Well…darn, I know I say this a lot but I really am running late again today…woke up at around 6 but just laid there in my bed until 7:30 and now it’s after 8 and I’m just getting here…slept okay last night but my allergies are still really terrible and I have a headache that started last night and is still thumping the top of my head…might have to take something for it today…got a nice ride in yesterday outdoors when I was going to take the day off so I feel good about that…and I am going to try to get two rides in today as soon as it warms up…but it won’t get to 50 til around noon and I do want to watch the Lions play today but that’s not til 4 o’clock so I’ll be able to get that done…and I’ll make an early lunch before that of leftover turkey…still not losing any weight even with going down to one meal a day so I’ll have to figure out what’s going on and change….I wonder if I can just take it easy this morning and relax for a while? Not very good at that…going and going is such a habit that I don’t know how to relax…I think I may have to just force myself to take a day off and figure out how to derail the guilts that come with it….I do have leaves that need to be picked up and that should be done in the next four days when it’s going to be in the 50’s and no rain…see…still planning work and I’m tired of it….the wind is going to be nuts later but I’m going to go out anyway….more later…
Turkey came out great…
Well…just finished cleaning up after cooking the entire t-day meal today…dry brined the turkey and it’s a method I think I can work with…I will rinse the bird the next time I cook one even though you’re not supposed to…the skin is too salty if you don’t…but the meat came out nice and moist and tender so it seems to work…only the roasting pan to clean up and that is soaking right now…may go out and do and outdoor ride after the Michigan game…not much wind out there even if it is a little cold…we’ll see…
November 11th
Well…I think I’ve finally gotten to the point where I’m going to take the day off today…I know it’s going to mean that I won’t be burning any calories and I am going to be eating a lot so it will be a set back in my weight loss struggle but I just need a day off….slept okay last night but don’t feel like it this morning…just so worn out that I’m going to have to suck it up to cook today…the turkey looks good in the fridge and I am really curious how it’s going to taste….the salt is pretty much gone and it looks like there is a glaze on it…I still need to prep it with the veggies inside for it to make a good base for the gravy and I’m going to add some breakfast sausage to the cavity that I have left over…have to try new stuff that might or might not work…need to get more flavor in it that has been missing….just remembered to take a stick of butter out of the fridge since I’ll need that to make the rosemary butter to put on and under the skin….not much to do today…just cooking and eating and that seems to be a bit decadent given my normal routine of riding and not eating…and Man U plays at 10 so I want to have everything done before that…and I should have the turkey in the grill by then to eat the big meal for lunch….more later….
Got some stuff done…again..
Well…had a pretty good day today with getting some stuff done…finally…started the day with two bike rides downstairs and then checked the turkey and it had thawed enough to pat it dry and mix up the dry brine of kosher salt, brown sugar, sage, rosemary, and thyme that I spread all over it and it is now sitting in the fridge uncovered to let the skin dry out completely…and that means I am going to cook tomorrow instead of Sunday and that will set me up with turkey for at least a week….making the whole t-day meal with the green bean casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy…yummy…so, after I got that done, I tore the bathroom apart and cleaned it completely but then just read for the rest of the afternoon…and now I.m letting my eyes get used to longer distances now so I’ll be able to see the tv clearly later….going to watch a really long movie tonight that will take up almost the entire night so I’ll start it at 7…nope…”Battlebots” first, then the movie so I may not get through the whole thing tonight…or I’ll move that to tomorrow night and just watch some shows tonight…who knows?
