Well…with schools starting up and the responsible ones mandating masks for kids and teachers, of course the right wing assholes spurred on by tucker carlson and the kochs, are standing outside schools screaming at children to take off their masks and that masks are just like “raping” children and are filing bogus child abuse charges against these schools and in some cases even parents. What the hell is wrong with these people? In what universe is it okay to attack a 6 year old for following the rules? It was found the other day that the koch right wing networks of think tanks and websites have been sending out instructions to their followers how to attack school boards that mandate masks and other mitigation measures to keep children safe…shouldn’t this be a crime? It should be if is isn’t…these are assaults and these brainwashed assholes need to be held accountable…and especially tucker who daily exhorts his watchers to violence against anyone who would take away their “freedoms”…but, as all of the right these days, the hypocrisy runs high in ole tucker, he and every one at fox “news” has to be vaccinated or they can’t get in the building…seems like a “mandate” to me…I wonder why tucker isn’t walking a picket line outside his studio to protest? We all know the answer to that…they love manipulating the rubes that watch their crappy shows and get their jollies from them being assholes to other Americans who are doing the right things in the pandemic…and that is what’s wrong with these people…geez…
October 8th
Well…4:14…and that sucked…but I was able to get back to sleep until after 6 so that was okay…and I feel a little better today…not anywhere near as worn out as I have been so I’ll take it…and my legs are not nearly as painful as they have been with only doing about 6 miles in the rain yesterday…and it looks like I won’t get out til this afternoon with the rain that is coming in about a half hour from now…I do need to make a run to menards this morning for more grass seed and I’ll do that as soon as I get done with this….I wonder why there is no antibiotic cream on the shelves anymore? Have looked for it for months now and I may have to get it on amazon if I can’t find any locally…I’m almost out after using a lot of it on my thumb and need it when I damage my hands….and the stuff with painkiller in it really helps when I do major damage like with my thumb….I did basically take the day off yesterday but I won’t do that again today unless it rains all day…should get on unpacking the stuff downstairs and getting rid of the old clothes I don’t use anymore…and I got the parts for the bike the other day and should get at putting the black one back together with the knobby tires I plan on using for winter riding….I should get a battery for the computer on the specialized bike that I’m going to put on the trainer to ride inside over the winter….but, I don’t feel like doing any of that right now….need more coffee and to read some news to start my day….more later….
A day off and other stuff…
Well…for only the second or third time since I’ve been out here, I’ve taken the day off the bike today…other than the 6 miles I did in the rain this morning…it has been raining off and on all day today and I have been waiting for an hour dry slot but with these pop up showers, they don’t register on the radar and every time I look outside the pavement is wet as if a shower just came through…and after getting wet this morning, I don’t want that to happen again so I’m done for the day…I did get some cleaning done and gave myself a haircut and just realized that I’ve been doing that since January of 2020 so I guess I got my money’s worth out of the 25 bucks I paid for the Wahl clipper set I bought….and I’m getting pretty good at it and it only takes a few minutes so I have to remember that I can keep it looking neat and don’t have to let it get shaggy…It just dawned on me that I have had the same set of earbuds for almost 18 months now…I knew the Betron set looked pretty heavy duty when I got them but I’ve never gotten more than a few months out of the skull candy ones I used for a couple of years and really expected that out of these…and they were only 16 bucks on amazon so that’s a bargain, too…oh, and they sound good, too….I am going to have two meals today even with not riding and see if that helps how worn out I’ve been feeling lately…still only had a chicken thigh, baked potato, and some corn for lunch…with a glass of milk, that’s about 600 calories and I need to use up the burger that I have left for dinner so that will be another 600 or so and I hope to see some improvement in how I feel tomorrow…no more later…
Dump AT&T and direct tv…
Well…the world news service Reuters is out with a new report that shows that AT&T and it’s subsidiary direct tv created and is still supporting the right wing hoax news channel OANN….you know the one, the channel that is all hoaxes and conspiracy theories and anti vaxxers that daily undermines our democracy with constant stories about “election fraud” that doesn’t exist. They also use the channel as an in house propaganda network that heaps praise on AT&T constantly and helps them get the government to do what they want…like when they bought direct tv and needed government approval of the merger….now, AT&T has been at his kind of crap since before time essentially when they were part of the old Bell network and they are the primary funders of the Texas repubs that just ended women’s rights to control their own bodies there….and they are still funding the idiot trump and the thugs that tried to overthrow the government and who are still at it…so, if you have AT&T as your cell provider or direct tv as your tv provider, switch since every dollar you give them helps undermine this country and helps repubs make women second class citizens….there are better companies out there to give your money to…geez…
Got wet this morning…
Well….after a short, sharp shower, there was nothing on the radar so I decided to get on the bike for at least one ride…but, about three miles out, it started to pour and I got soaked even with turning around and coming back here…and it was borderline on temps, too, so it was pretty darn miserable even just doing 6 miles…and the rain is the weird pop up showers that don’t show up on the radar hardly at all….so it looks like I’ll be taking the day off today after all…I do have some work to do around here but not that much so I really don’t have to plan it at all…and my legs are still so damn flat that it was brutal coming back into the wind…I do need to start to take better care of myself…I guess I’m not young anymore….more later…
October 7th
Well…up at 6:41 this morning and that feels a bit more normal for me…feel pretty worn out but it looks like I’m not getting the day off that I hoped for….the rain is not here yet and it appears that it is falling apart before it gets here so I will get a ride in as soon as it gets light…and I’m not sure I should do that…my legs still hurt from yesterday and they really should get a day off…but, I feel compelled to ride or not eat…not sure how the weather forecasters still have a job with how wrong they have been all summer and now into the fall…I know weather is complex but they could be right 50% of the time just flipping a coin…and they haven’t been right even close to that…..I’m finally getting my freezer cleared out with not buying any protein the past couple of weeks other than the ribs I got yesterday….still have a couple of weeks worth of food in there but there was room for the pizza I got yesterday and that wasn’t true for the entire time I’ve been here….need to cook some thighs I thawed over the past couple of days with a baked potato and some veggies for lunch and use the last of the burger I have been eating all week…..not much to do today….going to ride here in 45 mins or so and then just kind of wing it the rest of the day….if it doesn’t rain I’ll probably get two rides in but I am going to throttle back the pace a bit to let my legs heal…I’m not young anymore and I need to take better care of myself….more later….
