Well…if you thought the repubs in the House couldn’t get any worse, they did and they loved doing it…last night those idiots called a “press conference” to announce that some yahoo repub from Louisiana was going to be the new speaker and they all huddled behind him for some reason that I don’t get other than they just wanted their faces on tv…but, isn’t the purpose of “press conferences” to take questions from, you know, the press? Not when repubs are involved…once a reporter started asking questions about this yahoo’s role in trying to overthrow the government on January 6th, they all started shouting her down and when she tried to ask a second question about policy…they all agreed that they were not going to talk about policy of any sort…and I agreed with that since they don’t have any policy other than to kiss trump’s ass…I wonder why anyone is surprised by this behavior? After all, in 2020 they didn’t even produce a platform for their party at the convention…again just kissing trump’s ass was the only thing mentioned…geez…
October 25th
Well…running really late today with not crawling out of bed until almost 7 and I’m having a hard time getting going…it’s raining again out there and I don’t mind that one bit…my lawn is getting green after the food I put on it so it should be better in the spring…ha,ha…that’s a laugh…going to need to seed it again in the spring….I hurt like crazy last night and my neck is still stiff today…my whole right side is hurting after the tree trimming…and I need to do the grocery run today…but I’m not sure about the bike rides today…high winds and rain are forecast so I may just be cooking and cleaning today…need to cook the pork shoulder today and I’ll make mashed potatoes and gravy to go with it….but first it’s a three store grocery run today with hitting DD for some stuff…it’s been a while since I’ve been there…crap, it’s 7:30 already and I need to get a post out to Mastodon before I jump in the shower and head out…but I can’t get to aldis before 8:30 so I guess I have time….more later…
Mark Meadows has flipped on idiot boy..
Well…damn I read this this afternoon and it just slipped my mind until now…it was announced today that former trump chief of staff Mark Meadows had taken and immunity deal to testify against the idiot trump…yep, this is the guy that was in every meeting that was held about stealing the election and can testify directly to what trump and everyone else said during that plot…so this time trump really is cooked and this explains the hail Mary filings his lawyers made in this case over the weekend trying to get the case thrown out…that is never going to happen so next year we’ll get the big trial that should put trump trump in jail for the rest of his life…we can hope anyway…geez…
October 24th
Well…damn, it’s 59 degrees out there so I’m going to be able to go out on the bike in shorts this morning for the last time…slept okay last night but I’m pretty darn sore from the work yesterday and most of it is in my neck for some reason…so I just hit it with biofreeze and will take some ibuprofen in a bit after I get some coffee down me…and I have the heating pad on my back to get ready for the rides…don’t have a lot to do today but clean after the rides since I still have leftovers to eat today…have the pork shoulder to cook tomorrow and I’ll do that in the instant pot with some onions and celery…going to use beef broth as the liquid and then make some gravy with it…need to do mashed potatoes and veggies, too…it was nice to get all of the tree work done yesterday but it was a pretty big pain that is causing me pain…it was so much effort that I’m feeling how old I am and I don’t like it one bit….need to cut back what I’m eating to take the pounds off that I’ve added over the past couple of months…not sure if I want to get back down to 160 or so but 165 would be okay…not much to do today…just the bike rides and I think I’ll wash the car this aft…then put the hose away since there is a freeze coming later in the week….more later….
It’s now espionage…
Well…I’m sure you’ve heard by now of the news that the idiot trump shared nuclear sub secrets with an Australian businessman who then blabbed those same secrets with almost 100 people across the world…yeah, he did it…but now we know why idiot boy did it and that has started an investigation of espionage against the idiot and the businessman…and the whole thing keys on the fact that the businessman gave trump millions of dollars and trump wanted the money to keep flowing so he blabbed secrets to him to make sure that happened even though he lost the election…the money started flowing to trump right after the Russians installed him as president and the businessman joined the idiot’s tacky Florida club…and it just kept flowing as the businessman wormed his way into the idiot’s inner circle…and the kicker here is that the businessman knew the entire relationship was transactional…that he knew that he could keep access only if the money kept flowing and even told his friends that he was buying his way in…so now the question has to be answered “what was trump going to do with all of the secrets he stole?” It is obvious he was selling info to this businessman, so who else was he doing it to? I don’t have any faith that anything will happen to idiot boy for doing this…after all, nothing he has done has put him in jail so why would anyone think this time will be different? Geez…
Owww….
