Well…didn’t get anything done yesterday but the bike ride and that can’t go on much longer…I need to get moving again and get some stuff done around here today…not too motivated still but if I just get going I can build on that….the muscles in my back are still sore and it must be from sleeping wrong since I haven’t been doing anything strenuous….just feeling creaky today and I don’t like it…it looks like the run of good weather ends later in the week with highs only getting into the low 40’s but that is about right on schedule for me to stop wearing shorts next Thursday….5 days into the news blackout and I am getting used to it…..so that will continue…more later….

Well…I was really looking forward to their being a new work of art on the trail today but no such luck…and the stuffed animals that were in the trees were gone, too…just some pretty strange stuff going on…unless I’m just going crazy and none of that stuff happened…who knows? I did neglect to relay that I went over 2800 miles for the year today and that makes the possibility of getting to 3000 ever closer…if I can do that, I am going to try to get this bike to 30,000 miles since I will only need a thousand miles or so next year….and the bike has been working so well since I got the pedal arm repaired that that looks doable…okay, that’s enough for the day…I am going to think up some other topics over the next few days and try to get back in the groove here….

Well…darn…the first day of frost on the car and that depresses me with the weather that is coming late next week…highs only in the 40’s….didn’t get anything done yesterday and today looks the same…the wind was brutal on the bike and my back is sore from it for the first time in a while…I did buy a paper this morning and threw away the news part…just wanted the ads to look at….don’t mind being in the blackout…okay…going to watch the Moto GP race and have my coffee….more later…

Well….if you were here yesterday, you read that someone had set up 7 shopping carts on the trails that I bike on and that was kind of weird why anyone would do that…so, today, I head out fully expecting to see them again…nope, not one of them is still there…but, another weird thing replaced it. On the portion that is a rail trail, there were 14 stuffed animals in the trees that line the trail there…pandas, sheep, dogs, cats, a dolphin, and a couple of snakes…I’m pretty sure that this one is not aliens but I am now curious who the heck is doing this stuff….and to see what may be out there tomorrow…..at least something to smile about….

Well…this news blackout is really screwing up my morning routine…not sure when to have my coffee and it’s really easy to just lay on the couch and not get going….I guess I’ll have to figure out a new way to do morning…I did win at pool yesterday but a really loud woman interrupted us and I’m not sure what that was about….feel pretty crappy today…again…and my head is just plugged up so I’m thinking allergies again….and my back is sore so I won’t be moving too fast this morning…won’t have to get on the bike until this aft since it is below freezing and I just can’t get cold today….not going to do much today…just can’t get motivated so I think I’ll take the day off and just hang out….more later….

Well…on the ride this morning, I ran across a shopping cart where the trail breaks off from the sidewalk near Kalamazoo and M-6…this is really not too unusual since I see them every couple of weeks…the weird thing was, about a mile and a half down the trial there is another one…sitting in the middle of the trail just like the first one…and then another one, and another one…by the time I was half way through the ride I had counted 7 of them…which is weird enough, that someone pushed some of these carts more than a mile to get them where they were, but after the last one, I noticed something strange…the each one was turned 45 degrees clockwise from the last one….now, this doesn’t happen by accident but I am still puzzling out what the meaning of the whole project was…is it art? Is it aliens? Not sure…but it was weird….

Well….survived the day yesterday but today looks a bit iffy….feel like crap today and I think it may have been going out with K for a couple before cocktails…didn’t sleep at all last night and just want to take a nap…but, I need to get out on the bike first…this is the third day of no news and breaking that habit is going to be a pain…not tough since it will save me 90 bucks a month and there will be no more leaning tower of papers….I am starting to like using Pandora instead of the tv for background noise…but, I need to go to the library today to get some books to read….and it is pool day so I’ll have something to do this aft….and I may have another topic for the day but no politics…..more later…

Well….just barely coming out of the utter, black, depression that was the election…but the smiles of the people on the trail today helped quite a bit. But, I am done with this country….not going to watch the news, not going to care about anything…when the ignorant idiots in the country can elect people that are going to take away my social security and medicare when I am eligible for it, they can all go to hell. There was one bright spot that Tom just pointed out to me…that I will have lots to write about over the next 4 years….but, I’m not sure I want to…