Well…you know, I am damn tired of the repubs in this country trying their best to make life here in the US worse for everyone but the rich for the past 40 years…aren’t you tired of them? I am tired of the noise and the hypocrisy and god bothering and attacking women…they haven’t had an idea to make the lives of ordinary people here better since I can remember…and I’m damn old…will tax cuts for the rich do it? Will cutting social security and Medicare do it? Will making it harder to vote do it? Will attacking immigrants do it? You get my drift…their whole reason for being is to make things worse…to try to make people hate other people…to make sure that polluters can continue to pollute and make laws the prevent anyone from doing anything about it…and now the anti vax repubs are doing their best to bring back polio that scared the crap out of everyone when I was a kid…I think we need to get some photos of the hundreds of people in iron lungs when polio caused them to no longer be able to breathe on their own…okay, now you get it…repubs suck…every damn one of them…there are no “good” repubs anymore…just self righteous assholes who hate everyone…don’t vote for them…geez…
September 22nd
Well…that sucked…up at three and then out of bed by 5:25 and I can’t believe how worn out I am just from driving 85 miles and having a couple of beers with friends…just getting old, I guess…at least the car worked well and survived the thrashing I gave it flying along at 85-90…getting close to 200K miles on it and I am still a Mazda fan after having two of them with super high mileage on them…it was a pain in the butt getting back on 96 coming back here with the ramps closed and had to detour down by the Whitecaps stadium…glad that it was on a weekend or it would have been a backed up mess…the F1 race is on at 8 this morning and it won’t be light enough to get a ride in before that so I’ll have to wait til 10 to go out and that means a short day again today with only 25 miles…my right elbow and knees hurt like crazy this morning and I am tired of being sore…I look forward to getting back into my routine today and I really do think I’m becoming a hermit being alone all the time…but I’m okay with that…it’s relaxing…not much to do today…I really should cook something since I’ve been living on sandwiches for days now but it looks like just a salad and pasta for today…I need more coffee…more later…
That was fun…
Well…I did make the trip into GR and it was fun to see K an K again…and I even texted my son to come and hang out sine he lives about 10 blocks from O’toole’s…and he gave me the idea to not sell my house when I go but to turn it into a family house that everyone left can use to take vacations and go to the beach…to rent a place like this for a week would be a thousand bucks and I like the idea of leaving something for the kids to enjoy after I’m gone…I’ll have to discuss it with my daughter and see that she thinks…all in all a good day…
Heading into town…
Well….it looks like I’ll be heading into GR this afternoon since K’s husband is turning 50 and they are having a bash for him at O’toole’s at 3:30…still pretty apprehensive about it with covid still raging but they do have huge windows that should be open today with the nice weather and there is a breeze blowing so that should help…going to wear a mask anyway just to be safe…the thing that tipped me over to going was checking the coolant level in the car and it was still full three weeks after I checked it last but I did put a gallon of coolant in the trunk just in case…haven’t seen K since last year around this time and I think her sister is in town, too so that will be cool to see them both…
September 21st
Well…running a bit late this morning and I’m having trouble getting going today and I know I did it to myself with only have a sandwich and pasta salad for lunch and a bowl of soup for dinner and doing three rides yesterday….need to get out on the bike here by 7:30 so I can get a ride in before F1 qualifying at 9…the get the second ride in before Man U plays at 12:30…so it will be a 2 ride day today…and I can use the rest…no rain again today but I have my fingers crossed that it will rain tomorrow…slept okay last night but I’m pretty worn out this morning…I’m old after all and I wonder if I’ll ever feel energy again? Not likely…and that sucks….boy, this is strange waiting for it to get light to get on the bike…the season is changing and I kind of like that…have always loved the fall and for a long time it was my favorite season…the leaves have started to fall but I think that is more from the stress of no rain out here than the season change…the trees have looked pretty wilted with the lack of rain and I wonder how that will affect the colors this fall…man, it’s dark out there at 7:15am and I’ll be out without sunglasses for the first ride…not much to do today…just the rides and then into sports with F1, soccer, and then the nascar race from Bristol tonight…need to take it easy soon and today could be that day…more later…
Fixed the bag…
Well…I shouldn’t have to be repairing a handlebar bag that is only 5 months old but the zipper on mine failed yesterday and I needed to figure what I could do to salvage it…so I got the velcro out that I bought for a repair on a set of riding gloves and got to work…and it worked out just fine to keep the flap closed on the ride this morning and it’s easier than the zipper that was always stuck so I consider that a win and will probably use that bag for years…I did find the waterproof cover that came with the bag and stuffed that in the bottom just in case I ever ride in the rain again…I feel so bad that I forgot to do the dishes from dinner yesterday and broke my rule of no dishes in the sink overnight…and that’s the first time since I moved out here…and I can’t figure out how that happened…damn, maybe it’s I’m getting old…I did get three rides in today for 38 miles so I can have two meals today…and I am really happy with how the bike is working with the new shift cable and eyeball adjustment…I may just be able to get the rest of the year on the broken shifter…but I am going to order the parts for a rebuild just in case…when it snows I’m going to tear the bike completely down to service it since it has over 45,000 miles on it and I haven’t greased the wheel bearings or the bottom bracket; the axle that the pedals connect to…okay, need to do the weight work…
