Well…I finally talked to the dentist this morning and ouch….going to spend 400 bucks tomorrow on work that is not covered but I planned on spending a grand out of pocket this year so that leaves me with 600 more to spend for what the insurance won’t cover…at least I’m getting started on the work and will probably be in pain for most of the summer but that’s okay…I’m in pain all the time right now so that won’t be any change….and I feel better with the uncertainty gone about the work starting…so I go in at 11 tomorrow morning to get started….more later….
June 20th
Well…damn, what a sucky day yesterday…only heard from two of my kids and I guess I’ll never hear from two of them again….but I shouldn’t bitch too much when T’s mom is in the hospital and not doing well…perspective…..slept okay last night and didn’t get out of bed til 6:30 or so and I’m still having trouble getting started with just pouring my first cup of coffee…and I put my grandpa coffee cup away since I’m not considered one anymore….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I think I need to mow the lawn today after the bike rides….haven’t been feeling too hot the past few days and I think I may need a rest day here soon…and I may have to just let go and stop scheduling my days so tightly…I wish that could be today but I know it’s not going to happen….I do need to find out what the hell is going on with the dentist since it’s been over a month since my first appointment and haven’t heard a peep from them since….and I need to find a doctor and head over to Verizon tomorrow to give them one last chance to keep my business before I move to a new carrier that is much cheaper….so, if I accomplish those things I’ll consider this a successful week….not much to do today….just need to get started somehow and get on the bike for the first ride but don’t want to….still pretty depressed and it seems like that is happening all the time recently….and that sucks….more later….
Feeling better…
Well…damn, I really can’t remember getting on the bike feeling as lousy as I did this morning…but I gutted my way through it and felt quite a bit better after the second ride…had to think about why I felt so crappy and part of it was only about 1200 calories a day for three days straight and, with doing 30 miles a day, that is just not enough…so I started to rectify that this morning with making some toast with peanut butter after the first ride and pouring down all of the coffee I had left…and now F1 is coming on so I’ll end here for now…more later…
June 19th
Well…damn, feel like crap this morning and did it to myself…and that makes me feel even worse…..my right foot is swelled up like every time I do this stupid crap and I wonder how I keep doing this at my advanced age? Shouldn’t I have this figured out? Crap, crap, crap…..at least I had the top down on the car when I went out to get the paper this morning and that woke me up a bit….got some bad news from T at 5 am this morning…her mom fell down the stairs at her house and broke her arm in two places…what else is she going to have to go through? I feel so bad for her and her mom…and that puts my small troubles in perspective….another crap….I don’t want to get on the bike this morning…I really don’t want to do anything….can I just sit here on my couch? Nope…..is there a reset button I can push for my brain? It seems that’s what I need today but if I don’t get on the bike my day will be bathed in guilt and I’ll feel even worse…didn’t get anything done yesterday but laundry and the day feels like such a waste….I did do 30 on the bike but that is the minimum now it seems…okay, this has gotten to be too much work and I don’t want to do it anymore….and it’s father’s day and I’ll only hear from my daughter….not from the boys…how crappy is that? More later….
They are just so damn dumb…
Well…just running through my twitter feed and this jaw dropper from the official repub party twitter account just made me shake my head…”1101 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 10,528 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in May alone. Joe Biden is allowing drugs to continue to pour through our southern border because of his open border policies.”
Now, does anyone else spot the problem with this stupid statement…okay, I’ll wait…there you go, I think the key word is “seized” hey, GOP seized means it was stopped at the border and didn’t “pour” into the country…are all of you that damn dumb? It sure appears that way when you continue to try to make a scandal of people doing their jobs and stopping drugs AT THE BORDER….cripes, this crap is getting so stupid I just want to bang my head against the wall until it is so damaged that I can then think at the level of these morons…please don’t vote for them anymore….geez…
Another, different cruise ship?
Well…on the way back from the first ride today, I noticed that there was another, different cruise ship docked at the pier down the hill from me and I still think that’s kind of weird….there is still nothing to see or do here so why stop? This ship was also a nice blue and white that looked pretty cool and looked quite new so I wonder how they make money on the great lakes? Must be an expensive cruise…hmmmm…I did get two rides in and washed the bike and then re-lubed the chain that I used my brass detailing brush and dish soap to scrub clean first…so that is drying now and will be ready to go in the morning for the first ride tomorrow but I am still trying to figure out when I get a day off to rest a bit with no rain in the forecast for an excuse….okay, I need to read some news for a topic on politics and then come back in a bit….
