Well…up at 6:05 this morning and that always makes me think of the SD song “Glamour Profession”….slept okay last night but sure don’t feel like it and I hope the coffee starts to work soon…have had back/hip pain for a couple of weeks now and it is getting really old as is all the pain I feel every day….man, I’m feeling old today…but I’m also feeling lucky to have this place and everything I need when so many people of my age are struggling….and there is something wrong with that….got a bunch of cleaning done yesterday but I’m not sure how much I’ll do today with the 24 hours of Daytona on starting around 1…it will be good background noise for whatever I do and there is a Barrett-Jackson auction on, too…so lots of car stuff today…and soccer….but I need to get on the bike in less than an hour and I really don’t feel like it…but I’ve been on the bike every day so far this year and have over 400 miles in and need to keep it up…do I try to get to my record of 186 days in a row on the bike? There are people on Mastodon who have over 1,000 days in a row on their bikes and that is something I’ll never be able to beat….more later…
The alley is almost all melted…
Well…just went out and filled the bird feeder and decided to take a look at the alley and it looks like it will be all melted by the next time I have to go out for the grocery run next Wed…it has two tracks of bare ground and it is raining out here right now so the snow is going away pretty fast…and the weather is going to stay this warm until at least the 9th of Feb and I may even be able to ride outdoors next week…won’t be able to ride on the trails but I can ride around on the roads and get a few miles in….I did get a bunch of work done today with finally getting to the living room…tore the couch apart to clean it and rotate the cushions to even out the wear, then I cleaned the tv stand and tv, vacuumed the rug and cleaned the wood floors and vacuumed the rug in my room and got rid of the cobwebs everywhere…just had the tiniest Nuthatch on the feeder…the thing is only about half the size of a Chickadee….this is kind of funny…when I went out to do the final filling of the feeder last night, I counted 32 Doves sitting in one of my trees…reminded me of a scene from “The Birds” and now I know where all the food is going…
Is there any law they didn’t break?
Well…damn, when idiot boy was squatting in the WH, was there any law they didn’t break? Just the other day it was revealed that the WH pharmacy was just a candy store to trump and his minions to the tune of 150,000 dollars…and that included idiot boys favorite adderall, along with valium, oxycontin, and every other drug you can think of…and most of it was dispensed without following procedures or the law that governs pharmacies across the country…but, did we expect anything else from the guy who is under 91 felony charges? Now, Merrick Garland, what the hell are you going to do abut it? Nothing I’m sure….I’m sure there is video of the people coming in and out all day long and this could be an easy case to bring…so get on it….geez…
January 26th
Well…damn, slept through the night last night until 5 this morning…the rolled over and stayed in bed til 6 and I’ll take that any day…and I feel a sense of peace this morning with not having anything to do but the bike rides today…so I’m going to enjoy that as I have my first cup of coffee and contemplate what my day is going to look like…don’t have to cook today with making the potato soup yesterday but I do have to think about what I’m going to make next week…but there is no urgency to it and I have a couple of days to decide….I’m pretty beat up from chopping ice the past few days and my right shoulder is screaming at me right now so I may have to take something for it even though I don’t like to…when I went out to do the last fill on the bird feeder yesterday I counted 32 doves in one tree in my yard and now I know why I’ve been using so much food…and they were slugging it out on the feeder…much more aggressive than normal…I really do need to clean a bit around here today to make sure I have at least a little accomplishment to keep my guilts away…not much to do today…have an hour or so before I have to get on the bike and I don’tthink I’m going to use that time productively….more later…
Got the car out…
Well…after doing the bike rides this morning early, I decided to grab my snow shovel and spade and see if the above freezing temps had softened more of the ice and slush in the alley…after 45 minutes of work it looked almost passable so I changed my clothes and headed out for the grocery run…got out but barely and when I got back here I screamed the car in the alley and drove it sideways up to my garage…so now I don’t have to go anywhere for the next week and with temps in the upper 30’s, lower 40’s until the 8th of Feb…it should melt the rest of it before I have to go out again…I guess calling the city a second time yesterday worked with them making a pass down it last night or this morning and clearing out the entry some…so now I can take the rest of the afternoon off with no worry anymore…now if emby would just work, things would be back to normal….
