Well…I wonder how much evidence the feds have of the idiot trump’s crimes to be able to get a judge to sign off on a warrant to raid his tacky golf club in Florida? That just happened a little while ago…a no knock raid by the FBI who broke into idiot boy’s safe and everything…okay, I can’t stop laughing…and idiot boy is out there on his twitter clone whining his ass off that he is being persecuted and the Russia investigation and the two impeachments were all a hoax and he is the most persecuted person in the history of the country…blah, blah, blah….the feds must be getting close and I am curious which of his hundreds of crimes this is about? That should come out in a couple of days and I am going to smile all that time as I wait…ha,ha,ha…..about time…
It’s been a day…
Well…after having to wait til around 10 this morning to get out for the first ride with the rain that we got…yep, we actually got rain here last night and today…and the wind was blowing almost 25 out of the west and I looked like a damn mime trying to ride into it out on the point..all the way down to 3rd on the back sprockets which I normally only use on the steep climbs, and that went on all the way out to the beach and the waves it was making were huge but there is no way I’d ever get in the water like that out here….but the way back on both rides was fun and I got into 24th gear (high) at the top of the hill by the country club and ran that all the way back to the bottom of the hill by Heritage Landing….almost 4 miles wide open and when I got back here I was soaked with sweat and then proceeded to mow the lawn and do some other outside work that needed to be done…about 5 hours of work including the bike rides and I am dehydrated again with my toe starting to scream at me with a bit of the gout again…but, the weather has changed and the humidity that made the air thick enough to cut with a knife has dissipated…don’t even need the fan on and it is getting down into the 50’s tonight so I’ll close this joint up except for my bedroom window….it was nice to get some things done this afternoon and I even picked some tomatoes…both cherry and big ones and had one for a snack this afternoon…still aren’t going to get a lot off the plants this year so that is a little disappointing…there are still lots of cherries on the plants so I guess I’ll have lots of those….I wonder if I should cut up some of those and add them to mac salad I made this afternoon? Need to see a recipe to see if they will work before I do….end time….no more later…
Now what are they going to run on?
Well…the plan for the repubs for this fall’s election was to hammer the dems on inflation and gas prices…blaming Biden for all of it when inflation is world wide and high gas prices are a result of price gouging by the oil companies. But, guess what? With reports out this morning, the expectations for inflation to moderate back to pre pandemic values by early next year and gas prices have been falling for 60 days in a row now and are under 4 bucks a gallon out here…so now what are the repubs going to run on? Making sure diabetics have to pay thousands for insulin instead of the 35 dollars a month cap that the dems wanted? Or gutting Medicare and Social Security like ole Ron Johnson the senator from Wisconsin has just publicly stated and that is the holy grail of shredding the social safety net that the repubs want….I guess they can run on being against everything that the dems want but most of it is pretty popular so that probably won’t work….more guns on the street? 80% of the country doesn’t want that…outlawing abortion in the states? 70% of the US doesn’t want that so that won’t work…look, they have nothing but hatred to run on in this election and I think the US is getting tired of that bullshit…so maybe this could be a good election for us especially after getting the inflation act passed…once people know what is in it, they will love it…and not one repub voted for it…but that hasn’t stopped them from lying and taking credit for it and the good things it will do….it’s what they do every time…geez….
It’s 8:30 and I’m still sitting here…
Well…it’s almost 8:30 and I’m still sitting here waiting out the rain….it looks like it is going to be raining for an hour or so and that is going to put me so late for getting things done today that I’m vibrating while I wait to get started…I can’t remember the last time I’ve had to wait in the morning…was supposed to yesterday but the rain never came so I was able to get out on the bike twice before 10…but that is not going to happen today…and I need to stop whining about it…you would think that at my advanced age I would know how to relax and just take the day as it comes but I can’t…will only riding once kill me? It may…who knows? I do know that I don’t like just sitting here….more later….
August 8th
Well…hmmm…another 5:38 morning today and I wonder if that will ever change? It’s raining out there…yay! So I have an hour or so to just sit here and that’s harder than it looks….one of these days I’m going to take a day off the bike but I don’t think it will be today….need to burn those calories and keep losing weight so I can get to the goal of 170 in the next couple of months….had a wasted day yesterday where I only did the rides and nothing else and that is a little disappointing for me…I have work to do but just didn’t want to do it….but I will get the lawn mowed today after the rain and bike rides and may even clean some around here…I sure hope the damn humidity goes down some after the rain comes through…have been sweating for the past 5 days and I am getting tired of it…and I’ve had to run the fan in here all day just to make it tolerable and that gets tiring, too….not sure if I’ll get out to the beach today since I can’t get motivated for anything right now but we’ll see…..not much to do today…I really wish I could just relax for a day and have coffee and sit on the porch for a bit but that is not going to happen…I think I will read some news out there in a minute and just listen to the rain…but not for the whole day…too much to do and not enough time to do it…..more later….
