Well…with all of the rotten news today out of the corrupt SC, I had to take a break and just kind of fool around with one of my bikes after not planning on doing it all…I just went down to look at the seed cups to see if I had any more veggie plants up and the Schwinn was calling my name after neglecting it for so long so I started to look at how hard it would be to replace the cable to the back shifter and then it just kind of snowballed from there…got the cable replaced and adjusted, then aired up the tires to look for leaks, wd’d the chain and sprockets and then worked on adjusting the rear brakes so they would kind of stop the bike…they have never been very good but I think I’ve got them as good as 51 year old rim brakes can be…and it was kind of fun just noodling around with a bike and not thinking about anything….but, I think I put in the wrong length cable…when I bought 10 of them, I didn’t remember that it was 5 fronts and 5 backs and the fronts are about 10 inches shorter and that is what I used since I didn’t realize that I had two different lengths….so I’ll probably take it out for a ride and see if it works since I have less use for the front cables…have never replaced one of those in the three mountain bikes I’ve had but I do need to replace the one on the grey bike since I kinked it pretty good when I re geared the bike and had to adjust the front shifter….so, that’s about it…waiting for the last piece of pizza to heat so I can have dinner…no more later….
Susan Collins was “mislead”…
Well…right on cue, Susan Collins tries to shift the blame for the decimation of Roe to her being “mislead” by Kavanaugh and Gorsuch when they baldly lied to her face when they told her that they wouldn’t vote to overturn Roe if she were to vote to confirm them to the court…but, here’s the deal, everyone in this country but Susan Collins knew they were lying…as I said while the hearings for both of these right wing liars were going on, they were sitting there in the senate smirking all the time since they knew they were lying, too, and they knew the fix was in and they could basically say anything they wanted and they would be confirmed…so when Collins says she was mislead, it’s all a bunch of bullshit…she was in on the meetings where the whole scam was discussed by mcconnell and the rest of the repubs and that’s probably where the whole “Susan Collins is concerned” act was thought up to give her cover for her next election…so, just shut the hell up Susan…I won’t use the term of respect of senator because you don’t deserve it…you’ve just hurt 51% of Americans and no lie you can come up with is going to change that…
Alito is the leaker…
Well..with the “leaking” of Alito’s misogynistic, christo fascist bullshit of an opinion that is going to destroy 50 years of progress on women’s right to control their own bodies, the speculation has been who “leaked” the draft opinion…what court clerk did it? Was it a conservative or a liberal? In my opinion, it was none of the clerks, it was Alito himself who engineered the leak since he is an attention seeking asshole who has been trying to overturn Roe his entire career…and he revels in the power and attention the leak will give him and cements his retirement as there are many far right wing organizations who are salivating to pay him for doing what they paid him for in the first place…to put uppity women back on their place and give the control they have had for 50 years back to the white men who run this country….this is the simple explanation and all you need to do is to read some of his dissents in cases where he was in the minority to draw a straight line to today…it has been his purpose since day one and do you think he would give up his chance to show women who is in control? The destruction of the SC is complete with this ruling…no, I shouldn’t even call it a ruling since there is no hint of the law in it…it is a bullshit political statement with no basis in precedent or the constitution…but that never stopped him before and won’t now….
Roe is dead….
Well…to all of you out there who thought Hillary was too radical or tainted to vote for, you can all go to hell…it is you who sat home or voted for a third party candidate or even for the idiot trump who are responsible for making women second class citizens again and taking away the right they had to control their bodies and make their own medical decisions. With the leaked opinion by the christo fascist Alito, the supreme court is going to kill Roe, the decision that protected women’s right to an abortion and a decision that all of the trump appointees lied about during their confirmation hearings…how do you feel now, Susan Collins? It was your vote that put Kavanaugh on the court and he lied to your face when you asked him about Roe as “settled law” and he said he would respect that…but I knew that was a lie, and I wrote about it when the hearings were going on that Kavanaugh was lying as Gorsuch and Alito did during theirs…whatever small amount of respect the court had after mcconnell packed it with these unqualified, lying assholes is just gone and now we need to get out and fight every damn day to get dems elected to expand the court and we need to lean on Manchin and Sinema to get them to support getting rid of the filibuster and codifying Roe into law so the fascists on the court can’t touch these rights…this is the first generation of women who will have less rights than their mothers and grandmothers…but that is the point of these christo fascists…gay rights are next…mark my words….
