Well…boy, I’m worn out today…I think getting two teeth removed took a lot out of me yesterday and I’m still feeling it today…but my mouth doesn’t hurt much today so I’ll take that as a plus…just turned the turkey in the brine and spilled it all over the fridge and that sucks…but even the brine smells good so I have hope that it is going to turn out okay…just remembered to take a stick of butter out to soften it so I can make some rosemary butter to slather it in and put under the breast skin….going to eat like a lion today and I’ll probably be uncomfortable later…doing the entire t-day meal today with stuffing and green bean casserole and that will make leftovers for the next week…didn’t eat much yesterday so I can lay it on today…need to get out on the bike here in a few minutes and I hope the repaired tube in the back wheel holds up so I can get two rides in this morning….and Man U plays at three so I hope to get the meal done before then…but I need to get the two rides in so I can start getting the sides done for the meal before noon….I am enjoying reading the books I got from the used book sale…have already done a Patricia Cornwell and Jonathan Kellerman and I’m going to start another Cornwell today….helps to pass the time without watching tv all day…not much to do today…just the rides and cooking but I really should get to the leaves today, too but I’m not sure I’ll have time…it’s the last warm day of the year and I should be outside to enjoy it…there is snow in the forecast but that doesn’t bother me…it’s November in Michigan and you need to expect that….more later…
Not allowed to ride today…
Well…after I got back here from the dentist, I did what I normally don’t do…read the after procedure instructions and one of the surprises I found in them was a prohibition of any strenuous activity…and the way I ride the bike is pretty darn strenuous so I decided to take the day off the bike and just do some reading instead…one good thing that happened was that the bleeding stopped before I even got home since I had to go out to run an errand and hit aldis and two Meijers…but I was able to get butter at aldis for 2.45 a pound and I had to go to a second Meijers to get a spare tube for the bike…and they had the bike tires that I like and I got one of those since the rear that I have on the bike is wearing out and has about 15 holes in it……I was even able to eat something and it didn’t hurt or start my mouth bleeding so I’ll probably be able to have turkey tomorrow…I did put a repaired tube back in the back wheel and have checked it a couple of times today and it looks to be holding air so I can get out on the bike tomorrow…removing that loose tooth has made my bite right for the first time in years so I’ll take that for now…the problem I’m having is that I didn’t plan for meals today but I do have a box of mac and cheese I could make up and that is pretty soft and won’t hurt to eat…or maybe just some pasta…that might work….we’ll see…
Good for Michigan….
Well…just got back from getting two teeth pulled and thought I’d do one of these with probably the only bit of good news about the election…the voters of Michigan…man, you gotta love them as they turned out in force for dems and turned control of the entire government over to the dems for the first time in 40 years…yep the entire damn government here is no longer going to be run by the election denier maga repubs who lost here big time…and that is due to the fair redistricting that was enshrined in the constitution by a vote of the people in 2020 so the repubs can no longer cheat…but the repubs did win the house so we are in for nothing but bullshit for the next two years…now, the dems still have control for two months so we can still get a few things done…still not going to read much news for a while yet unless trump gets indicted…and I need that to happen right now…
November 9th
Well…still not looking at any election results but I did see that Prop 3 passed protecting women’s rights here in Michigan and governor Whitman was elected to a second term….I did see that Fetterman beat the carpetbagger Oz in Pennsylvania so that was a bit of good news…but a sense of dread is still hanging over me and I’m not going to get over that for a few days…I did wake up at 5:40 this morning and I’ve already been down to install one of the repaired tubes in the back tire of the bike but I don’t really have much hope that the repair is going to hold…so I’m going to go to Meijers after I have the teeth pulled and see if I can get another new one….and I do need to hit aldis to get butter they have on sale for 2.39 a pound and another package of brown and serve rolls since I am going to need soft food for the next couple of days…and a loaf of bread for sandwiches….I am sore from going into the wind with the flat yesterday and I am going to be even more sore from having the teeth extracted later and I’m not sure if I’m going to ride the inside bike today…I need a day off…not sure what I’m going to eat today….not going to roast the turkey until tomorrow and I don’t have any leftovers in the fridge…but I don’t feel like eating anything…should probably have some toast here in a minute to settle my stomach and have some calories to run on today but I don’t feel like it….it’s going to be a long, crappy day today and I just want it to be over….more later…
And it continues…
Well…as you’ve probably figured out, I am still isolated from the news and won’t be doing a political one today…just can’t even check at all because I have a bad feeling about it…so let’s just talk about the next damn thing that happened to me today…as I started to wind down for the day, I decided to go downstairs to check on the rear tire that I repaired and the damn thing was flat…and when I took the tube out it had a cut in it about a quarter inch long and I have no damn clue how that happened other than it just failed…have had that happen before but it wasn’t on a seam so I am confused…so, I took a couple of older tubes and put patches on them and am going to try one of those tomorrow as I try to recover from having two teeth removed…my life sucks right now and that is before I know anything about the elections….I just want this crap to end….