The repubs just voted to let Americans die…
Well…just when you think that the repubs can’t be any worse people, they dig deeper and become even bigger assholes. Just last night, as the voting goes on about the huge inflation control bill, an amendment was put forward by the dems that would cap the cost of insulin at 35 bucks a month for anyone with private insurance…and guess how many repubs voted against it and for killing Americans who can’t afford the thousand bucks a month that insulin can cost? Yep…47 of them…47 repub senators think that it is just peachy that insulin that costs 5 bucks to make can cost so much that diabetics have to choose between eating and their life saving medicine…and at those costs, many, many diabetics report having to take less than prescribed since it just costs so damn much…but the repubs don’t care and the only reason they voted against it is that the won’t give Biden a “win” by helping people stay alive…they are perfectly okay with people dying just to spite the dems…what a bunch of assholes…that’s the only word for it…vote dem this fall and let’s get some good stuff done for the country…and cap the cost of insulin if we can keep congress…vote…
August 7th
Well…damn, have a decision to make right now….do I go out on the bike and try to get a ride in before the rain or do I take the day off? I think it’s going to be over an hour before it gets here and then I could have a ride in before ManU plays at 9 but I really don’t want to hurry right now…hmmmm….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t do much but the bike rides…I did pick my first big tomato and ate it with some chips last night and it was pretty good…but, I am so disappointed with the garden this year that I am contemplating just pulling everything up and starting over next year….not many tomatoes and they are all pretty small so I think I need to condition the soil more before I plant again….didn’t sleep for crap last night and I’m feeling it today but that seems to be the pattern that has extended for weeks now and I’m not sure what to do about it….damn, I wish it would rain right now so I don’t have to decide whether to ride or not….not much to do today….ride or not? Yeah, you know the answer to that….going to get moving and get on the bike right now so I’ll be back here to see ManU…but the rest of the day is going to be total veg…I hope, I could use the rest….more later…
Damn squirrels…
Well…while I was out on the second ride today, the damn squirrels attacked my last big sunflower and killed it…so this means war on the brown squirrels that are big, fat bullies that terrorize the black and grey squirrels…think I’m going to get a wrist rocket sling shot and start shooting at them whenever they are in the yard…won’t kill them but it will hurt if I hit them but I will need to buy some steel shot since I don’t have any rocks around here…I wonder if there are any along the shore of the lake that would be the right size? Whatever I have to do I will to get rid of those parasites…..just hate them….
People on the street…
Well…as I ride around here every day, I start to notice some people who are almost as invisible as I am and I wonder what their stories are…over the past month or so, there was a been a woman living in her car at the municipal boat ramp on Muskegon Lake…she has an old, mid 90’s Monte Carlo that she parks next to the porta john and I do wonder how she got to that point in her life…and what it must be like to just survive instead of live and have a roof over your head…I know there are others who use the trails as their home but all of them are men and I wonder if it’s a choice or if circumstances have conspired to leave them no choice….one other guy that I’ve noticed for the past few weeks parks his car at the ramp and sits there for hours just reading…he’s there when I go out at 7 and when I come back for the second time around 10…so I wonder what his home situation is like if he spends 3-4 hours every day sweating in a hot car and that is the better choice? It reminds me of a line in a Neil Young song: “people on the street need a place to go” and I guess they do….especially in winter…what then?
August 6th
Well…damn, another 4:58 morning and I am pretty worn out from it…especially when you start with a max of 6 hours of sleep possible and then take an hour to get to sleep and toss and turn all night….oh, well…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done since I decided to not mow the lawn until Monday or Tuesday after the rain that is forecast…okay, here is where I normally insert a laugh after I talk about rain but it’s not that funny anymore….I need a day off…but I’m going to get on the bike here in a few minutes but I don’t want to…just damn tired…I did get out to the beach for 5 days in a row yesterday and my skin is going to thank me for the rest it is going to get the next two days….it is going to be hot out here with the high near 90 the next two days and it is even going to be 75 for a low so I may have to run the ac tonight to be able to sleep at all…I think I’ve only run it twice all summer but it’s nice to have the option….I can’t wait to get the first big tomatoes off my plants and that should be early next week since I have a few ripening but still don’t have a lot of tomatoes on the plants…the garden has been a bust this year but I do have nice flowers along the back of the house so I guess that’s something….not much to do today….just the rides and a little cleaning if I can get motivated but that looks iffy right now….damn, the only thing I don’t like is all the sand that gets everywhere from the beach runs….even after a shower yesterday, I still had sand in my toes that lasted til late in the day….and it was in my bootie socks that I washed so I guess I’ll have to turn them inside out before I put them in the washer…I want a day off…..more later….