May 3rd
Well…don’t know what I think about how I slept last night…I guess it was okay but no dreams to speak of and that is the new normal that I think I’m already tired of talking about…I am pretty sore from running all of the equipment yesterday but today is going to be an easy one with rain about an hour away so that will keep me indoors on the bike today….and my left arm even hurts and that is a new pain that I haven’t felt in a while….it was nice to get some work done yesterday and today I am going to clean in here starting with the kitchen….the counters and range are pretty bad with all of my attention on doing other work and I hope I have some oven cleaner left over after using it to strip the heat registers….I did get to 1K miles on the bikes yesterday and I’m not sure if I can get to the 6K goal for the year but I’m going to try…and I’ll be back outside starting tomorrow and it looks like we have a run of almost nice weather coming for a week or so until it goes back down to the 50’s for highs…in May…in Michigan….and that sucks…I did have some tomatoes and beans sprout yesterday but I got a little surprise with the perennial flower seeds I bought to add some color to the back of the house…most of them take a year to flower so I’ll only see vegetative growth this year….I think I’ll get some annual seeds tomorrow and plant them later in the week for the color I want…not much to do today…need to get on the bike here in a minute and I do have topics for later talking about the dark day with the SC gutting women’s rights in this country….more later….
Got some work done…
Well…with how I was feeling when I got up this morning, the chance of me getting anything done was slim to none but I surprised myself by actually getting some work done…got on the bike and got the miles in and then suited up and got started on the outside work that I needed to get done before it rains tomorrow…so, I dragged the two stroke multi tool out and, since it already had the edger head on it, I edged all of the walks and then changed the head to put the string trimmer attachment on and did the entire yard and around the house and fences….then I got the mower out and mowed the lawn…and the mower worked perfectly…then, since the weed and feed wasn’t killing the weeds fast enough, I mixed up some liquid weed killer in my tank sprayer and walked the whole yard and sprayed it….and all of that work took me over 2 1/2 hours to finish but I am done for the day….I think the ibuprofen I took really helped my right elbow that was hurting like crazy just riding the bike…and I may just take a look at the temp and see if it’s going to get warm enough to take an outdoor ride….we’ll see….
Nice to have a normal president…
Well…after watching a bit of the white house correspondent’s dinner and Joe Biden’s performance, the thought came into my head that is just damn nice to have a normal human being as president…and his writers had a quite a few funny zingers that he delivered perfectly…and some of them were aimed at fox news and the recent revelations that hannity was essentially working for trump during the 2020 election…and this is in direct contrast to the thin skinned idiot trump who skipped these dinners since he just has no sense of humor and can’t take even the mild ribbing that comes with it…could you imagine idiot boy even trying to deliver any joke that was not a mean spirited attack on his “enemies”? Nope, me neither…but the best part of the night was the closing where Trevor Noah laid a two by four upside the head of the reporters and news execs for their bullshit bothsiderism and for not doing their jobs of protecting this country from people like trump…and that last few minutes should be shown in every damn newsroom and to every reporter and media exec who are driving the dereliction of their duty….maybe some of it will sink in and we will have some real reporting for a change…we can hope anyway…geez…
May 2nd
