Well…damn, forgot to make coffee last night and now I’m sitting here waiting for it and that is not a good thing…I think I slept through the whole night last night last night and it’s the weirdest feeling for me…woke up at 6:23 but stayed in bed til 7:21 but I really don’t feel refreshed…but that is from not being good last night but I don’t mind…it’s only 40 out there so I will probably do the first ride indoors today….but the high is only going to be 48 so maybe both inside? Who knows….I’m feeling the need to take a day off after all the work yesterday but that is reserved for Sunday…had two meals yesterday and I’m thinking that is too much so I’m going back to one today….need to stay under 1K calories for the rest of my life it seems to be able to maintain my weight…I wonder what it would be like to be a normal person and eat three meals a day? Okay, just poured the first cup of coffee and it needs to work right now….who decided that three meals a day is normal? That’s a little jumbled I know but I talk about thoughts when they come to me….not much to do today…just need to get the rides in and clean a bit but I am going to allow myself to not get started til 9 or so…pretty worn out today and would love to just sit here for the day…but, I won’t…one of these days I’m going to just live before I run out of days to do that….more later…
Got the new kitchen table…
Well…got the new stainless steel kitchen prep table my daughter sent me and I have it put together and in the kitchen…it’s the perfect height so I don’t have to lean over to chop veggies and it’s big enough that I can put the instant pot on one end and still have room to do all the prep work for soup or whatever else I cook…and it is the same height as the window sills in there so I can open them and get a breeze when I cook…only took 5 minutes to put it together and it is sturdy enough to hold 900 pounds…can’t wait to do a pizza crust on it or maybe even some bread…won’t have to cook in the dining room anymore…other than that, I got two bike rides in today then made lunch…after that I mowed the lawn and put the grub killer on it so it’s been another busy day that I am going to end soon…and I am going to reward myself with a couple of cocktails with tv tonight…I think I’ve earned it….
That’s it, Joe…
Well…with the debt ceiling being held hostage by the moron repubs in the House, Joe Biden came out yesterday and essentially say that any of the cuts that mccarthy wants as ransom for not crashing the world economy are not going to happen…and the polls support what Joe and the dems have to say…and that’s the US shouldn’t default on it’s debt…to the tune of 70% of the people polled…and mccarthy has to remember the last time the repubs got us so close to default that our credit rating was crashed for the first time in our history…and the repubs lost in a bloodbath in the next election…but the stupid bomb throwers in the repub caucus just don’t care…unless everything that Joe has done is reversed, they will crash the economy…I think that every one of the dems that get in front of a microphone have to do is hammer the point home that it is the repubs who are holding the world hostage and they will be the ones responsible if there is a default…we need to get better at messaging and make sure the blame fall squarely on mccarthy’s head….geez…
April 21st
Well…running late today with waking up at 5:41 but not getting out of bed til 7:21…I sure needed that after two days of not sleeping well…I wasn’t good last night so I’m feeling it today and I’m not sure when I’ll get out on the bike…it’s almost May and it’s 44 out there right now and it’s even going to be colder tonight…when the hell is spring coming? The good report from my dentist yesterday was a bit of a surprise but I’ve been working hard on my teeth so maybe I’ve earned it…only one more procedure to go and life will be back to as normal it I can be…didn’t get much done yesterday but the rides and dentist and I will probably take it easy today, too…need to cook some chicken today since it’s been in the fridge for a week and I don’t want it to spoil….and I’ll need it for Sunday and Monday since I can’t have any fatty foods before the MRI on Tuesday….I am debating whether to do a full thermasuit and get out on the bike early today…it’s 44 and I sure don’t want to be cold…I’m pretty sore today and riding is going to make it worse but I have to…the heating pad has been working miracles so I have that to look forward to….not much to do today…just want to have more coffee and sit here for a bit before I make any decisions…the gamble of putting in the garden early appears to be a mistake and I’m going to have to start over…crap…more later….
