Well…it finally looks like I’m going to get my day off the bike…it’s raining right now and the radar shows that rain is backed up all the way to Iowa so there won’t be a ride this morning anyway…I did two yesterday and I am pretty sore today….slept okay last night but feel pretty slow this morning so I think I’ll need a bunch of coffee to get me started…it is kind of nice to have no schedule for a change but I think I’m going to do the grocery run today since I can’t do anything else…I did get the railing around the flat roof wire brushed yesterday but still have a little more to do so I can paint it Thursday…supposed to be rain showers tomorrow too, so I’ll need to wait until then…my last big sunflower fell over yesterday but it was from wind and not the trunk breaking so I just stood it back up and used a chain to hold it to the fence…I am really surprised how small the root system for a 12 foot tall plant is….I will be taking them all down as soon as the seeds finish so I can put the stalks out in the trash Friday….not much to do today…I’m just going to wing it and do what I want with no schedule today….that is going to be weird…okay I guess I do have a schedule if I’m planning to do the grocery run…damn…more later…
They are all criminals..
Well….with all of the criminals that the idiot trump surrounds himself with, it really should come as no surprise that the criminal DeJoy, who was brought in to destroy the Postal Service, is now under investigation for multiple felonies for violating campaign finance laws. It appears that DeJoy set up “straw donations” to repub campaigns in North Carolina through executives in the company he used to own…he coerced his execs to make the highest donations allowed and then reimbursed them with “bonuses” so he could get around the dollar limits for individual donations. Each occurrance is a felony and there are witnesses willing to come forward to testify that they made donations for him…and these can be both state and federal charges…while the federal charges can’t be brought because the statute of limitations has run out, North Carolina has no statute of limitations for felonies so charges can still be brought there…and the icing on that cake is that trump can’t pardon him for state charges. I wonder if any of the people in trump’s administration are not crooks? Sure looks like they all are…geez…
September 7th
Well…man, I’m tired this morning….both mentally and physically…not sure how I slept…it seems I was up quite a bit and then up for good at 5:14 so worse than usual….but, I’m less sore than normal with only doing one ride yesterday…but, I’ll be back on the bike for two today since it is supposed to rain tomorrow…it was nice to hear the rain last night and I am curious to see if it helped the lawn any since it was looking pretty patchy and I have been watering it to try to keep it alive…but that gets expensive real quick so I am hoping it will continue to rain some…didn’t get much done yesterday but that was the plan…I need to get to work to figure out how to get the last awning down so I can take it apart and paint it…and the railing out front needs to be done so I think I’ll get started on one of them today…but right now, I’m not motivated to do anything but have more coffee and read some news….more later….
Just couldn’t do it…
Well…yeah, I know…I said I wasn’t going to ride today but damn, it’s really hard for me to just sit here and do nothing and be really, really bored…so, I got on the bike since it didn’t rain and put in a hard 18 miles…and the thing is that I feel so much better after I ride that I’m not sure why I’m taking time off….okay, part of it is that I looked at the weather forecast and saw that it is supposed to rain all day Tuesday and I just couldn’t take Sunday and then Tuesday off….and I do still have 700 miles to get to 5000 for the year….yep, lots of rationalizations in there but they are MY rationalizations and I can use them any way that I want….back to two rides tomorrow…..
September 6th
Well…that was another weird night…slept all night until almost 6:30 so that was the longest sleep I’ve had in almost a year but I still feel pretty worn out today…and my back hurts for some reason that I can’t figure out…haven’t done any heavy lifting the past few days or anything out of the ordinary so I’m a little confused about it…but, I’ll give it a rest today and maybe even take something for it…not going to get on the bike today so maybe that will help? I’m not going to know what to do with myself today with no bike rides but I am really looking forward to having a day off….and I just looked at the radar out of habit and it looks like we have a bunch of rain coming in from the west that will be here in a few hours so I’ll have an excuse for not riding…not that I need one…I am curious how I’m going to feel later today…still pretty sore right now and hope that it will get better as it did the last time I took a Sunday off….didn’t get much done yesterday and I’m not sure about today…there are races and the TDF on today so I may just veg it out and take it easy all day to have a complete day off…that will be hard to do since I have work on the downstairs project to do that shouldn’t wait…we’ll see….more later…
Need a break…
Well…with everything that has been going on in politics and with all of the riding I’ve been doing, I am worn out both mentally and physically and need a break….so, I don’t think I’m going to do a political one today…just too much to think about and I need to let my brain rest for a while…maybe later? Who knows? My body is also throwing out the warning signs that it needs a rest, too…It’s been almost a month since I took a day off and all of the studies I’ve been reading say you should take a rest day at least once a week…that’s never going to happen but it’s supposed to rain tomorrow for part of the day so I think it’s time to give myself a rest…I did do two rides today after thinking I would only do one but I could feel my legs starting to feel the fatigue that usually says stop…and I have pain under both kneecaps and in my achilles which should never happen so I think I’ll listen to my body this time and give it a chance to repair tomorrow….it will be pretty strange to not have to rush out of here in the morning and get a ride in before the F1 race….I did try a new recipe for pickles today…made some dill pickles but put a jalpeno in it to make spicy dill pickles…and I can’t wait to taste them tomorrow…have to let them set to get the flavor to mesh with the peppercorns and garlic that I put in too…so, it looks like I’m taking the rest of the day off…pretty damn tired and just can’t get motivated to do anything….that can wait til tomorrow….
