Using the 2016 playbook

Okay, so it's Thursday... and I ended up sleeping late.  Yepper.  Set the alarm, it went off, I shut it off and laid back down and dozed for another hour and a half.  Yikes!  I did ride the bike yesterday for that boring 14 mile ride around Amsterdam, it's so flat and there's nothing to see until you head downtown.  I also learned that the new Lady Gaga album doesn't work well on boring rides.  I need something with a little more spice, a little more bass, and a lot more rock and roll.

Otherwise, yesterday was stinky hot and humid.  I bought some Scottish Smoked Salmon, however when I got it home from the store I realized it had lemon flavoring.  Meh.  While I don't mind have fresh lemon juice squeezed over my salmon steaks... I don't want it tainting the smoky flavor of smoked salmon.

I also started working on a dumbbell routine yesterday.  We'll see how this goes.

And I guess everybody saw that the Idiot Jerk is going to begin having his campaign rallies again.  His first is in Tulsa, on Juneteenth.  So, is anybody surprised?  Not really, this is the all white Republican Party.  There will be such a gathering of MAGA heads... and Covid 19.  Do you really think he's going to test temperatures before he lets his worshiping flock in?  Or have them wear masks?  Unless they come dressed as active members of the KKK, masks will be verboten.   Remember, they believe this whole thing is a Democratic Hoax.  And, if you think about it, it's rather funny.  A number of them will get infected and a number of them will die.  They'll become part of the statistic they denounce.

You see, the Idiot Jerk put his old team back together, the ones who helped him squeak out an Electoral Win... and they're going to use the same playbook. No one ever said he was intelligent... except himself.  His poll numbers are collapsing because Americans are fed up with his lies and his divisive  tactics, his racism and total inability to unify anyone but White Evangelicals and White Supremacists.  His rallies will only amplify his failures.

And he has plans to hold future rallies in... are you ready for this?  Arizona, a state that is almost ready to declare a state of emergency because of rising infection rates, they're running out of hospital beds.  And Florida is another future rally state.  The RNC also wants to hold their convention in Jacksonville...  I suspect those senior citizens are not too happy about 40 or 50 thousand people coming to their state from across the country.  But then when has the RNC or the GOP ever thought of, or considered human beings?

Finally, I had been hoping the temps would have been cooler this week so I could take the bike off the wall and go for a ride outside.  What bike on the wall, you ask?

This one, my first Cannodale.  A cyclocross.  Known to my friends as the X6.