They really don’t want the voice of the people heard…
Well…with the repubs on the losing end of many popular citizens initiatives like the ones in Michigan that took away gerrymandering from them and enshrined a woman’s right to control her own body along with protecting LGBTQ rights here, in other states they see this as the danger that it is too them…and what is their response? Not to bow to the will of the people and allow the majority to get what they support, nope their newest attacks on democracy is to take away the rights of the people to even be heard by citizen initiative in red states that they control to ensure minority control of their states. In Ohio, where abortion rights have 60% support of the public, and the constitution give people the right to put changes on the ballot, they are trying to change the constitution to make it almost impossible for supporters of abortion rights or opponents of gerrymandering to get those popular things on the ballot and then in the constitution….as I’ve said many times before, the only way the repubs can win is to cheat…that’s how they controlled the government here in Michigan for 40 years…by cheating until the people said enough and got rid of the gerrymandering that made us one of the worst state in the US…and now they want to do the same thing to Ohio…and it’s nothing but cheat all the time for them…since they have no ideas that anyone wants anymore…let’s get rid of them…and right now…geez…
Good news with the teeth…
Well…just got back from getting my teeth cleaned and had a bit of good news…I’ve made so much progress with them that they don’t need to see me again until next January…only the periodontist to see in July and then we’re back on a normal schedule and won’t lose any more teeth….I think that may deserve a cocktail tonight and I just might break my streak….what a relief…at first, my dentist thought I’d lose all my teeth but not anymore….not sure if I’m going to have another meal today with the big one I had for lunch…we’ll see…and yes I am reading the news for a topic….
Starship go boom…
Well…again, even though I hate elon….it was cool to see the super heavy with starship take off this morning…but, that was about all that was good about it…the first and second stage failed to separate and the whole thing started to tumble so it was destroyed…one good thing was the look on ole elon’s face sitting in the control room when it blew…poor, poor, elon…I’ll do one in politics when I get back from having my teeth cleaned at 2…
Starship is launching…
Well…as much as I hate elon, starship is launching this morning around 9:30…in about a half hour…
April 20th
Well…that was better…went to bed at the normal time last night and only woke up twice…at 1:40 and 5:07…then stayed in bed til 6:17 after I smelled the coffee…had dreams all night and that was cool…it was about inventing a new game that changed every time you played it and all players had input on what would change as the game evolved…yeah, have no clue where that came from…have never been into RPG’s but I’ll take it…probably why I feel refreshed this morning…it looks like the rides will be indoors today with a line of storms coming in here in a half hour or so…it will be warm enough to go outside but after the pain I got from the wind yesterday, I don’t want to compound that today….and I have a teeth cleaning at 2 this afternoon so I need to be done by one or so…I may be able to put the top down on the car going to the appointment but will have to seal the car up while I’m there with forecasts of rain and storms all day….it was pretty funny moving the heating pad on me all night last night to hit the five spots of pain I had from the ride…even my right knee started to hurt and that never happens….but no pain this morning so the heat must have worked…not much to do today….just need to read some news and have coffee right now and get on the bike by 8….second night of being good has me feeling okay today but I may break that tonight…or maybe not, who knows? More later…
Got a bunch of stuff done…again…
Well…I don’t know whey I keep doing these when it seems that every day is a day I get a bunch of stuff done….started out with the grocery runs and then when I got back here, I took the cover off the garden to see that I’ve lost almost all of the tomatoes but I have a lot of them downstairs still so I may be able to salvage that…then I made a chicken stir fry for lunch and I think my taste is still limited since it just didn’t have the flavor it used to have…then out on the bike outdoors for a brutal ride at 45 degrees with a 20 mph wind blowing from the NE on the way back…and lets add in a little rain for the last 5 miles coming back….so, there was no way I was going to get back on the bike outside since it nearing the end of April and I’m still wearing almost full thermasuit to go outside….so then I went downstairs and put 8 in for 23 miles today and I can live with that…it was supposed to get over 60 today but it’s not going to get there but I hope it does tomorrow….but I’m done for the day…going to just have a chicken sandwich for dinner since I do need to eat something to support all the running and miles today…going to take another day off tonight and be good and will try to stretch that all the way to next Tuesday….