Thanksgiving Eve

The loser presidential lunacy continues unabated.  Today, in Gettysburg, Rudy and Jenna held a "hearing" which has been compared to the "airing of grievances" from the Seinfeld show.  Basically they got nothing, but they're whining without ceasing.  The orange wombat called in on Jenna's cell phone which she held up to the microphone, and the wombat wailed for 10 minutes.  It was pitiful.  He's inviting Republican legislators to come to the White House to brow beat them into selecting a different set of electors.  PA law forbids that.  Today, the wombat pardoned Mike Flynn.  The terms of the pardon are not yet public.  Wombat is such a criminal.  Being a criminal is just business as usual in this administration.

So how is your week going?  We made the decision not to set foot in a grocery store this week, due to crowding for the stocking up for the American day of over consumption.  The downside to that decision is that there will be no pie.  Quelle domage.  We don't actually need pie, we just like it.  Our steenking chicken is still frozen pretty hard, hopefully he'll thaw out by tomorrow.

There has been riding Monday and today.  We're both feeling stronger, it may be time to introduce another hill into the route.  This happened Monday.  See the fuzzy thing at the end of the arrow?  That's a cholla pup.  They get flipped up by the front wheel and lodge in my flesh.  If you look carefully, you can see it pulling on my skin.  It was a minor impaling, the last one was in way deeper.

We're losing upper body strength due to not going to the gym.  I tried ordering hand weights on Amazon.  Nope, not in stock yet.  Dick's out east had one weight we wanted, and Dick's up north had the other weight.  I've ordered a weight bench from Amazon, but it won't be here until mid-January, what with the broken supply chain and all.  Anyway, we drove east, then north and then tried to go home.  Nope!  The road we were on was not moving much.  In fact, forward progress was only being made because cars in front of us were turning around.  As it turned out, at the intersection of our street and AZ86 one could go neither to the right or left.  We turned around, tried to get to the alternate route.  Nope!  Another crash had that one closed.  We turned around, and ended up going over Gates Pass.  It took forever to get back to the house.  The light was pretty good, it was close to being the golden hour, so it was a pretty drive.

The amount of price gouging on Amazon is amazing.  I'm running low on Aleve, but they're inflated the cost to the point that I decided just to wait for the next Costco trip and hope they have it in stock.  It's irritating, they're no better than privateers.  

In news of the good, the Army Corps of Engineers has denied the request for a permit to mine for gold and copper in the Bristol Bay watershed in Alaska.   It's one of the last best salmon fisheries, and destroying that would have been devastating.  Hopefully, President Biden will be able to put the kibosh on that forever, but it will depend on what support Murdering Mitch will give to the effort.  You can read more about it here.

Other than that, I have nothing much intelligent to say.