Well…26 degrees…in frickin May…record cold that I can’t remember ever happening before…and I’m old…that’s just depressing….but, after the next 5 days, the weather is supposed to get back to almost normal and I am going to be able to plant my veggie garden…finally…feel pretty crappy this morning after having cocktails last night but I don’t hurt as much as I did the past few days and I hope taking the day off the bike yesterday will help that too…but I am going to get out later today after it gets over 42 so I can go out without gloves or a stocking hat….used up the last of the bird food yesterday and saw something pretty cool….some young sparrows that were being fed seed by their mother on my window feeder…have never seen that before…I did have an almost no work day yesterday but it was harder than I expected…and boring, boring, boring…the day seemed like it lasted forever and my guilt about doing nothing welled up all day to the point where it wasn’t too enjoyable….so, not going to do that today…probably won’t do a lot but I will do some stuff….have cleaning and laundry to do and I may bake a loaf of bread since I was able to find yeast at Meijers and I have some bread flour that I can use….I did cover the 4 tomato plants that I have outside but they were looking pretty scraggly even before the cold so I don’t think they are going to survive it….so I planted 4 more seeds that just came up and I will be able to plant those in their place….more later….
It’s 9:10 and I’m bored…
Well….this is going much as I expected…it’s 9:10 and I’m bored already…so, that’s why I’m back here already…think I’ll do some short takes and see what happens…if you needed any reason to delete facebook, Zuckerberg just got on board with the idiot trump and has started to remove opposition ads from the Lincoln Project that tell the truth about trump and his bungling of damn near everything…so, unless you want to support trump and his cronies, stop using facebook…I have…now, that latest on the idiot is that he has ordered the “re-opening” guidance from the CDC suppressed, not that it is wrong or anything but just that it will make trump look bad since it directly contradicts what idiot boy has been saying and would give the opposition more ammunition that trump is in over his head….every damn thing is politics to this asshole…he doesn’t care one whit about Americans dying, just his re-election…but, I’ve said that before as has everybody in the fact based community…..look, we all know that idiot boy is delusional but his latest ad that uses praise from Putin is otherworldly delusional and stupid….who is it aimed at? His base could be the only target since no one on the left thinks having Putin as your buddy is an argument that will carry the day after Putin installed the wrecking ball in the WH….what else? Okay, that’s enough for now even though I’m bored…will probably be back here for a few more today since I need to be doing something, anything to stave off the boredom…
May 8th
Well…it’s day off day! For the first time since I can remember, I am going to take the day off from everything…no bike rides, no work outside, no nothing….just a total veg day of tv and music and fooling around…okay, that sounds ridiculous, if you know me at all you’ll know that not doing anything is not possible for me…so, as the day goes on, I’ll get antsy and start thinking of a project to do and then get going doing something…but it is a good thought with how much pain I was in yesterday…and the pain continues today but the ibuprofen knocked it down enough to where I don’t have to limp around here anymore….so maybe today will be planning the rest of the projects I have to do outdoors…and starting on getting the doors off the linen closet so I can paint them and finish the interior…see, I can’t just do nothing….but I am going to veg it a little this morning and ease into the day with coffee and some tv playing in the background….but I am going to take the day off the bike since I am not going to go full thermasuit with gloves in May….and my legs can use the rest….more later….
Another too busy day….
