t scared of Kamala or the dems because they know we play by the rules and uphold the constitution not break it, so the first amendment will protect them not matter what the hell they do with their vanity papers…one bit of fallout from Bezo’s timidity is that there have been over 60,000 cancellations of subscriptions to the Post since he chickened out on the endorsement…and even the NYT has piled on to his cowardice by re-running their endorsement of Kamala on the front page this week…I think the Times has gotten much, much wrong during this election but they got this one right…geez
October 27th
Well…having a heck of a time getting going today but I still have to get on the bike by 8am…it’s only 31 out there so the outdoor rides will wait until the afternoon but that will interfere with the races so I’ll have to figure that out…or just skip them since they are pretty boring anyway…yeah, you’re right…sounds like I’m a little depressed this morning and I am….not sure if it will turn into couch melting depression but it could and that means there is going to be a lot of work to do to suppress it…crap…had a good day yesterday and got the last 5 windows cleaned and today should be a bathroom cleaning day and it might be..we’ll see…finished up the antibiotics yesterday and I am a little curious to see what the effect will be without them…have been taking them since July but I think I still have the infection on my mouth and that sucks…man, I am so tired of having a schedule to meet every day…haven’t taken a day off to do what I want for over a year and that is a little sick, isn’t it? At least I don’t have to cook today with leftovers that will last at least 3 more days but I do have to plan what is next…but who knows what that will be…have lots of canned goods that should make some meals and they need to be used…more later…
Don’t use Total Browser…
Well…with getting the new computer, one of the first things I did was to go out and look for an ad blocker to keep the damn pop ups and ads from overrunning it…tried a new one called “Total Browser” and it worked great for two weeks…and then, even though it was advertised as free, after two weeks they shut it off and had their own pop up that said I could continue to have ads blocked for 69 dollars a year…yeah, right…not when there are really free ones that work with Firefox that are open source and free…just like Firefox… so now I’m trying out another one called U-block Origin that got good reviews and doesn’t sell my data and in the past three minutes, it has blocked 18 ads over on Kos and now I can read that again without having to click to get through the huge popup ad that always comes up when you start there…so, I’ll do an update after I’ve used it for a while and see how it works…
October 26th
Well…damn I just realized I’ve only ridden 650 miles this month and that won’t get me to the final goal…still have 1,400 miles to do and the 28 miles I did yesterday just isn’t enough…and it’s pretty depressing that I may not meet the last goal in my life…and it gets worse…I wasn’t good last night and feel pretty crappy this morning…didn’t ever pour the first cup of coffee until 6:45 and that means I’m already late with getting the day started and that is going to follow me all day…it’s funny how much pain I’ve been in and the lidocaine experiment on my neck appears to be a failure since it still hurts and I will need to have x-rays after my yearly checkup to figure out what the heck is going on…I mean how can an injury still hurt after 4 months? Oh, well…it looks like a one indoor ride day today since it is already 47 out there but I hope the wind is a little lower than yesterday…but, it’s always windy out here so why would I think today would be any different? Okay, just poured the second cup of coffee and need to get over to Mastodon to get the first post out there…don’t have a lot to do today other than the rides but I want to get the remaining windows cleaned…and get that off my to do list..more later…