Forget about the polls…
Well…with all the dems running around like their hair is on fire from a couple of polls that showed the serial felon idiot boy trump ahead of Joe Biden in a couple of swing states, I think we need to take a step back and remember that the polls have been wrong in the last two elections and they predicted a “red wave” last year that didn’t happen…and Joe pointed that out to the idiot Doocy in a press conference yesterday as the fox hack asked about it and Joe came back with the retort “read the polls, we’re ahead in 8 of 10 states” and Doocy didn’t respond other than to try to conflate Biden’s age with abortion access for some reason…all I can say is that if you want to hear someone who is failing mentally, just listen to the idiot trump who can’t string two sentences together…or no, don’t do that…if I ever hear that voice again I’ll poke my eardrums out…geez…
November 10th
Well…running about on time with waking up at 5:24 but then staying in bed til 6:23….getting up has started to be a process as I’ve gotten older and I miss the days of just popping out of bed and getting on with the day…and yes, I know things change but that doesn’t mean I have to like it….slept okay last night and feel okay today if a little tired but that seems to be normal now so I can live with it…I am going to remember to take my vitamins today since they seem to help…it was so cool to have the tree guys come yesterday and now I have a cleaned up yard that I don’t have to think about…I did take the turkey out of the fridge this morning so I can make sure it will be thawed to dry brine it tomorrow and cook it Sunday…doing the whole t-day meal with stuffing, green bean casserole and mashed potatoes and gravy with brown and serve rolls…and I’ll be eating off the turkey for a week or more….it looks like it will be warm enough to ride outside staring Sunday and going for a few days until it gets cold again late in the week next week….not much to do today…have been looking for an excuse to take a day off but I can’t see it right now…so I’ve got an hour to sit and have coffee before I go down to the torture machine and get the miles in…more later…
Glass houses, Comer…
Well…isn’t this way it goes every damn time? James Comer goes on and on how he thinks the Bidens are crooked and launches investigation after investigation that find nothing but his brother paying Joe back money that he lent him…that’s it…and I really don’t think there is anything shady about that…but today, reports are out about Comer and his deals where he swaps land that he inherited for other land and seems to make millions doing it…he claims that the land belongs to his “companies” but no one can find one company that he owns…and he pays his brother over 200 grand for “reasons” that he won’t reveal…payoffs maybe? So who would make a trade where he gives up land worth millions for land that isn’t? And who is paying the taxes on all of that profit? He sure didn’t and that is a fact…so I guess the old saw of “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” really applies here….Jimmy, give it up and just go away before someone really digs into your shady deals…geez…
Good news on the trees…
Well…the tree guys are here and working and I got such a pleasant surprise when the quote was only 450 bucks…about a quarter of what I expected and it will be cool to have everything cleaned up…the old rotten tree is down and they have started the chipper…yay!
November 9th
Well…up at 5:22 this morning but was able to lie back down for an hour so I guess that’s a win…I’m in the slow motion mode that comes with being depressed and I could feel that was coming on for a couple of days….I wonder how long this one is going to last? Who knows? Slept okay but sure don’t feel like it right now but I just started drinking coffee so maybe that will help….didn’t get much done yesterday but read and a little cleaning but today I do need to clean the bathroom after I ride the bike….was going to try to ride outdoors today but the wind is already over 15 and it’s not too warm so I guess I’ll head downstairs around 8…I really could use a day off but probably not today…even though I’ve hit my goal of 4K miles, I still need to lose weight so I need to do at least 16 miles a day…my brain is not cooperating this morning and I wish I could allow myself a day to take it easy and just wing it….still working on leftovers but I do need to get the turkey dry brined tomorrow so I can cook it Sunday…or Saturday depending on how fast it thaws….not much to do today….just going to sit here for a bit and have more coffee as I try to decide what to do…and yep, that’s a Joe Walsh lyric….more later…
Abortion is still the issue…
Well…the results are in and the dems did pretty damn good in the elections yesterday…expanding their house margins in Pennsylvania, flipping the house in Virginia, keeping the Governors office in Kentucky, and voters enshrined abortion rights into the constitution in Ohio…and that one was by around 60% of voters…so abortion is still the issue across the country and everywhere that it has been on the ballot since Roe fell has passed it…so the dems need to keep hammering on that fact…polling says that almost 70% of the people want those rights to be returned…even in red states that are doing their best to criminalize women’s healthcare….like the new laws being passed all over Texas that makes it illegal to travel through many counties to seek reproductive care….I have to thank the folks that worked tirelessly to defeat the repub cheating in Ohio as they threw everything but the kitchen sink at it to try lie to people and saying that the moon will fall if people voted to protect women’s rights…so, let’s keep it up, no matter what the polls say…We can take back the house next year and expand our margin in the senate…and Biden has said if they do that and re-elect him, Roe will be codified as law in January 2025…let’s do it…