Well…damn, that was weird…had the police banging on my door this morning looking for a missing woman…and an even weirder thing is that they know I’m the guy that calls on the loud music out here and they said they understood…a strange way to start my day…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done and it looks like I won’t be getting out on the bike anytime soon with the temp only 38 right now…I do want to run the string trimmer and edger this morning to do the fall cleanup and prep the lawn for the winter…got the fall food on it yesterday but I’m not really motivated to do anything right now since it’s still dark out there and I’m on the first cup of coffee….I did get two rides in yesterday and I’m going to try to do that again today after I get the work in…froze my butt off on the rides yesterday and had to put my long riding pants on along with double socks just to get through…it’s supposed to be as cold today so we’ll see how it goes…not much to do today…just the yard work and the rides…still have leftovers so I don’t need to cook and I have been eating too much lately anyway….have overshot the weight that I wanted to gain so now it’s time to slowly lose again….more later….
A “partial” gag order?
Well…as I’ve said before, if anyone else had attacked judges, witnesses, and prosecutors as the idiot trump has done since he was charged with 91 felonies, they would be sitting their fat asses in jail until the trial is over…and today, even though the judge has imposed a “partial” gag order on the idiot, it is so narrow that it’s not going to do one bit of good to keep him from continuing to tank his trials by his antics…so why do it at all? To make it look like the judge is tough or to try to say that no one is above the law? That’s laughable since idiot boy has gotten away with breaking every damn law in the country and he’s still running around free…and now he is free to do what no other defendant in history has been able to do without any fear of penalty…try to screw up the legal system so much that they just let him go…he should be rotting in jail right now…geez…
October 16th
Well…man, I thought I was getting better but I sure don’t feel like it right now…yeah, I know, I’m getting old and feeling crappy comes with it but that doesn’t make it any better…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done but the bike rides so I need to do better today…going out to Menards in a while to get the fall lawn food and want to get it on the lawn before it rains Wed….and I need to do that before more leaves fall…it’s only 46 out there so I won’t be able to ride until the aft…not sure if I’ll do two rides or one today but I know it should be two to start getting rid of the extra fat I’ve put on…don’t need to cook again today with leftover soup, chicken, and ham in the fridge and I need to plan food for later in the week…chicken masala? Yep, I have the ingredients for it so I’ll make it this week along with another batch of potato soup…I do need to get back to doing the rehab exercises today since I can feel that I need it….going to look for a set of weight exercises that I can do with the hand weights my daughter left me until I can afford a new weight machine…not much to do today…just the run out to menards and then putting food on the lawn…I did have an infestation of box elder bugs on the back of the house yesterday that I had to deal with…I hate killing things but they were getting in the house and I just don’t like bugs in here….more later…
Think I’m starting to feel better…
Well…had another successful foray to the library today to get a 5 buck bag of books…got another 15 books to go with the 15 I got Friday so I had to clear out a shelf on the bookcase for them….and lots of them are ones from authors I like so I know I’ll like a lot of them…there will be a lot of reading this winter and I’m looking forward to that…I think I’m starting to feel better from the cold…haven’t coughed as much today but I still have some lung problems that revealed themselves on the second ride…yep, two rides today and that made me feel good…and the eye problems I’ve had for a couple of weeks is starting to get better since I can read the graphics on the tv again…much less blurry than they have been and I hope that improvement continues…my hips were in crazy pain on the bike today, though, and I’m hoping it’s the last gasp of being sick…it could still have been reaction to the vaccines since it’s only been 4 days since I got them last Wed…yeah, I’m pretty impatient with my health….
