Well…damn, with having a couple of cocktails last night, I slept all the way through til 7am this morning and that makes me late for getting on the bike since I just poured my first cup of coffee and it’s almost 7:30…so it looks like I won’t be on the bike til 8 or so…I wonder what would happen if I didn’t plan out my whole day? Man, that would be so cool to have a day where I just did whatever came to mind or did nothing and I’m running out of time to try that….oh, well…didn’t get much done yesterday but cooking so I don’t have to cook today…but I have lettuce, tomatoes, green pepper and mushrooms that need to be used so one meal today is going to have a big salad in it….noon is the deadline since Michigan plays then and I need to get at least two rides in by then…three is going to be a bit much and I really don’t need to do that much work…it’s another day of record highs with it getting to almost 80 today and it’s already 61 right now so I can go out any time…not much to do today…just need to drag my butt out right now and get going to complete the tasks I have ahead of me…and that’s the problem…so damn task oriented that I have to go and go…more later….
A good day…
Well…got the day started today with getting on the bike for a ride before the sun came up since it was 55 by7:20…saw tons of wildlife with 10 deer, about 40 turkeys, and a Kingfisher on the first ride…then I had an errand to run, and then back on the bike for ride two, and then I made Chicken Masala for lunch…I even found some Naan bread at Meijers and it goes so good with the Masala…not cheap but I can afford it…then back on the bike for a third ride after lunch for 38 miles today and that felt good…started to gaslight the idiots that were partying outside the rental by stopping on the bike and taking photos of everyone who was there and I’m going to do that every day they are out there building some evidence in case I want to sue the asshole who owns the place for running a public nuisance…I really do hope they freak out…might be fun…I heard about an animated sci fi show called “Scavenger’s Reign” that is supposed to be one of the best shows for the past few years…and it is on plex so I can watch it tonight…along with having a cocktail or two…still need to do the weight work this aft but then I’ll be done for the day…have had this taste for a food that everyone hates, braunscweiger, and it is so good in a sandwich with dill pickles and mustard…having that for dinner today along with the pasta salad I made…yummy…here comes the weights…
Americans appear to be getting dumber…
Well…with the furor created by the lies that the idiots trump and vance spewed about Haitian immigrants in Springfield Ohio…of course the news media did fluff pieces on whether it was real or not…so they go to Springfield and interview some “real” people to see what they think…and one woman was asked whether she thinks the Haitians were eating cats, dogs, and wildlife…and she says they could be and she justified that belief by saying “earlier in the summer there were ducks and geese all over the lakes but look at it now, they are all gone”…obviously this women wasn’t paying attention in science class in grade school…I learned in 3rd grade about migratory birds and have even observed ducks and geese migrating in the very well know “v” formations they use to save energy..okay, that is a little bit of snark but I could have said “I wonder if there are immigrants here since the geese, ducks, and swans are all gone from Muskegon lake”…you see how ridiculous that sounds? Ignorance turned into hatred for no other reason than she saw it on the news…geez..American appear to be getting dumber…fast…
September 27th
Well…it is really strange to me how consistent my wake up times have been all week with no cocktails…5 days in a row of just a little after 5:30 am and I’m okay with that…have settled into a different rhythm but I’m going to disrupt that today with cocktails tonight and I’m not sure why…have felt good but yesterday I really ran out of steam after the rides and mowing the lawn…I sure hope that’s not a permanent part of getting old…I am going to order the 4 new covid tests that I’m eligible to get for free to keep my stockpile up…the new variant causes very little latent effect but really attacks the body for long covid and that’s pretty scary when you can’t tell that you have covid but it wrecks you later on…4 years on and covid is still just as destructive as when it started but people are just ignoring the 1200 people a week who are dying from it…I am going to get on the outdoor bike by 7:30 this morning since it’s warm enough to go already at 55 degrees so it’s just waiting for it to get light enough…think I’ll only do two rides today with an errand in between them and I need to make another batch of chicken masala since I have the chicken thawed…and I have yogurt that goes into it that is a couple of weeks old…not much to do today…I think I’ll take an easier day today and just do some cleaning this afternoon…the couch and living room need work so that will be the plan for the day….more later…
Another busy one…
Well…you know, owning a house and being solely responsible for it’s upkeep is a full time job…as is the upkeep for this old body…after getting three rides in this morning, I did some cooking since I wanted some more pasta salad to have in the fridge and then had some lunch before I decided to mow the lawn today so I could convert the mower over to bagging to start picking up the leaves that have started to fall…I hurt my darn neck working overhead yesterday and it’s same place I hurt before that had just started to heal…darn…ran out of energy on the second ride today and I’m pretty sure it was from a lack of calories with only a dog and a sandwich for the entire day yesterday…and didn’t even have any empty calories from cocktails to compensate and that will be repeated today…no drinks til tomorrow night and I feel good about that and that will get me in practice for taking a couple of weeks off for my yearly physical that is coming up in November…got scheduled for my blood work and the physical today…I do still need to do my weight work today and will do that right now…one of these days, I am going to take it easy for a day…I’m tired…
