Well…I normally don’t watch any local news or weather, getting mine from the internet but that means I actually have to go out to the sites that have that info…and today I just didn’t get to it until just now and yow! They have what is called a storm warning on starting at 2am tomorrow and going until 2am Wed…this is something I’ve never seen before in my long life and it could get pretty wild…what the storm warning means is that there is a possibility of sustained winds of up to 50 knots, or 57 mph with gusts of up to 70 or hurricane strength…and they are predicting waves of 15-18 feet and even higher..now that would be worth the ride out to the beach tomorrow but not on the bike that’s for sure…I really hope my shingles hold up to that blast…and it’s sure the ride will be on the indoor bike tomorrow and I’m glad I got the chain lubed up this afternoon but I probably should clean it with the collection of cobwebs on it….okay, time to take it easy and take some ibuprofen…walking on the joists upstairs and bending over so much working on the insulation has tweaked my left hamstring and it hurts like crazy….ha, my computer has a little “wind” icon in the bottom banner….that’s kind of funny….
How the hell did this happen?
Well…damn, just finished putting the hinges on the door to the attic and started on leveling out the insulation and looked at the clock and it had been more than three hours since I started up there…how the hell did I go from a 5 minute job putting the hinges on to spending three hours up there and eating dust for the entire time? I think it was my cordless drill/driver going dead after only two screws were in and having to wait for it to charge up enough to finish…so, while I waited, I decided to get after leveling out the insulation that was just in piles all over the attic…had to start with getting some of the fiberglass stuff an cut it up and stuff it into the openings of the wall between the kitchen and dining room since they were open all the way down to the floor and that wall is always cold….so then I just started stuffing the fiberglass bat into the spaces between the joists and then fill around it with the blown in cellulose that was just in piles all over…got about a third of it done before the battery was charged up enough to finish the hinges and by that time the dust mask I had on was completely plugged up from all the dust up there and I had enough….so now I’ll have to get more masks before I can finish and I think I’ll do that tomorrow since I want to hit Menards for a three paddle led light for the garage they have on sale for 6 bucks to get more light in the garage…but now, I’m done for the day…
Are all old people stupid?
Well….after reading a poll that showed that 60% of people 65 and older are planning to vote for repubs in three weeks, the only thing I have to say is: are you stupid? What the hell is wrong with you people? Look, I know that most of us depend on Social Security to pay our bills and to stay alive, so why the hell are you voting for people who are going to take that away along with your Medicare? It makes no damn sense that this threat from the repubs that have been talking about doing for months is not even in the top ten things that people are concerned about according to this same poll…old folks are more concerned about inflation and gas prices than losing their SS that they paid for their whole lives…when the repubs take that away, you won’t have to worry about gas prices since you won’t be able to afford any of it…you will all be starving to death but I guess that is less important to you than Joe Biden…something, something socialism. I guess I’ll be going back to work at 70 and be working until I die….thank the repubs for that you old morons…geez…
October 17th
Well…feel like crap this morning and I’m so worn out that all I want to do is go back to bed…but I won’t…but I did just look outside and it raining and the wind is blowing like crazy so it may be the first day on the indoor torture machine today…that’s not going to happen for a while so I can drink coffee and wake up a bit….I did sleep until a little after 6 today and the only reason for that is I was not good last night but I will be today…the countdown starts for the colonoscopy today since it is a week until I feel like death prepping for it…that is the worst part…the actual procedure isn’t bad since they dope you up with propofal and you really don’t care what the hell they do…going to make a scouting run this week to find the building out on Holton road so it all goes smoothly….I do need to figure out what to eat today to go with the leftovers I have in the fridge…have one more pork loin to prepare and I just remembered that I have all the ingredients for a stir fry that I probably should make along with getting some in a marinade that I can cook for sandwiches….just got a coupon for 1.75 off a rotissarie chicken at Meijers so I can get one for about 5 bucks and that might not be a bad deal for later in the week….not much to do today…just going to sit here for a bit and have more coffee and then get to work on the pork loin….and read the news so I can find a topic for a political one later….life is a lot of work…and I’m tired….more later….
Got more books!
