Well…it is halfway day today and I’ve never had this many miles in this early in any year since I started riding many years ago…I still remember when I was happy and a little proud to have 500 miles in by labor day and the progression to 3,550 over the years has been a lot of work…I was able to sleep on my back again last night and I am still trying to figure out what has changed to allow me to do that…maybe the weight loss? Have 20 minutes before I need to get on the indoor bike and if I can get going by 7 I’ll have all three rides in before 10 today…I do need to figure out the brakes on the car today and that only means taking all 4 tires off and looking at the rotors…not a lot of work but it’s still a pain…made the coffee a little strong this morning with opening a new container of Colombian last night and putting an extra half tablespoon using up the old stuff…yow…jet fuel…still have leftovers for today but tomorrow I’ll fire up the grill and make some burgers and brats and eat all the stuff that is bad for me…and I’ll have fresh corn on the cob to add in somehow…not much to do today…just need to get the rides in and then I can wing it for the rest of the day…I do need to plan on cleaning the windows soon like I do every year and that includes washing the blinds…there is so much dirt in the windows from the dust up here…more later….
Made it to halfway…
Well..oh, almost buried the lede here…you know I ranted about people running the red light at the bottom of the hill and I almost got run over…so today, another person did it and ran over a teenager on a bike…coming back from the first outdoor ride, I noticed a cop car pulled up behind a crappy old pickup…and that old pickup had a mangled bike underneath the front of it…luckily, the kid who was riding it was standing in the median and looked okay other than rubbing his wrists…this is the kind of stuff that happens when you let people do whatever the heck they want and ignore the law…okay, back to halfway…I am 4 miles away from the halfway point of 3,550 miles and I’ll get that in on the indoor ride tomorrow morning…and now I can start counting down…think I need to pop some champagne to celebrate…
This is just too damn funny…
Well…the idiot trump’s idiot lawyers brought on a lawyer and friend of giuliani’s to “destroy” michael cohen’s testimony in his election fraud trial and it really didn’t go as they planned…this costello person was an asshole to everyone including the judge and the judge even emptied the courtroom to tell this little prick that he was inches away from being cited for contempt…and every legal analyst has said he did more to damage trump’s defense than help it…and the under reported thing that I read about in an obscure news report pointed out the fact that this moron admitted the he, rudy and trump were witness tampering by trying to put pressure on cohen to not testify…and they have e-mails to show it…so let’s hope they charge him with that along with costello and rudy…the idiot is never getting out of court for the rest of hi life…good…
May 22nd
Well…damn, I think I’m edging up to taking a day off in the near future…pretty worn out from yesterday and all the work I needed to get done…and did…but the garden is now complete and I don’t have any yard work to do for a while…I did sleep on my back for the second day in a row and I haven’t been able to do that in 50 years so I wonder what has changed? I have 17 minutes until I need to get on the bike and get my day started and that includes the grocery run and a stop at Menards to pick up some contact cement and weed killer…might hit DD to see what is there on the way back here…Meijers has corn on sale for 12 cents an ear so I need some of those but not much else so it will be a quick run today…I do need to figure out the brake noise in the car at some point and that will probably be this week…I need to clean the garage, too, since it is full of leaves and quite unorganized…the garden is looking good but I’m going to lose a bean plant that has started to turn yellow…have plenty of beans to plant in place of it and I’ll keep adding them over the summer so I’ll have beans until late in it…not much to do today…just the grocery runs and bike rides and I may carve out a little time to rest a bit…more later…
The defense rests…
Well…after a couple of weeks, the trial of the idiot trump is almost over as the defense called one witness and then rested…and the thing about the defense is that they didn’t even challenge the facts in the case…basically just saying that there was no case since no law was broken so there…now we just have closing arguments next week and then to the jury…and I really don’t think it’s going to take the jury long to convict idiot boy…and despite the idiots brags that he was “for sure” going to testify…in the end he chickened out or his lawyers finally got through his thick skull that testifying would be a disaster for him…so next Tuesday we will have closing arguments and then straight to the jury…he’s going down on all 34 counts…I hope…geez…
May 21st
Well…up at about 4:30 this morning and spent a lot of time just lying in bed starting at the ceiling until I climbed out at around 6…seemed to have slept okay and feel okay for getting about 5 hours of sleep last night and I have to get on the bike in 25 minutes…trying to get to 2K on the indoor bike and will need about 8 rides to do that…went over 1,500 miles outdoors the other day and I’ll get to halfway later in the week…I had a schedule for today that has already been changed with the fog that has the lawn dripping wet so mowing will wait til the afternoon and I’ll get all three rides in this morning…it is supposed to storm overnight with high winds and hail and I’m glad I have a garage to keep my car in…didn’t get much done yesterday but I think I’m going to grill some chicken thighs today if I have enough gas in the tank…will need to have it filled later this week…and I do need to figure out what the heck the grinding is with the brakes on the car….need to buy a new one soon…not much to do today…have tried to throttle back the things I have to do so I’m not so stressed out every day trying to get so many rides in…yesterday was okay and I even had time to read a bit…more later…
Damn stupid people..
