Well…damn, it was a struggle to get out of bed this morning and I thought it was around 8 when I crawled out but it was only 6:40…and I am worn out again….it’s 7:16 and I just poured the first cup of coffee and it’s only 37 outside…just read that there is a snowstorm coming for the upper mitten today and that is just about perfect for how there has been no spring this year….I am just so damn tired of the cold…it’s frickin May and I’m still wearing the winter clothes in here….aarrgh….okay, I’ll stop whining now…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but riding the bike and watching the birds empty the feeder….the Bluejays were all over it and that’s started again today…I could hear them when I was lying in bed trying to wake up….and guess what we have out here today? Yep, another gale warning and the wind is already howling….gusts of up to 50 today…I think I need to write down all the things I need to do today so I’ll remember them…so that means an errand to do this morning with getting gas for the mower and the car and some groceries, too…think I’ll do that after the first ride….but right now I just need more coffee….more later…
A lazy day…
Well…it’s been a lazy day for me with only doing the two bike rides and cooking but not much else….the lasagna came out great and I really like it with sausage and not hamburger…and at 1.49 a pound it’s a third of the price of burger….I think I’ll be going out to get the ingredients for soft tacos tomorrow since I have to pick up gas for the lawnmower to mow Thursday and I need to pick up the antibiotics I need for prep for the second biopsy in a couple of weeks…it is only 37 degrees out here right now and it’s raining and snowing and that is depressing…and we have two more days of that coming…but then it warms up to almost 70 for the weekend so there will be lots of 45 mile days in the next few weeks to make up for the week off the bike after the biopsy…and I will be planting some tomatoes, peppers, and beans later this week or into the weekend…. and then taking the rest of the seeds I have left and just pouring them in the garden to see what comes up…have some dill and arrugula to go in there…but right now, I’m going to go down and water the plants in the cups…
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Well…you’ve heard me rant about the media and how it both sides every issue even when there is only one right side to it…and now they’ve started that crap back up again when dealing with Joe Biden’s accomplishments over the past two plus years…going so far as to push the idea that because Joe didn’t get all of his promises done, people are so disappointed that they are going to vote for the idiot trump in the 2024 election…yeah, no, that’s not going to happen to anyone who has a brain…Joe has accomplished more for regular people than any president in my lifetime and I’m old…and the media is still trying to report on the horse race between two people instead of any policies that the candidates put forth…and that’s where they need to change since no one wants the repubs policies at all except for the rich and corporations…on every other issue people like what Joe has done and is proposing but very few people know how much he’s done since the media can’t be bothered to report on it…and I think Joe could do a better job of selling his accomplishments than he has done…he has the “bully pulpit” of the presidency to use to do that so get after it, Joe…geez…
May 1st
Well…it’s May 1st and it’s only 36 degrees and that really sucks…and it’s only getting to 41 today but there is a warm up is coming later in the week so I can make it til then….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and took the day off the bike so I will need to do two rides indoors this morning but I don’t want to…I’m tired of having discipline but it’s me so I’ll get to it here in a bit…it’s raining right now and it looks to keep that up for the whole day…it’s even snowing out there some…going to stay in here today where it kinda warm….I did make the lasagna yesterday that will need to be baked for lunch and I should go out and get the ingredients to make some sausage tacos and I might but that could wait til Wed when I do the normal grocery run…I’ll have lasagna to eat til then and I have other things in the freezer that can be used….feel pretty worn out today so it’s hard to get going and I even have pain in my side that I have no clue how I got…it’s another one of those sleep pains that pop up….I did wake up at around 4 this morning and got out of bed at 7:12 which is the address of the house I grew up in….weird….not much to do today…just need to get the ride in before noon since the nascar race was postponed to today…and I think I’ll take a nap to it….more later…
Last one of the month…
Well…yeah, with all of the health crap going on this month I’ve been neglecting this a little bit but I’ll fix that in May…had an okay day today but took it off and went out to meet up with T for lunch and had a lot of laughs but too many beers and that slowed me down for the rest of the afternoon and I have done anything but watch the Indy car race…I did put the top down on the way back from GH since it was sunny and nice there…by the time I got back here, it had clouded over, the temp had dropped, and it started to rain…my ears were really cold when I walked in and they still feel a bit numb….and it looks like I won’t be outside on the bike again til Thurs but I do need to ride so it will be two indoors for the next few days…I did make the sausage lasagna but didn’t cook it so that will be for tomorrow…looks good so I hope it comes out since I have enough cheese to make another one once I get more noodles and the fixings for some soft tacos…maybe tomorrow….
