well..yeah, don’t have a political one right now but I wanted to get another one done before I get back on the bike for the third indoor ride of the day….only have 20 miles left to go to get to 1,000 before April 1st so that will leave me 12 to do tomorrow morning but I’ll do 16…was going to go outdoors for the third ride today but it is not going to be warm enough to get out before the Tigers play on opening day and I always try to see at least opening day…I used to be a huge baseball fan but the Tigers have been so bad for so long that they have cured me of it…I still want to see it so I need to have everything done by 3….have already gotten lunch cooked and cleaned up and the ham was a really good one…I like the cheap Meijers hams…they are so tender and tasty and I made mashed potatoes and gravy and I used chicken broth for extra liquid for that….it gave the gravy a unique flavor that I really like…even ran an errand out to Ollies to get a new beach towel and got a huge, 100% cotton one for 6.99 so that was a deal…now I can retire the one I’ve been using for 25 years….I’ll try to come back for a political one later but need to get on the bike first…
March 30th
Well…darn, up at 4:16 this morning, stayed up reading til 5, then climbed back in bed and slept for an hour or so and now I’m getting going at 6:27 and need to since I have a full day today…getting close to 1,000 miles on the bike and want to get that done by the end of the month…so that means at least two rides indoors this morning and maybe even a third today if it doesn’t get warm enough to get outside….and I need to make a big ham today that will feed me for the next week and want to get that in the oven by 10 or so…and the means getting on the bike for the first ride by 7:30 or so to get two rides in by then…I did get my flight to Maryland and back booked yesterday and it only cost 300 bucks round trip…so everything for the UK trip is in place and now I just need to get to Mid September without dying first…and I’ll find out if I am tomorrow with the biopsy happening in the afternoon….looking through the instructions for it yesterday, they recommend that I don’t ride the bike for a week after it and that just isn’t going to happen….will probably take a day off Saturday and maybe Sunday depending on the pain….not much to do today…I need to plant the seeds out of the paper towel that have sprouted…have some beans and cukes and hope the last tomato seeds get going or I’ll have to get more next week….more later….
Not a bad day…
Well…even though I’m not sleeping well, I had a bunch of energy today and got a bunch of stuff done…got a 9 pound spiral sliced ham at Meijers this morning that I’m going to make tomorrow along with a bunch of veggie and flower seeds at Menards…got some arugula, whatever that is, along with some squash, radishes and lots of other things I’ve never grown before…even some yellow wax beans that I am going to try to start…and lots more flower seeds so this place is going to have lots of color this summer….got the back stairs cleaned and all the cobwebs are gone…and I put all the tools away that had found residence on the stairs and even got the webs vacuumed from underneath the tool cabinets that I had missed before….had a couple of beans come up downstairs and I think the ones in the paper towel are sprouting, too…can’t have too many beans…could have 15 plants this year and I’m happy they freeze well…it may be warm enough to ride outside tomorrow so it could be another 31 mile day…looking at the instructions for the biopsy on Friday, they recommend to not ride for a week but we’ll see how that goes…okay, want to plant the new beans….
Repeal the second amendment…
Well…another day another 7 dead from a school shooting and the repubs all have their talking point working that “there is nothing that can be done” and I disagree…the second amendment has outlived it’s usefulness and should be repealed…if kids have to go to school in fear of their lives every day and the repubs won’t do anything about it, it’s time to repeal the second amendment…just get rid of the damn misinterpreted thing…it was never intended to mean that anyone can have and carry any gun they want anywhere they want…it was a product of the time when it was written when there was a fear of standing armies and the misuse of them that had happened all over Europe…and it only authorized a “well regulated militia” not any yahoo being able to carry an AR-15 anywhere but the NRA and the repubs stacked the courts with right wing ideologues that expanded the amendment to mean something that no court until this one thought it did…an unlimited “right” to whatever guns anyone wants…so let’s start work on getting rid of the second amendment…other amendments have been repealed before and this one can be, too….geez…
March 29th
Well…another one of those up 5 times nights last night but getting back to sleep after each one was easier than Monday night so that’s progress…but woke up for the last time at 5 and then out of bed at 5:23…but that’s okay since I want to get the first ride in before I do the grocery run today…it looks like I won’t get to 31 miles today since it’s going to be raining/snowing off and on all day with a high of 39 and that’s too cold for me…have been feeling cold for days now and part of that is only eating one meal a day and I am getting used to that….yesterday was about 600 calories and today looks to be the same…and the second no cocktail night in a row has me feeling pretty good even with the fitful sleep….going to hit three stores this morning…Menards for more flower/veggie seeds, then Aldis and Meijers…nothing that I need at DD so I can skip that today…getting another big ham that will keep me going for a week or so and I can make a lot of meals off it…I know ham is not good for me but I like it and it’s only 99 cents a pound….haven’t checked the seeds I have in paper towel up here but I’m going to do that here in a bit and then get one the bike….getting close to the first thousand miles on the bike this year and should hit that this weekend…almost made it before April 1st and that would have been something…not much to do today….just the grocery runs and the rides but I really should clean the back stairs…and I might….more later….
