When you hit middle age you really only have two choices: you can get fat and lazy until you roll over and die, or you can can get off your ass and do something, like maybe ride a bike.
Bluntness
I've also been told I have little tact, so if this offends you simply ride on.
Well, the heat is gone. A front moved through the area and we've been left with cloudy skies and drizzles. If you're in Central PA and had plans for a big Memorial Day weekend bash, they're going to be washed out. the rain will be hanging around until Monday. Temps will not climb into the 70s (F). We have returned to sweatshirt and sweatpants weather. I have no problem with this. The hot days of summer are going to be here soon enough.
And yesterday sort of fit into the pattern of the last few Wednesdays. I did chores: laundry, dishes, and some yardwork, but mostly I did nothing. I did spend a lot of time thinking, something I enjoy doing regularly. Too many people don't think. They don't like to ponder. I do think that too many would rather subsist than participate. They prefer a life filled with the doldrums, where the slightest breezy thought might make them consider something. Thinking might actually be rapidly becoming a lost art. The don't like news that upsets them, so what they do watch or read has been candied down into something less substantive than salt water taffy. Me? I'll take the peanut butter brittle any day.
I am scheduled to work today, but to celebrate the autumn-like weather, I've decided to stay home and fry up some latkes.
I took this pic on Tuesday. As you can see, all of my reds are... well red; the rose in the foreground and Howie in the background.
Just because yesterday was a slow day doesn't mean that I spent the time scrolling endlessly through social media. I did do some research on primary elections, and who can and who cannot vote. In PA, we have a closed primary. Democrats can only vote for Democrats, and Republicans can only vote for Republicans. Those registered as Independents can't vote at all. This means that 1.4 million Pennsylvanians can't vote in the primary.
The same is true in Kentucky... somewhat. Registration is cut off a month before the primary and you can't switch parties. So, if you're registered as a Republican and you hate what's going on in Washington, you're still going to have to vote Republican. The 11% who are registered as Independent or nonaffiliated could not vote for Massie.
And Georgia is different from both Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
So, primary elections are not the bellwethers that some believe them to be. For example, we'll need to wait until the midterm in Kentucky to see if those 45% who voted for Massie and the 11% who couldn't vote, will vote for Orangie's personal choice. Primaries provide us with the candidates, they do not give us a hint as to who's going to win in the General Election.
So, our temps didn't get up to 98 (F) yesterday, they only hit 95 (F). This afternoon, they might hit 90 (F) before the storms move in and cool things down. For those Memorial Day party people, it looks as though we're going to have a drizzly holiday, at least on Sunday. By Monday, things should be warming up again, though not into the 90s (F).
Yesterday was sort of good, sort of meh. Things got done, and some things didn't. My bicycle ride in the afternoon was delayed because of a Microsoft update on my sporting laptop. Usually updates take about 2 minutes, this one took almost 5. After the laptop finally restarted, I had to close the tab that was going to show me all the new and wonderful things the update was giving me. About those new and wonderful things, I have checked them out in the past and none of them have ever improved my computing experience. And, of course, I couldn't sign into the Tacx training app. There was no screen for me to log in. So, I turned the laptop off, and then back on, and still had the same problem. There were other issues, as well. When I finally did get to the log in screen, it timed out before the connection could be made. Over 40 minutes later it got sorted out and I could finally get in my ride.
I've been working on a short video to introduce The Body in 4/4 Time. YouTube advertises an editor, however it's only available on mobile, which is not what I want.
On my 3nd playthrough of Expedition 33: I am approaching the end. Last evening it took me 25 minutes to kill one of the bigger bosses. It was so great! I was so pumped! Still, I do know that very shortly I'm going to need to start looking for another game to play. This looks interesting:
Yesterday was primary day in a number of states. I had been hoping that Massie, from Kentucky, might pull a victory from his hat. Allies for the Orange Anus spent upwards of $30 million to defeat him, and MAGA cultists did what their demigod wanted. Massie got 45% of the vote, his opponent, Ed Gallrein got 55% of the vote. Gallrein is a Netanyahu support, in case you were wondering. The cultists are dancing around like this was the 2nd, or 3rd, or 4th coming. Massie has 7 months left in office, prediction markets are saying that he's going to take a flamethrower to the GOP. You have to give it to the cultists, they sure do know and embrace their stupidity. They actually believe that the 45% of voters who supported Massie are actually going to bow their heads and vote Republican in the primary. That 45% is just as pissed off as Massie is. Come November, they will either stay home, or vote Democrat. The way Orangie's approval rating keeps dropping, many of those voters might actually be voting Democrat for the first time in their lives. The cultists simply do no know how much America hates Donald J. Trump.
