Well…I think all the work at the house is taking it’s toll on me after being there every day this week…I am sore and tired but am going back over there today to get one of the entry doors painted since it is so ugly, dirty, and beat up…and the door sill has no paint on it at all…so, it will be a short day over there so I can start to not hurt so much over the weekend…and I haven’t gotten anything done around here all week and I do need to clean some and prep more stuff to take over…I even slept okay last night and didn’t get up until after 5:30 but didn’t have any dreams and that was disappointing since I have had a few lately…damn, I hope the coffee starts to work soon or I’m going to have a terrible ride this morning…the computer on the bike started to work after a few miles out yesterday but I am still glad I bought a new one since the old one has been so unreliable over the past month or so…I did get over 3300 miles over the past couple of days and that gets me to about 900 miles or so to do to break the all time record and tha just might be doable…more later…
late again…
Well…I can’t understand why I can’t get here earlier to do the second on of these after getting back here from the house at about 1:30…it seems that I really need to just decompress for a little while but 2 1/2 hours? I’ll try to do better in the future since I know a lot of you want to read more after you get back from lunch…but I am not going to talk about the idiot trump today…I’ve had it with that moron so I need to find something else to talk about….I am pretty happy with how the dem candidates are performing both in the debates and out on the stump…Liz Warren drew about 20,000 people to a rally in the midwest last week and the enthusiasm level seems to be increasing daily…one thing that I am excited about is the fact that every dem candidate has lots of really great policy ideas that will make this country better for everyone, not just the 1%, and that the competition between the candidates is making them better and tougher…while all the repubs have is trump’s racism and hatred…have you heard any detailed policy from them that wasn’t tax cuts for the rich? Okay, taking away women’s rights is another one, and making sure that lgbtq Americans don’t have the same rights as everyone else is another…have you heard any that would make your lives better? Yeah, didn’t think so…just remember that when it’s time to vote in 2020…can you stomach even one more minute of trump and his criminals? I know I can’t….
August 29th
Well…made it all the way to 5:23 this morning and that seems like a small win with how it has been going….but I am still pretty damn tired today and pretty sore, too, even with taking the day off the bike…had a flat when I got ready to ride yesterday and then my bike computer finally died after acting really weird over the past couple of weeks…I couldn’t get one locally since no one carries the inexpensive ones anymore so I had to order one from Amazon for 18 bucks but that won’t be here for a week or so so I guess I’ll just have to write down how many rides I do so I can keep an accurate record of the miles I do…it’s good that I ride the same route every day so that will be easy….normally, I take Thursdays off working on the house to get supplies I need but I did that earlier in the week so I am going to put the second coat on the bathroom today and maybe prep for painting the entry doors and frames since the side door frame has no paint on it at all and it will make all the difference to get that done…so, another busy day with a late lunch since I have to cook some thighs I have had in the fridge for a week…more later…
Used the mower…
Well…as you know, I had to buy a new lawnmower for the house and decided to get a cheap little electric for only 88 bucks on Amazon since the yard is so small…so today, I put it in the car in the carton to take it over and had to put the top down to make it fit even with how small it is…it took about a minute to assemble it since the handle just snapped in as did the handle for the bag and those were the only two things I had to do to use it…I was really surprised how well it coped with grass that was about 5 inches tall and the bag worked good even though it was small and I had to empty it a lot…but, it’s also a mulcher so if I mow once a week, I won’t have to bag at all…I do need to get my extension cord handling skills back but it wasn’t too big of a pain so I can live with it…and just pushing a button to start it is pretty cool….and getting the lawn mowed allowed me to put up some barriers that I hope will keep the idiots next door from parking on my damn lawn…when I got over there yesterday there were two cars at least 3 feet on the parkway in front of the house and they have left tire tracks and killed a bunch of the lawn that I want to restore…need to get some dirt and grass seed to fill that damage and some next to the driveway entry that is about 8 inches deep…I was going to paint today but I needed to take advantage of no cars on the lawn, and you know how I am with a new toy…just had to try it…
More lawbreaking…
Well…if it wasn’t bad enough that trump is stealing money from military families to build his stupid wall…now, we have reporting that he has told the people building it that they can break any law they want to get it built fast and he will pardon them if they do get arrested…now, over 95% of the wall will have to be built on private land that will have to be stolen to do it…starting with a national park that he is going to split in half and permanently make the southern half no longer accessible to the US people whose taxes have paid for it…and this includes pristine environmentally sensitive areas that will have to have roads built through them for construction equipment to get to the wall site…I wonder how these private citizens in Texas will feel about their land being taken for a racist vanity project from the most unpopular president in the history of the country The idiot trump has already said he will ignore the courts if he is sued to stop the land stealing so is that a high crime? It is in my book and the repubs have shown they have never been the law and order party if they allow this to happen…
