Well…when I got back from the third ride today I heard a plane buzzing around overhead, looked up and saw it was a skywriter advertising for the airshow that is going on this week out here…he actually did write “airshow” and he followed it up with a heart and smiley faces…looked like he was practicing for the show later in the week…can’t remember the last time I saw that…and then a C-47 flew over pretty low…there is nothing that sounds like an air cooled radial engine and I hope to get a photo of it this week…didn’t do a damn thing but the bike rides and weight work today so I’ll have to get off my butt tomorrow and get the back door frame ready to paint…think I’ll only do two rides to manage my sun exposure and give my body a small rest…my whole body was flat this morning and the rides were too much damn work…
This is damn funny…
Well…geez, the idiot trump and his campaign will lie about anything…you remember them saying that his plane broke down so he couldn’t fly into Billings, Montana for his “rally” last week? Yeah, that was a lie…the airport wouldn’t let him land since he owed 12,000 dollars in fees that he stiffed the airport for. This has happened all over the country limiting where he can still go without paying the bills…gee…I wonder if the problem is that he has spent hundreds of millions on his legal bills and the campaign is basically broke…so now, can we call him “deadbeat Don”? He sure deserves it…geez…
August 11th
Well…damn, it’s only 56 out here right now and I was freezing overnight….had to put the wool blanket on the bed to sleep last night and that is strange for August in Michigan…I really thought the heat was going to come on…it never got warm enough out here to open the house up yesterday and it may be the same today…I think I hit a solid wall and I really don’t want to get on the bike today…it’s already 7:15 and I should be out there…maybe I’ll feel different after the coffee starts to work….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I really don’t feel like I’ll get anything done today, either, it’s hard work just to sit here so the prospect of working on anything is not attractive….they have started to fly the vintage planes in for the event at the airport out here and it is pretty cool to hear the radial engines when they fly over…saw a c-47 coming in and I hope they will do some flyovers so I can see more of them…I guess I could go to the airport and see them but I don’t feel like doing any events anymore…not much to do today…I do need to make potato soup but that just seems like too much effort right now…more later…
Crowd sizes…
Well…you probably noticed that I had October instead of August in the title of the last one but I fixed it…not sure how that happened…must have been distracted with trying to get out the door and get the bike rides in…so, let’s talk about crowd sizes…one of the things that has been most important to the idiot trump from the time he was installed by putin is the crowds that come out to listen to him…he even went so far to have the photos of his sparse inauguration crowd doctored so he could compare them to Obama’s…and he is frickin melting down today after 3,000 or so people came to his fascist rally last night while the Harris/Walz joyous event drew in over 20,000 people with a couple of million more on the livestream…you can see and feel the joy at these events for our side when we can now see that we are taking back happiness and joy and are going to use it to smack idiot boy right in the face…cripes his plane even broke down and he had to rent a puddle jumper to get him to the event…poor baby…the polls are going against him with Harris/Walz up by 4-6 point in 3 swing states and even in the rest of them…and putin has abandoned him and that is going to leave a mark as will the droves of repubs who are deserting him…let’s keep the pressure up and watch him melt…yeeha…
August 10th
Well…damn, it’s almost 7 and I just poured the first cup of coffee and I need to get that one and one more down before I get on the bike…it got down into the 50’s last night and the wind is blowing so the rides are going to be a chore today…pretty worn out again today…just like every day and that will continue until I can take a rest day at the end of the year…that seems like a long time from now and it is…got some work done yesterday but I’m not sure what I’ll do today…I do need to work on the back door frame on the house and I may start scraping the paint off today so I can get a coat of paint on it soon….I did wash the walk in door on the garage yesterday and need to figure out if I want to paint it or not…some color would be cool and I’m thinking about some dark blue for it…just damn tired of white everywhere…but I’m not going to buy a gallon of paint to do one door…might make some potato soup today to use up some of the potatoes I got for a buck and then I won’t have to cook at all this weekend…need to figure out some new food to eat since I’m pretty damn tired of what I’ve been eating lately…not much to do today…just need to get my ass moving and get on the bike…more later…
Busy…
