Well…sitting here waiting for the January 6th hearing to start and thought I’d do another one of these while I wait…I did get out to get my 30 miles miles in and that was a bit of a struggle with no break in between and the wind blowing hard from the southeast….but, I got that done and then, with the delay in the start of the hearing, I lugged the AC unit up here and installed it in the bedroom window…when I tried it out it started right up and will need to run a while to get really cold…the high is supposed to be 86 today so I may need it for later…with the double hung windows in the house, I can still open the the top pane of the window if I just need some air flow without the AC unit on…I am going to head out to the beach after the hearing is over to get a swim in and get a little sun with the heat and maybe even see a storm coming in if I get lucky…we’ll see….more later….
June 13th
Well…damn, it’s only 7 and I’m running late already….I want to get two rides in before the hearing this morning at 10 but I’m not sure if I can do that unless I get going right now…but my shoulder hurts like crazy and I must have slept wrong on it for that to happen….didn’t get out of bed til after 6:30 and that didn’t help how I slept last night…still crappy but again, not going to talk about that today….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but use up the topsoil I had left over after patching the front lawn to patch a bit of the back where the new grass died from lack of water…need to get more soil this week so I can continue to patch the dead spots….might have to get more seed, too, since I don’t think the shade seed will do too well in the full sun of the back yard…..I do want to get out to the beach this afternoon to start the summer of me and get a swim in and, if I’m lucky, watch some storms come in across the lake….need to start figuring out more things to do or I’ll be pretty bored as I was most of the day yesterday…..but I’m still scheduling things in my head and I really don’t want to do that anymore…..not sure if I’ll ever get to that point, though, and that is a little depressing….not much to do today…have to haul ass if I want to get my rides in before 10 but I’m not sure if my body will do it….I do need to think about getting my age ride in soon before my birthday next month but that won’t be today….I do need to find a doctor this week and I think that will be the focus of my efforts so I can get my checkup done and find out if I’m dying or not….hope not…more later…..
Ramifications?
Well…from what I read this morning, it appears that there is a “wide ranging” discussion going on in the DOJ abut the ramifications of indicting the idiot trump for his hundreds of crimes committed while in office….but I really don’t think that should be considered…did he break the law or not? Is there enough evidence to convict? Those should be the only questions being talked about…who cares if his thug followers are going to be mad and riot? Those are the considerations of a banana republic that is ruled by men and not by law…so, all anyone needs to do to avoid going to jail is have enough idiot followers who are armed thugs and who will riot if he’s charged? Let’s look at the ramifications if he’s not charged…he will do it again as he is doing right now…still pushing the big lie in every interview and speech and comment…and he is still pushing his rot across this country in every state where he still has repub followers who are doing his dirty work for him…and with no consequences for his sedition, if he is not charged there will be a next attempt by the repubs to make sure they are the only ones who will ever win an election again…it is already bad enough that the repubs don’t think the law applies to them, letting trump go would just reinforce that and we will get more lawbreaking with impunity and what are the ramifications for that? It was never a consideration to look at the “ramifications” when charging any other crime boss and there shouldn’t be with trump…there is more than enough evidence to convict him and that cancer needs to be cut out of this country…and the sooner the better…
June 12th
Well…not much change in sleep last night so I’m not going to talk about it today…I did get out to get the paper a little after 6 and had the top down in the fog so that was cool….I really would like to skip riding today and do a healing day but I know I won’t but I won’t do more than two rides…I did just read that they are going to dredge the sand out of the mouth of Muskegon harbor starting this week since that huge freighter ran aground on a sandbar that had formed right in the middle of the channel…and they will be putting that sand on the beaches so I may not be able to use my normal beach for a week or so…should be interesting to watch and I will be curious to see what the results will be…I guess I can still use the main beach at Pere Marquette park so no big deal….didn’t really get much done yesterday but the weed walk late in the afternoon and I am still amazed the the rain didn’t hit here at all yesterday when just to the north it poured all afternoon….so it looks like I’ll need to water the lawn today after I wet down the patches I put in Saturday….my bean plants started to flower yesterday with the cool little purple flowers so I’ll have some beans in a few weeks and I am really looking forward to it…nothing better than fresh green beans out of the garden….not much to do today…just watching races with F1 starting right now and I may put the AC unit in the window but I’m not sure…it’s supposed to be almost 90 for the first part of this week so I may need it…although I only ran it twice last year so I may just open the windows….and I do want to do at least one ride in the fog after the race but right now I just want to sit here and watch the race, have coffee, and read the news….more later…
Squirrels…
Well…have been having a little fun with the squirrels out here this spring with feeding them the stale bread that I have most of the time…it’s difficult to go through a whole loaf before it spoils and at a little over a buck, it’s cheap entertainment for me….so a couple of days ago, I finally got the female grey squirrel to come up and take a slice of bread out of my hand and that was pretty cool…and she runs toward the back door when she is in the yard and hears it…and I think this spring’s black squirrel litters are starting go out on their own…I have a little one that I threw a slice to yesterday and he seemed to like it…but then a huge brown squirrel chased him and took the bread away…that guy must have been 4-5 times bigger than the black one and I thought he might have scared him away but he’s back today so that is cool…and I just tossed a couple of slices out there for any squirrels or birds that happen on them…kind of fun to have them hang out in the yard and chase each other around…..
