Well…that was kind of okay….didn’t wake up til 5:20 and was able to go back to sleep until a little after 6 and even had a dream in that short time so I’ll take it…but my back and trunk still hurt so I am moving a little gingerly today like I have for almost a month now…I will ask the doctor about it tomorrow but I don’t think he can or will do anything about muscle aches…and I’m going to hurt it again here in about an hour when the sun comes up since it is already 50 and I need to beat the rain that is coming in around 9 or so….and that will set me up to get a second ride in after I run an errand after the first ride…the powerball is up over a billion dollars so I need to get 3 tickets…but that means I need to hit the bank first and then need to get fuel for the car and for the string trimmer/edger since I want to to the final trimming of the yard this week…and I want to make a run out to menards to pick up a couple more led lights for the downstairs so I’ll have light in my work area…and they have the adjustable ones for 3 bucks and I can’t pass that up….and I need more lawn bags for the rest of the leaves so I can get them all picked up by the end of November when they stop picking up yard waste….so it will be a busy day at least this morning and then I need to cook today since the leftovers have run out….finally making the pork stir fry for lunch or maybe for dinner…not sure when yet….not much to do today…just the rides and errands…didn’t clean any yesterday so I should do that today…my daughter is sending me some gently used and new clothes later in the week and I’m a little excited about that….most of them are name brand stuff that I just won’t spend the money on like under armor and north face and I feel like Christmas is coming early for me….more later….
The repubs did this….
Well…I’m sure you’ve read by now that a maga asshole attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband with hammer in their home Friday, putting him in the hospital with a skull fracture and brain damage…and this criminal was looking to kill Nancy and was radicalized by the repubs incessant pushing of the big lie that trump won the election and that Nancy and the rest of the dems are pedophile groomers who eat children and that Nancy is the ringleader….and the repubs are so bad that not one of them said anything about this attack, nothing, not condolences, no condemnation for the attempted murder and even went on to attack Pelosi and her husband while he was in surgery with the possibility of dying. Now, this is exactly where the repubs knew this was going as they rile their crowd of troglodyte morons every damn day…this is what they want…they can’t convince anyone to vote for them on policy since they have none but tax cuts for the rich so they cause crime and then blame it on the dems…and the moron voters eat it up even when most of these voters are old and on SS that they are going to take away…fear is the only thing they have and the problem is it works for them and has for decades…so don’t listen to them…the only crime that is up is caused by the repubs…and that is a fact…geez…
Hard rides today…
Well…sitting here watching the Lions and they are up 21-7 in the first half and I really don’t know what to think about that….I did get two outdoor rides in this morning but they were the hardest I’ve done in a long time…not hard in going hard but hard to get through since my legs were so flat…from the start of the first ride my legs were not doing what I expected and by the middle of the second they were in pain and it was a struggle to get back here with my left sciatica pinched since I have very little padding left back there…and I was up off the seat about every 100 yards to just deal with the pain and my back even started to hurt…so this is starting to concern me because it’s like nothing I’ve felt before…at least I have a doctor’s appointment Tuesday so I can ask about it…whatever it is, I sure don’t like it at all…
October 30th
Well…feel pretty crappy this morning and the coffee hasn’t started to work and that is not a good combination….my back isn’t as bad this morning but it still hurts all around my trunk a bit…even into my abs and I’m still wondering if it was just going into the wind that hurt everything…still haven’t taken anything for it and I’m going to try to get through the day again without painkillers for some reason….slept okay last night but don’t feel like it right now…just so frickin worn out that I could just curl up on the couch and watch tv all day but I know I won’t….need to get out on the bike by 9 or so to get two rides in outdoors today but the temp needs to come up about 5 degrees before that…it’s only 36 out there right now so I will have some time to have coffee and read the news….only got the small bit of yard work done yesterday and I will need to clean in here today to keep the guilt at bay but I sure don’t want to right now…don’t have to cook today with the leftovers that are in the fridge but I will need to plan for tomorrow and the rest of the week…I am going to make stir fry pork tomorrow but need a second meal for a few days and I’m not sure what that will be yet…need to look in the freezer to see what’s there…there is no protein in the ads for the week so I’ll have to empty the freezer…something I wanted to do anyway….there are pork loin pieces in there to use and I did pick up some breaded chicken strips last week that are loaded with calories but are handy that should keep me going for a while….not much to do today…just going to ease into the day as I wait for the sun to come up and to get on the bike….and I need to get the bills set up to be paid and I’ll do that while I’m watching the races and Man U today….have already read the paper and it’s only 7:15 and I really do need lots more coffee….more later…
Let’s wave our stupidity like a flag…
Well…just when I think the repubs can’t get and dumber, they do shit like sit out all night “watching” ballot drop boxes for some damn reason…what the reason is, I don’t know…are they trying to stop people from shoveling millions of ballots into them? Do they think that sitting there in their cosplay camo with their guns is going to intimidate anyone from dropping off a ballot? God, these guys are dumb and have been spoon fed the stuffing drop boxes lie by fox news, Oan, and the other right wing lie sites that they exclusively listen to and now they are sitting out there in the middle of the night thinking they are “protecting the vote”…hey guys, I have a clue for you…do you remember stamps? You know those little things that you put on the corner of an envelope and that allows you to drop a letter, postcard, or even a ballot into the US mail…are you going to watch all of those, too…you are some dumb sons of a bitches…at least you’re not shooting up some school somewhere…and that’s a good thing…