Well…after getting the two bike rides in by around noon, I decided it would be a perfect day to trim all of the branches that had grown over my power and cable lines, cut them up and put them out for pick up tomorrow…all of the overhead work with my heavy pole saw has everything from the waist up hurting and stiff…can barely move my neck or right shoulder and I need to take some ibuprofen before I use the voltaren…but it is nice to have it all done so I don’t have to think about it anymore…until next year…put out almost 20 bundles of branches…they cover half of one side of the front of my lawn…so now I’m going to take a break for a bit and read some news to try to come back here for a political one…more later…
October 23rd
Well…damn, it’s getting to be almost winter out there with the temp only 33 right now…and it’s going to get colder later in the week so I need to winterize the outside of the house this week…need to trim the trees that have grown around my power lines today to make sure I don’t lose power over the winter…I did get out for two rides yesterday and I’m going to try to do the same today but that means I’ll have to wait until it gets up to at least 40 today…slept okay last night but I still feel worn out and it’s getting on to three weeks of feeling this damn bug and I am so tired of it….I just want to go back to bed and that is not right…and the little widget on the bottom of the screen says “cold weather” and I know I’m not ready for it…my right hip is howling in pain this morning and it has to be from sleeping wrong last night since I didn’t do anything to hurt it yesterday…other than ride twice…I did read an entire book yesterday and that made me neglect this site and Mastodon and I have fear that no one will keep coming here if I don’t have new content…I’ve done almost 12,000 of these over the years and it’s been a lot of work…more later….
October 22nd
Well..damn, I’m cold again this morning and have the heating pad on me to try to get warm…up at 6:23…again, and I still feel so worn out that all I want to do is sit here and do nothing…but I won’t…as soon as it gets light I’ll suit up and get on the bike…but it’s going to be full thermasuit today with the temp only 40 right now….didn’t do anything yesterday and I feel pretty damn guilty about that…I wonder if there will ever come a time when I can just let go and relax? But that would mean cutting calories down to around 500 and I’m not sure how that would work…I feel pretty crappy at 1K and that might be why I don’t have any energy….at least it’s not raining right now but I do have to spray the bike to get the grit out of the shifters from riding Friday in the rain…it just damn annoying to have the bike not work smoothly but I guess it’s to be expected after abusing the bike…don’t need to cook anything today with all of the leftovers in the fridge…still have pizza and soup that will last me until Wed or so and then I’ll do the pork shoulder in the instant pot….and I need to freeze the rest of the ham…or toss it…not sure which…not much to do today…just need to keep pouring coffee down me until it starts to work and then get on the bike in the freezing cold….not coughing as much today so I’ll take any small improvement I can get….more later…
A wasted day…
Well…I could make excuses for not doing a damn thing today like it was raining, or there were sports on I wanted to see and both of them would be true…but I just didn’t have the energy to do anything today…and it is the damn cold still hanging on after two weeks plus and I wonder if it is ever going to go away? Don’t feel too bad but I am still coughing and that is annoying…but the last time I had a cold years ago, it just stopped overnight and the coughing and fatigue were gone…I still have a headache but that is probably from allergies sine my little widget at the bottom of the screen has turned red and says “pollen tomorrow” so that can’t be good…going to be able to ride tomorrow so I don’t feel too bad about taking a day off but I do need to get the inside bike prepped so I can start riding that when it’s ugly outside…and it will be a few days this week…I did get to 3600 miles this past week so the 4000 mile goal is doable…not a lot for me but I’ll get to trying for 7K next year…and next year, I’ll get to a total of 100K miles since I started keeping track…and that is a long way…tv time…still the rest of the nascar race, the F1 sprint race is on in 8 minutes, and Michigan plays State tonight at 7:30…
October 21st
Well…damn, it’s not a good start to the day when you wake up thinking you’ve slept in, look at the phone and it’s only 6:23…then you look at the weather and radar and see that it’s 38 degrees and rain is starting that will last most of the day…does that mean I’ll get the indoor bike ready and get some miles in? Probably not….I think I’ll make this a day off and watch some soccer and races instead…slept okay last night and forgot to turn the hepa filter off so I can breathe this morning…but I can’t leave it running for another day…or can I? I did make a new batch of potato soup yesterday that came out good but I have chick peas that I could have added but I forgot them…and maybe they wouldn’t have added anything…I will use them in the next batch of ham soup that I’ll make soon….have the heating pad on my back this morning but it’s not from pain but just that I feel so damn cold today that I needed to do something…damn, I hate getting old…not much to do today…going to try to not feel guilty about taking the day off the bike…but that will be hard as always….more later….