June 11th
Well…running a bit late this morning with tossing and turning all night and not getting out of bed til almost 6:30 but feel like I didn’t sleep at all…crap….I did get some work done yesterday with taking the moss out of the lawn in the front of the house and re-seeding it with some shade grass to see if I can get it to fill in…and I even used the shade seed on the terrace that had dead spots from all the crap they put on it when they dug the street up…and Tom came over for a nice visit and brought his dog who has more damn energy than I can believe…and I wish I had that much but feel like I’m running on empty….I did get two rides in yesterday and didn’t even consider doing three so that’s progress on my part….there was a cruise ship docked down the hill in Heritage landing yesterday and that was a little weird…I mean there is not much to do here and no attractions that I would want to see on a cruise ship stop….and all of the people that I saw getting off were my age at least or older and they just stood around on the dock since it is too far for oldsters to walk to any restaurant or bar…..hmmm….not much to do today….just need to get on the bike here in a few minutes to get the day started and then just take it easy most of the day….I do have to cook for lunch today…or have leftovers…not sure which but I know I do have to figure out meals for Monday and get something out of the freezer but that’s not much work….more later….
Two days to get the new tabs…
Well…I sure like doing all my secretary of state stuff online…I hadn’t gotten my renewal notice from the state for my car plate renewal tabs and was getting concerned that it wouldn’t get to me in time for the tabs to get here by my birthday next month so I went online to order them Wednesday of this week and they just showed in the mail today…and that is pretty cool…only two days from ordering and I have them in my hand…pretty damn efficient and I didn’t have to go into the SOS office to do it or to renew my drivers license that also came in less than a week after I ordered it…no more standing in line for an hour at a busy office…yay…
January 6th hearing….
Well…I read a lot of the news every day…maybe too much but I was still surprised at the new facts that were presented during the first January 6th hearing last night. While everyone felt that the idiot trump was the center of all of it, in this first hearing it was made explicitly clear that the whole damn thing was directed by idiot boy through his minions in the repub party and they all knew they were breaking the law with the bombshell that most of the repub house members who voted against certifying the votes then asked for pardons before the idiot was out of office….and trump himself was told multiple times that he was spewing a lie when he said the election was “stolen” from him but he didn’t care since he was doing everything he could to stay in office including committing treason. One of the things that I didn’t like was the elevating of Mike Pence to some sort of here for doing his ceremonial job and certifying the electoral votes…let’s just remember that he had his head up trump’s ass for 4 years and said nothing about all of the crimes that were being committed in that 4 years…and then the lionization of Liz Cheney for doing her damn job…I do appreciate what she is doing now, but lets remember that until this committee work, Cheney was just another super right wing repub who loved tax cuts for the rich and hated on LGBTQ people just like the rest of the repub party….I think the committee did a good job in laying out the overview of what is going to be revealed in the next 5 hearings and making the clear point that it was all trump…and without him none of this would have happened….and that is the most damning piece of information of all…
June 10th
Well…damn, it only in the 40’s again out there and I am not going to get on the bike in the 40’s anymore….and I think I’ve earned a late start today with doing 60 miles yesterday…and I hurt my back somehow and it is really stiff today…one of the new pains I talked about yesterday that I don’t normally feel after a long ride day…I did sleep okay last night and stayed in bed til almost 6:30 after waking up at 5 or so and I really don’t expect much better than that anymore…I would like to be surprised with a solid 8 hour night but, as time goes on, I know that is not going to happen…didn’t get a lot done yesterday…yeah, that’s not right…60 miles and mowing the lawn is a lot to do in one day but I didn’t get work done I guess is what I meant….but I don’t have a lot to do outside other than weed the garden and I may put the rest of the food on the lawn today to take advantage of the rain that we are supposed to get Sunday….the shade grass that I put in the front of the house really came in great and I wonder if I should try to take the moss out and re-seed where it is? I think I need some more topsoil to do that and I think I’ll get a couple of bags next week so when I get the bug to do it, I’ll have the stuff I need….not much to do today…I am going to do one on the first January 6th hearing that was held last night and all I’ll say now is if you are not watching, you should be….I think I’ll only do two rides today even though the weather is nice to make sure that I don’t do damage to my body…and if I don’t have cocktails or eat peanuts, I don’t need to burn the calories….I do need to do laundry and cook today…going to have a marinated pork chop, asparagus, and rice for lunch…yummy,,,,more later….
I made it to 60 miles…
Well…damn, 60 miles today…and that was not in the plan at all…but after I got to 45 early in the afternoon, I just had to try it….and it wasn’t bad…still had energy left to be able to sprint on the way back…no dead legs or other problems other than I have a few new pains that I don’t normally get doing shorter distances….but, I can live with them…and now I have to figure out if I keep this up just to see how long I can go doing 4 rides a day….or not…I probably should start doing some other things as I talked about the other day…have lots of cleaning to do and I want to replace the lattice on the front steps with solid boards to make it look a little more modern…oh, and with the 60 miles today, I went over 2,000 miles for the year to get to one third of the goal….I’m sure glad I got the new tire for the back of bike since this one will only last until about October at the rate I’m going…okay, done for the day…need to get a couple of things done before the hearings start….