June 18th
Well…that was okay, slept pretty good last night and didn’t get out of bed til 6:24 so that is a big win for me….and nothing hurts too much and that is a bonus…I do feel that I got some sunburn from the beach yesterday but that was the plan…and I got burned even with having 30 sunscreen on from the bike rides….but no beach today…did 5 days in a row and I think my skin needs a rest as I do….darn, it’s only 52 degrees out there right now so it will be a fleece morning when I get on the bike and I need to have lots more coffee before I do that….didn’t get much work done yesterday but get some more grass seed and dirt put in and probably won’t do much today other than water the lawn to try to keep it alive….need to take a look to see when F1 qualifying is on so I can make sure I have the bike rides done before then….I really like the ham that I got for 1.88 from DD this week and even better, it came in some reusable containers that are pretty cool and that I can use….they are an unusual size that is between all of the other containers I have and I may just go back there Monday and get a few more….will need to find some room in the freezer but they don’t take up a lot so I think I can do it….and it will be nice to have easy food that I don’t have to cook….not much to do today…going to get on the bike here in a few minutes and then let the day just kind of happen…feel pretty worn out this morning and really don’t want to think much or plan anything…..I think the 30 miles a day is starting to wear on me but I’m not sure how I can take some time off to get some rest….the guilts are hard to fight….more later….
They all knew and did nothing…
Well…one of the things that we didn’t know before the January 6th committee investigation is that every damn repub knew that what trump was doing was illegal…and to a one, they did nothing about it…no call to the FBI, no resignations with information given to the media, no nothing….and that is the difference between the dems and repubs…the repubs are so self centered, the only way they think is about themselves and how anything they do will affect them…not what is best for the country, not what they can do to protect the US, no thought of the oath they take when they are sworn in, but just how it will affect them…and that is just wrong. And all of the congratulations that Pence is being given for not committing a crime when certifying the electoral votes is just bullshit…where the hell was he when all of the other criminal activity was going on? Why didn’t he say a frickin word while trump was impeached twice? He knew what was going on and did nothing as did every other repub…did you hear anything about one of these pricks saying anything about trump’s illegal behavior until they were delivered subpoenas from the committee? The time for these cynical bastards to come forward was back in 2020 when the plot started, not wait until they were forced to talk by the committee…so let’s just stop lionizing these assholes that should have cared more for their country than their own asses….but that is too much to ask of repubs these days…geez…
June 17th
Well…that was a little better…only woke up once last night and stayed in bed til 6:23 so I’ll take that any day….must not have slept on my right shoulder much since it doesn’t hurt much today…still hurts but not enough to do anything about it….and I didn’t have to run the ac unit last night with it being cooler than the past few days but it looks like we’re heading back to the mid to upper 80’s in the next week or so and I have been waiting for that weather for quite a while…just wish it would rain like every other day so I don’t have to spend all that cash to keep the lawn alive…but it’s not in the forecast for the next couple of weeks so I can hear the money going out with the clacking of the water meter…..oh, well…I did get out to the beach yesterday but only for a short time since I wanted to see the hearings but I still got a little burned even with sunscreen on so I’ll need to go up to 50 from 30 today…the water was cold but nice and I got a 20 minute swim in…and there were very few people at the beach so I had a 30 yard stretch all to myself…have never been out there on a weekend and I wonder if I should give it a try tomorrow? Not sure if I want to deal with the crowds or even if I can get a parking spot if I go out after noon…not much to do today…I probably should get at patching the lawn since I have the topsoil and seed to do it but I’m not sure if I want to…could probably do a little to keep the guilt at bay….and I’ll have time after the beach trip if I can get on the bike by 7:30….I am going to take a day to just do what I want soon…so does that mean I don’t want to get on the bike everyday? I don’t think so but I am getting pretty fatigued with doing 30 every day….and I wonder if I’m doing permanent damage by riding so much…but, I’ve said that before and yet here I am…dragging myself out in 4 minutes to start it again….more later…
January 6th hearing…
Well…have been watching the January 6th hearings to try to find a topic for this afternoon…without a lot of luck since the hearing seems to not be going anywhere….and this judge Luttig is just too verbose and doesn’t make a lot of sense to me….damn, he could put me to sleep if I’m not careful….I guess what the gist of it is is that no one believed that the vp could choose the president other than the idiot trump but they all tried to make it happen anyway….so, I’m still watching but I think they could have made this point in about 5 minutes and moved on to something else….we know that idiot boy tried and tried to pressure pence to do something illegal that he wouldn’t do…but lets not make Pence out to be a hero here…he spent 5 years being the biggest trump suck up and going along with all of his criminality so doing one thing right does not make him a hero…there have been some tantalizing bits about how Eastman had his hooks into the SC and that he expected there to be real acceptance of his scheme there and ginni thomas was right in the middle of that as can be shown by all of the texts and e-mails she sent to Eastman….so yeah, maybe a little new information but nothing too earthshaking….other than the committee now wants to talk to ginni thomas about her role…so a little progress…..hmmmm…