Well…damn, need to get moving right now since I am going over to my brother’s house again today and need to get a bike ride in before that…so that gives me 10 minutes to drink coffee and do this….had a good day yesterday but didn’t get a damn thing done and today will be the same…need to get started on the windows and I’ve never been this late since I’ve lived here…damn, I’m getting old….when I get back here I need to grill some burgers since I thawed a pound of burger that needs to be cooked and I’ll need to add some chicken breasts so I’ll have food for the week…and I’ll make a batch of chicken masala tomorrow and probably some chicken burritos…want to make a pizza this week, too so I’ll have plenty of food…too much, really…it is supposed to rain today so I wonder if that will keep me off the outdoor bike? I can live with 16 miles on the indoor bike and can probably use the rest…not much to do today…just the work at my brothers and back here to figure out what else I need to do…more later…
A good day…so far…
Well…it has been a pretty good day today with all of errands I had to run and getting three rides in…and this afternoon, I’m heading over to Hackley Park for the “taste of Muskegon” with 30 food trucks, music and lots of other activities…going to ride my bike over there and hope I can just walk it around with me…if they don’t let me in, oh,well…I did go to the atm today to get cash out to have for the food tonight and just realized that it is the first time I’ve had cash in my pocket sine getting back from the trip last October…weird…it looks like I’m going to try to get another year out of this Miata since I can’t find one that I can afford with the prices doubling in the past two years…so that means I’m going to order a set of front brake pads and install them next week…they’re only about 45 bucks so no big deal…going to leave here at about 4:30 when the park thing opens and before it gets so busy…won’t spend more than 10 bucks…but it will be nice to get out to an event and the only ones I do are outdoors so I have to take advantage of them…
Attacking Dolly Parton?
Well…how stupid are the people who run the right wing rag “The Federalist”? Stupid enough to attack Dolly Parton, that’s how much…and they called her interpretation of christianity a “false gospel” because she doesn’t hate gay people…now these pretend christians are going after her because she said she loved everybody…look, there is probably not many people who have done more good than Dolly…supporting the LGBTQ community with no reservations, distributed hundreds of million of books to children, and living a life to be emulated…something that the haters are jealous of…and one of the attacks was that Dolly has said that she doesn’t judge people and the Federalist assholes turned that into a “get out of jail free card” and a way to “sidestep” addressing sin directly…and what these assholes are calling a sin is being gay…something only the maga folks think…so, shut the hell up you right wing assholes…no one wants to hear your bullshit…geez…
June 7th
Well…damn, how the heck can I be running late with only being up for a half hour? Need to get moving so I can get the bike rides started and run an errand by 8am…had a really busy day yesterday and didn’t get everything done until after 2pm…I did get the lawn mowed and weed killer applied after the 33 miles on the bike and I cut lettuce out of the garden to make a salad…I really like the flat leaf lettuce I planted…it has a better flavor than iceberg and I’m going to cut more to use on some burgers I’m going to grill this weekend….going to be eating out of the freezer for the next week or so since no one had any protein on sale this week…I was really sore last night after all the work on the yard yesterday but I feel okay right now and will be getting on the indoor bike in 20 minutes or so…should have the rides in by noon or so and I need to get started on washing the exterior of the house so I can get the windows cleaned…the people doing the condo project are putting on boat races in a couple of weeks and that may be cool to ride out and see…I need to put the new beach sticker on the car…think I’ve resigned myself to keeping the old Miata running through the year as I wait for the prices to come down so I can buy another one….not much to do today…just the rides and an errand and I need to get that done by noon so I can relax a bit…the busyness is wearing me out…more later…
Got them on record…
Well…with the religious zealots in the repub party getting what they wanted with the overturning of Roe, their next step in getting total control of women’s bodies is to enact laws that would ban contraceptives of any sort…yeah, you read that right…the repubs want to make sure that women can’t protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies using the lies that birth control is an “abortifactant” that kills millions of unborn babies…and they are also lying about their goal, saying that they don’t support a national contraception ban…so Chuck Schumer got them on record yesterday by putting protection of contraception access to a vote in the senate…and as he knew, every damn repub voted against it since even the “moderate” repub senators are still maga assholes that go out of their way to hurt women…so now we will see hundreds of ads telling the truth about these troglodytes and their hatred of women…and it’s about time…geez…
June 6th