Well…it seems that every day is a busy one these days and that is getting old…started out with two rides starting at 8…then I had to run an errand…on the first two rides the bike started to complain to me that I hadn’t maintained it in a while by squeaking so I washed it, and while it was drying, I took out most of the garden and bagged it up, then lubed and adjusted the bike, and got back on it for the third ride…on the way back, the idiots going to the concert down the hill at Heritage had blocked off the trail with all their crap so I had no way to get back to my house and that pissed me off…along with all of the other residents who pay for the damn trail and were blocked from using it…and since the concert is general admission, they start lining up out there when I do my first ride at 7am…not sure how much the city gets for giving up use of the park for two weeks but it better be a lot for the pain in the ass it is…so I didn’t get done with everything until 2 in the afternoon and that is getting to be a pain, too…oh, well…i did get a little scorched today with being out for 4 hours but it’s manageable and I think I’m figuring out this sunscreen…reading time…
Lawrence was on fire last night…
Well..you know I’ve been railing against the bias in the media when covering the idiot trump and last night, Lawrence O’Donnell had enough and just lambasted the entire media including his own organization MSNBC for covering idiot boy’s entire speech and not one network cover the huge Harris/Walz rally in Detroit…he started by asking if the media had learned anything from 2016 when they gave trump a pass on everything and didn’t challenge his lies and they are doing the same thing now…and his point was that there was not one sentence in the entire screed that did not include a lie and went on to remind the media that they gave trump over a billion dollars in free coverage during that election and they are doing the same damn thing right now…and the point to me is if they’ve covered one trump screed, they have covered them all since he does the same damn crap all the time…so now maybe some part of the media will get back to covering idiot boy as how should be…as a carnival barker and criminal whose mental capacity is gone…or Lawrence will be fired and the media will keep cheer leading for the idiot…geez..
August 9th
Well….up at 3:34 and out of bed by 6 but I slept okay so I can live with it…have to get on the bike in less than 30 minutes so I need to wake up and drink lots of coffee right now…didn’t take any ibuprofen for my many places of pain last night and I survived it so I’ll take it…but my right shoulder is screaming at me and I wonder if I should hit it with some voltaren before I head out on the bike? I do have an errand to run this morning and I think I’ll do it after the second ride…I do need to start taking the garden out today so I can put the bag out Tuesday so that means another busy day today and I won’t be done until 3 or 4…and I’m tired…the frickin pollen has been so bad out here that I’ve been suffering for weeks now and the goldenrod and ragweed has just started to bloom so it’s going to get worse…I remember the days before my allergies kicked in in my 40’s and I really wish I could go back to that…not much to do today…just the rides and errand along with the garden work but that will keep me busy all day…I really need a day off to rest and heal but that will wait til the end of the year…more later…
Might have figured it out…
Well…this new sensitivity to the sun has been getting to be a big pain in the butt but I may have made some progress today…after the first two rides, I applied another coating of 100spf and then did the third ride and mowed the lawn and I’m not too red so I’ll take it…I think I’ll try the sunscreen before every ride and see if that helps tomorrow…didn’t get to taking the garden out today since I needed to limit my sun minutes so I’ll work on that tomorrow…I did see two Kestrels today with one of them just standing in the middle of the street with some crows right next door when I was mowing the lawn…strange…I did get some food grilled today that will last me through the weekend but I am getting bored with chicken and pork so I may make some pasta and garlic bread or dig out the recipes that my daughter left me and try one of those…have lots of canned goods to use so I should get using them…my damn right thumb started hurting again an that is just so disappointing with having no pain for a few weeks…oh, well…tonight is the night I can watch some of the good shows that I hoard just for this night so that will be cool…but I need to read until 7pm…
Elon really is nuts…
Well…I really do think ole elon has gone over the edge…it’s bad enough that he is calling for civil war in the UK and is supporting trump just like the other billionaires and his embrace of nazis is even costing tesla sales sine the largest customer in Germany just said they won’t buy any more teslas because of the far right bullshit…and now, and this is rich, ole elon is suing a bunch of companies who have pulled their advertising from the hellsite he owns that used to be called twitter and now is a fascist shithole…the great libertarian and free speech advocate that bleats about that every day has now said that free speech now includes using the government to force companies to advertise on his site where their ads will appear right next to the anti semite posts and nazi salutes since that kind of crap is just peachy with elon…so, many, many companies have said they don’t want that bullshit and have gone elsewhere…and musk is so nuts that he thinks any court will listen to him and force the companies back…hey, elon…that’s not how free speech works, and your charge that these companies conspired to leave at once is illegal is not true…you created the conditions that drove these companies away and you are so deluded that you think you are always right…not this time, pal…geez…