Well…after getting the two rides in downstairs in the cold, I haven’t been able to get warm since…sitting here right now with the heating pad on my legs and this is the second hour with the thing going…I’m not sick or anything like that but I seem to be more sensitive to the cold that I have been…and I still need to go out and put coolant in the car so I can do the grocery run tomorrow…so I probably should get going…no outdoor ride today with it struggling to get above 35…way too cold…
He’ll be breaking the law again…
Well…with the loudmouth idiot trump spouting that he will withdraw from NATO and let Russia do “whatever the hell they want”, there is just a little problem with that…our membership in NATO is done by treaty and it is one of the laws that the president is supposed to faithfully execute, but we know laws don’t mean anything to idiot boy or he wouldn’t be under 91 felony charges and on the hook for at least 250 million dollars in the NY civil suit that may be double that by the time the fine is announced…pulling out of NATO would take a 2/3rds vote in both the House and Senate and that is never going to happen…idiot boy should be in prison by then anyway…at least we can hope he will be…geez…
February 13th
Well…up at 4 am today but the weird thing is that I was able to lie back down and didn’t get out of be til 7:04…but that makes me late for getting on the bike that I should be riding right now…but I won’t do that without a good dose of coffee and that will take me 15 minutes or so to pour down…I did get three rides in yesterday with one outside so I should feel good about that but only doing two Sunday puts a damper on that…I am over 800 miles for the year but still behind for getting to 7K…oh, well…pretty darn sore today and my neck hurts from both riding and sleeping wrong…will probably have to treat it with biofreeze before I get on the bike…all of the ice is gone from Lake Michigan already and I think it’s one of the few times in my lifetime that there is no ice in mid February and I hope it stays that way…it looks like 1-3 inches of snow Thursday but it should melt with the temps in the 30’s to near 40 for the rest of the month…I’m not going to say that winter is over but we’re getting close…not much to do today…just the rides and figuring out what I need to cook for meals….should make some potato soup and get the ham bones out of the freezer for some ham soup and I may do that in a couple of days…more later…
And they still follow this guy?
Well…as every day goes by, the idiot trump gets worse and worse…over the weekend he came right out and said that he didn’t care if putin invaded more countries in eastern Europe saying “he can do whatever the hell he wants” if he is elected this fall and the US won’t lift a finger to save our allies…and he is telegraphing he will give putin anything he wants by pulling the US out of NATO…so what is it repubs? Is this the new stand of your party? That you now will break up relationships with our allies just so you can get you some more crazy trump? I can tell you right now that we are still repairing the damage that idiot boy did the last time and if he ever did get elected, the US would be a pariah in the world…again…and since they have seen this shitshow before, most of them probably won’t even talk to idiot boy since they have no respect for him at all…and that’s what the repubs want for this country…geez…
February 12th
Well…damn, only 8 minutes until I have to get on the bike and I sure don’t want to…just poured the first cup of coffee so it hasn’t had time to work yet…up at 4 or so today but just laid there for another hour and half thinking and that was not a good idea…feel pretty crappy today and I found that the modern, anti bacterial toothpaste is causing me to lose my sense of taste so I’m going back to the old style peroxide stuff starting today…had an easy day yesterday with only two rides but I have to get off my ass and do three this morning before I run over to the library and get a couple of more books since I finished up the last two yesterday…I ate two meals yesterday and I feel so guilty about that….I may not eat anything today to make up for it…I think the water pump on the car has finally given up and started to really leak so I have decisions to make about a new car soon…and I need to schedule a PSA test to see if the cancer is back and going to kill me…what a happy way to start my day….more later….
This is why people are concerned about Joe’s age..