Ha, ha Rudy…
Well…when you think of falls from grace, I think the internet will have a photo of rudy giuliani next to the description…how does someone who was a federal prosecutor end up a disgraced, disbarred lawyer owing 174 million dollars to people he slimed? Today it was announced that ole rudy was disbarred in DC, and since they have a reciprocal agreement with NY, that means he is disbarred in NY, too…what the hell is it with the idiot trump that makes people destroy themselves for him? I know I’ve talked about this before but the long list of people who have given up everything in their lives and in a lots of cases gone to prison or are going to go to prison because of idiot boy…and he doesn’t give a damn about them…he only cares what people can do for him and how he can use them to get what he wants…so, bye, bye rudy…next stop is prison after the Georgia case gets back on track…geez…
September 26th
Well…up at a little after 5:30 again this morning and that wasn’t bad with only getting up a couple of times overnight…and now I have an hour and a half or so before I need to get on the indoor bike…it’s only 51 out here so there will be a wait to get outdoors this morning…okay, nope..it’s only 49 out here so it looks like I won’t be outdoors until 10 or so and maybe I’ll just take it easy today…don’t have a lot to do but make some pasta salad and clean so I really can ease into it today…my upper body hurts like crazy today after working overhead yesterday but it could have been worse working around the power line…I was right yesterday when I estimated 4-5 inches of rain when the official total for here in Muskegon was 4.45 inches…but there were places along the coast here that got a foot of rain from that storm and there is widespread flooding out here…okay, the little weather widget is saying record high for the day and that is going to be a spread from the record low this morning..weird, weird weather…have been good all week and have one more day to go before I can have a cocktail tomorrow night…feel pretty good getting back to taking care of myself and this is going to be the new normal along with taking entire weeks off…it’s a nice reset and I feel lucky I can do it…okay…need to get a post out to Mastodon and keep pouring coffee down….more later….
Way too busy today…
well…yeah, I know I do it to myself but that doesn’t make it any less busy…started out with getting an indoor ride in and finishing up “Jack Ryan”…then out to get groceries and gas along with stopping at Menards for lawn bags and lawn food then home for a cup of coffee and back on the bike for two outdoor rides…after lunch where I had a jalpeno and cheese hotdog that I got a couple of weeks ago for a buck and then out to clean up the containers I left outside in the rain and then trimmed the shrub next to the back door…attacked the damn overgrown bushes in the fence and cut some branches back from the power line to the house…during that time I made a noise call to the cops since the asses in the rental were at it again and I sure wasn’t going to wear earplugs to work in my own damn yard…didn’t get finished until almost 2 pm and have been doing some reading after watching Man u stink up the place in the Europa league…now I need to take it easy for a bit before I start my night…another one of being good since I am starting to like it….
Consequences of lying…
Well…not sure if you read about this one or not but it’s a doozy..the Haitian Bridge Alliance has filed a suit against the idiot trump and his mini me jd vance on numerous charges related to their lying about Haitian immigrants in Springfield Ohio and are asking for their immediate arrest… a law there allows private citizens to file criminal charges and requires the courts to either issue arrest warrants or refer the matter to the prosecuting attorney for investigation…there are six counts they they allege took idiot boy and vance did and I just read them and yep, they did all of them…from the idiot’s lying in the debate saying that the Haitians were eating their neighbors pets too the bomb threat that were directly caused by trump and vance lying even after they were told by state officials that it was not true…and it violates another part of the law when idiot boy threatened to deport all of the Haitians if he is elected…so look, it appears that there just may be consequences of the lies he and vance spread…I sure hope that finally the idiot is going to be held accountable for spewing the lies he always does…we can hope anyway…geez…
September 25th
Well…up at a little after 5 this morning and that’s early but I slept okay and I’ll take it…man, it rained for 18+ straight hours yesterday and I don’t think I’ve seen that in the 3 1/2 years I’ve lived out here…we must have gotten 4-5 inches of rain and there will be flooding on the trail when I get out there this morning…going to do an indoor ride to start the day here in 20 minutes or so but I need to pour down some coffee first…with all the rain, that sets me up for some yard work today and I need to stop at Menards for fall lawn food and some big yard bags since the leaves are starting to fall and I do need to clean up the side of the house and get rid of the dying flowers…with perennials mixed in, I can’t just pull everything out by the roots so I’m going to take the string trimmer and cut them down to soil level…might just put in some grass seed on some bare spots so it will sprout in the spring….the end of the rain last night was a small storm and it rained so hard I could barely see across the street with some 20-30 mph winds and that was cool…I do have some storage containers that I left outside overnight that I will have to clean today so the afternoon is going to be busy…going to make a batch of pasta salad to use up the end of the celery in the fridge since I like having that around…need to take the last of the chicken out of the freezer to make masala Friday but that will use up all of the protein I have so I’ll need to make some bean burritos…not much to do today…I’ll be busy all morning with the grocery runs and rides and will do a couple of hours on the yard after lunch but I’ll have to be done with that by 3 when Man U plays…more later…