Day 172– (AD 1,334) – Miles Today – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

Today I cycled 20.4 miles on my Schwinn 170. Totals – 28,353.6 miles; 45,630.8 kilometers.

Also, I have completed 6.5% of the distance to my next goal points.

We presented our 151st quilt ES20 in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Equality Florida.

Soapbox –

#45 loves ratings. He thrives on ratings. A good portion of his tweets are in retaliation of ratings. The question is where does he get his ratings.

CNN Politics, analysis by Chris Cillizza, at noon today wrote this article “Is Donald Trump’s approval rating really 50 percent?”

Yes, per 538, the Pollster Rasmussen Reports/Pulse Opinion Research ranks #45’s approval and disapproval rating at 50% and 50%, respectively.

But Rasmussen is only one of dozens of pollsters that 538 takes into consideration. Their results, if I understand it correctly are folded into the overall computation of polls and #45 ratings on Day 88 is a 51.6% Disapprove and a 41.7% Approve. Rasmussen is also ranked by 538 at a Grade of C+.

“FiveThirtyEight’s pollster ratings are calculated by analyzing the historical accuracy and the methodology of each firm’s polls. Accuracy scores account for the type of election, a poll’s sample size, the performance of other polls surveying the same race and other factors. We also calculate measures of statistical bias in the polls.”

#45 will love Rasmussen’s ratings.

If you want to see a pink elephant, (no reference to the Republicans), you can damn well see pink elephants dancing outside your window.



And I will not get into the medical definitions nor diagnoses of “pink elephants”.

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Jim

Day 171– (AD 1,333) – 20.5 Miles Today – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

This morning I pedaled 20.5 miles on my Schwinn 170. Totals now 28,333.2 miles; 45,598.0 kilometers.

And I reached my next destination and goal point on the virtual part of my journey, Bakhuysen Crater. I have traveled 3,431.6 miles so far on Mars.



My next destinations and goal points have been combined in the next leg of my journey. I will be stopping at 2 craters, Charybdis Scopulus and Lambert. The total distance of this next leg is 410 more miles.


Cooking with my Instant Pot. Decided to hard-boil one dozen eggs.


But don't do what I did... After cooking 1 dozen eggs in IP I decided to remove silicone basket with bare hands. Half-a-dozen bloody hot eggs went flying. Fingers burnt. Results - Egg salad sandwiches and 6 Easter eggs.

Soapbox –

On Day 85 #45 must be smiling as he walks the aisles in Airforce One, on weekly trips between DC and Mar-a-Lago. According to the compilation of polls regarding #45’s approval/disapproval ratings, there has been an ever so slight upward tick in his approval ratings. I know one could extrapolate the data and skew the data to forecast a steadily decreasing “smoothed” average, but one never knows how #45, as proven thus far, will react from day-to-day.

FiveThirtyEight may be honing in on the short-term upward movement to project an ever so slight increase in forecasted approval ratings.

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Jim

Day 170 – (AD 1,332) – 20.5 Miles Today – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

This morning I pedaled my Schwinn 170 20.5 miles. Totals now – 28,312.7 miles; 45,565.0 kilometers.

And I have completed 93.9% of the distance to my next destination and goal point. Time to start surveying for my next one.

I’ve noticed that there are many, many persons, persons who may be considered artists who are extremely touchy and disturbed with the issue of copyright infringement. They are concerned with someone “stealing” their creative idea(s).

The opening of Austin Kleon’s book “Steal Like An Artist – 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, (Workman Publishing Company, 2012)

“How To Look At The World (Like An Artist)

Every artist gets asked the question,

‘Where do you get your ideas?’

The honest artist answers,

‘I steal them.’

First, you figure out what’s worth stealing, 

then you move on to the next thing.

That’s about all there is to it…”

Something for me to ponder. And at some point, you may see our adaptation of Paul Klee’s “Château et soleil”.

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Day 169 – (AD 1,331) – 20.8 Miles Today – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

I getting to despise getting on my Schwinn 170. It must be my age. It must be the season. It must be the temperature. It must be… But I got on anyway. And I pedaled 20.8 miles on my Schwinn. This is the furthest I have pedaled in my 1-hour allotment. Guess I was trying to hurry up and get off. Totals now stand at 28,292.2 miles; 45,532.0 kilometers.

I have now completed 85.0% of the distance to my next goal and destination point on Mars. This one is a beaut of a crater as I guess I am already in the inner part. My goal point is the center.

Supper, the best always – homemade Jamaican Rice and Peas, (Pinto Beans); and Ackee and Codfish. I didn’t use Saltfish as I was too, too impatient, and had a craving. Ackee and Codfish/Saltfish is my most favorite dish…anytime of the day. Period.

My early morning blood sugar skyrocketed with the double servings of supper and then a late-night snack of Triscuit and Liverwurst Sausage. Dang fool. But I just couldn’t stop myself. Oh well, start over again.

I am sick and tired of would be, heel-clicking, uninformed and lack-luster homeowner association self-appointed “agents of doom”.

And WikiHow has a page titled “wikiHow to Become a Dictator”.

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Day 168 – (AD 1,330) – 20.4 Miles Today – Jim’s Trek Part V – On My Schwinn 170

Good Day,

This morning I cycled my Schwinn 170 20.4 miles. Totals – 28,271.4 miles; 45,498.5 kilometers. I have now completed 74.0% of my overall Trek. Only 9,930.2 more miles to go.

And I have covered 76.0% of the distance to my next destination and goal point.

Thought –

"Immature poets imitate;
mature poets steal; bad
poets deface what they take,
and good poets make it into
something better, or at least
something different. The
good poet welds his theft into
a whole feeling which is
unique, utterly different from
that which it was torn."


- T.S. Eliot

Supper last night Fabada Asturiana. Ingredients – White and Pinto Beans; Andouille Sausage; Bacon; diced Tomatoes; chopped Onion; Green Pepper; Jalapeño Pepper; Garlic; Smoked Paprika; Chicken Stock; Lime Juice; Black Pepper




Soapbox –

Per FiveThirtyEight, since President Truman, #45’s popularity is even worse than President Ford’s on the 81st day in office.

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