Well…darn, running late this morning and I am going to blame it on having a cocktail last night…feel pretty lousy right now and still exhausted and all I want to do is go back to bed….don’t think I’m going to do that again for a while since it is another thing that just doesn’t do anything for me anymore….too damn much guilt for doing it and I haven’t felt that for a long time…and I’m sore as heck, too, and I didn’t even do anything strenuous yesterday…okay, my computer is telling me it’s humid again and I still don’t see the worth of that information….I mean, what are you supposed to do about humidity? Not sure….should you stay in the house? Should you dress for it? Do I have to go out and buy humidity clothes? Weird….the car did run great yesterday with the new oil and spark plugs and I’m not sure if I’m the only one that feels that way….but it does start differently and I don’t know what that is about…it takes about an extra crank for it to fire up and I hope it’s just in my head and not in the car….it looks like i won’t get outside on the bike today with the high only about 50…and yes, it is May and that sucks…but I will be going over a thousand miles on the indoor bike today if I can drag myself down there here in a few minutes…not much to do today…just the bike ride and mowing the lawn for work…and I do need to cook today since I only had one meal yesterday and that kept me under 1,000 calories for the day….have some tilapia fillets that need to be cooked along with the leftover pizza that I made Friday….then I need to plan the rest of the meals for the week and try some new recipes since I’m kind of stuck with having chicken since I can’t get anything else that cheap…I was really hoping that the rain would have cleared the air of the tree pollen that is making me miserable…maybe tomorrow since it’s supposed to rain all day…and that’s why I have to mow today since the grass is already almost too long for mulching…more later…
Good to see my brothers and sisters again…
Well…just got back from the service for my brother and , even though it was a sad occasion, it was nice to see my brothers and sisters again for the first time in years. Man, we are all looking pretty damn old and most of us are struggling to get around….and I found out that my oldest brother is starting cancer treatment tomorrow for throat cancer and that just sucks big time…I guess I should feel lucky that I am one of only two of us who don’t have any big health problems but it doesn’t make me feel good…I do feel lucky, I guess…but that doesn’t help them feel better and that sucks, too…need to think about it a bit…my brother did say that he still has the grill to give me and he has a welder that he wants to give me, too, so that will be cool but I can’t think about that…just worry about him and the rest of them…hmmmm…
May 1st
Well…damn, felt exhausted all day yesterday and I know it’s a combo of my allergies and not eating enough…I mean I tried to eat…had a piece of pizza for lunch and then a chicken leg quarter and a handful of baked fries for dinner but I know that’s still under 1500 calories…closer to a thousand and that’s nowhere near enough…okay, won’t bitch about that anymore…I’m sure you’re tired of hearing me talk about it…but, I feel better this morning and will have to remember to take some allergy meds here in a minute to get a head start on it before I get worse….didn’t get anything done yesterday but cook and today looks the same with needing to go over to Ravenna for the family get together for my brother who died a couple of weeks ago and my feeling about that are a little mixed…still haven’t gotten used to the idea that this is going to be happening more and more often as we all get older and I try not to think about it much since that would mean addressing my own mortality and I just don’t want to do that right now…it’s the start of a new month and I’m still bitching about the damn weather…come on spring…I am so tired of still bundling up everywhere I go and this week is going to be in the 50’s…again…and that means half thermasuit on the bike still…and having cold hands riding triggers the arthritis in my thumb that then hurts like crazy….oh, well…the lawn is starting to green up but the damn weed killer in the weed and feed isn’t working so I need to do a weed walk with my tank sprayer this week if I have day when it’s not raining….but the rain has kept the patches in the front wet so the grass will grow in later in the week so I guess that’s something….not much to do today…just the run out to Ravenna at 11 and then back here for a veg day and planning the work for the week…I am going to have to mow the lawn sometime but will convert the mower to mulching so that will make it easier….and I need to plant the perennial seeds I bought along the back of the house so I can have some color there…and it looks like I need to replace the outside faucet since it is leaking quite badly without the hose valve on it but I would like to get one that has a compression fitting so I don’t have to do any soldering…it will be a big enough pain just crawling into the crawl space to get to it and cutting out the old one…more work…more later….