Funny turkeys…
Well…on my outdoor ride today, I was getting to the end of the detour when I saw two young male turkeys trying to get through an iron fence that surrounds a marina out here and when they saw me coming, they took off running down the trail in front of me for about 50 yards and now I know that turkeys can run at least 13mph…another 31 mile day today and I’m sitting here with the heating pad on my back again…but it seems to be working so I’ll keep it on til it shuts off on it’s own….still doing the one meal thing for at least the rest of the week along with no cocktails and I feel pretty good this afternoon even with the crappy sleep I had last night…so I should put a soccer match on and lie down on the couch for a nap…not sure if I will or not but it does look attractive right now…I have the laundry in the dryer and that is everything I wanted to get done today…it’s almost 3 and I’m done for the day…
Exporting evangelical hate…
Well…I am just so damn sick and tired of the supposedly “pro-life” American evangelical christians mucking around in other countries and exporting their hatred of LGBT people…over the past few weeks, Uganda has passed what could be the most dangerous laws against that community in the world…legislating prison for just being gay and imprisoning people for helping their gay friends or neighbors….and all of this was funded by American evangelical organizations to the tune of 25 million dollars spent on advertising, lobbying, and outright bribes to legislators to stoke the fears of LGTB people just as they are doing against them here in the US….now shouldn’t this be against the law? They are conducting foreign policy and private groups aren’t allowed to do that…but the bigger issue is that of the hypocrisy of these evangelical groups…they spend 25 million dollars on exporting hate when 300,000 Ugandan children under the age of 5 die each year from treatable diseases that that 25 million dollars could be used to treat…but I guess being a christian these days is all about the hate…if 300,000 children and many, many LGBT people have to die or go to jail for them to get their hate fix, that is what they are going to do…damn, I hate those people..geez….
March 28th
Well…that was a crappy night of sleep…but I feel okay so no damage done…first night of no cocktails always goes that way…climbed out of bed at 4:37 after tossing and turning all night, then went back to bed at 5am and just got up at 7:03…probably about 4 hours of sleep all night if you add it up or maybe a little less than that…had an okay day yesterday and got some stuff done and I’m going to try to do another 31 mile day on the bike and get some more yard work done…and maybe clean a bit…I do have to do laundry today and figure out what to have for lunch…going to get another big ham tomorrow since Meijers has them on sale for 99cents a pound and you can’t beat that…and I need to hit Menards since they have flower and veggie seeds on sale for 11 cents a pack again….not having a much luck getting the beans and tomatoes to come up so I put some in wet paper towel in plastic bags to see if I can get more to sprout and set them in front of the heating vent here in the living room….it may be too cold to get them going downstairs….not much to do today…just need to have another cup of coffee and then get on the bike by 8 so I can set up for three rides today….more later…
Had a good day…
Well…when I got up this morning, I was expecting to feel pretty depressed with how I felt then…so I was expecting a lay low day but didn’t…got 31 miles in on the bike, had lunch, and then went out to spade the garden and mix in the 100 pounds of composted manure I got last week…then I picked up all of the branches that fell in the high winds we had out here…and then came in and had to put heat on my back since it’s not used to doing any heavy work…it’s been a long time since I had to work that hard but it felt good and the heat took care of the back pain…I’m hoping that it lasts overnight…taking the week off cocktails to just give my liver a rest…and I’m getting used to only one meal a day so I’m going to continue that this week, too…feels good to continue to lose weight….going to try something new with some seeds for the garden today and start them in wet paper towel and then plant them…not getting many to start just planting them in the soil….think I’ll do that right now…
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Well…with the hundreds and hundreds of anti trans bill being introduced by reps across this country, I just have to ask “what the hell is wrong with these people?” Why is is any of their damn business how parents take care of their children? I have had just about enough of the religious assholes butting in where they don’t belong…and it is all from bigoted hate that they don’t even try to hide anymore…I have to applaud two state senators in Nebraska, one with a trans son, who have had enough of their bullshit and have taken it upon themselves to shut down the entire legislature by filibuster until the bill there is withdrawn…and they won’t allow any bill, even from the dems to get passed since it’s the only way to get other dems on board…and it has worked as two more have joined in the filibuster….this is how you take these hateful assholes on…straight head on…no comity, no both sides, but full on let them have it, to let them know that they are hateful assholes and they don’t belong in our society….