Well…the developer of the Adelaide Point condos had a meltdown this past weekend and resigned as CEO of the company…and the reason is so typical repub bullshit…he really feels that environmental laws don’t apply to him so he can do whatever he wants…and he tried to get the idiot trump to intervene and overrule Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy who cited the project with multiple environmental violations…and he goes on to whine that they have done so much for Muskegon and basically says that should make them immune to criticism or regulation…and he goes on to say that the people of Muskegon have half the education and income of the rest of the state…why the hell he would say that, I don’t know but it smells like just another rich person looking down on anyone who isn’t…I’ve talked to this guy multiple times and thought he was a pretty nice guy…I guess I was wrong…geez…
May 6th
Well…that was better…woke up at around 4…again…but this time I was able to fall back asleep til almost 6:30 and that is a win in my book…but I’m still pretty darn worn out…and I think I’ll ease into this day with coffee and more coffee…haven’t made pour over coffee in weeks and I think I need to make some soon…need to eat more, too…since my face is starting to look too thin but part of that is the missing molars and there is nothing I can do about that…the heat is still coming on in May and that sucks and I wonder when that is going to stop? Not much of a spring this year and that sucks, too…I do need to do the week walk today to keep the damn weeds from killing the grass like they did last year…and I need to get some grass seed in the bare spots…the bucket garden is not working for the tomatoes and I’m about ready to give up on them…oh, well…need to get on the indoor bike here in a minute but I am going to have the second cup of coffee first…then an indoor ride and two outdoor and I’m not sure if I’ll have any time to read today…still have two books to read this week and could really use a day off to do it…ha,ha…that’s not going to happen…more later…
Went backward a decade…or more…
Well…since the stereo in the new car doesn’t have an 1/8th inch input to hook my mp3 player to, I had to go back a decade or more to dig up my old cd cases and cds and will put them in the car…I did listen to a couple on the way out and back today and even though it’s clunky it sounded good and it will give me the opportunity to listen to entire albums again when I’m not listening to the radio…and I can live with that…and with the two cases I dug up, I have about 40 cds and that will be enough…it was kind of cool to have cruise control on the new car and with the controls on the steering wheel, it makes it pretty darn convenient along with the stereo controls on there…so yes, even if I paid a lot of money for the car I think it is really worth it and I don’t have to think about another car the rest of my life…and that takes a big load off…
They’ve given us a roadmap..
Well…with the chaos and destruction being levied on the country by the idiot trump and his minions, One thing people are missing is that those morons have given us the roadmap we need to build new guardrails that will HAVE to be followed when we retake the government and that starts with say maybe laws that reign in the executive branch with a simple law that says executive orders are not laws and can’t be used to run the government into the ground and any time an EO conflicts with a congress passed law, the law will be supreme…all of the things idiot boy is doing with EO’s is blatantly unconstitutional and the courts should be shutting this whole set of bullshit down but we know we can’t get that until we reform the supreme court in January 2027…and that should be the #1 thing we do…reform all the courts…but past that, we should be planning everything right now for when we take the WH back in 29…get moving , dems…
May 5th
Well…I really hate being up at 5:14 in the morning…and my damn right thumb is split again and hurts like crazy…and I’m going to aggravate it with the outdoor rides and shifting with that thumb…man, I really hate getting old…it’s going to be a busy day today with hitting the SoS and spending a thousand bucks to get everything transferred and legal…and then I need to run a couple of errands before I get the one outdoor ride in and after that I’ll need to think about making a run to GR to show the car to Tom…still haven’t driven the car other than the 3 miles from the dock to here so it will be a nice shakedown run…it’s supposed to be 60 or so today so it will be a top down run and I can’t wait to see how the wind blocker works and how the top latches down…going to use the cruise control with the buttons on the steering wheel that also has the stereo controls on it so I’ll have something to play with…damn, need to get on the bike by 7 and that is coming up pretty fast…more coffee…I guess I should get moving…more later…
Washed and waxed the car…
