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I've also been told I have little tact, so if this offends you simply ride on.

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Making fudge

Yesterday turned out to be one of those odd days.  Usually, I sleep in on my first day off - yesterday I didn't thinking I could get so much accomplished.  I was speeding along my 'to do' list until it started to rain... earlier than I had been expecting.  Suddenly everything slowed down and I felt like I ought to take a nap.  The dogs love it when I take naps, though doing so scratches things off my list.  I did get to my local Giant supermarket, still no cleaners or disinfectants so I guess MAGA heads must still juicin' up with Mr. Clean in the back bedroom.  Lots of paper products.  I bought meat (chicken... and that other white meat) since they say it's going to get pricey as hell.  Something you can count on, every time there's a pandemic someone feels they need to make a buck. I sliced 2 heads of cabbage real thing and tarted my sauerkraut (yes, I make homemade sauerkraut).
Not so surprising, the Coronavirus Task Force is still on because (hold on to your hats people) the Idiot Jerk in the White House said he had no idea it was so popular.  This is the same individual who 2 weeks ago was bragging about his ratings.  Oh, wait, let me palm myself in the forehead, he actually thought all those people were watching because of... sorry, I can't even say it.  That idea is simply so ludicrous.
And rumors are beginning to abound that the Idiot Jerk will make some attempt at deligitimatizing death tolls.  He looks bad, you know?  At first he said we were only going to lose about 60,000, but then it became 100,000 by June, and then maybe as many as 135,000.  The only high numbers he likes are those related to the stock market.  Body counts? Damn, they make him look really bad.  Frankly, he may try, but he will not succeed.  Inquiring minds want to know.  Fudging the statistics will hurt his approval ratings even more.  Just like Covid - 19's changing timeline hurts his accusation that it came from a lab in Wuhan.  It's seems as though this virus has been floating around for quite some time.  In late December, a Parisian was already infected, and individual who had not left the country, proving there was Community Spread that early in the pandemic.  Don't worry, the Idiot Jerk will try and cook up some sort of fudgy lie to cover that truth.
Finally, what are my plans for today, now that the sun is shining?  some outdoor work.  If the grass is dry enough, I may try and mow it.  While I, myself, would love to make some fudge... the calorie count would mean a four hundred mile bike ride... tomorrow.  In case you're wondering, this is what my training calendar looked like in April.  Not bad, eh?  Shit, it see these new Blogger changes don't let the whole thing fit.  Well, you get the idea.  I rode 255 miles in April.  If you click on the date it should take you to my Strava account for more detailed information.

Training Calendar

13 comments:

  1. Okay, say the counts are off by, say, 10%.
    Still, today, means 60,000 people died from COVID-19.
    If the death toll reaches 135,000, say the counts are off by 20% ... means still over 100,000 dead.
    Not a good look either way you slice it.

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    1. And today must have been a real shit show in the White House! I heard he flipped out really bad.

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  2. I don't keep track of how much I have been riding. I just know I average about an hour a day. I have managed to maintain my weight while eating a lot of crap but I have not been doing much yoga or weight training and I can tell.

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    1. I use a Garmin Fenix 3 HRM so everything uploads into Strava automatically. Also, I was in accounting for quite a few years so numbers are in my blood.

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  3. He can't say anything without re-tracking it later. So I ordered him a ball gag. Not a mask.

    I don't know what's going on with blogger. I had three posts where all the pictures disappeared, and two of them were the happy moments posts. All three post were near each other in date, so I have no idea what they are doing. If this keeps up I'll close up. I don't have the patience.

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    1. I hate to tell you, but he eats ball gags for breakfast... in between Egg McMuffins.

      I haven't had anything disappear. But I have been playing around with it as much as I can... Blogger, I'm talking about Blogger.

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  4. That man is so insane, he's probably thinking this may actually work for him, there is another six months until the election, he's probably hoping to let the virus spread and by next November it will have worked itself out. He will then claim that the death rates are falling because of his terrific handling of the situation.

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    1. I think he believes that if the economy comes back everyone will choose to ignore the shit show.

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    1. Catchy... but can you dance to it?

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    2. sung to "fly robin fly", yes.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPdG4DA42g

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  6. Blogger is having a weird period. I cannot post videos that are not on YouTube or embed anything. Ugh. Worn it, google!
    And IMPOTUS is doing his usual dog and pony show to have people taking about him. Too bad for him it’s not good. His incompetence has killed many Americans and the economy. There’s no bullshitting a virus.

    XoXo

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    1. Google owns YouTube. You can also include videos that are downloaded or copied to your computer. Check out Sharex. You can copy what ever is playing on your screen, save it to you computer, and then drag it into Blogger.

      Even when he's sitting in jail he's going to be asking about his ratings.

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