Well…damn, running late already and there is no way I’m going to get on the bike by 7…allergies are terrible this morning and my eyes feel like they’re filled with sand…and it’s only 57 degrees and that is just not normal for August in Michigan…I think I’m going to refresh the sunscreen after every ride today and see if that will keep me from getting burned and allow me to get some yard work done today…going to start taking the garden out and that will take the stress of trying to keep it alive away….just a crappy year and I’m tired of it…the grind of the last 1,000 miles on the bike starts today and every day will make a new mileage record but I’m pretty worn out so I may take my foot off the gas a bit and let some healing start…I do need to grill today to get the food stocks replenished…more chicken thighs and pork loin fillets and I do need to assemble the potato salad and think about making more potato soup…but right now I just want to sit here for a bit…riding is starting to feel like a full time job and that’s not right…oh, well…more later…
I made it!
Well…After doing the three rides this morning, I made it to a new record in miles by a little over 2 miles…the old record was 6.109 miles and I’ve now done 6,111…and there are still almost 5 more riding months to go this year…I thought about setting a new goal of 10,000 miles but I think I’ll just let it flow and see where I get when I get there…thinking it will be about 8,500 miles since once it starts to snow in November, the mileage per day will drop to 16 a day…so, I gave myself an afternoon off but did make the ingredients for potato salad but the potatoes fell apart so I turned them into mashed and will have to make more for potato salad…so I just searched for it and they wont fall apart if you steam them and my daughter just happened to bring me one that will fit the 6 potatoes I need so I’m going to try that out..okay, need to get the weight work done right now…oh, one last thing…I just realized that the newest car I’ve ever owned is my 1994 Miata…no conspicuous consumption from this boy…
One campaign event?
Well…amid the idiot trump’s public meltdown that the media is doing it’s best to ignore, one thing to look at to see that there is something seriously wrong with idiot boy since he only has one event scheduled for the entire month of August while Harris/Walz have 2 or 3 a day…and the reports are that the senior advisors to idiot boy are telling him to focus on policy instead of name calling…ha,ha…yeah that made me laugh since he doesn’t know anything about policy and doesn’t have the capacity to learn anymore…hell, he can’t even put a coherent sentence together on any topic so the only tactic they have to use is to keep him invisible…every time he is in public his poll numbers drop so what else can they do? The latest polls have Harris/Walz tied or ahead in every swing state and those were taken before the bump that picking Walz will give us along with the convention bounce that is normally about 2% …so, it looks like trouble in trumpland and I can’t be happier…geez…
August 7th
Well…today is the day…only have 32 miles to break my all time yearly mileage record of 6,109 today but it’s only 57 degrees out there right now so that will mean going out in a long sleeved t-shirt or waiting for the temp to come up a bit…slept okay last night but I’m feeling pretty worn out this morning and it is going to be a struggle to get on the bike in 15 minutes…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I do need to figure out meals for the next few days since all the leftovers are gone…not sure what is coming out of the freezer but I need to look in there and get something out….maybe chicken thighs again? I do need to start on getting the garden taken out at some point but the bags won’t go out til next week so I have some time…not being able to go out in the sun is a pain in the ass when I really need to get things done…only went out once yesterday and I got scorched even with the 100 sunscreen on…not much to do today…just need to force myself to get moving now and get on the bike…the rest of the day will take care of itself after the rides once I get going…more later…
Three weeks…
Well…I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the type of changes in politics that have happened in the past three weeks after Joe dropped out of the race…and about that, I want to say thank you, Joe, for doing what you’ve always done…putting the country first and starting the tidal wave of blue that I know is coming…I’ve personally gone from doom and gloom to hope with Kamala nominated and the announcement of Tim Walz for VP and I think Kamala made exactly the right pick…and he is going to fit right in and show the country that politics can be something that can give people hope and make them smile instead of the sneering, hateful crap the repubs are selling…I’ve even gone back to reading the news again and I’m pretty sure we have this…there can’t be more of a difference between parties and tickets and I agree with Kamala: “We’re not going back!” Vote, and get others to vote…the trump and repub cancer needs to be eradicated with a landslide…geez…
I was right…
Well…a couple of days ago, I went out on a limb and wrote that I thought our VP pick was going to Time Walz, the governor of Minnesota, and it was just announced that it is Tim…so I was right…if you’ve been here much, you know that this is a pretty rare occurrence but hey, I’ll take it…I think what Walz brings to the ticket is a reinforcement of the progressive values and policies that are really popular in this country and he is a bulldog going after the absurdity that is the idiot boy….and everyone who meets him, likes him and I really think being a nice guy but tough is just what we need to separate us from the weirdos on the right…I cannot wait to see Tim debate Vance and tear him apart…I’m pretty sure that the repubs won’t be able to trot out the old, tired attack line that he is not qualified to be VP…cripes, compare him to Vance who has been a senator for a year and has not accomplished a damn thing…let’s go!
