Well…the scheduler called me back this morning and I have my new surgery date…July 25th so that will give me two months to heal before the trip…and truthfully, the trip will be better when I won’t have it hanging over me…got two rides in today both masked and it was okay no shortness of breath no coughing or sore throat…so I think I’ll keep that up until the air gets a lot better…and once I have the surgery, I won’t be back on the bike until after the UK trip since I don’t want any setbacks….but I guess I’ll just have to see how I’m healing…have to be off the bike for 6 weeks or so…so, it’s going to be a busy July with getting my teeth done on the 10th…and that gives me 2 weeks for them to heal until the surgery…going to take a break and try to find a topic in politics….more later…
June 29th
Well…took the day off yesterday with the air quality being over 200 again that is “very unhealthy” and you’re not supposed to do anything outdoors…but this morning, I’m going to put a mask on and go for a ride…can’t take two days off in a row…slept okay last night but a small storm came through around 5 and woke me up…it even rained a little but that won’t do my lawn any good….tried to contact the surgery scheduler yesterday but she didn’t call me back and I’m a little irritated about that….need to get in for the surgery in July so I can heal before the UK trip and I’m pretty concerned that is not going to happen…I did get started on cleaning the spare room yesterday and I need to mop the floor and clean the windows in there today so I can start putting the bed frame together….the little weather widget at the bottom of the screen says “rain coming” and it appears there will be a shower that will keep me off the bike until after I run out to Aldis to get the mozzerella cheese I forgot to get yesterday…going to make a pizza on the grill for the first time tomorrow…going to take some burger out of the freezer to have over the weekend and I wish I had room in the freezer for chicken since Gordon’s has it on sale for 1.39 a pound…oh, well…not much to do today…just going to try to get the rides in and figure out what to eat….more later…
They elect guys like this…
Well…not sure if you’ve read anything about this guy the repubs elected in South Dakota but damn, he is typical q anon moron…his name is Joe Donnell and he really thinks that Mt. Rushmore is a demonic portal that is spreading communism across the US and that it sits on a lay line that elves used to use to magically transport themselves between the mountain and DC…and he knows all of this because god told him personally…and the mountain was carved with magic and used to have different faces and a dwarf hideout under it that is coated with gold and gems on the floor and walls…you get the idea…a person who should be locked up for psychosis is actually a state rep in South Dakota who truly believes this stuff…and the the idiot trump is going to come back and something, something to fix the lay line that was broken by magic so they can get into the magic caverns under the mountain…I really do think that this country is in trouble if repub voters think a guy like this is perfectly qualified to make laws for one of our states…I wonder if the crazy has gotten worse or it was always there but just hidden…and the repubs don’t see the need to hide it anymore? Geez…
Bad air again today…
Well…after being out in the “dangerous” air of 343 for 6 hours yesterday and just finishing up the grocery run in 223 air, I am having shortness of breath just sitting here so I must have had some damage from the rides yesterday…so, I won’t be riding today and I can keeps the guilts away since I did more than two rides yesterday…this does kind of suck to be forced to stay inside in a closed up house when it’s going to be in the 80’s today…but it’s supposed to get better tomorrow and I’m going to clean a bit today to have the spare room ready for my daughter…okay, need to make the call to the periodontist…more later…
June 28th
Well…got the 75 miles in on the bike yesterday and I’m feeling it this morning…and the air quality was so bad from the Canadian fires that I’m still coughing today…and with the particulate readings over 200 right now, it makes it “very unhealthy” and recommends that you don’t do anything outside…I can see the smoke out there right now so I’ll have a decision to make after I do the grocery run…have to make a call to my periodontist to get the prescriptions in for my July 10th treatment and I’m still waiting to hear from my surgeon’s scheduler to get that moved up…man, I’m tired….didn’t get much done but need to get the spare bedroom cleaned out and start setting up the bed in there so I’ll have a place to sleep after the surgery when my daughter comes to stay…so, I’ll work on that today…I’m feeling my mortality today with the bad news from yesterday and I realized that I could really die from this…I’ve always said that I’m okay with dying and I think I am…but I sure don’t want it to be slowly eaten away by cancer….I guess I have some thinking to do….more later…
This is bad…
Well…got a call from my surgeon this morning with bad news…the cancer has spread and it needs to come out as soon as possible…so now I’m waiting for the scheduler to call so I can get it set up in July…crap…
June 27th
Well…today’s the day…going to do 75 miles today to do the “ride my age” day and I need to get moving in 15 minutes…it’s cool out there right now and that will be a good start…still going to be on the bike for 6 hours and that is not going to be easy…but it’s like the old saying “why are you hitting yourself in the head? Because if feels so good when I stop”…didn’t eat enough yesterday to support it but I didn’t last year, either, so I think It will be okay…legs went flat on the third lap last year and I’m expecting it will be the same this year…but we’ll see….not much else on my mind right now so I’ll stop here…wish me luck….more later….
Get off your asses, media..
Well…you know, this crap is getting ridiculous…it sure does appear that of the media owned by the oligarch class is doing it’s best to make sure Americans don’t see or hear of all of the successes of Joe Biden…what else could it be? Yesterday, at an event at the WH, President Biden announced a 42 billion dollar project to expand broadband access across the country and not one media company showed up to report on it…not one damn reporter, nothing…you would think that at least one person with WH press credentials would have stumbled over it by accident since there are hundreds of those people in and out of the WH every day…it sure stinks like a conspiracy to me…when idiot boy was in WH…his every burp and fart was covered by the fawning media…I guess when we have a president who is working for all Americans, the oligarchs don’t like it…and this is what we get…geez…
Still looking…
Well…damn, my thumb hurts…and I’m still looking for a topic in politics today but I really haven’t had much luck in finding one…so, I’ll do this instead…it rained until almost 10:30 this morning and it looks like it’s trying to do that again at almost 3…it’s suddenly gotten quite dark…so fingers crossed…I did get the kitchen windows cleaned and they look pretty good and I have them open but it’s only 63 out here so I think I’ll have to shut them soon to keep the heat from coming on…then I got the two rides in and used up the hard boiled eggs for lunch and gave myself a haircut…and now I’ll go back to looking for something to talk about…I think tomorrow is going to be “ride my age” day so I’ll have to do 5 laps around my 15 mile course…that should take about 6 hours counting the water breaks and recharging for my mp-3 player but I may just take a spare battery with me and put it in the bag…going to be a long day and I already have a lot of pain from today and pulling weeds the other day…so I guess we’ll see if I still have it in me…the extra 3 rides mean I can eat and extra 1800 calories but I don’t think I can do it…
June 26th
Well…woke up to a pleasant surprise this morning with it raining out there and it looks like it is going to continue for a while so I can just sit here for a bit and enjoy my bagel and coffee…slept okay last night but feel pretty worn out this morning and that is starting to be normal and I’m sure I don’t like it…had planned on cleaning the windows yesterday but just didn’t have any motivation to do anything so I didn’t….if it’s going to keep me off the bike today, I will have to find something to do…probably clean some or do the kitchen windows…we’ll see….damn, I wish I had the capacity to just relax and watch tv…that could make for a nice day…have to make egg salad for a sandwich today since I’ve got two eggs hard boiled that have been in the fridge for 5 days and need to be used…and still have two thighs for tacos and that will last a few days….need to look at the radar to see if I can wedge a ride in between showers this morning….not much to do today….just going to ease into it with more coffee and some news….more later….