Finally done for the day…
Well….damn, I felt crappy this afternoon after the bike rides but, after eating something, I’m starting to get back to normal…or normal for me anyway….I am taking a day off tomorrow…my legs were so flat and hurting on both rides today that I think the only thing that is going to help is rest….as you know, I got started late today and didn’t get out to get groceries until after 8:30 and then Meijers was a mess from them rebuilding the store so I am going to avoid it until they finish and go over to Stermberg road instead…only takes an extra 5 minutes of traveling time and I’ll be able to find what I need and don’t have to spend a half hour looking for things…didn’t get back here until almost 10 and then on the bike for the first ride…I will say that the bike is working better than it has since it was new and it is a joy to ride even in the brutal wind…after I got back here, I made a little lunch and then right back on the bike by 12:15….after I finished that, I seeded quite a bit of the bare spots in the lawn until I ran out of seed…again, and that makes 20 pounds of seed on the lawn so far and I am going to get more Friday to finish off the rest of the spots…then I had to do laundry since I was out of clothes to wear and just finished putting them away so today, I went from 8:30 this morning to 5:30 and I am done finally…had the same lunch and dinner as I did yesterday and if feeling crappy was the result, I’ll probably feel that way again tomorrow….but I just can’t eat more…I did splurge today on some texas style ribs and even a rising crust pizza from Aldis…2.75 for a rising crust supreme pizza? Was getting bored with chicken, chicken, chicken and thought I’d change it up a bit…but I still have some chicken thighs to make tomorrow that I thawed and need to be cooked…but, after that, no more chicken for a while….
Still late….
Well…damn, started the day off late and I’m still running late now and it’s almost 3…and I can’t find a topic, either…I could talk about the debt ceiling crisis that appears to be pushed back a couple of months with a deal that allows the government to function until the end of December…and I think that is bullshit and the dems always give in…they should have ended the filibuster for good and told McConnell to go to hell with his obstruction…after all, the debt ceiling being raised is to pay for the 7 trillion dollars of debt that ole mitch and the idiot boy saddled the country with by cutting taxes on the rich and corporations…it not to pay for anything that the country needs and that the dems are trying to get fixed…I think I’m too tired to care much about it, though….can’t work up the outrage I normally have for this kind of stuff…and the two rides I did today were probably the most brutal I’ve had in a long time…going into the wind that was blowing about 20 out of the east and my legs hurt the whole way….and they still hurt now just sitting here…okay, this one was pretty jumbled but that’s how my brain feels right now….
October 6th
Well…running really, really late today and I can’t figure that out…I did wake up at 6 or so but went back to bed until 7:34 and just can’t get started….so I think the whole day is now going to be a bit late…and I don’t like that one bit…oh, well….I think I slept okay last night but don’t feel like it…so, so worn out that I may have to take a day off soon…or eat more…I think I have to re-think this whole being on “time” when I really don’t have to be anywhere…I mean does it matter if I get to the grocery store at 8:30 or if I get there at 9? And doing two rides a day? I know I need to burn those calories but I am getting bored with riding twice a day…I did get to 3800 miles yesterday and that is cool but I wonder if I’m getting depressed again….darn….I did get back into “Justified” a couple of days ago and it is nice to have 6 seasons of a show to watch when there is nothing interesting on tv…and I think I’ve waited long enough so I don’t remember any of the episodes…..I do have lots to do today and I’m not sure I want to do it…the grocery run first, then at least one bike ride, laundry, and then I need to seed some more bald spots in the lawn since it is going to rain tomorrow and Friday and the last spots I did sprouted pretty well…I think the cooler temps have helped that and I want to take advantage of that….so, I should get going right now…but, I really just want to sit here and do nothing…but I know I can’t do that….more later….
One ride today…
Well…got out early for the first ride today but coming back into a 15 mph wind was pretty darn brutal so I decided I’d only do one ride today so I could run an errand and then get the lawn mowed and the leaves picked up with the mower…I did get out to Lowe’s to get the device that keeps the big paper bags open with a back splash that is like a funnel and it works really well when dumping the grass catcher into it…pretty cool thing for 10 bucks and is going to make cleaning this place up this fall a lot easier since I am going to have many, many bags of leaves….the mower works well vacuuming the leaves up and that will be my preferred method of getting them up…really hate raking and it hurts my shoulder so I’m going to avoid that as much as possible….I also got the remaining flowers pulled out of the back of the house and cleaned up and now it’s almost 3 and I am done for the day..almost went out for a second ride but I know I have to be careful as I get older…10 years ago there would be no question about going out…I would have gone in a second but I really don’t recover as fast anymore so I have to be smart….but that is disappointing…not used to having to think about what I do for the day…oh, well….