Well…went out to a Thai restaurant that my daughter an SIL go to all the time and it was really good…spicy and the pad Thai I got was just a huge plate that I couldn’t eat all of…we’ll take a tour of the University of Virginia tomorrow so we can the old part of it that Jefferson designed and that should be cool…then on the plane around 3:30 and we’ll get in to Venice at 8am local time and that means about 8 1/2 hours for the flight…and that’s a long one…but I am going to nap at least for part of it…we have nothing planned for the first day since we’ll need that to adjust our time…there will be lots of espresso for me when we get there and we’ll be eating lots of good Italian food…going to be fat when we get back but that’s okay…that’s what riding the bike is for and I’ll start the new streak the day I get back…or it may wait til the day after like I did last time…will probably need some time to adjust and that would be perfect for a Sunday…it looks like my daughter is paying for the trip so that means I can spend money on a new range and getting air conditioning put in my house along with new tires for the car…and that is cool…time to read and then sleep…
A fun day…
Well..had a fun day so far and now we’re taking it easy before we go out to dinner…the tour of Monticello was pretty cool and I learned a lot about Jefferson…and it was so cool to walk the floors he walked and see what he saw from his mountaintop home…just to be there and take it all in was nice…it was so quiet on the mountain and you could see all the way to the University of Virginia that he founded…I’m still pretty worn out from traveling but we’ll be back at it tomorrow when we leave for Italy at around 3:30 in the afternoon…and then 8 hours on the plane but it will be better than getting crammed into the flights here…the plane we’re taking is big enough to get up and walk around in and just the two of us are in an aisle…will probably sleep some and read a lot on the flight…and I guess we get dinner and breakfast the next morning on the plane then we get into Venice and will start touring…and we take a boat to our hotel…lots of cool old hotels for this one and there will be a need for lots of espresso…think I’ll take a nap…
Canada says goodbye…
Well…gee…who would have thought that bullying our neighbor and largest trading partner was a bad idea? Obviously not the idiot trump and now Canada says goodbye to the US since idiot boy is such an asshole…I mean trying to get Canada to agree to give up it’s sovereignty for trade with the US…Canada’s PM said no to that and then moved to strengthen ties with the EU which idiot boy again threatened the 28 countries of the EU with “100%” tariffs if the deals went through…gee again..who ever could see that bluster and bullying wouldn’t work…and now the asshole in chief has threatened to cut off trade with the EU which would crater our economy…and now the Canadians have abandoned Florida with tourism down over 90%…and students who once came to the US for an education have seen the ICE thugs arrest their friends and have said nope…we’ll go to Europe instead….has there ever been a more stupid “president” in history? You know the answer to that and it is no…and the rest of the world just hates the idiot trump and gave Carney a standing ovation after telling them that Canada’s future lies with the EU and not the US…is this the eleventy dimension chess that the magas think idiot boy is playing? Yeah, no…he is just an ignorant moron whose bullying has stopped working and he is not smart enough to figure that out…bye,bye Canada…geez…
September 19th
Well…up and running a little later than normal today since I didn’t get to bed til almost midnight and was still up at 6am…still pretty beat from the traveling yesterday but I can fix that with some coffee in a few minutes…I think the only plans we have today is to go to Monticello and then out to dinner tonight for some Thai food and that will be cool since I’ve never had it before…I did sleep okay but I still have a problem with sleeping in a new place but the earplugs helped…it’s my daughter’s birthday today and she turns 49 which is still freaking me out a bit…I remember what it felt like to be almost 50 and it felt better than 73 but I still can move around fine so I guess that’s something…they live in a townhouse neighborhood that is really quiet and I can’t wait to see the mountains that you can see from here…didn’t get in til after dark yesterday and it will be cool to see it in the daylight…so, I need to get moving and and get the day started…more later…
Travel wears me out…
Well…just sitting down to do this at 11:20 and that is really late for me…the plane travel was plane travel with late planes and gate changes and we didn’t get here to my daughter’s house until 9:30 when we should have gotten here at 7…and I am just worn out after getting out of bed at 4:30 after waking up at 4am….but I’m still wired as heck so sleeping is going to be some effort…it was nice to hang out with my daughter and SIL after we got here…and she has taken a new job making twice what I ever made so good for her…so maybe I won’t write the check for the trip…who knows? We are going to Monticello tomorrow for the tour of Jefferson’s estate and I am looking forward to that…and the trip sounds even cooler than I knew…we are going to have huge amounts of fun and see lots of stuff that I never thought I would and she is already talking about another trip in 3 years…ha,ha…that seems to be the pattern and I’m not sure how I’ll be doing in 3 years but I guess I’ll keep my fingers crossed…I did get two rides in before I left this morning but that will be the last ones for a while…I did find an economy lot at the airport that only costs 14 bucks a day and I can live with that…so that will be only a couple hundred bucks to park for the 16 days…it’s not raining here but the weather widget says heavy rain there so that’s good for the lawn but it will make it grow too much to where it will take 3 cuts to get it back to normal…oh, well…okay time to read some news before I crash…
