Well…damn, that was an expensive grocery run…spent over a 100 bucks but that included 10 bucks for coffee and another 9 bucks for the saline that has been working on my allergies and 9 bucks for stop leak for the car just in case I need it to get through the winter…and I bought a 5 pound bag of Jasmine rice to have here…so lots of stuff that I won’t need to buy again for a long time…and heck, I can afford it so no big deal…oh, and I did buy some cocktail materials for next week that is about 26 bucks…but not for this week…have two more days of being good and I have enough mixed up from two weeks ago for Friday and Sat…the only protein I bought was 4 pounds of chicken breasts for 8 bucks that will go into Masala later in the week…menards didn’t have the stump killer I needed so I’ll hit depot Friday when I need to get another gallon of milk since I’m going to use a lot of it to make potato soup this aft….and I’ll do that before I hit the library for the yearly book sale…okay, need to suit up and get on the bike….more later…
October 9th
Well…damn, up a little after 5 this morning but I did go to bed early from boredom so I guess that evens out…I did sleep okay, for me, and I feel okay this morning other than being damn sore from cleaning the garage siding yesterday…the last time I did it, I didn’t have the extension handle I used this time so it went a lot easier with a lot less climbing up and down the ladder…it looks pretty good and will keep til spring…might even get some of the house done this week…cripes, it’s only 35 out here right now so the outdoor rides will probably wait til later after I get the grocery run done…with wholesale coffee prices up 80% in the last 6 months, I wonder if I should stock up now before the increase hits retail prices more than it has? It’s already up to 9 bucks a can and could get to 12-15 bucks soon…hmmm…I am going to hit DD for chicken breasts at 2 bucks a pound so I’ll be making chicken Masala this weekend and potato soup today…I do need to plan better so I don’t have so many leftovers going on at once…the “saddle sore” I’ve been fighting for the past 10 days is finally starting to heal so it doesn’t hurt to ride the bike…or it does but it’s tolerable now…need to get on the bike here in half hour to get an indoor ride in before I need to get moving…going to hit menards for some stump killer to treat the stump and let it rot over the winter…and I need to get the fence ties installed…maybe this afternoon…not much to do today…just my normal busy day that falls every Wed…four stores to hit today but I can’t buy much since the freezer is full…need to start using the canned goods I have on the shelf and make burritos to use the lettuce and tomatoes in the fridge…more later…
Boxters are cheaper…
Well…damn after looking for an affordable Miata and not being able to find one…I’ve decided to look at Porsche boxsters, too…and with just a cursory search, I found some that were 5-6,000 dollars less than a comparable Miata…I mean a 2004 with 67,000 miles for under 10 grand? So that is going to be my new focus since Miatas are priced out of my reach for some reason…found quite a few boxsters for under 10 grand…all the way down to 6,850 for one with about 120K miles…and I really don’t care about the mileage since I put about 10 miles a week on my Miata right now…I know that Porsches are really expensive to fix but if I can get one for 5 grand less than a Miata, I can put the difference in the repair fund for when it breaks…I did get three rides in and even washed all of the siding on the garage today to get ride of the dirt, black mold, algae, and moss that was all over it…and it only took about an hour and a half this time with putting a long handle on the brush…so I may do the front porch tomorrow and the porch windows that are going to have to be replaced at some point…okay…going to go look at more boxsters…
Desantis is a little pissant…
Well… we know how far the idiot desantis has fallen in Florida when he refused to take Kamala Harris’s call to try to plan disaster response to hurricane Milton that is going to slam into the state Thursday…just to be a pissy little shit, this moron is going to get people killed and cause the recovery to be slower than it needs to be…and that tells you all you need to know about the maga assholes now in charge of the repub party…petty little fools like desantis and the idiot trump who has spent the past week lying about the administration’s response to Helene even when the repub governor of NC stated that he was in constant contact with the WH and they were doing everything possible to help the people in the south who were affected by the storms…and Joe Biden has ignored desantis and has poured FEMA personnel and equipment into Florida to pre stage and be ready to get to work after the storm hits…this is the modern repub party, folks…their hatred of good government lets them kill their own voters just to make the point that government doesn’t work while they are the ones making sure it doesn’t…if this storm is a s bad as it looks, the damage is going to be the most of any hurricane in history…and yet desantis twiddles his thumbs and sues newspapers for running ads supporting the abortion rights amendment that is on the ballot…that is maga in a nutshell…geez…
October 8th
Well…that wasn’t too bad…only up once at 3 or so and didn’t climb out of bed til around 6…lots of struggle to get to sleep and back to sleep but I feel okay this morning with being good last night…I could do that every day if I could just get past the boredom that comes at night…but last night was easier so I hope that continues…didn’t get much done yesterday but the bike rides but I am going to work on the stump today and get some stump killer at menards tomorrow to kill the damn thing once and forever…it’s cold again today and it looks like I won’t be able to get on the outdoor bike until 10 or so and it’s going to be cold like yesterday so it may be first fleece day today…and it appears that the weather change has come so I’ll be doing that every day…oh, well..I do need to do some meal planning for later in the week and I think I’ll make potato soup tomorrow along with some scalloped potatoes since my 2 quart baking dish fits in the toaster oven but I will still need to figure out what the protein will be to go with it…I do like the chicken/potato/rice dish I made last week but I still have leftovers of that for the rest of the week…so i won’t have to cook until the weekend with making the potato soup tomorrow…not much to do today…just need to get on the indoor bike by 8am but more coffee first…and I do need to get the grocery list done…I did drop my ballot off yesterday so I have already voted and now I hold my breath for a month….more later…
Hey Desantis, global warming doesn’t exist, right?