This day just keeps getting worse…
Well…if it wasn’t bad enough that I’m going to have two teeth removed tomorrow, this day just keeps getting worse as it goes along…when I got back here from getting groceries, I decided to get an outdoor ride in so I hopped on the bike and took off even though the wind is blowing about 15…so, I got out to the beach and headed back when the bike just felt too hard to pedal even though I was going into the wind so I reached down to feel the back tire and it couldn’t have had more than 15 lbs in it and I was almost 5 miles away from home…so I went as hard as I could to get as close to home as possible before it went flat and made it back here before it was totally flat but it still hurt like crazy to do it and it’s going to hurt even worse tomorrow…luckily, I had a new tube downstairs and I found 3 pieces of thin steel that looked like staples stuck in the tire and one of them just missed the tube protector and punctured the tube….so the crappy day is continuing…and I think I’d better eat everything hard today sine I won’t be able to anymore after tomorrow…crap, and double crap….
Damn…
Well…damn, got some bad news from the dentist this morning…have two teeth that need to come out tomorrow morning since they are so infected and won’t heal…and that is going to cost me another couple of hundred bucks and then I need to go for a consult to a periodontist the first week of December that will cost me another 4-500 bucks…so I needed to do the grocery run today since I won’t be up for it tomorrow and need to get the turkey in brine tomorrow so I can cook it Thursday, and I just got back from that…sure hope I’ll be able to eat it with the teeth gone….or I may just have to cut it up and freeze it for later after my mouth heals up some…damn, what a pain in the ass…
November 8th
Well…this is a day I have been dreading for months now…another election day and another news blackout to try to maintain my sanity….slept through the night until 6:04 and I’m not sure why that happened…but I’ll take it…sure don’t feel like I did but I hope the coffee will fix that…I did go into the 20+ mph wind yesterday so I only did one ride but my back feels like I did 12…I am so damn sore today…but I’ll be on the indoor bike here in a minute to get a ride in before I head out for my dentist appointment at 10:20…and that will be the last thing I have to do for a couple of months…and I am looking forward to that…I do need to get moving on this place and finish up the leaves in the next couple of days but my only goal today is to get through the appointment and get back here…I have all week to do the leaves so there is really no urgency…I did get the microwave and coffee maker cleaned yesterday and I’ll probably continue to work on the kitchen today…I did do a lot of reading yesterday and finished up the first book and started another one…haven’t done a lot of that for the past few years and it’s because it seems like a waste of time when I have so much to do…not much to do today…just the dental appointment and bike rides so far…other things may come up later but right now all I want to do is have more coffee but I won’t read any news…more later…
Can we hope?
Well…yeah, I’m running late today since I pampered myself and sat here for hours reading one of the books I bought at the used book sale a couple of weeks ago…and I even only did one ride today since I was going into almost 20mph winds all the way out to the beach and I know that is going to hurt later…but I did have a thought that I just remembered after I finished the book…I read somewhere that the justice department was waiting until after the election to make any indictments in the many, many investigations that are going on with the idiot trump..so, can we hope that Wednesday could be that day? There is something going on since idiot boy went off three times in the past day or so, accusing every president before him of committing the same felonies he committed when he stole the thousands of pages of documents they found in his tacky Florida resort. So, maybe it is something to hope for if we lose the elections tomorrow…I know Michigan will be fine since dems are ahead in the three top office races and in the three proposals that would enshrine voting rights, abortion rights, and term limits in the state constitution….but the idiots who are bitching about inflation as the most important topic are going to vote for repubs even though most of it is caused by greedy corporations stealing from the people…so they will get more of that if they elect repubs…and they will deserve it…I just hope I win the 2 billion dollars tonight so I can pick up and leave this country for good…geez…
A good start…
Well…had a good start to the day with getting out of here to run my errand by 8am or so…and there was no one in line at Meijers to get powerball tickets so that took about a minute…and I won 4 bucks from Saturday’s drawing so the three I got this morning only cost me 2 bucks and that is a bargain for a drawing that is going to be almost 2 billion dollars tonight…and I got a 13 pound turkey for only 7 bucks that will go into the brine Wed and I can cook it Thursday…now I’m just sitting here having my last cup of coffee before I suit up and try to get a ride in outdoors…it is a little windy but sunny and that is good enough for me…going to try to get two rides in before noon and then get to work around here….still need to clean the kitchen and will probably try that after lunch…need to use up the leftovers before I cook the turkey and I am finally going to use some of the breaded chicken tenders I got a couple of weeks ago…with steak fries and ranch to dip them in….yummy…