Well…that was a little better…only woke up once at 4 and was able to get back to sleep without taking any more medicine for the cough…still coughing but I think I can handle it for a while just to see how bad my lungs still are…I am breathing a little better so maybe there is progress? This has been so damn tiring that I am worn out…but, I am going to try to get on the bike once it gets warmer…it looks like the rain is going to stay to the south for now but it’s only in the 30’s so the wait to go out is going to be a long one…but, I did get out in long pants the last time out so I can do that once it gets to 45 or so…didn’t even try to get any work done yesterday but I do have some stuff to do downstairs that may just irritate my lungs again but it needs to be done today or tomorrow so I can start wrapping things up down there….and I do need to finish up the painting in here so I can start getting my stuff ready to move…to where, I don’t know but I’m not going to wait til the last minute to do it….not much to do today…need to start getting back into the normal routine so I can eat more…2 chicken thighs and 3 small tomatoes is just not going to cut it for a whole day and that may be one of the reasons I feel so crappy…more later….
A little less depressed..
Well…no, I still feel like crap and my lungs are completely roached still…but, I have been finding a few houses today on zillow and there is one that I would buy today if it was just about 25 miles closer to GR…it sits about 45 miles to the north…about halfway to Mt. P and I think that is a little to far for me right now…but, it is only 119 grand and has 1500 square feet, a huge garage, half acre lot, covered porches on the front and back of the house and it has an easement to a lake that is across the street…and it is on a quiet street in the country…so, I do have a goal of finding a house by the end of the month and getting the buying process started and I may actually be able to meet that…and with having close to 45K to put down, my payment would only be about 400 bucks a month….so I may just be able to pull it off…still have 5 months…and I still feel crappy…ick
trump…stay the hell out of our state…
Well…if you are a Michigander, you should be as pissed as I am to have the asshole trump coming into our state and inciting violence against our governor…at another one of his fascist rallies here, he went into his schtick about how bad she is and led the crowd of deplorables in the tired old “lock her up” chant with no recognition that this bullshit inspired an actual kidnapping and murder plot against her…and you know he just doesn’t care at all…just as long as he gets his jollies from his crowd and works them into a frenzy as he manipulates them in the last bastion of support he has…nothing else matters to him. All I have to say to this asshole is stay the hell out of our state…you’ve done nothing for us in the past 4 years and you are responsible for thousands of deaths here that could have been prevented if you weren’t the incompetent moron that you are…just keep your promise and don’t ever come back…
October 18th
Well…man, I’m getting damn tired of all of this coughing and not sleeping…was up most of the night and got out of bed at 4 to take some more medicine for it and I’m not sure why it has gotten worse again…I felt okay yesterday and could take deep breaths but that is gone this morning so it looks like another day of just taking it easy and hoping for some healing to take place…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done so I am going to try to clean some today but I am going to need a nap at some point with not sleeping last night…just damn exhausted right now….needless to say, I won’t be getting on the bike today…I find myself hoping for rain so that doesn’t trigger my well developed sense of guilt and I do something stupid by getting out when I feel so crappy…okay, just checked the radar and there will be rain here in a few minutes so I don’t feel too bad….I can’t remember feeling so crappy in a long, long time and I’m not sure if knowing that it is my allergies helps any…oh, well….not much to do today….going to just ease into it…again…but I’m not sure if doing that will help how I feel….just damn frustrated that I haven’t made any progress since Tuesday and the last time this happened it took months before I healed up….more later….
Took a ride today…
Well…with all of the lung problems I’ve had since Tuesday, I was staying off the bike since I could barely breathe without coughing my lungs out…but they appeared to be getting better so I got on the bike today for a short 12 miler….and, while it wasn’t a mistake, I am not as healed as I thought I was since I did start to lose my breath after about 8 miles and now I am coughing again and can only take about half breaths before it hurts…it was still a nice ride but the first one in long pants since April with the temp only being 44 when I left here and that is too cold for shorts. It looks like I’ll have tomorrow to continue to heal with the rain that is forecast for the whole day so that might just work out okay…still have 260 miles to go to get to my last goal and I’m not too motivated to make it after hitting 5K for the year….it feel good to be able to walk without pain for the first time in months….but it is still hard to cut out the calories I need with not riding…looks like dinner is going to be apples, tomatoes and a handful of tortilla chips again….
Short takes….