Well…damn I feel bad for the people living in the Tampa area of Florida with hurricane Milton going from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane overnight…sustained winds of 160mph with gusts to 200…and the reason it exploded like it has is the record heat in the Gulf of Mexico…and guess where that heat came from? If you listen to the governor of Florida, global warming does not exist and he has outlawed anyone in government from talking about it…so that will help surviving the hurricane, right? This just shows the stupidity of the climate deniers who infest our politics and are still attacking science every day…no matter if it’s climate change or vaccines, for some reason these morons believe that if they just ignore a problem like the idiot trump did with covid, it will just magically go away…I wonder if we’ll see desantis with his fingers in his ears going na,na,na to avoid having to hear how many have died because of assholes like all of the repubs…Helene killed over 200 and Milton is going to be worse…and yet the people in the hurricane’s path will keep voting for these assholes…geez…
Running behind…
well…just took a look at the post count here and I’m already running three behind and it’s the first week of October…so, you’re going to see some filler until I get caught up…I’m sitting here waiting for the temp to come up enough to get on the outdoor bike and having the last cup of coffee while I do…have the indoor ride in already so at least I’ve made some progress…still have leftovers for today so I don’t have to make potato soup until tomorrow and I’m looking forward to that to use up some of the potatoes that I have way too many of…not going to ride over to the city offices until tomorrow to drop off my ballot and pay the water bill since, even in this small town, Mondays are pretty busy there…I had to put voltaren on my knees this morning they were so stiff and painful and I’m not sure what the reason would be other then riding in the high winds yesterday…it seems to be pretty calm out there right now but I’m sure there will be some wind since there always is…and we are getting down in the 30’s here for a low Wed for the first time since April…it is October in Michigan and I can live with that…but that will mean afternoon rides…okay…need to finish the coffee and get ready to ride…more later…
October 7th
Well…damn, I wasn’t good last night and I was supposed to be…so I guess I’ll get back to it today…it’s pretty cold out here right now so the first ride will be on the indoor bike…the lows are going to be in the 30’s Wed and then bouncing around in the 40’s and that is to be expected in October here…it’s only 49 here right now and it won’t be warm enough to ride outdoors until 10 or so and that puts me behind for whatever I have planned for the day…I wonder if there will ever be a time that I don’t plan my day? I almost got there yesterday when I was sitting at the beach when I just sat there and felt instead of thinking…the feel of the wind and the noise of the waves almost broke through the urgency of getting the rides done…but not quite…oh, well…I did get my ballot filled out and signed yesterday and I’m going to drop it off tomorrow and pay the water bill at the same time…it is nice to live in a small town where it’s just easy to get things done…I am going to try to find the trail to Whitehall and do a color tour on the bike in a couple of weeks…it’s a 34 mile round trip and should be pretty easy if I can find out where the trail starts…might have to take the car to scope it out…not much to do today…have one more day of leftovers for both meals but I am going to make potato soup tomorrow to use up some of the 10 pounds of potatoes I bought Friday…and I’m going to try to make scalloped potatoes for the first time but I need some whole milk for that…will probably have to make a half batch to fit it in my toaster oven…more later…
That’s all well and good…
Well…I see that the NYT is finally starting to question the idiot trump’s fitness for the presidency by reviving the same attacks they used on Joe Biden that he was too old and and senile to be president again…and that’s all well and good but they are still sanewashing the rest of the things that should disqualify him…like he’s a frickin nazi, or that he lies constantly, or that he has been convicted of 34 felonies and awaiting sentencing, or that he did more damage to this country than any other person in our history, and that he is already setting up another attack like January 6th for when he loses on November 5th…so when is that stuff going to get the attention of the publisher? Oh, yeah, never…the times is still being run by people who have done their best to get him elected again and are continuing to hold the two candidates to a different standard…have you seen them talk about any policy that idiot boy talks about? No? that’s right…they attack Kamala for her policy positions but the idiot gets a pass since the only policy he has is tax cuts for the rich and that will benefit the people running the times…or tariffs that will kill the middle class…who care about that, right? They’re just little people who don’t read the times anyway…geez..
October 6th
Well…didn’t get out of bed til 6:30 this morning but I don’t feel like I slept much…but I feel okay and just poured the first cup of coffee so we’ll see after I get that down…the wind is supposed to come up to 20-30 mph by noon so I’ll need to get two rides in before then…so I’ll have to skip the Man U match that comes on at 9…or miss the first half and call it good at 25 miles…so that means on the bike by 8 for the first ride…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I will have time to do some cleaning today and I just need to decide what to clean…the house at the end of my street either sold or turned into a rental since there were people moving into it yesterday so I’ll be making a noise call soon…every time someone new moves into the neighborhood, they bring their thumpy assed bullshit music that I have to squash and I wonder where they are from where that is acceptable? Oh, well…it’s going to be cooler here from now on and I will enjoy that…I have always loved the fall and look forward to a color tour…have never been north to Whitehall and I think seeing that small town would be fun…have even thought about riding the bike the 17 miles to get there and there is supposed to be a trail that goes all the way…that will be on my list to do this fall…after all, 34 miles is right in my sweet spot for riding…not much to do today…have 14 minutes before I need to get on the bike so I’ll pour down another cup of coffee and get going….more later…