Well…up at 5:45 this morning and the wind is already blowing like crazy so the rides are going to be a lot of effort…there is a heat advisory on for today with the temp getting up to almost 90 and lots of humidity so the fans will be running today…but right now the breeze feels good in here and the coffee needs to work so I can get going…I should think about buying a new AC unit for my bedroom window but I think I’ll just leave the window open…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I should clean windows today to open this joint up with how hot it’s going to be for the next week….not sure what food I’m going to have this weekend…have bacon for a blt and I thawed some smoked turkey to make a sandwich with lettuce and tomato…and I still have corn on the cob and potato salad so I won’t starve…just got a high wind warning on my weather widget so I need to get out here soon…not much to do today…just need to get the coffee down and get moving…more later…
Damn body…
Well…you know getting old is not for the faint hearted…when I got on the bike early today, every damn part of me hurt and I couldn’t believe it was just from doing some yard work yesterday…my right hip hurt so bad that I thought I was going to have to turn around and skip the rides…and my right tricep howled the whole time…hit the library for new books and then ran some errands and I think I’m getting the new car figured out…it drives so differently than the old one but I actually had fun just fooling around with it…it looks like we have a heat wave coming for the first day of summer tomorrow and all next week…87 for highs so I am going to hit the beach Monday…the wind is going to be nuts over the weekend blowing 20-30 with gusts of 50 so I’ll have to be out on the bike at first light to avoid them…or do indoor rides but I’d rather ride outdoors…okay, time for some tv…
Good on ya, Dodgers…
Well…with ICE thugs kidnapping people off the streets all across this country, everyone needs to resist these masked fascists at every turn..and the LA Dodgers baseball team showed how it’s done yesterday when ICE wanted to use their parking lot as a staging area for mass arrests of people going to the baseball game and they said no…they did not allow these warrantless searches and kidnapping to happen on their property…and we know how the idiot trump is going to react to this…he is going to try to find a way to punish the team for doing the right thing…and that will be at the head of another impeachment once we take back the house in 2026…and that IS going to happen…and if we take the senate and can get a few repubs who care more for the country…okay, I can’t write that…there are no repubs like that anymore…they are all maga assholes or they would have done something about idiot boy already…geez…
June 20th
Well…I wonder how the heck I can be running late at 6:25 in the morning? Need to be on the bike by 7am to get two rides in before I head out to the library for 3 new books…just started the coffee and it’s not working at all yet…ick…I can’t believe how sore I was after the yard work yesterday…I could barely move I was so stiff and it’s probably going to get worse as I get older….oh, well…at least I don’t have yard work to do today…but I really should get on the windows since they are full of dirt…at least the kitchen but that seems to be too much work right now…it’s going to be in the upper 80’s this weekend and into next week so there will be trips to the beach starting Monday….I still have the coating on my tongue and will need more treatment after I get the dangerous freckle removed Tuesday…man, it’s hard getting old…going to make a blt today to go with the dog and I need to plan meals for the weekend…should make Masala but I’m not sure if I want to make that much effort…not much to do today…just need to get off my butt and get the rides going and I only have 16 minutes to get it done…more later…
Too damn busy..