Demographics…
Well…read an interesting article this morning about the changing demographics in the US and if I were a repub, I’d be crapping my pants…look, we know that the repub party is a white peoples party no matter how much they halfheartedly try to appeal to non-white people…and you can see how much they don’t give a damn but the fact that after the idiot trump took over the RNC, the first thing they cut was their minority outreach programs and personnel…and they did that because idiot boy himself is such a racist that he couldn’t ever see that any minority is necessary…he sees them as less than him and he’ll never accept that they are necessary for this country to function…one of the points of the article was that the percentage of white voters is on an inexorable downward slide that is going to do nothing but accelerate and if the repubs want to continue contesting the presidency, they are going to need to do something to appeal to other than white people…but they can’t with the current people in charge…I mean just look at the two at the top of their ticket and the openly racist attacks on Haitians in Springfield, Ohio…and that is not going to endear these assholes to anyone but racist white people…so all I have to say is keep it up idiots…be who you are…geez…
September 20th
Well…slept a little better last night after having a couple of cocktails but I’m not sure I like the tradeoff…I guess we’ll see the next couple of days…I really don’t like waiting for it to get light to get on the bike since it makes me late for anything I want to do for the day…I did get a lot of work done yesterday and it’s nice to have a clean fridge finally…not sure what I’m going to eat today but I did remember to take a container of soup out of the freezer…and I have an open jar of pasta sauce that needs to be used so that will probably be it…and some bean burritos or salads…so I guess I do have some choices…I need to do the dining room floor today along with cleaning the living room but I need to get two rides in first…they predicted a 60% chance of rain today but it fell apart coming over the lake so we add another day of drought to the month or so of no rain here to go with the month before the 10 minutes of rain we had at the end of July…I wonder if the weather will ever go back to normal? Probably not…oh, well…not much to do today…just need to get on the bike here in 15 minutes or so and I’m only doing two rides today but I’m already gaining weight from cutting out the third ride…doing the math I’ll be gaining a pound every 5 days unless I cut out 600 calories a day and I’m not sure where that is going to come from…maybe down to one meal a day? Who knows? More later…
What a day…
Well…I had plans for the day that would have made it move smoothly and get a bunch done but, of course, plans only work sometimes…when I went out for the first ride, the zipper on my bike bag fell apart and that’s to be expected for cheap rhinowalk bags…so I got on the the bike anyway and when I got up the hill and made the turn at the beach, the rear shift cable broke inside the shifter housing on the handlebar and that means the bike shifts all the way to 24th gear and stays there so I abused my legs all the way home…couldn’t make the last climb up to the house in that gear so I had to get off the bike and walk it up the hill…then I put a new shift cable in, luckily I ordered 10 of them when I bought the new shifter, and then eyeballed the adjustment and hit it almost right so I jumped back on the bike for the second ride and it worked well…after I got back here, I attacked the fridge and freezer and got those cleaned and had a half of a 30 gallon bag to toss in the trash…then I dug out some velcro and sewed some into the bag to be able close it and it worked out okay…they should have done velcro to start with…cheaper than even cheap zippers and it doesn’t wear out… still might put a couple more pieces in it but we’ll see…now it’s 3 pm and soccer is coming on before the ARCA and truck races from Bristol later….
This is pretty damn funny…
Well…when the national leader of the Teamsters union, Sean O’Brien, showed up to speak at the RNC in Milwaukee, I could not understand that at all since the repubs hate unions and have pledged to destroy them all if the idiot trump is elected…I wonder why they would have elected this guy if he throws in with people who are going to destroy the union and the lives of union members? A few days ago this asshole decided to not endorse a presidential candidate, breaking with a long standing tradition and outraging the members he is supposed to serve…so, over night and today the members have had enough of this bullshit and local union chapters have started to endorse Kamala individually…and it’s a glorious thing to see…across the battleground states and even solid blue states these locals are standing up to the idiot president of the union and are supporting the only candidate who has a record of supporting unions and their right to organize and make lives of their members better…and I really hope that the national president is forced to resign in shame since he showed that he doesn’t care about his members and he is trying to throw the election to idiot boy…good on ya, locals!