Well…running a little late this morning with not getting out of bed til after 6 and I feel just worn out and it is going to be a struggle to get moving today…the rain that was supposed to be 100% today has now been reduced to 4% so no relief for the lawn and that sucks…and I think I’m giving up on the garden…it’s all dying and I’m tired of worrying about it…don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I’ve never had trouble with it until I moved out here…oh, well…not sure what I’m going to cook today but I do need to cook something…took some brats and chicken thighs out of the freezer but I’m not sure if they will be thawed to grill today…okay, the brats are but I just took the chicken out of the fridge to sit on the table for a bit so I can cook them both…need to marinate the chicken with teriyaki sauce to see how that tastes…there is a running race on this morning so the trails will be crowded this morning and and art show downtown today but I’m not sure if I’m going to walk down there…we are going to have a record low of 50 tomorrow night and the heat will come on…in June, in Michigan….weird…not much to do today…I should do three rides outdoors today but I don’t think I have the energy for it…I guess we’ll see after I get out for the first ride here in 20 minutes…more later…
A crappy day…
Well…it’s been a pretty crappy day today with not feeling well at all and the rain still stayed away…again…while it has been raining all day just a little south of here…and I had a flat on the bike where the valve stem just blew out of the tube…luckily, I had two new tubes in the cabinet and now I’ll have patching material to repair the other 4 that are downstairs…not sure why I feel so lousy but I know part of it is my allergies being so bad and I guess the other part is still not eating enough and I know that not being able to taste anything has something to do with that…and eating spoiled food since I couldn’t tell that the potato salad had gone bad and ate some of it…it did have an off smell to it but I only made it Sunday and it shouldn’t have gone bad that soon…I still did 33 miles on the bike today but felt bad doing it…probably should have taken it easy today…oh, well…there’s always tomorrow….
Get over it…
Well…so, Joe wasn’t feeling well and didn’t have the best night against the Adderall snorting 34 felony adjudicated rapist that has promised to end our democracy…and the hand wringing on our side for one off night after all Joe has done for us has one response from me: get over it…he is still the compassionate, get things done person he always was…and last night didn’t change any of that…Joe has earned your vote by what he’s done over the past 4 years and if you think of voting for the idiot trump after that then just get the hell away from this site…I have had enough of the double standard that the media is using to compare the idiot and Joe and letting idiot boy get away with lying constantly…and the moderators just sat there as he lied and lied and lied…so what do we do? Get the hell out there and vote for the only good man on that stage last night…geez…
June 28th
Well…running really late today with not getting out of bed until almost 7 and I am so tired of having to get moving every day…I mean, when do I get a day off? When do I get to just live and sit here without the pressure of getting the miles in? Yeah, I know I’m whining but I’m just frickin exhausted but I know I need 38 miles today…it’s nice that I don’t need to cook today but I do need to plan meals for the next few days and get something out of the freezer…need to get at least one ride in before the F1 sprint race at 10:30 but I really don’t care about anything right now…does that sound like depression? Could be…I just noticed that the being out in the sun yesterday exposed all of the freckles on my arms and it made me think of my mother who had so many of them…it’s the Irish in me and it reminds me of my heritage…I used to have a red beard when I was young….there is rain coming in and I need to get on the bike for a ride right now or I’ll be wet so I need to figure out how to get the miles in…will have to do the indoor bike and it may be a short mile day today…not much to do today…I do have to do laundry since I have bedding that needs cleaning…the radar shows that it is going to rain almost all day and I can’t wait….need to get moving…more later…
An okay day…
Well…had an okay day today with getting the three rides in and going out to the beach…was not warm enough for that with the temp still in the 60’s and a wind out of the north…but the water was warm so I got a swim in and that was good…I finally got a photo of the Kingfisher playing helicopter hunting today and it doesn’t show much but it does show I’m not imagining it…it sucks but I’m losing more of my sense of taste as the days go by…can’t really taste much anymore so now I really do have to shift into fuel mode and force myself to eat…was lightheaded at the beach today an I’m sure it was from not eating enough to support 38 miles a day on the bike…I have been putting electrolytes into the water I drink on the bike and I think that helps a bit but a pork chop, three small red potatoes, and beans and peas from my garden isn’t enough…I’m burning 1,800 calories a day on the bike and only taking in 1,000 or so and that’s just not going to work long term…okay, I’m tired and want to watch some tv…I think I said that last night, too…
