Well…with the rain today, I didn’t get the outdoor work done I had planned to do…I did get food on most of the lawn before it rained but need to pick up some more at menards tomorrow to finish up the small part I couldn’t do…I do not understand it, but I am sore everywhere and I guess it must be from dragging the ladder around and climbing it a bunch of times yesterday…so, if the two day rule works, it is going to hurt even worse tomorrow…it is going to rain starting at about 1am tomorrow morning and keep up til around 8 so I may do an indoor ride to get the day started before the grocery run…Meijers has corn on sale for 8 ears for a buck so I’m going to get some of those along with some chicken legs to grill later in the week and have some baked beans instead of potatoes since they are so damn expensive…I do have the ingredients for an omelet so I’ll make one of those in the next couple of days…only have about 150 miles to 5,000 so I’ll get there easily before my birthday…then the long slog for 2,100 more miles…this has been a lot of work and I hope I’m not doing permanent damage to my body…
We need a judicial revolt…
Well…with the corrupt decisions coming out of the SC this month, I’ve been thinking about it and I think it’s time for a judicial revolt in this country…after all, the SC doesn’t control any army or police force so if all of the federal judges just say “the rulings of the corrupt Roberts court are so far away from normal judicial reasoning that we must defy the court to uphold our oath to the Constitution” Just a few hundred judges saying that and acting on it would take away the only thing roberts and his cronies have and that is tradition…I mean, really…there is no place in the constitution that give a president immunity from crimes or gives the SC the authority to legislate from the bench…since the 6 right wing justices took over, they have acted like they are the supreme power in the country, not a co-equal branch of the government as the framers intended so they don’t deserve to have their rulings followed…and the revolt should start right now…geez…
July 2nd
Well…I am so tired of being sore…woke up this morning and every damn part of my body hurts…and I’m having such a hard time getting moving that it’s almost too much effort…rain is coming in but I am going to put my rain gear on and ride outdoors since the radar never matches reality out here…need to be on the bike by 7:30 and that gives me 25 minutes to pour coffee down me and become human…the weird thing is that I think I slept okay but it’s not having any effect…feel pretty lousy with coughing and my head is plugged up…just the damn allergies that nothing works on…oh, well…got a lot done yesterday but I can’t do two days of that in a row…but I do have trimming and painting to do today but can’t imagine doing that right now…I did make some peanut butter toast a few minutes ago since I didn’t eat enough yesterday and need more calories to support what I do every day…think I’m going to need an ibuprofen this morning…just a pool of pain and my right elbow hurts just picking up the coffee cup…darn…more later…
Too busy today…
Well…man, what a busy day today…but I did accomplish a lot so that makes it okay…didn’t get on the bike for the first ride until almost 9 this morning since I had to wait for the temp to come up from the low of 46 last night…was not going to put on a fleece in July…got the second ride in right after the 1st and then got cleaned up and made a run out to depot…then back here and got on the bike for ride three…only have about 190 miles to go to get to the 5K goal by my birthday…after the 3rd ride, I got started on fixing the downspout but the part I bought to do that was too short so I thought I’d peel all of the duct tape off the old part to find that the only thing wrong with it was that it didn’t fit tight enough…so, I drilled a hole and put a pop rivet in to hold it together…worked like a champ so it’s really sturdy now…before I put the downspout back up, I cleaned the siding under it and all of it that faces my front steps…looks pretty good with it clean and that stupid duct tape gone…I do have to paint the parts tomorrow if it doesn’t rain since a lot of the paint is off it and it looks a little shabby…after I got that done, I mowed the lawn and trimmed some bushes so I could fill the bag that needed to go out tomorrow…so, yep…it was a pretty busy day today and I didn’t get finished until after 3pm…tomorrow should be easier but I do want to run the string trimmer to finish up the yard along with spotting some weeds…the work never stops…
The SC coup continues…
Well…the power grab from the SC continued today with granting the idiot trump immunity from his crimes…yep, you heard that right, the 6 fascists on the court basically said that trump can order subordinates to kill someone and there is nothing anyone can do about it…they have made trump a king…he can order someone to steal an election and there is nothing anyone can do about it…now, are you going to sit out this election or are you going to vote and do something about it? And we need all three branches of government so we can get rid of this SC since they are just making shit up to get the political ends they want…and I am so pissed off…every damn one of the 6 right wing judges need to be impeached for lying to get on the court and then appoint real judges that will follow the law…not make new law as they go…vote…it’s the only way to save this country…geez
July 1st
Well…it’s only 46 degrees out here right now and I wonder if the heat is going to come on before it starts to warm up? Didn’t get out of bed til almost 7 but I don’t feel like I slept much overnight…it is going to start to warm up pretty quickly and should be warm enough to get out on the bike by 8am when it is supposed to be 57…hurt like crazy last night but I just feel fatigue right now…all of the miles have started to wear me out at my advanced age but I’m sure I’ll make it to the goal for the year…there is no wind out here today and that will be a welcome sight after coming back into a 25 mph blow yesterday…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I really do need to clean the bathroom today…I did eat almost twice what I normally eat yesterday and I wonder what the effect of that will be on the bike today…I know I haven’t been eating enough to support 38 miles a day on the bike but I don’t want to gain any weight either…going to have a second cup of coffee and watch the tour for a bit before I suit up and get on the bike…more later..