Good for Poland…
Well…in a widely watched election today, the polish right wingers were dealt a loss when they lost their majority in the Parliament there and that puts all the right wing bullshit like decimating the judiciary and gutting voting rights off the table and they will now have to compromise with the left in the country since they only have about 5% less of the seats in the legislature…it even appears that there could be a coalition of the progressives that would give them control of the government for the first time in almost 10 years….so, good on ya Poland…you recognized that you were about an inch away of being another Turkey run by a strong man and in danger of losing your democracy for who knows how long…and this means that the asshole putin kisser who is the president will not be able to abandon Ukraine like he wants…too bad, idiot, the people have spoken….geez…
October 15th
Well…damn, I never want to wake up at 5:10 again unless it’s sleeping in from an alarm for 3:10…I am so damn tired and still hurt like crazy and all I want to do is go back to bed…I can’t remember this type of pain other than from the flu I had a few years back…it’s that ache that you can’t do anything about…no movement, no stretching, no nothing and now I guess it’s back to the ibuprofen….I finally did get on the bike yesterday for one ride and I’m hoping to get out for one today after it warms up…I was so damn cold and wet on the bike yesterday that I had the heating pad on me all night just to stop shaking…I do need to get moving today by 10 so I can head to the library for more books if there are any left over…didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same with the Lions playing and a race on later…and I don’t have to cook today with leftovers in the fridge so it can be an easy one if I decide to let it….going to clean a bit later but right now I need more coffee to get me jump started….more later…
Damn tired of this cold…
Well…I am getting really damn tired of this cold that I’ve had for 10 days now…still feel worn out and I’m so cold that I have the heating pad on my back…okay, it’s stiff, too from going out on the bike today…and that was it’s own debacle with it only 51 degrees when I went out and the wind blowing 15-20 out of the NE…but it wasn’t too bad on the way out…coming back was no fun when it started to rain about 4 miles from here…I can take the cold and wind, but when you add in rain it just makes it so damn miserable that I haven’t been able to recover from it…have been in pain all day from the waist down and had to take ibuprofen so I could even think about riding the bike…the ride did help my mood even with being cold and wet so I guess that’s something…I do need to get out of here around 10 in the morning to hit the library one last time for more books and I hope I can find ones I haven’t read yet…will have a winter’s worth of reading to do after that…
October 14th
Well…didn’t get out of bed til after 6:30 this morning but still feel pretty worn out…and the little weather widget at the bottom of my screen says “cold weather” so I wonder that that means? It’s been cold with not even hitting 50 yesterday and raining all day but it’s not raining right now and it’s supposed to by 9 for a few hours…but I may be able to get out on the bike later in the afternoon if the wind isn’t too bad…we do have a gale warning on right now with wind around 20 and gusting to 40 or so….I guess we’ll see…I did finally open the can of Colombian coffee that I’ve had in the top of the pantry for two years…it’s expiration date is December of 2021 so I was a little concerned that it would be spoiled but I’m having a cup now and I now remember why I used to buy nothing but Colombian stuff…very smooth and lots of flavor…and I think I’m going back to it since the price difference is now less than a dollar for a big can and I bought one on Wed…so I’ll use this small can up over the next few weeks and then move on to the big one…didn’t get a lot done but make soup yesterday so I’ll need to clean a bit today…no laundry today since I did that yesterday…I do need to get back to my rehab exercises today and will do that in a bit…still need to strengthen my core after the surgery recovery….not much to do today…just going to ease into it and have more coffee and then figure out what to do…still not good at taking it easy so I won’t….more later…
This is the guy they want?
Well…amid all of the chaos that is the repub party trying to pick a new Speaker after the crazy assed right wingers shivved McCarthy, it has started to look like jim jordan is going to be who they want for this important job…so, let’s remember who this asshole is, shall we? Let’s go all the way back to when ole jim was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University and guess what he did there? As the doctor for the team was sexually assaulting 100’s of students there, ole jimmy knew about it and did nothing…no reports to the higher ups, no police reports, no nothing as the students pleaded with him to do something to protect them…and he went so far to call the brother of one of the molested students crying that if his brother went public, his life would be ruined…and I still can’t understand why he has never been charged with anything in that scandal…then let’s fast forward to 2020 when ole jimmy was right in the thick of trying to steal the election for trump, attending planning meetings and making tons of coordinating phone calls with the other conspirators…but this is still the guy they want…of course it is…that is the modern repub party folks, you can break any law and cause harm to 100’s of students and that is not enough to disqualify you from leadership…and that is just frickin wrong…geez…
15 books…
Well…I started this one more than an hour ago but soup intervened and I made the potato I’ve been thinking about…it came out good but I think it needs more chicken flavor, onions, and celery to make it perfect….but I’m going to wait til the second day to see how the flavor evolves before I decide…now, this one is sup[posed to be about the 15 books I got for 30 bucks today…okay, 26 bucks but I gave them 4 bucks extra to support the library…got a lot of Patricia Cornwell, an Arthur C. Clark volume with a hundred stories in it, some Larry Niven, Dean Koontz, Asimov, and even the “Lord of the Rings” that I’ve never read…so I’m going to have lots to read and will be going back for the 2 dollar leftover bags Sunday morning…