Behind the woodshed

Well, it's Thursday and my mid-week day off.  I'll work on Friday and Saturday but then I'm going o have off for 3 days.  This is not a bad schedule.
The torque wrench I had ordered was waiting for me when I got home yesterday.  After reading the days blogs, I to take off the old crank and put on the new.  Holy Shit!  It took about 3 minutes.  Easy Peasy.  The wrench is magnificent.  You have no idea who great it felt holding that great tool in my hand.  Simply wonderful.  And so easy to use after putting so much effort trying to wrench that crank old crank free.  I'm ready to torque everything now!
Graysonview has called me on both Tuesday and yesterday morning to tell me they found my Mom laying on the floor.  On Monday they said they didn't know if she had fallen, or whether she had just decided to lay down.  With yesterday's call they were fairly certain that she's just laying down.  She doesn't remember, so there's no explanation why she's doing this.
I have myself set up to when I turn my computer on in the morning, all these news flashes line up on the bottom right side.  Some of them are interesting headlines, others?  not so much.  This AM I had a flash for a Faux News posting on Youtube.  I did not click and watch the video ince the blurb said everything I needed to know.  Evidently some banana head at Faux News was saying that the UK was going to have to pay terribly for treating the Idiot Jerk so badly.  I guess maybe they were upset about the baby blimp  Or maybe it was all the protesters.  Anyway, I had to laugh.  These people don't understand Nationalism can only go so far, and then it turns into fascism.  They want to be the power hungry, ugly Americans.  We need to teach them a painful lesson.  Take them out behind the wood shed, so to speak, and thrash the living daylights out of them.

Most don't understand that conservatives need to control all aspects of your behavior.  If they can't force you into their tiny niche mentality, you will be outlawed and punished accordingly.  They need to be taught that they are wrong.  Grab your switches, it's time to start swinging. 

Me and my crank

So, it Sunday and I get to work.  Weird schedule this week, off a day, work 2 days, off a day, work 2 days.  I hate not having 2 days off in a row.
My new crank arrived yesterday.  From Utah to Pa in 2 days is not bad.  Now, I know there are perhaps one or two people who would like a little more information about my crank.  Well, cranks come in many different sizes.  Mine is big.  175mm, or 6.88 inches.  Personally, I think it looks bigger than it actually is, but I suspect that's normal.

Me, holding my crank

Since I'm off tomorrow, I'm planning on replacing the damaged crank with the new crank.  We shall see how that goes.  Right now the X6 is on the trainer which makes for a loud ride.  The tires are made to be taken off road, down paths and on trails, not for Cycleops trainers.

Oh, and in case you didn't hear, the denuclearization talks in North Korea didn't go so well.  I understand there is to be a follow-up meeting on 7/12 for lower level individuals.  Here's a little hint to those buffoons who thought the Idiot Jerk in the White House had struck a deal with Kim Sum Dumb, he didn't.  In fact, Kim played the Idiot Jerk for a fool.  He got what he wanted.  Recognition by a super power legitimized his dictatorship.  And he has photos and videos to prove it.  I wonder if they publicly laughed at Pompeo.

In just 8 days the Idiot Jerk is going to sit down with his wanna be "BFF."  Right now Putin is just trying to decide which finger to wrap him around.  Or maybe he'll just show him the Golden Shower tape and ask him what America is going to do to make Russia Great Again.

Day 2 for Le Tour.  I didn't get to watch the whole race yesterday because... they called me in to work early.  I went, knowing I'd get to leave early.  They haven't called so far today, the last day at my old schedule.  If it's slow later in the day, I'll see about leaving early.  I want to get a good night's sleep.  Tomorrow's going to be a big day for me and my crank.

A broken crank... and the Greenbrier

That's right, and I'm to blame.  Stripped it, I did, the result of impatience.  You know what I mean?  There are times when it's just too difficult to take it slowly.  Anyway, it's stripped.  I did it while changing pedals for an ride on the roads.  In too much of a hurry, I used an allen wrench instead of carefully threading in the pedal.  Cranks are made of aluminum. Pedals are made of steel.  The hardness of steel will carve away the softer crank threads if care is not taken.  And I was in a rush and careless.  As a result, the left pedal wobbles.  This is not a good thing, a broken crank and a wobbling pedal.  Later this morning I'll call World Cycle & Ski and have them rethread the crank.  Believe me, I will only let the best touch my crank.
And I was reading that a majority of Americans want a Supreme Court Justice picked before the mid-terms.  This, I suspect, has more to do with the way the Republicans shit around with the last justice.  This puts them in a bind, however.  If they vote in an individual who doesn't match Kennedy's middle of the road viewpoint, they will get voted out of office.  As I've said before, their biggest fear is losing their job.  The last thing any Senator wants is to be fired by the American voter.  Such a termination means that a majority of people think them unfit to do their job.  Of course, the Idiot Jerk in the White House is dumb as a fucking brick.  He has so much hateful disdain for those who mock him and treat him like the turd, choosing an ultra conservative candidate would let him stab a majority of those Americans in the back.
Speaking of the Idiot Jerk, I see where he's going to be spending his holiday at the Greenbrier.  Some of you may be familiar with the resort as it gained quite a bit of notoriety when word got out that it sits above a massive underground bunker.  You know?  The kind of place the president is supposed to hide in during a nuclear event.

He's not staying in Washington to watch the fireworks over the Mall.  Nope, he's going to the Greenbrier.  Could he be scared that something bad might happen on our most honorable holiday?  The day we celebrate the birth of our nation?  Or is he just a dumbshit?