Well…it has been one of those days that has left my sore and hobbling around here this afternoon…it all started at 7am with the bike rides…only two today…then I uncovered the old car and fired it up to make sure it still runs…put an old expired plate on it so I could drive it around the block and clear the rust off the discs…I let it run while I mowed where the car has been sitting and then parked it back there and re-covered it…the got the string trimmer out and did the whole yard…then fed the lawn and mowed it…and did the weed walk…during that I had to take my trimmers and trim the mulberry tree so I could walk under it again…the branches were so heavy with berries they almost touched the ground…then I pulled more weeds out of the front of the house and finished up around 11:30…by that time I was used up even with it only being 4 1/2 hours of work…damn, I’m getting old…but I do have the yard done until late next week…so now I’m going to read a bit…
You have to read this…
Well…as I was looking for a topic for this afternoon, I came across a transcript of idiot boy’s comments as he was dedicating his new 100 foot flagpole on grounds of the WH…it is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever read and shows the cognitive decline that the media won’t report on…hell, even some WH staffers think he’s not up to being president and is so much worse than his first term…more impulsive, more angry, and more idiotic than he has ever been and they truly think he is going to charge into a war with Iran just to distract Americans from all of his failures…and after his performance at the g7 conference this week, there is a good case for his removal using the 25th amendment soon…but the damage he is going to do before that is already happening across the country…so I guess we hunker down and wait it out…crap…geez…
June 19th
Well…man, I’m worn out this morning and would like a day off to just sit here but you know I won’t take it…but I think I am going to cut back to 25 miles today to give my legs a bit of a rest…they are stiff and sore and are going to take some time to get loosened up once I get moving…it’s 6:20 and I just poured the first cup of coffee and need to get moving soon…it did rain a bit yesterday but not enough to fix the drought we’re in…I wonder why it’s so hard for me to take it easy? I’m retired and should be able to just “go with the flow” and do what I want but that is the hardest thing for me…oh, well…down to the last day of leftovers so I think I’ll do blt’s tomorrow…it’s going to be almost 90 Monday so I think it will be a beach day after I get 25 miles in…no more rain in the forecast until next Thurs and Fri and I may have to mow the lawn before that…and the only thing growing in the lawn is weeds so I’ll need to treat them today after the rides…I do need to start on the windows that should have been cleaned months ago and I may do the kitchen today…and I need to clean the blinds, too so the three kitchen windows should be enough for today…not much to do today…just need to get my butt moving and get on the bike but I’m not doing it until I get the second cup of coffee in me….more later…
Just laundry today…
Well…finally, it ha started to rain out here but we’re not going to get the inch they forecast but I’ll take any rain we can get…I did get 38 more miles in today but then didn’t do much but laundry and making potato salad…oh, and I just finished the second of four books an I’m going to start the third one after I do this…I really do think I need to take an easy day soon just to let my legs get some repair time although they didn’t hurt much today…need to allow myself to not go all out all the time sine I don’t have any goal to reach this year…my tongue is still white so I’ll talk to my doctor when I go in and have the freckle removed Tues morning…they might have to prescribe 10 days worth this time..who knows? I do know that I’d love to be able to taste again and that won’t happen until they get rid of this damn infection…okay, reading time…
We’re leading the way…
Well…one of the things I noticed at the “No Kings” protest this past Sat was the age of the crowd…most of the people there looked like me…older folks made up at least 75% of the crowd and now that phenomenon has been noticed across the country at every one of the protests…our age group is leading the way in protesting everything trump and we show that in the polls where 65+ Americans have the highest disapproval of the idiot and are going to be the determining factor in a lot of elections…and possibly hand both the House and Senate back tot he dems next fall…I never could understand why older folks like me would ever vote for repubs since their reason for living is to cut the programs that most of us alive…but it looks now like it’s getting through the thick skull of the rest of the old folks and they are no longer going to be a reliable voting bloc for the repubs…it’s about damn time…geez…
People don’t like it…
Well…as the repubs in the senate work to cut even more from Medicaid than their House collaborators, it seems that people really don’t like the idea of abandoning millions of Americans just to give tax cuts to the rich…in fact 64% of the people polled hated the bill while it is underwater by 41% with independents which is pointing to a crushing defeat for the repubs in 26 if it works like it should…and polling shows that general support for the idiot trump is plunging and that was taken before he started threatening Iran where 70+% don’t want the US to get involved…so, again, most of the people in this country aren’t buying what the repubs are selling…but I’ve railed about this before, that repub policies are hugely unpopular and I still can’t figure out why they keep passing this stuff…I mean 80% of those polled don’t want any more tax cuts for the rich and yet it is the centerpiece of this “big beautiful” piece of crap…and I really do hope the repubs plan to run on it…it would guarantee a blood bath for them in 2026…geez…