Joe needs to go it alone on the debt ceiling…
Well…if there is anything that we learned from January 6th, it’s that the repubs will do anything to try to take control of the entire country…and that is why they are not going to raise the debt ceiling…they think that allowing the nation to default on it’s debts and crash the US and world economy is a good tool to use to damage Joe Biden for 2024….but that doesn’t mean that Joe can’t do anything about it…there have been a few ideas out there like minting a one trillion dollar coin and depositing it at the fed to draw from…which would work but I’m sure the repubs would sue to stop it, and with the right wing assholes on the SC, they would certainly have the suit upheld…but thew other thing Joe could do is just cite the 14th amendment which requires the US to pay all of it’s debts and it is written into the constitution so it can’t be ruled unconstitutional by the court…and I think this needs to be the attack that Joe makes…can you imagine the ads the dems could write? The repubs are killing grandma by not funding SS…and there are many, many more that should drive any independent to our side since we are the only adults left in the room….so, get on it Joe…paint the repubs for what they are…and do it now….
April 30th
Well…damn, woke up at 5 this morning and just couldn’t get out of bed til 6:30…damn, I’m tired of being cold…it’s only 40 out there and we have another gale warning on for today so I’m taking the day off the bike to let my legs rest a bit….I may be having lunch with T today over in GH but we’ll see….so that pushes the lasagna back til tomorrow…I found the recipe I used before but I have to shrink it down to my 8×8 dish since the big one won’t fit in the new toaster oven…and I thought I had a new box of lasagna noodles but I only have two partials but it looks like it’s enough to make one batch…I think I’m going out to get what I need to make sausage tacos tomorrow…don’t hurt much today even with doing 70 miles the past two days but a rest day is going to be welcome….talked to K yesterday and we are meeting up Friday in Coopersville…haven’t seen her in almost a year…maybe more…so that should be fun…planted a bunch of tomato seeds that had sprouted yesterday but if the cherries don’t take, I won’t have any of those in the garden this year…will probably wait for a week or so to plant the new bean plants but the tomatoes are ready to go in now so that will happen later in the week after the low temp gets back into the 40’s….not much to do today…just going to veg it out and watch F1 that is on right now and then some soccer and the Nascar race later…more later….
Red state terrorism…
Well…with the headlong rush to no gun laws in red states, you can guarantee that what happened yesterday in Texas is going to continue to happen…yesterday some moron was shooting off his AR-15 at 11 o’clock at night in his front yard as he had been doing all day…after the neighbors asked him politely to stop since they had a baby trying to sleep inside, you can guess what happened…yep, he killed them all including an 8 year old…and went on the run…you’re probably going to ask why they didn’t just call the cops? One commenter from Texas laid it out that the cops would come and stand around a bit and do nothing about it…and then later the moron would be so pissed about them calling the cops that he would shoot them anyway…most of the cops in Texas are like this asshole and identify with him and would probably shoot right along with him…this terrorism is all from removing any and all gun laws and fox news keeping these assholes stirred up that they are losing their “rights” and should “fight back”….and this is what happens when anyone can have an AR-15 or similar weapon…I wonder when the people of the red states are finally going to say enough? Yeah, probably never…they are down that right wing rabbit hole and they are never getting out…geez…
April 29th
Well…man, I feel worn out today and I wonder if it’s the 40 miles I did yesterday? Didn’t get out of bed til 7:27 this morning but I feel like I didn’t sleep at all but that is pretty much normal…on the first cup of coffee and I wish there was a caffeine delivery method that worked faster….it looks like I can get at least one ride in outdoors today but that will wait until after the F1 sprint race at 9….had an okay day yesterday and got a lot done but today will be easier with only the rides and cleaning to do…still have leftovers to eat so the lasagna will wait til tomorrow….and I’ll go out to get the ingredients for sausage tacos Monday….need a green pepper and lettuce for that and maybe some salsa…it’s a little funny I have a person from the UK in my Mastodon feed who is jealous of my trip in her country that she hasn’t seen as much of as I am going to see in the fall….jokingly, she wants to join in for part of the trip and I said okay….I’m starting to realize my mortality lately with the new developments with my cancer…and just getting through the UK trip looks like to last goal I’m going to have…not sure if that is depressing or not…haven’t had time to think about it much…or I wonder if I’m avoiding thinking about it….who knows? More later….
Don’t pat yourself on the back so quick…
Well…I really don’t undesrtand the modern repubs at all…are they so stupid that they think that Joe Biden is ever going to go along with cutting Medicaid, veterans benefits, aid for poor children and on an on…you would think they would hold off on patting themselves on the back since the piece of crap bill they passed in the House is going nowhere…I think it is just performance art that the repubs are going to try to use for electoral advantage but no one likes anything that is in it…I mean protecting the trump tax cuts that are responsible for 7 trillion dollars of the national debt while they say tough to the less fortunate in this country and gut all of the programs…no one wants any of this..except for the oligarchs who fund the repubs and buy elections….no one wants the anti trans legislation, no wants gerrymandering, no one wants anything they are selling and yet they try to shove it down everyone’s throats…so independents, help us vote every repub out…it’s the only way…geez…