It’s all trump’s fault and he needs to pay…
Well…with the idiot trump’s illegal and stupid war against Iran still going on no matter how much he lies that he has “won” the fallout is starting to build…I mean 10 bucks a gallon for diesel in California? Cripes, we are seeing 5 buck a gallon gas here in Muskegon and a new article I just read said that the costs for idiot boy’s stupidity is going to be close to 4,000 dollars for a family since heating oil, natural gas, and electricity have all seen double digit jumps since the start of his stupid war…and it’s going to get worse as shortages of everything are in the pipeline since many farmers have just given up and not planted this year…and thousands of truck drivers have already declared bankruptcy since they can’t afford fuel for their trucks and that is how 90% of gods are delivered in this country…and this is all trump’s and the repubs fault for letting this economic moron destroy the world economy because he believed, in that small diseased brain of his, that he was going to be able to steal Iran’s oil with just a few bombs…and this is just another ‘trump tax” to go along with his stupid tariffs…I’m glad my trip is happening now and I paid for my flights back in March…the same flight costs twice as much now and I hate this asshole for damaging everything in the world including the good name of the US…I just wish the world wouldn’t blame us for idiot boy as they are doing now…50% of us didn’t vote for this asshole…and I really hope the dems do what they can to fix this crap…but I have no hope that it will happen in my lifetime…geez…
September 18th
Well…that sucked….tried to get some sleep with all the traveling today but was up at 4am and couldn’t get back to sleep so I’m going to be hurting later…and I still needs to get on the bike for two rides in a few minutes to get the day started…think I have everything packed and just need to close the suitcase and dry off my toothbrush to pack it and I’ll be in the car by 12:30…then to the pain in the butt that is air travel…maybe I can sleep on the plane…still need to finish getting the house ready by putting out the trash and I think I’m going to do a load of laundry to make sure I have clean sheets when I get home…but I need to do the weight work first to try to make this a normal day..at least it’s not raining like yesterday but it is cold at 57…cold to me anyway…need to remember to run off the router and modem before I go…no sense in leaving them running for 16 days when I’m not using them…okay, not much else to say this morning but I will be posting every day when I’m in Italy…more later….
1,065 days…
Well…after I get the rides in tomorrow morning my streak of riding every day ends at 1,065 days in a row…every day since I got back from the UK trip…and I don’t think I’ll ever hit that many again but who knows? I know I’ll start the new one on October 4th or 5th when I get back…and I’m back early enough to at least get one ride in on the 4th so I think that will be the plan…I did get to the library and now have 2 big books to take with me for the 20 hours I’m going to be on planes over the next 16 days…I also got the lawn mowed but only one ride since it was spitting and cold and after getting the shivers and having to wear winter clothes to fix that I sure didn’t want to get wet…have finished packing and just checked in for my flight tomorrow so all I have to do is get my suitcase tagged and I’m good to go…have a window seat for the long part of the flight but a middle one for the last hour so that’s not bad…and I have to change planes at BWI but I already have the gate info on the Southwest app so all I have to do now is get there and sit and wait…and that was the most stressful part of the whole thing…so I’m going to relax tonight and maybe have a cocktail with the Lions and truck race on tonight…time to read a bit…
So Ted is now campaigning for us?
Well…the repubs are getting more and more desperate with the shellacking that is coming in less than 2 months and Ted Cruz appears to be campaigning for us with his new talking point that “if the dems are elected, they will stop trump’s agenda”…gee, ted…that is exactly what the country wants…to stop his stupid war, to get rid of his stupid tariffs, to investigate the graft and thievery that is the worst it’s ever been, to lower gas prices that here in Muskegon are fast heading to 5 bucks a gallon, and to attack inflation that idiot boy is ignoring…and let’s add help farmers survive the stupid tariffs that have resulted in the most farm bankruptcies since the dust bowl…so yeah, ted…we want to stop trumps agenda and restore sanity to our foreign policy and start rebuilding our relationships that the idiot has trashed…so keep it up, ted…we can use all the help we can get…geez…
Tearing down the Kennedy center…
Well…I’m getting tired of the asshole trump getting to do whatever he wants even when the courts have told him no…and the latest is the ruling that said he could in no way put his name on the Kennedy center and idiot boy’s response? To fence off the entire building and send thugs driving hilos to slam into the columns holding the roof up to support his lies that the center is falling down and needs to be rebuilt…have you ever heard of a more tiny little petty asshole than this one? Yeah, I didn’t think so and I think this crap should be met with a criminal response say destruction of government property? This idiot has no right to just bulldoze anything he wants and he has had his pet justice department charge many protesters with this same felony for the fake destruction of the reflecting pool and others so now it’s time to charge this asshole with the same felony….the judge in this case has already said he is breaking the law with any movement on the Kennedy Center and he has given him til 10 this morning to explain why he is ignoring the court…this asshole needs to be arrested and now…geez…