The repubs are freaking out about the economy..
Well…the good economic numbers are starting to get noticed by the media and the repubs are freaking out about it…it was just announced this morning that the economy grew at 3.3 percent in the last quarter of 2023…and yep, that is better than any quarter with the idiot trump squatting in the WH…and with real wages growing and unemployment at historical lows since Biden was elected…he an his team are steering the economy away from recession even with interest rates so high…this is “Bidenomics” at work and shows that the investment in our economy is just what was needed and is what government is for…and you know this is hitting home with idiot boy because he has started to lie about the unemployment rate again saying it must be a manipulation and can’t be true…not that he’d know since idiot boy is ignorant on every subject according to people who worked in his administration….so, those of us in the fact based community will give Joe and his team it’s due…keep it up…
January 25th
Well…running about on time today with waking up at 4:04 but staying in bed til a little after 6…feel no sense of urgency this morning since I know I can’t get out of the alley until more of the slush melts…I did put salt on the ice outside my driveway to try to get it down to the dirt and give me a launching point to try to get out of here tomorrow morning…will be shoveling more slush out of the entrance this morning so it will melt enough for me to get out…slept okay last night but feel pretty worn out and sore today…and I’ll be on the bike by 8 to make it worse….need to make some potato soup today since the potatoes are about 2 days from going bad and I need to have a second meal even though I need to lose more weight…didn’t do the weight work yesterday so I think I’ll do two today…I’ve noticed a difference and I want that to continue…didn’t get anything done yesterday but the rides and shoveling and today looks the same…but I need to ease into it…have an hour or so before I have to get on the bike and I need a lot more coffee….sure hope I can get out of here tomorrow and get the grocery run done…more later…
What a day…
Well…what a disrupted day today…was going to do the grocery run but I buried the car in the alley as the packed snow turned into slush…took me an hour to dig it out and get it back in the garage…then I called the city and they sent an F-250 four wheel drive dually out to plow it and he got stuck 5 times so he gave up and left it worse than it was…so I called to get a supervisor to send out one of the road plows but of course I got voicemail and no response…just finished helping the woman across the alley dig her car out that she got just to halfway in her driveway…and I went out to the entrance to the alley and shoveled that to hope that the rain we are getting will melt some of it and I can get out of here Friday…have everything I need til next week if necessary but it’s still a pain in the ass having my life disrupted by people not doing their jobs…oh, well…
January 24th
Well…another day of waking up pretty worn out and I know it’s from tossing and turning all night…thought I was done sleeping at 4:09 but I was able to get a little more sleep and got up a little after 6…it’s been raining off an on all night and that is going to make getting out of the alley this morning pretty tough…at least I only have to walk a few yards to get the shovel to dig the car out…it looks like it’s going to be near 40 for the next week or so and I hope we lose a lot of the snow…going to make some potato soup tomorrow to use up the potatoes that are going to spoil soon…still using up the leftovers I’ve had all week but I will need to plan some dishes for later and the weekend…still need to empty the freezer and that is going to take some time…not too sore this morning but the twinges of pain are still in my elbows and I’ll probably have to treat them later…don’t have a lot to do today other than the grocery run and bike rides and I really should take an afternoon off one of these days….emby is finally working after a rebuild from their end over the past few days and I’ve had to reconstruct my channel list 4 times and that is a pain since it takes an hour and a half each time…oh, well….need more coffee and to get a post out to mastodon….more later…
This is getting old…
Well…you know, I am getting so tired of being busy all the time…started the day today with getting on the bike for the first ride around 8, the off around 9, back on it again by 9:15 and finished up the second ride around 10…did two of these and then outside to shovel the slush so it wouldn’t freeze into an ice sheet when it gets colder…then out to shovel the end of the alley again…oh, and did laundry and put it away…that was about 2:30 and then had to make dinner and do the dishes…and I still have the weight work to do here in a minute and that will take about 45 minutes…and this is almost every damn day…tomorrow will be as busy with doing the grocery run if I can get my car out and in, then back to the bike for two rides and it will be noon or so…don’t even have enough time to read the two books I got at the library…being retired was supposed to be easy…oh, well…