The biggest power grab in history…
Well…the corrupt SC did it again last week when they engineered the biggest power grab in history by ruling that judges can overrule ever agency of the government on any whim they want…you want clean air and water? Nope…the EPA can no long make any rules that keep us safe from industry…so now any company can dump anything into the water and there is not a damn thing anyone can do about it…you want workplace safety? Gone since OSHA can no longer enforce the rules they have put in place to keep workers from being injured or killed on the job…you want to be protected against scams stealing your money? Gone since the SEC can no longer put rules in place to protect you…so now judges who are not experts on any of these topics will be the ones ruling on the thousands of lawsuits that will be filed this week by industry and assholes who want to be able to pollute and steal whatever they want…and next time there’s a pandemic? The FDA can’t do anything about it…the SC just kneecapped the entire government and it will no longer function…so remember that this fall and vote these assholes out so the court can be reformed…this is the worst thing I’ve ever seen from the SC and I’m old…geez…
June 30th
Well…running about on time with getting out of bed around 6 today and I think I slept okay…but still feel pretty worn out and I hope the coffee starts to work soon…it’s only in the 50’s out there right now and I need to get on the bike by 7 or so so I can watch the F1 race at 9…I’m a little concerned that I’m wearing my body out with all the miles I’m putting in…so darn sore all the time and it’s new places that hurt..and I slathered biofreeze on everything last night just to be able to sit here and not wince every time I move…I really thought I ate enough yesterday but then I did the math and my big meal of a chicken thigh, a couple of small red potatoes and some beans and peas from the garden only added up to about 500 calories so I was under 1,000 for the day again…I wonder why it’s so hard to eat enough? I know I’ve been complaining about that for years now and I’m bored with it as I’m sure you are…not much to do today…don’t have to cook with the chicken and brats I grilled yesterday and I wonder if I should only do two rides today to give myself a break? I know I could use it and it is really hard to get moving right now….more later…
Good rides this morning…
Well…with how bad I felt yesterday, I was really concerned that it was going to continue today…but, I felt good on the bike and got my 38 miles in before 11am and I still feel pretty good now after having lunch…it might have helped that I ate a Kind bar and put an electrolyte tablet in my final bottle of water…I did eat a little extra yesterday so that helped, too…and I’m going to grill some chicken thighs and brats to have food for a couple of days after the soccer match that is on…have to change a light bulb on the side of the garage since it burned out this morning…going to start using the CFL’s that I took out of the fixtures in here since I have a box full of them downstairs…it was pretty crowded on the trail with the Seaway run this morning and thousands of runners taking part…so the second ride was mostly done on the road but that didn’t bother me in the least…it’s nice that they do events here and the art fair is on today and tomorrow so I may ride down there tomorrow…
The NYT is dead to me…
Well…the rot that has hit the media in this country caused by the right wing takeover showed it’s ugly face again when the NYT published an editorial calling for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race after his shaky performance Thursday night…do you remember them calling for the idiot trump to drop out of the race after being convicted of 34 felonies? No? They didn’t…so flubbing a few lines because you’re not feeling well is now worse to the Times than being a felon who is going to be sentenced on the 11th of July…and still has over 50 more felonies against him pending…but that is not important to the Times…what is important to them is doing everything they can to help idiot boy to get more tax cuts and damage the ability of the government to work at all as the trump packed SC court did this week by gutting the ability of the EPA and every other agency to formulate regulations…and again “settled precedent” was ignored by the most corrupt court in the history of this country…and we have the media to thank for that too by giving idiot boy billions of dollars worth of coverage for free in 2016 so he then appointed the lying right wing justices…so the NYT an the Post are now dead to me sine they are no no better than fox news…geez…