August 6th
Well…it rained overnight and it’s still raining now so it looks like it will be an indoor ride today to start off…going to do the grocery run today and I need to pay the water bill and go to the library to get three more books since I finished off the last one last night…slept okay last night but my knees hurt for some reason and I’m hobbling around here a bit…I did get three rides in yesterday and that gets me closer to my all time mileage record..only about 60 miles to go so I’ll get there this week…and then the grind starts to get the last 1,000 miles done…will probably be able to get outdoors later but I could make this an easy day and I really need one of those…stayed up late last night with “The Color of Money” coming on at around 10 and I just got sucked into it and I shouldn’t have…have to get on the bike here in about 20 minutes and it will be the first time I’ve been on the indoor bike in quite a while…have to figure out what I’ve been watching on freevee with the tablet and then remember where I am in the show…not much to do today…just running around a bit this morning and it looks like I’ll get to try out the new wipers on the car and get it dirty again after washing it last week..more later…
Wet, wet, wet….
Well….as I always do, I checked the radar before I went out on the second ride and there was no rain in sight…but just after making the turn at the beach to come back here, it started to pour and kept it up all the way back and I was soaked through everything…even my shoes were making squishing noises when I got off the bike….so I put the bike away thinking I was done for the day…but 15 minutes later the sun was shining so I climbed back on the bike to get the third ride in…when I got back here, I had to spray all of the crud off the bike before I put it away since the idler sprockets were grinding quite a bit…I did remember to call my insurance agent to check on a low mileage discount and they have one…it’s going to save me 14 whole dollars a year but that will take me back under 600 bucks for a year so I guess that’s something…I sure hope the rain we got is not the last of it since we are almost 8 inches under on rain for the year…oh, well…I guess I’ll do my weight work…
So now Gorsuch is threatening the country?
Well…I suppose this is the next step for the liars on the SC…just the other day justice Gorsuch went on fox news and talking about the reform proposals that Joe Biden has put forward, he gave the cryptic comment of “be careful”…who to, I don’t know but it sure can’t be the repubs since they are lapping up the lawlessness of the court that just made the idiot trump a king with their immunity ruling…what I think gorsuch is doing is threatening the dems who are really serious about court reform with some kind of retribution or revenge if they actually do reform the court…and this comment is just another in a laundry list of reasons that the court needs to be reformed…just the act of going on the repub propaganda channel, fox news, renders it a political move and that runs afoul of the lax ethics rules that the court is under…never in my life have I ever heard of a SC justice threaten anyone…but with this corrupt court, they never seem to find the bottom…geez…
August 5th
Well…damn, it is never going to rain out her ever again…it was supposed to rain overnight…80% chance but nothing at all and now they have removed it from the forecast for another week…so that will be 6 weeks without rain out here…pushing up towards the 56 days of drought we had out here last year that killed my lawn…and that sucks…I am so worn out this morning and need to get on the bike here in 20 minutes or so…still trying to choke the first cup of coffee down and it is going to be a struggle to get moving today…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but I do need to cook today…going to grill some pork chops with broccoli today and I need to figure out what potatoes go with it…maybe mashed? Still damn humid out here and I am sweating already just sitting here so this is going to be another hot day and I am tired of being sticky….not much to do today….can I just live without having to accomplish anything? That should be my everyday thing at my age and yet I keep dragging myself out to put more miles on…why? Who knows? More later…