Well….haven’t really seen anything in the news today that I want to do a long one on so I think I’ll just do some short takes and see where that goes…in an interview the other day, former COS John Kelley said that trump was “the worst person he ever met”, and that leads me to a question…”how the hell did he work for him at all, then?” everyone and their brother knew who trump was and yet all of these supposed serious people ruined their reputations to work for this “worst person”…how good is their judgement if they willingly signed on to him? That just made me remember a funnily ironic article that I read the other day about people who work or worked for idiot boy getting concerned if the “trump stink” on their resumes is going to prevent them from ever working in DC again….and one hiring exec made the point that is is not just working for trump but what they did while working for him…like helping with the policies that ended up putting children in cages that reveal who that person really is…that he won’t hire anyone who showed they have no shred of decency….oh, this one just cracked me up…just today at another trump fascist rally in Florida, idiot boy pointed to the stupid governor, Ron DeSantis, and said that if he didn’t deliver Florida to him he was going to “fire” him….and followed that up with “I’ll find a way to fire him”…now, with it being quite certain that trump is going to lose, why is everyone still afraid of him? I never understood that…I mean, who the hell is afraid of getting a mean tweet from the idiot? I guess all of the repubs have become spineless jellyfish in the face of the stupidest person in the country…they do deserve each other…more later…and I mean that…
“Commander in chief”
Well….just a short one on a new Lincoln project ad that is out called “Commander in Chief”….if you can find it out there, you should watch it…it distills the dumpster fire of this administration down into three minutes set to a song by Demi Lovato (yeah, I didn’t know who she was until I heard this song, either) but I stopped hearing new music in the early 90’s….I read an article where she thinks this may end her career but I don’t think that will happen….the song will go down as a great protest song in the vein of “Ohio” or “What’s going on?” and it is really needed…thanks to the Lincoln project for this and the rest of the things they have been doing to rid this country of the cancer that is trump and his minions….
October 17th
Well…that was a little better…still woke up way too early at 4:54 but I slept okay with much less coughing and I think my lungs may be healing up some…still only have about 60% of capacity but it feels like there is progress going on and I’ll take any little improvement I can get…..but I still need to take the cough medicine I have been taking since it does help break up the mucus that it feels like my lungs are filled with….I feel a little guilty that I didn’t do a damn thing yesterday but cook but I think it’s what I needed to heal everything that hurt….my legs feel pretty good this morning but I am going to try to get out this afternoon for a ride just to keep the guilt at the level it is and not let it get any worse….but, I’m going to veg out this morning and watch some soccer with my coffee…I did a good job of limiting the calories yesterday with only have half a big rib and 6 onion rings for lunch and then only 3 small tomatoes for dinner along with a hand full of tortilla chips…I’m thinking I kept it under 1K calories for the day and that my be just a little bit too low but I can adjust that as time goes on…no much to do today….going to just ease into it and have some coffee and my last bagel along with soccer…I should do some work but I probably won’t….still don’t feel up to it…more later….
What a spiteful little prick…
Well…hey, I made a good decision a few minutes ago..decided to not go for a ride and it just started raining like crazy and I would of gotten soaked…so, yay me! But, that’s not what this is about…I’m sure you’ve seen the California has had the worst wildfire season in the history of the state with hundreds of thousands of acres burned and whole towns wiped off the face of the Earth…in a normal federal administration, the federal government would be on the scene with multiple agencies doing what they could to help the people recover and start to put their lives back together. That would normally start with a disaster declaration that would qualify those who have lost everything for low cost loans and additional federal grants and other funding to help them start to rebuild…but, not in the idiot trump’s administration…this spiteful little prick has refused to declare a disaster for California which leaves the state and it’s people on their own and guarantees that the recovery will be more painful and slower than it should be…and it’s all because California is a “blue” state that will never vote for trump and he just doesn’t giver a damn about anyone but those who vote for him. Just like the covid pandemic where he didn’t do a damn thing early because he thought the virus was only going to hit “blue” states, the wildfires don’t mean anything to him since they are in California…and this is the first time in history that a major disaster has not gotten any response from the federal government…and it all because trump runs the government. This should be a focus of the Biden campaign, to point out, as he has been doing, that he will be president for all of the country…even states that didn’t vote for him and will make sure that all of the people will get the help they need when they need it…and there will be no spiteful bullshit that trump pushes every day….after all, our government was founded on the proposition that it’s purpose is “to promote the general welfare” of the country…and that is right there in the constitution…a document the trump has never read and doesn’t care what is in it…vote this spiteful little prick out…
October 16th
Well…running really late again today with another night of coughing, wheezing, and not being able to breathe that kept me up until 3 or so and then I didn’t get out of bed until 7:30 since I needed some sleep…can breathe a little better right now with being able to take half breaths instead of the quarter breaths from yesterday but it still doesn’t feel right…I did take a bike ride yesterday and got through it but barely…started to get out of breath at about 8 miles and it went downhill from there…and that never happens…so, I may have to re-think riding today…I have time for that since it is only 35 out there and that will keep me in until after noon…and my chest and back are really sore from all the coughing that will need an ibuprofen in a few minutes so I can move around here and get a few things done…the bitch in all of this is that it’s not a sickness and I did it to myself by not taking enough precautions when I was working downstairs…I just hope there is no permanent damage from this last time on the downstairs project…oh, well….as you can probably tell, I didn’t get much done yesterday but I am going to try to take the doors off the linen closet and get them ready to paint…and I have a door frame in one of the bedrooms that has to be finished but I need some painters tape for that and I am out of it….so that will wait for a run to HF to get that on Monday…this morning looks like just easing into it and having some more coffee and I may have a bagel to use them up before the spoil and I cut them out of my diet to save some calories….more later….