Got a lot done and it’s only noon…
Well…not sure why, but I’ve got a lot done and it’s only noon….started it out with getting on the bike downstairs and doing a hard ride….but it was still too cold to get an outside ride in but it wasn’t too cold to go out and get the yard work done, so I suited up and headed out to use damn near all my tools to chop up that big branch that fell last week…and it was pretty easy since it was an old rotted branch and my axe made short work of that…the I had some tree trimming to do and got that done and chopped up those branches and put them in the bag and then put my tomato cages and stakes away so the yard is almost ready for winter…then I got on the bike outside and got a nice ride in and then back here to heat up some lunch that I am waiting for right now….not sure what else I’m going to do but I should do the kitchen floor…and I might…need to think about it, though….more later…
October 29th
Well…I guess that was okay…only up twice overnight and then out of bed a little after 6 and that is pretty normal for those days when I am good…but my back hurts constantly and that is new…it has been hurting off and on for the past month but having pain just walking around is new…and it’s is going into spasms right now just sitting here…I probably should talk to my doctor about it Tuesday to see what can be done….and I need to work outside today to chop up a huge rotten tree branch so I can get it out with the leaves along with trimming some other branches that need it…and that is not going to help my back..although, doing all the leaves the other day didn’t really make it worse so maybe I can get away with it…damn I hate talking about how I hurt….and I hate hurting like this….oh, well….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but the two rides and laundry and today I’ll throw some cleaning in before F1 qualifying and the other races….and there is some soccer in there, too, but Man U doesn’t play til tomorrow so I guess I can work around the other games…not much to do today…have about a half hour before I need to get on the indoor bike since it is too cold to go outside right now at 35 degrees but I will be out there by 10 or so when it’s above 40…it was nice to get the zoom meeting for the trip done yesterday and it is starting look like a lot of fun…going to be good for the next three days to try to get my blood pressure down for the doctor’s appointment and I have to remember to not have coffee Tuesday morning…that should help, too….oh, it’s a leftover day today so I don’t have to cook so I don’t have to talk about it, either….more later…
Doctor shortages are coming to red states…
Well…with the Dobbs decision from the SC that killed Roe, the intended consequence is that all red states have passed laws or had them on the books that would ban abortion…and some of them have already passed laws banning teaching doctors how to perform them…and that has had the unintended consequence of setting up a conflict with the organizations that set what doctors need to be trained in to be able to have an MD…meaning that doctors trained in red states will only be able to practice in red states, and that is causing an exodus of top MD candidates out of the red states…but it is not only limited to those choosing OB/GYN as their speciality but a recent poll shows that almost 70% of those heading into med school, no matter what they are specializing in won’t learn or practice in a red state that bans abortion….and what that means is that there is a massive doctor shortage coming to red states since most doctors want be able to live and work anywhere they want and that means they need to be accredited to do that. With their religious zealotry, the repubs are setting their citizens up for substandard care if they can get any care at all…but I’m sure they don’t care…after all, if they did they wouldn’t have taken rights away from more than 50% of the population in their states…and this goes along with the closures of hundreds of hospitals in red states that are closing since they refused the money that comes with Medicaid expansion that would have saved them….so I guess it doesn’t matter that they won’t have any doctors…they won’t have any hospitals to work in anyway….just frickin brilliant, repubs….
Just a little weird….
Well…I forgot to talk about this weird little thing in the earlier post this morning…late in the day yesterday, I checked the mail and had a small envelope from Spectrum Health that was hand addressed and that was weird in itself, but when I opened it, it got ever weirder when it was from the staff that worked on me when I had my colonoscopy…and they thanked me for being such a nice patient and for doing the prep so well that it made their job easier…and every person that I came into contact that day signed the card, too….that sure seems a little strange to me…but a nice little touch…
This is how you tell…
Well…with the explosion of political ads running up to the election on the 8th, I really need to give you a little primer on how to decipher them and make them easier to understand…it’s very simple…if the ad is attacking a dem, it’s a lie…and if the ad is supporting a repub, it’s also a lie..see, that’s how easy it is….so don’t be confused or let some repub lie filled advertising sway your vote…you know one true thing, and that is the dems work for the people to make their lives better and deal with society’s problems while the repubs only work to make people’s lives worse as they give the country away to their big donors and take rights away from everyone but their base…and you can take them at their word for that…they’ve already taken the rights to privacy away from women and they are now going to gut SS and Medicare to give tax cuts to the rich..those are facts that no amount of lies in advertising is going to change…so tune out the ads and vote with that one truth in your mind…the dems will make things better, and the repubs will make things worse…that’s all you need to know….geez…