Well…as I just said in the previous post, it has been a busy day and I am sore damn near everywhere but I am waiting to take something for it til the normal time at 7 since I missed the window this afternoon when I really should have take something…as I said, it was a busy today with running an errand early, then on the bike for the first ride, painting the trim on the front of the garage, making lunch, back on the bike for another hard 15 miler in the howling wind, then mowing the lawn after I got back, some yard work, and then making a big ham for dinner…and then cleaning a bit inside. So, I am worn the hell out and it really hurts to move at all…must have used new muscles to balance on the ladder and paint…even painted left handed for some of it since it was a pain to climb down and move the ladder….but, the garage looks good so it was worth it….and the grass seed I put in out front has started to come up and fill in the bare spots so I have hope that I’ll have a lawn by the end of the summer….I am kind of happy that none of my overflow garden seeds have come up yet…that keeps me from having to cover them with the lows reaching the 20’s over the next couple of days…and my flower seeds out front haven’t come up either so maybe I’ll have timed it right…we’ll see…all I know is I think I’ve earned cocktails and tv tonight with all of the work this week…I need some mindless vegging to recover…after all, doing 30 miles a day for the past 14 days in a row takes a lot out of me…so I’m taking tomorrow off the bike and using the cold coming in as an excuse….just for me…
Remember, everything can be undone…
Well…yeah, I’m running late for this one today with being busy with all kinds of other stuff that has left me sore as heck…it even hurts to type so this one is going to be short…if you are getting disheartened with all of the damage that trump and his cronies are doing to this country, just remember one thing…everything they do can be undone if we just get the hell out and vote in November. Just today, we had the trump toady Barr put his fingers in another case by dropping the charges against Michael Flynn who admitted to lying to the FBI and plead guilty to that and other charges…but that doesn’t matter to Barr…he dropped the charges anyway and the speculation is it was to head off the idiot trump pardoning Flynn since the pardon could be used against trump in the campaign…not that he wasn’t guilty, the justice department is now just another part of idiot boy’s campaign apparatus…and that is something that has never happened in the history of this country. But, guess what doesn’t happen, the evidence against Flynn doesn’t magically disappear…it will still be there when an ethical AG is appointed by Biden in January and the charges can then be re-instated and Flynn will still pay for his betrayal of this country…and this goes for every other damn thing trump is doing….letting polluters off the hook for killing people? Not after January….favoring red states over blue? Done after January….and so on and so on….all we need to do is vote and this nightmare will be over…and trump will be in jail….
May 7th
Well…running a little late today with not getting up til coffee o’clock and I can’t get started for some reason…but, my overall pain is better after remembering to take something for it last night…I even hurt so much that I took something for it yesterday afternoon and that made a huge difference on the bike and for the rest of the afternoon…not sure if that can be sustained but it was nice to be able to move around here without pain for a while…but now I’m coughing again and that is damn annoying….but at least I know it’s allergies with my head plugged up too….enough of that…I do have an errand to run this morning to return the hose I bought Tuesday since it blew an end off the second time I used it…but that spurred me to buy another expanding hose instead and I got the chain lube I have been thinking about with it and that will be here in a couple of weeks since Amazon is still slow with all of the people using it….and that hose was only 19 bucks…the same as the one that exploded so that was cool…but I lost the receipt so it may be a pain to get the refund….oh, well….I did get the trim on the garage wire brushed yesterday so I can paint today if I feel like it…but it has to be today or I’ll have to wait for a week or so with the cold that is coming in…I mean 24 degrees in May? Pretty sure I’ll lose the tomato plants that I planted but I have more seeds planted downstairs so they’re not needed but we’ll see how that goes…not much to do today….will probably only do one ride today if I get to the painting and that will help with healing the legs some…it’s a little weird that only doing one ride a day now feels like a failure after doing doubles for almost two weeks….more later….
31 million out of work…
Well…if the idiot trump’s incompetence wasn’t clear before, and really, it has been damn clear for years now, the new number of unemployed will clear out all of the smog…31 million Americans out of work…let’s put that in perspective…this is the same percentage of people that were out of work in the great depression…24-25%…even at the trough of the great recession of 2008, the unemployment rate only reached 10%….and the carnage isn’t over yet….layoffs are still happening with at least another 5-7 million yet to come…so I guess trump does have a record that everyone can point to. The bitch of the whole thing is that it didn’t have to happen…many other economies in developed countries who have competent leaders who don’t just hold rallies and golf are doing so much better than the US…and let’s shut the repub apologists up right here….that the virus is an “act of god” that no one could have done better against…just look at Germany and France for example, who do have competent leaders who believe in science and think it IS their responsibility to protect their nations…same virus but different outcomes…many fewer deaths and much less economic damage…and all of the pain here was and is still being caused by the fact that trump is just so damn stupid…and he doesn’t really care about what the effects are on regular Americans…repeat after me…he only cares about getting re-elected and that is why he wants the economy to be “opened” no matter how many deaths it causes…but re-election is not going to happen even if he learns to shit gold and gives a million dollars to everyone….he is going to continue to kill Americans by his stupidity…and when the number reaches 200,000 or more as the summer comes, more and more people are going to have a friend or relative that has died because of trump and who, other than trump zombies, will vote for the idiot who killed grandma, or sister, or brother, or son, or daughter, or grandpa? Not many of us who live in the sane world that’s for sure…..