Not watching the debate…
Well…you would think that someone who follows politics pretty closely would be all over watching the first presidential debate tonight but nope…I can’t take seeing the idiot trump’s ugly face or listen to that voice that sounds like a bag of shit going down a garbage disposal…so I’ll be reading the reporting on it later in the evening…cripes, even the idiots advisors have told him to not come across as a”gigantic asshole”…ha, ha…they may as well tell him not to breathe…he can’t do it since he IS a gigantic asshole and is getting worse every day…this really isn’t a debate since idiot boy doesn’t know anything about policy so how the hell can he make cogent analysis to rebut what Joe has to say? The whole thing on idiot boy’s side is just going to be more of his bullshit of lying about everything and trying to intimidate Joe and that is not going to work since Joe has seen it all…I’m sure Joe will get some digs in since he has been prepping for weeks and idiot boy hasn’t…so I’ll be interested to see how the media both sides this one…geez…
June 27th
Well…man, I’m running slow this morning but I haven’t had coffee yet so that might have something to do with it…slept all the way through the night until around 6 but that was to be expected with getting up at 3am yesterday and having a busy day…but today is going to be one that I can just let flow since I don’t have anything to do but clean a bit…and ride the bike, of course, but I’m not going to rush getting out there today…allergies are terrible this morning and I’m going to have to take something for them to be able to breathe…left the front door open overnight and it’s a bit chilly in here with it only 55 degrees outside…but that’s okay…I did get the chance to clean and lube the bike yesterday and I always like the first ride after I do that…but the temp has dropped to 54 so I’m going to wait a bit to go out…don’t want to have to wear a fleece at the end of June….man, it’s after 7 and I’m still just sitting here and that’s harder than it looks…I do need to do the bedding today but that is the extent of my planning…it is nice to not have anything to do and I need to figure out how to do that more…should I go to the beach today? Only going to be in the 70’s so maybe not…and the road that I take is still blocked by downed trees so maybe not…who knows? More later…
Add another one to the B-3 count…
Well…if you’ve been coming here a while, you’ll recognize the title of this one…I used to do a series here and would do a post whenever I would see a band playing a Hammond B-3…and I just saw a new one…watching Peter Frampton playing the songs from “Frampton Comes alive’ on the Sky Arts channel and sitting to the side of the stage is a Hammond B-3…and it has this distinctive sound that I can always hear and I always love…and that started with an artist named Lee Michaels who had one hit called “Do You Know What I Mean” but lots of other songs that are just great…he does a cover of “Stormy Monday” that I still get chills when I hear it…so add another one to the B-3 count…
I’m sore…
Well…damn, I’m sore today and I wonder if it’s from the 75 miles yesterday? But that would break the two day rule as it would if I hurt from cutting trees…cripes, I wonder if I hurt myself so bad it invalidated the two day rule? Whatever it is, I hurt like crazy and can barely move and that is not going to be a good thing for tomorrow…or tonight for that matter…have been up since 3am and I’m now starting to feel it so it may be an early night tonight…but I don’t want it to be…I missed having tv last night and being able to relax…I did get three rides in today to get to more than 4,600 miles but that means I only have two weeks to get 400 more in to hit the interim goal of 5,000 before my birthday…so that means at least 38 a day for the next two weeks but I am wearing out…I did make a pizza on the grill again this afternoon to use the ingredients before they spoiled but the mushrooms already did so none on this one…and it was okay…I need to use up the leftovers before I make anything else…have potato salad I made a couple of days ago that needs to be used…I was really surprised that the food in the freezer was still frozen hard after a day with no power…but there’s lots of stuff in there so lots of frozen mass…okay, I’m done for the day…want to read for a bit….
6 justices just loves them some bribery…
Well…did you expect anything different? Just today the SC said that bribery of a public official is just fine with them…saying that the bribery statutes don’t apply to “gratuities” given to public officials for “past” acts…in this case an official in Missouri steered contracts to a friend and the “friend” gave him 13,000 dollars…geez you would think that the court and the 6 repubs are trying to make their own bribery legal bit by bit and that is typical repub bullshit thinking that the law doesn’t apply to them…so basically what they’re saying is that you conspire with the person that is going bribe you and wait a year, the bribe is okay…now do you think the SC needs to be reformed? Especially since they are going to give trump immunity tomorrow in the stolen documents and every other case…so get out and vote for our side…we need to start fixing this country and it will take all of us…geez…