September 5th
Well…that was strange…had some really weird dreams last night with dead cats, Elvis, and lots of sand in it….yep, just as weird as it sounds…but, I slept okay and didn’t get up til 6 so I guess I’ll take it…had a pretty good day yesterday with getting the gate stop repaired and mowing the lawn but didn’t do a whole lot more than that and getting two bike rides in…and today is going to be a one ride day…I think…need to continue to manage the pain in my legs and they are stiff even with taking some ibuprofen for it last night so that’s telling me something….and I really need to listen…not sure what work I’m going to do today but I have lots of cleaning that can be done and I should do some work downstairs but we’ll see how that works with the races that are on today…and there is F1 qualifying on at 9 so that will put me on the bike before 7:30 or I’ll miss it…it’s still kind of dark out there and that keeps getting me out the door later and later every day and I know that causes stress since I know fall is coming pretty fast and I still don’t have a place to live…I think I got rid of the squirrel that was attacking my gardens since I whacked him with a stick a week ago…haven’t seen him since that time but he was moving okay going down the fence so I think he just gave up…more later…
We knew he was the worst person in the world…
Well…yeah, running really late for this one today and I don’t know how the day got away from me…I did have a bunch of work to do that I got done but I have been trying to not have a schedule so much…not sure if I like it…oh, back to the topic…are you tired of all the damn scandal and chaos yet? I know this has been a really trying time for me but I just need to talk about the latest outrage from the idiot trump…we knew he was the worst person in the world, but damn…to tell John Kelly while standing next to his son’s grave in Arlington..”I don’t get it, what was in it for them?” And to continually call soldiers who died “losers and suckers” just shows that he really is a sociopath who cares nothing about anyone but him. He even whined his ass off when he was scheduled to visit military cemeteries that held the remains of American soldiers saying: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers”…and the 1800 Marines who died in WWI at Belleau Wood? He called them “suckers” for getting killed….and he even wanted to exclude wounded veterans from his asinine military parade since “no one wants to see that”…..how the hell can anyone vote for this asshole after all the things he has done to use the military as props and then it’s revealed that he has absolutely no respect for them or their sacrifices? Is this the time that finally people realize who the idiot trump is? This is who he is…no care or respect for anyone or anything that is not trump….but 40% of the damn country will continue to approve of his performance and will vote for him…those followers are some sick people if this crap is okay with them. Let’s start the rationalizations for this behavior just like every other outrage from this asshole…
September 4th
Well…still running late again today and I’m not sure if is the new normal or not but I guess we’ll see in a few more days….slept okay last night but was up at around 5 again and I think I’m getting fatigued from it…but, I’ll stop bitching about that…I did get a few things done yesterday and I need to go out to get some different adhesive to re-attach the gate stop since the wind broke it loose yesterday…it had been loosening all summer and I knew I was going to have to repair it so I’ll get on that this morning after I get the first ride in…I think I may be edging up on a one ride day here soon since I went over 4200 miles yesterday and only have 800 more to do this year…and I do like not having constant pain in my legs….and I think I’m going to get more lawn food since it looks like the lawn needs it….and I should start on wire brushing the railing around the flat roof so I can paint that next week…I did make some of the coffee that my brother made in the coffee maker this morning and it is pretty damn good…will be my treat coffee for when I need something special and the normal stuff just isn’t doing it for me…not much to do today….just the bike rides and fixing the gate…might mow the lawn and then feed it too but we’ll see…I do need to cook today so I need to put some time for that in the schedule so the chicken I thawed won’t spoil….more later…
All hands on deck…
Well…not sure what the demographics are of the people who come here every day, and I’m not sure if any of that matters with the latest threat to human lives that the idiot trump and his minions have just done. Just Monday, these hate filled sacks of crap stopped collecting the taxes that support Social security and Medicare, using the catchall repub talking point that they are doing that to spur the economy…and it’s strange that the only solution for every problem this country faces is a tax cut…never mind that tax cuts never work other than to make the rich richer….what this will do is cut off payments to people on SS disability early next year if trump is re-elected, and will end SS and Medicare by 2023 since there won’t be any money if the taxes are not collected….now listen to me….SS will be gone in two years…something we paid for all of our lives that allowed others to retire and not starve will be gone….and people who are approaching retirement age and who are depending on SS to able to retire are just shit out of luck if you older folks continue to vote for the repubs…they have been trying to end SS since FDR signed it into law in the 1930’s and this is the gravest threat to it that there has ever been…no more healthcare for retirees, either…so what they are saying is if you’re old and get sick, the only option is to die since Medicare will be gone….now, is this a good enough reason to vote for Joe Biden in November? The media is strangely silent on this issue…no screaming headlines that 30 million Americans will be left to starve if trump is re-elected, nope…nothing at all when it should be the only headline on every news show from now until the election and every damn shill for trump should be asked that question every day…”do you support letting 30 million people starve just to give more tax cuts to the rich?” These are the stakes, folks…and we need all hands on deck to vote these callous assholes out permanently….geez…