Well…after getting the second ride in today, I made a run over to the library to see about getting some more books and I found a bunch of hardcovers from authors I like and haven’t read yet…got another 13 books for 3 bucks it was all I could fit in the paper grocery bag they supplied…I probably could have gotten a couple more in there but I wanted to leave some for the crowds of people who were in there…so that was pretty cool…and I could still park right outside the library, too, and it’s not metered parking so it won’t cost me anything when I go there…a good day so far…and I am looking for a topic in politics…not sure if I’ll find one or not but I’ll try…more later…
October 16th
Well…darn…didn’t sleep much last night and I am feeling it right now….and I need to get out on the bike before 8 so I can be back here before Man U plays at 9…it will barely be light by then but I can’t take another day with only one ride…I think I’ll work on the inside bike today so I can ride it tomorrow with the rain that is coming in…and there is a gale warning for tomorrow with the wind forecast to be 20-40 mph all day and there is no way I’ll even consider going out in that….should be able to get two rides in before noon and I want to go over to the library again to see if there are any books left to buy at 3 bucks a bag….I’m not sure how it happened but in all of the moves I’ve lost a bunch of books and would like to replenish them….didn’t get much done yesterday and probably won’t today with all of the sports that is on…want to watch Man U and the race that’s on later but the Lions are on a bye week so that gives me a window to go to the library after the bike rides…it’s only 43 right now and I’ll have to do full thermasuit today but I’m happy the wind is only blowing about 4 out of the NW and that will make it pretty comfortable…but sunrise is not til almost 8 so I need to sit here for almost another hour…not much to do today…not going to get any work done today but I will be busy enough with the rides and the trip to the library and then the race later….the next two weeks are going to be busy with the colonoscopy, the zoom meeting with the travel agent that I need to prep for, the dentist appointment, and my big doctors appointment…can’t wait for it all to be over so I can relax for a bit….damn, I’m getting old…more later…
Dumber than a box of rocks…
Well…just wanted to do a shorty about the Georgia senatorial debate last night and the fact that Herschel Walker proved to everybody that he’s dumber than a box of rocks…it started off with him pulling out his wallet with his fake sheriffs badge on it to make some sort of a point that I don’t think anyone has figured out yet…and then he went on to bitch about the dems trying to lower the cost of insulin saying that you don’t need it…all you have to do is eat better and lose weight and it will cure itself…I guess ole Herschel doesn’t know there are two kinds of diabetes and people who have type one need insulin to stay alive and no lifestyle change will make their pancreas start producing it…he really thought this was a “gotcha” answer but it just made him look like the ignorant fool he is…and his final bit of nonsense that shows he really doesn’t know anything is when he responded that the government shouldn’t have anything to do with healthcare, making the comment that people should just have the same healthcare as senator Warnock does…is anyone going to tell him that the senator has government healthcare? I really didn’t watch this debate since I find these stupid, ignorant maga assholes not worthy of my time…oh, and one last thing…ole Herschel tried to say that he knew more about the bible and is “more religious” that the senator Reverend Ralph Warnock who is the pastor of the same church that Martin Luther King called his home…geez, this guy is just dumb…
Elon Musk is a terrible person…
Well…it it wasn’t already bad enough that ole Elon has gone full maga and joined the rest of the Putin worshipers in the repub party, this week he showed just how terrible of a person he is…after his conversation Putin earlier in the week, ole Elon started pushing the Russian line that Ukraine should “negotiate” with Russia and let them keep all of their occupied territory…and that was bad enough but his latest support of Putins terrorism by threatening to shut off his starlink internet satellites that Ukraine depends on for communication since Putin shut down internet service to Ukraine at the start of the invasion is even worse…and he says it’s just that he doesn’t want to pay for it anymore…which he hasn’t since the US government paid for it up until now…and the cost of his starlink system is going to be there even if he cuts Ukraine off since he already launched the satellites and put they system together….so what is the reason he is threatening Ukraine now? Could it be that this subject came up in his little “talk” with Putin? No matter what the reason is, it IS a reason why to tax these asshole billionaires so they can’t affect the US’s foreign policy just because they are rich….I know I’ve called for a lot of boycotts since I started this site but can you think of a better person to make less rich that ole Elon? Yeah, with this crap, I didn’t think so…I’ve even taken to not watching any of the Space x launches anymore…and I sure wouldn’t ever buy a Tesla with how crappy their quality is….and my carbon footprint from my Miata is as low as a ICE car can go with driving less than 30 miles a week so it wouldn’t help the Earth anyway….Boycott everything Elon…
That was brutal…
Well…I did get a bike ride in this morning but it was one of the most brutal rides I’ve ever done with the wind just howling…should have realized that when I could hear the wind just sitting here on the couch before I went out…I do feel like a slacker, though, when I decided to only do one ride when I was coming through the tunnel of trees out by the beach and my legs hurt so bad after a climb into the wind….but, the wind was so brutal that a ride that normally takes around an hour and 10 minutes took me an hour and a half today….and the wind was so strong that I had to shift all the way down to 2nd on the back sprockets and could barely make any headway on the point…the worst thing was when I crested the hill going to the beach and the wind was so nuts it stopped me dead and I had to ride down the hill in 3rd when I normally just coast down it to the boardwalk and get up to 20mph or so…I know I’m going to be really sore tomorrow and I may just have to take a day off…even after doing more than 5,000 miles this year, I still feel the guilt when I take any time off….and if the wind goes down, I’ll probably be out on the bike again…yeah, I’m that stupid….more later….
October 15th
Well…damn, it’s only 39 out there and I’m not sure if I want to go out on the bike with it that cold…and the wind is blowing out of the west at almost 15 so I may just wait a while even though I did go out at 42 yesterday and survived it….slept okay last night but was up at 5:11 and then out of bed by 7…had to figure out what was wrong with emby this morning to be able to have some tv to watch and it’s still screwed up with the sound not synchronized….and I haven’t had to sign in to it in years but I figured that out at least….can I take a day off? Feel pretty crappy this morning and not motivated at all so I’m not sure what I will accomplish today…didn’t do much yesterday other than go to the library and get two rides in but I should get the blinds down in the dining room and get the paper up on the windows so I can start getting them ready to paint…and I need to start prepping for the UK trip since we have a zoom meeting with the travel agent in two weeks to finalize the agenda….going to get to see Abbey Road studios and the street crossing where they took the picture for the album Abbey Road and I think were taking a day trip to Canterbury and to Stonehenge which will be pretty cool….but the planning is going to be a lot of work and I need to get started on that this weekend….not much to do today…just need to drag myself out on the bike here in a few and then figure out what I need to do for the rest of the day…and I need to reconstruct the channels on emby so I have most of the ones I used to have and that will take a while but that will be for later today….want to have coffee and read the news first…man, I’m worn out….more later…..