Well…I really can’t believe how many stupid people there are in this world…when I was coming back from the second ride and stopped at the crosswalk on Shoreline drive, I hit the cross button and sat there and waited for the light to change watching the countdown in the display…when the light changed to give me the green, I always look to the left to make sure the traffic has stopped because I just don’t trust people to be paying attention…and today that was a good thing…first, a truck ran the red light a few seconds after it changed, but I kept watching the traffic and a guy in a van ran the light a good 10 seconds after I got the green…and if it wasn’t for me hitting the button and waiting to go…the traffic waiting to turn left onto Shoreline from 7th would have gone and gotten t-boned by these idiots…man, what stupid people…
Get on it dems…
Well…with the recent revelations that the lying alito was flying the upside down American flag at his house after the January 6th insurrection, and will not recuse himself from ruling on any related case, it’s up the senate dems to do something about it…let’s start with every dem legislator calling him out for having no ethics every time they are in front of a microphone…just like Jamie Raskin did this morning…and we need Dick Durbin and the rest of the senate dems to do the same…and it was also reported that alito was up to his ears in the plot to overthrow the election since he was the “go to guy” in the SC that trump and his cronies were depending on to rule that the 12th amendment overruled the electoral count act, sending the election to the house which would have installed idiot boy for a second term…eliminating the almost 80 million votes for Joe Biden…but alito didn’t get the chance sine Nancy Pelosi got wind of the plot and convened the congress on January 6th to count the electoral votes before alito could rule on a lawsuit brought by trumps cronies…that is how this asshole was part of the plot to overthrow the government and should be removed now…and Durbin needs to get the ball rolling today…geez…
May 20th
Well…damn, need to get moving soon to get two rides in before I head over to the library to return the books that are due…going to do an indoor ride and an outdoor ride before then and another outdoor ride as soon as I get back here…should be another 32 mile day today and I’m really hoping that it does rain today as forecast but it’s looking like it won’t be til later in the day…slept okay last night but I forgot to close the front door and it is pretty cold in here right now…only 55 outside but the heat didn’t come on so I guess that’s something…probably made a mistake only eating one meal yesterday for about 600 calories and need to do better today…might grill the chicken thighs that are in the fridge and that would give me leftovers for the rest of the week…need to get my propane tank refilled but I think I have enough in it to do the thighs…need to put gas in the car this week, too, since it’s down to less than a half a tank and I really do need to start finding a new car…going to mark out a time every day to search for one so I can get one before my birthday in July…the little weather widget on my screen says “heavy rain later” and I sure hope it’s right….not much to do today…need to get on the indoor bike before 7 so I have 27 minutes to get moving…only have two cups of coffee for the morning and I need to figure out how that happened…more later…
32 miles today..
Well…I took it a little easier today with only doing 32 miles and one of the rides was indoors when I got up this morning and I really needed it…saw a sailboat race on Muskegon Lake that was pretty cool but I haven’t posted that yet…will do that after I do this one…the outdoor rides were fun even with the wind and it was another t-shirt day for me…but my knees both hurt on the bike today and that may be my fault for going too hard on both rides but damn, it felt good…I did make some chicken masala this afternoon and didn’t finish it til almost 1:30 so there will only be one meal today…and that’s okay…went down on miles so I need to go down on calories, too…lots of people out on the trail today and that made it a little more work than I want but everyone was nice and waving at me so that made up for it…there was a dead deer that must have been hit Friday night that is lying alongside Shorline drive and I pity the city workers that will be picking it up tomorrow with how hot it’s been here…covered in flies and bloating like crazy…sure hope they do pick it up before it smells…have everything done I wanted to do today including the weight work this morning so I have the rest of the day off to watch pole qualifying at Indy and then the nascar race from North Wilkesboro that starts at 5…going to read some news…