May 6th
Well…that was a mistake…didn’t take any painkillers or allergy meds last night and I am miserable this morning…coughing with a stuffed up head and every damn thing hurts…maybe I shouldn’t put this old body through that much torture….I did sleep okay last night but my energy level has crashed too and I can barely do this right now….just want to lie down and stop thinking but I won’t…I did get a few things done yesterday…got a new lightweight hose from Aldi’s for 19 bucks and it is cool that I can now reach the entire lot here and with getting my new compressor a couple of days ago, I have everything I need for this house and the next one…but I do need to get out to depot to get my tomato cages and some lawn food in the next week or so but I’m not in any hurry for that with the cold that is coming…I mean 46 for a high in Michigan in May? Damn…when Is spring going to come? I really wish that it would rain so I could take a day off the bike…it has become a chore but I think that’s the double rides every day…and having to put the thermasuit on to ride….my thighs are screaming at me just sitting here so maybe I cut back to one today….damn, my brain is only working a little this morning so maybe I’ll cut this one short…not much to do today…need to do a grocery run to get some stuff that I need to make pizza this weekend and I want to get a ham before they’re not available any more…that will get me through for a couple of weeks if I break it down….more later…
trump’s goalposts are mounted on a Lamborghini…
Well…hey, idiot boy, didn’t you say that there were only going to be 15 cases of the virus and that “it will be gone soon”…then didn’t you say that there would be 30,000 dead and that meant you had done a”terrific job” of dealing with the virus? Now, I wonder where those goalposts are? Yeah, mounted on the back of Lamborghini that you are driving at full speed trying to keep up with the results of your bungling of the response…now where are they? Halfway to Cleveland as you announced that there was going to be at least 100,000 deaths but then your “secret assessment” that includes the effects of “reopening” the country predicts this stupid move is going to cost the country 3,000 deaths a day…and, let’s do the math….3,000 times 30 is 90,000 deaths in just one month…and as more and more people are exposed that could rise to more than a million a month….and that means the goalposts are now in the middle of the Pacific ocean mounted on a 4 engine ocean speedboat moving at 150 mph. And he still takes “no responsibility” when all of the experts say that if he had actually done anything in January and February, 90% of the deaths would have been prevented….I guess this is one thing that the idiot trump will be the “best” at…killing Americans with millions of deaths on his hands…more than the Civil War, more than every other war combined….I wonder where the goalposts will be next week…the moon? Space X has probably been contacted by idiot boy to use a Falcon 9 for that move….and trump tweets as Americans die….
May 5th
Well….that wasn’t too bad…didn’t get up til 6 after going to bed a little early and I was good last night so I think that helped, too….but, I’m still damn sore from all of the riding and working outside and I may have to take a day off to rest everything and start the healing…I am old after all and I don’t know how long I can keep up the pace…but, if I don’t keep up the pace I know I’ll lose my ability to and I just can’t stand that thought….so maybe this is what everyone goes through when they over extend themselves….at least that’s what I’m going to tell myself until the facts say otherwise…it looks like the weather is going to go cold again for the next week at least so I’ll have to cover the tomatoes I planted yesterday if they are going to survive…it’s frickin May and the heat is still on…there has been no spring around here and I still haven’t smelled the spring smell that usually comes in April….so, we hunker down for both the virus and the weather and that is a little depressing….but I am getting my 1200 bucks on the 8th so I guess that’s something….I do need to make a run out to Aldi’s this morning to try to get some chicken and they have a 50ft expanding hose on sale for 20 bucks and I need one of those to reach the rest of the lot here…and I really like the one I have since it is so light to drag around as I try to repair the bare spots in the front lawn and clean up everything else…it is so cool to have the luxury of water to work with around here…not much to do today….just the run to Aldi’s and then maybe only one ride today…I do have some cleaning to do today but I think I’ll start on the garage trim so I can paint it later in the week instead…more later….