Well…wasn’t really going to do much today but after getting the rides in but I went out to look for the trunk and gas door release and felt that car can really use a wax job but it had to be washed first…so I washed and waxed it with the instant spray wax and now it is slippery and really shiny…and there are only a couple of scratches on the whole car which isn’t bad for a 17 year old car…and I noticed that the battery is under the hood and not in the trunk like the 94…and I am amazed at how far back the engine is in this one…there has to be 2 1/2 feet from the front of the car to the front of the engine…and the whole thing is behind the centerline of the front wheels…it’s like a front engine, mid engine car…so tomorrow I go out and spend a thousand bucks at the SoS to get everything done…even going to renew the plates since they sent that to me a couple of days ago…okay, race time…
May 4th
Well…happy Star Wars day to all who celebrate…finally, didn’t get out of bed til around 6 and that felt good but I don’t feel that hot right now…feel pretty worn out…again…but I need to get going soon to get the indoor ride in before Man U plays at 9…not sure what I’m going to cook today…have tons of potatoes so I should make a batch of potato soup but I think I’ll see what else I can make with three kinds of potatoes….really hurt my back working on the lawn yesterday but it didn’t start there…it has been hurting for weeks now and I wonder what the heck I did that hurt it initially….not going to be warm enough to get outdoors until 11 or so since it’s only 40 out there and the heat is still coming on…so I wonder if I can have a relaxing morning? I do need more coffee and I’m thinking of making some pour over but that seems like a lot of work right now…lots of races on today with F1, Indy car, and Nascar all racing so I need to get everything done before that starts at 1:30 and they overlap so I’ll have to choose what I want to see…not much to do today…just need to pour coffee down and get moving but I have a half hour or so to sit here until 7:30 and I am going to try to enjoy that….more later…
Back to the routine…
Well…it was nice to get back to the normal routine today after being away all day Friday…and the routine included 3 rides and mowing the lawn…I was having a problem with the bike and I thought the new front and rear sprockets were wrong…but I figured out that I had adjusted it wrong when I did the replacement work and the gears were off by one…and that kept the shifter from getting to 24th speed since it read 8 but it was only going to the 7th sprocket on the back…after a 15 minute fix I did the third ride and it works perfectly and it is so nice to be able to pedal as hard as I want with no skipping…didn’t take the car out today but I did start reading the manual and the procedure for locking the top down is new to me so I’ll have to figure that out…I did remember that when the NC’s were built they didn’t come with a spare tire since the 17 inch wheels wouldn’t fit in the trunk so I need to get some fix a flat and a new compressor…but then I thought I’ve driven the 94 or 13 years without a spare and only had one flat in that time…I am going to ask 2 grand for the old one and I think it’s worth it even with the rust…okay, time for a little tv…
The lawsits are going to be glorious…
Well… with the idiot trump and his doge stooges eliminating entire departments of the government and cutting jobs across the US, I am just amazed that the House and Senate have let idiot boy usurp the powers that are given to them by the Constitution…I mean there are laws that govern all this stuff and these laws can’t be repealed by an executive order just as the constitution can’t be repealed by one…so that means that every person who has been fired by the doge assholes have grounds to sue idiot boy and his stooges and these lawsuits are going to be glorious and will cost billions of dollars and force the moron trump to rehire them all…and now the idiot has started to deport American citizens with no due process and that will be the next class action that will tie the government up until the idiot is gone…he sure deserves it…geez…
May 3rd
Well…damn, a second day of being up before 5am and I am confused how that happened after getting up before 5 yesterday and needing some real sleep last night…still so tired that all I want to do is go back to bed but I’ll be on the bike in a half hour or so…the heat is still on so I won’t be outdoors on the bike til later this morning…the trip with my brother went okay with no political arguments but I think we were avoiding them and that is a good thing…I really should take today as a rest day and I just may…detailing the new car can wait since I’m going to have it the rest of my life and there’s no hurry…I do need to cook today and I may make some pour over coffee in a little while since I haven’t made any in a long while and I think I’m going to need it…I may keep the miles to around 20 today with one ride in and one ride out…I still can’t believe we are in May and the heat is still coming on and I can’t get outside until noon or so…I do need to mow the lawn at some point but that may wait until Monday…or today…who knows? More later…