Well…damn, I’m worn out from the busy day yesterday and it’s almost going to be that busy today…need to get on the indoor bike here in 30 minutes but I just poured the first cup of coffee and it’s not working yet…need to do the grocery run today but I really haven’t planned any meals and probably should…thinking about grilling burgers and using my lettuce from the garden for that and for a salad…I am going to get to 4,000 miles for the year today and I wonder if I should take a couple of days to heal my body? Not off, since I have the goal of riding every day this year, but maybe a little easier…say only 20 miles? Hoping to get back to the normal routine today so I can go on autopilot for a bit…allergies are nuts and I need to remember to treat them before I get on the indoor bike in a few minutes…it rained again last night and I sure hope that keeps my lawn alive for a while…it was looking pretty brown and I hope the food I put on helps…not much to do today…just grinding through my day gig as Donald puts it….more later…
Idiot boy is really losing it…
Well…as the idiot trump spirals down into insanity, we get to go along for the ride even though we don’t want to…and just today he fell off the cliff of retaliation for the jury in NY finding him guilty of 34 felonies when he said if he is elected he will put Jill Biden in jail…you know, the wife of Joe Biden and a person who has committed no crimes…look, this crap needs to be pushed back against and right now and the media needs to stop saying “that’s just donald being donald”…it’s a convicted felon threatening the first lady of this country and the secret service needs to step in right now and pay this asshole a visit…people have gone to jail for threatening the president or first lady before and it needs to happen to the idiot and today…I just want trump gone from public life…he has defiled this country for far too long…cripes he destroyed the repub party and the repubs still follow him since they too like being assholes…they always were but now he has given them permission to do it openly…make him go away…geez…
Too damn busy…
Well…I hope you can bear with me a bit…it’s 4:30 pm and I haven’t had the chance to read any news yet to get a political topic for today…got the indoor ride in and then over to my brothers to work on his garage for 4 hours and made a lot of progress but will be going back there for a few more hours Sat to work on the small stuff…we had a lots of laughs about just how much stuff he had…I mean, does anyone need 3 table saws? Or three air compressors…and duplicates of almost every tool he had so I came home with a Ryobi sawzall with a battery and charger along with a drill driver and battery…along with a saber saw and some other tools…oh, and my SIL gave a paper shredder that works like a champ…and then I got two rides in outdoors for 33 miles…and that means I’ll get to 4,000 miles tomorrow…had to push the grocery run back to tomorrow…and I’ll try to get back on schedule with politics…maybe even tonight…
June 5th
Well…finally, we got some rain overnight and it’s still raining right now…and there is more coming in that will hit later so I think my lawn will survive…didn’t sleep at all last night and was up around 5:30am today…heading over to my brother’s house this morning to go through his tools and garage stuff so my SIL can sell it…but first I’m getting on the indoor bike by 6:30 to get at least 8 miles in today but it will probably be 16 miles with doing another indoor ride when I get back here…and that will put me at 4K miles tomorrow and that is so early for that mileage I’ll probably never do that again…still pretty sore from all of the miles and yard work so I think I’ll take an ibuprofen before we head out…this constant pain is wearing me out but I know it’s going to continue as long as I’m doing 38 miles a day on the bike…have to push the grocery run back til tomorrow but I really don’t need anything so that’s okay…I am contemplating stopping at DD to get some ghost pepper chicken fries for 5 bucks for 5 pounds but I’m not sure if I can tolerate the heat and I don’t think I have room in the freezer….so maybe not…not much to do today…just the run into GR and then back here probably around noon or so….then we’ll see about the rest of the day…….more later…
44 miles to go..
Well…as of today, I only have about 44 miles to go to get to 4,000 for the year so far and I am quickly catching up to the indoor mileage total with the outdoor miles…2,054 indoors and 1,902 outdoors…got three rides in today before 11am but tomorrow looks a bit iffy with rain all day so I may only get 16 miles in downstairs…my body can use the rest but we’ll see…it’s 85 out here today but the temp is going to drop to 70 or so Thurs and then down into the 60’s for a couple of days…I have flowers on almost all of my veggies and the pollinators have done a great job since I have tiny little beans on some of the plants…the peas have flowered along with one Jalapeno plant and the two big tomato plants have flowers on them so more successful already than last year…and I have 6 cuke plants that seem to be doing okay and I sure hope to get a few for pickles this year…even have 6 sunflowers that have survived…oh, when I went out to ride I found a shredded rabbit carcass lying next to the garden and I wonder if it was a coyote or a group of feral cats? Don’t know but half of the rabbit was gone and the half left over was mostly skin and feet….one less rabbit to attack my garden…