August 28th
Well…running about on time this morning and slept in all the way to 5:20 and that is better than 3:04 so I’ll take it…I can’t believe how worn out I was yesterday after I got back here from running errands and I forgot to put sunscreen on and got scorched…that may be part of it but painting the bathroom had a lot to do with it, too…need to put a second coat on today so I can put it back together next week…it had so much detail work that it took me almost 4 hours to paint the tiny thing…I do need to take the mower over today and put it together so I can mow the lawn tomorrow…I normally take Thursdays off but not this week…just need to get everything done so I can get the water on…I do need to cook today with no leftovers in the fridge and that will put he first meal back til almost 2 and that is really screwing up my schedule…down to one meal a day and that’s probably not a good idea with all of the work I’ve been doing lately…I may even have to take an ibuprofen before I head over today since I hurt everywhere…again….more later…
He was even worse in private…
Well…running late again today and just got back here at almost 4 after working on the house for 4 hours and then running around so I can work on the house tomorrow for another 4 hours…but, that’s not what this about…not sure if you saw the idiot in chief’s ending press conference from the G-7 meetings and the totally unhinged behavior that idiot boy showed…turning the presser into a 5 minute long infomercial for one of his golf courses where he wants to hold next years meeting…in his public appearances, trump pouted his way through doing nothing but trying to bully the real world leaders there into letting Putin come to the next meeting…and that was bad enough, but in private he was even worse…shouting at everyone who dared to tell him that no, Putin was not going to be invited to the meetings ever…as long as he is still in the Crimea and is still trying to destroy the Ukraine by sending in Russian soldiers to attack both the military and civilians….then pouty boy lied his ass off when asked why he blew off the climate meeting, telling everyone he had a private meeting with Modi and Merkel when both of them were at the climate meeting…all of this pouting and lying has done one thing, the entire world is going it’s own way and does not see any need to even talk to trump…doing diplomatic damage that may never be able to be repaired…MAGA my ass….
August 27th
Well…that didn’t last long…only got two days of reasonable sleep and then back to getting up at 3:14 today and then just fitfull tossing and turning until 5:26…and I am feeling it now…another exhausted start to the day…needless to say, didn’t sleep well, either, but I did say I wasn’t going to bitch about that anymore….I did get the new electric lawnmower yesterday and it looks pretty cool…probably won’t get to using it today since I spent the day prepping the bathroom for paint and want to get that done today…I did get the bathroom fan running yesterday, too so that is one last thing that I was a little worried about….and I got the grate for it brought over here cleaned up and painted so I can install it once the paint on the bathroom dries…didn’t get anything done around here yesterday and even skipped the second bike ride with the rain coming in…and that helped my bike sores some but we’ll see about today….I am going to get out here in a little while but it is still dark until after 7 now so I have some time to have coffee and read the news….might even have to make more coffee since the leftovers were kind of short this morning….more later….
Hey, let’s go nuke a hurricane…
Well…I know, you probably think this place is like The Onion at times when I talk about the latest bit of idiocy from the idiot in chief…it seems that over the past couple of weeks, trump has asked his aides why they can’t just drop a nuke in the eye of a hurricane to disrupt it and make it go away…I wonder if he has been watching “Sharknado” lately…there was a marathon of all of them on last week and that is what they did to make a sharknado go away…after all, we all know that most of his time is spent watching tv and tweeting so maybe he did run across the marathon and thought it was a documentary or something. I wonder what’s next…build a giant air conditioner to combat global warming? Put up giant lightning rods on everyone’s houses so you won’t have to buy electricity? Geez…that boy is dumber than a box of rocks…but I don’t have to tell you that…the whole world already knows…
August 26th
Well…something’s happening here…what it is ain’t exactly clear…that’s two days in a row of sleeping until after 6 and that is really weird given my history of not sleeping at all…but, I’ll take it even if I don’t have the energy I had yesterday morning…feel pretty worn out today but I think I’ll get back into the standard routine for my days…so that means getting on the bike here in a few minutes when it gets light…had a nice day yesterday and I did get out on the bike tewice with no damage that I can feel right now…not too sore but I am still fighting the bike sores that I have been for three weeks now and that is not normal…have to figure that out soon…and why my right thumb hurts like crazy for no reason….I do have my car loaded up with stuff from my storage shed to move over to the house today and I have to remember to do that every day I go over so I will have all of the little stuff moved before I make the big move in October…the new lawn mower is supposed to be here today and I hope it is when I get back here today…but, with the rain coming in, I won’t be able to use it until Wed at the earliest since it is an electric and I don’t want to die doing the lawn….not much to do today…I do have to continue the prep work on the bathroom so I can paint tomorrow….so that means that I won’t get anything done around here today….more later…