Well…there are a lot of polls out there that say people are concerned with Joe Biden’s age and I’ve figured out why…just this weekend the NYT had 5 front page articles that were selling the meme that Joe’s too old, that he is not as sharp as he used to be, and that he is havng memory problems…and every other major newspaper (all controlled by repubs) had at least one front page story about their “concern” with Joe’s age so you’d expect people would think his age is a real problem…but it’s not…yes he does look old but so what? I look old, too, but looks aren’t everything…when was the last time you saw a story about the obese, McDonalds eating, sedentary, and almost as ole idiot trump? 3 years younger than Biden and people who worked for the idiot are all saying the idiot has lost a lot of his “sharpness”, slurs his words and can’t remember anything…so where are the articles of “concern” about idiot boy? This is the problem with today’s media…it is either controlled by right wing billionaires or bothsiderism so strong that the 91 felony count rapist is is equated with Joe Biden’s familiar gaffes that he has done his entire life…and I am just sick of it…geez…
February 11th
Well…this is weird…my creaky old laptop is working like it should today and that’s not normal…it usually takes forever to get it started in the morning but not today…cool…I really do need a day off of everything…but, will I take it? Of course not…have 26 minutes before I have to get on the bike to get three rides in before Man U plays at 11:30…just so damn tired…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today will be the same since I am not motivated at all and part of that may be only eating one meal a day for the past two days…have been under 700 calories for the past two days and I really don’t think that’s enough…I did splurge and buy some cheddar/horseradish cheese spread for the game today but I’m so concerned with the calories in it that I’m not sure if I’ll eat it or not…have celery and carrots in the fridge so maybe I’ll cut them up instead…man, I do think I’ve got an eating disorder….at least I’m not in pain today…at least not now…I wonder if I can get away with just two rides today? Not much to do today….just need to get moving in the next 13 minutes and that is pretty tough…okay…enough whining…time to get on with it….more later…
Could elon get any worse?
Well…I just remembered this little tidbit that I read this morning and thought I’d do a shorty about it…did you know that ole elon is letting the Russian army use his starlink satellites to help kill Ukrainians? Yep, there are photos of the receivers in Russian outposts and the only way they can get them or use them is if elon allows it…and he periodically shuts off the Ukrainian units to sow confusion when the Russians want to attack…how the hell is this not treason? Since the DOD paid for the development of the technology, he should be on the hook for espionage, too by giving that technology to the Russians…do we need any more reasons to tax the hell out of billionaires who do whatever they want? Nope…geez..
A less busy day…
Well…yep, as you can see I haven’t found a political topic for today but I’ll keep looking til 7 when I shut down for the night…today was less busy that the days have been and I didn’t get an outdoor ride in since it never got over 35 and that’s just to darn cold for me right now…but I did do three rides indoors and that gave me 24 miles for the day which isn’t bad…but that took most of the morning since I sat here for an hour trying to figure out if it was going to warm up enough to go outside…I did make burritos for lunch and then got some work done around here…my kitchen trash can needed scrubbing so I did that…and I’m doing another one meal day today to keep the calories under 1K for the day to continue to lose weight…my son finally got emby working again after it being down for two days so I’ll get to see Man U play tomorrow and then the super bowl tomorrow night…need to do some maintenance on the indoor bike tomorrow since the tires need air and the chain needs lubing…and I probably should clean it since it has lots of dust on it after sitting down there for three years…it looks like the next snow here isn’t going to happen until the 22nd of the month and the daytime temps are going to be above freezing most of that time…dang, we could get out of this winter with no major damage…sure hope so…
February 10th
Well…darn, another early morning with waking up at 4:04 and out of bed a little after 5 and this is getting to be a habit I don’t like much…I did sleep okay and don’t feel too bad this morning but have a fatigue that makes me feel like I’m weighed down by it…hmmm…just did the math and I’m behind on the miles I need on the bike to get to 7K this year…in 40 days, I only have 762 miles in and that should have happened about 4 days ago…10% of the mileage I need in 10% of the year…it’s going to be close and a long grind…won’t be riding outdoors today with the high of 38 and that is going to continue for the next 10 days…but only one day of snow showers on the 22nd so I have hope we get to March without any major snowstorms…have to call my doctor to get another PSA test done Monday since I’m late by a month and don’t want to let the cancer get a head start…but I really hate the waiting to find out what the reading is….only had one meal yesterday even with doing the 42 miles on the bike and I’ll probably do that again today with making bean burritos with sauteed green peppers and onions for lunch…but first two bike rides downstairs that I have to get started by 7…so that gives me 16 minutes to have coffee and prepare…not much else to do today…I may try to go outside for one ride if it’s sunny and I should clean the kitchen up and look for a recipe to make…but I want to make pasta so that could wait a couple of days…more later…