Well…this heat is wearing me out and we still have a few more days to get through…I think having fans blowing on me all day and night is tiring so I didn’t turn the tower on yet today…it did get down below 70 for the first time in a few days but it is still humid as heck but this is summer in Michigan so that’s to be expected…I did get my new coffee table yesterday and I’ll skip the beach today to put it together after the rides…and I need to make masala for lunch so that will fill my morning and I’ll have a new table to use with reading this afternoon…my skin can use a rest til tomorrow but I’ll get out for a swim for sure…the motorcycle rally here was not so bad last night for the first night…I may even get on the bike and go down the hill to take a look this afternoon in the heat…didn’t get anything done yesterday and the table will be enough to do today in the heat…have the table pieces spread out across the rug so I’ll have to wait til this aft to do the weight work…it’s nice to have a plan for the day….more later…

Well…got through the dentist appointment with no problems and now all I have to do is the gas company next week and I can have some time to relax…my new coffee table is supposed to be here today but it’s coming on UPS that I don’t understand after buying it from amazon…I did fire up the grill right after I got back and grilled the 11 dollar steak I bought and it came out good for what I could taste of it…will I buy another one? Nope, not worth it when I can get 5 pounds of chicken for the same price at aldis…still damn hot here but I’m surviving with the fan all the way up to 3 of 5 and I still have the box fan in reserve…I wonder if I should have a cocktail to celebrate you know what tonight? Probably but it’s just not as much fun as it used to be…I did start a book by Jeffrey Deaver who invented the Colton Shaw character for the tv show “Tracker” and it’s not bad…I even have another one that actually has Colter Shaw as the main character and I am curious how close he will be to the tv show…only ate the one meal today of the steak and 3 spoonfuls of potato salad and I still feel full 3 hours later so I think I’ll have some artichoke/jalapeno dip with crackers later for dinner…didn’t even have a bagel this morning so I guess I have calories to give…

Well…that kinda sucked…it didn’t get below 84 in here overnight and that is going to continue for 4 more days…have 2 fans on today with the box fan trying to suck in the 77 degree air from outside to try to cool this place a bit before the heat starts again…of course I didn’t sleep for crap last night but that’s not from the heat…I just don’t sleep anymore and that gets pretty frustrating…I will reach my final goal I have when I get on the bike here in 30 minutes…I’ve ridden either the indoor or outdoor bike for 1000 straight days starting when I got back from the UK trip in October of 2023…and the funny thing will be that the string will break when I head out for the Italy trip…not sure if it’s much of an accomplishment but I guess it shows that I can still beat the hell out of myself for no reason…the new coffee table is supposed to be delivered today and it will take a couple of hours to put it together but it will be nice to actually have furniture instead of plastic containers in here…not much to do today….have the dentist appointment at noon and the bike rides but that is pretty much it…going to cook the t-bone I got yesterday with potato salad and that will be the only meal for the day…more later…

Well…my most hated days of the year start tomorrow with Michigan’s largest motorcycle event going on for the next 4 days…lots of racing motorcycles through my neighborhood at 70 mph in a 25 zone and burnouts and lots of bad country music that is so loud it sounds like the band is set up on my front yard…4 frickin days of this crap and the cops just let these assholes do whatever they like through the neighborhoods…yeah, I know that sounds like sour grapes but who the hell is this for…less than 10% of the participants are from Muskegon so those who come here don’t really care about trashing this place that then takes a week to clean up…but I guess they do spend a little money here and last year they had a car show over at the Harley dealer that was cool…damn, when did I get to be such a pessimist? I guess hundreds of bikes revving their engines all day will do that…

Well…going to try something a little different this morning and do both rides before I head out for the grocery run so I can go to the beach after I get back here…there has just been a heat advisory issued for us here and old people will be dying from it…I’m glad that I tolerate the heat so well and even revel in it being hot that the next couple of days may be a pain with it being in the mid 90’s but I’ll live through it…but getting out on the bike before it gets really hot is a smart thing to do since it never got under 75 overnight and it is humid as heck…I would expect some fog out there, too…slept okay last night but was up at 4:22 that turned into 5:22 as I fought to get a little more sleep…feel okay today but pretty sore with the same neck problems I’ve been fighting for years now but I know how to stretch that out…so I need to get out as soon as it gets light here in 15 minutes or so…I think I have time to toast a bagel to get some fuel in me for the rides and I do need to pour more coffee down to go with it….more later…

Well…after a late start to the day and having to run an errand to pay the water bill and pick up more books, the day got away from me and I didn’t get back from the beach til almost noon and didn’t get the 2 loads of laundry done until after 2pm…in between that I did cook the ingredients for the potato salad I’m making tomorrow…might even go to DD to get a strip steak for my b-day since they have them on sale for 6.99 a pound until tomorrow and I need to do the grocery run tomorrow since I have a dentist appointment Wed…so that means I won’t have a day off until Thurs and this being retired is still too damn busy…my allergies are off the scale today and I am miserable and this is just the start of the bad allergy season…okay, I want to start a new book right now so I’m going to end here…

Well…damn, running late this morning with not getting out of bed til 6 but that was from a chemical intervention…had to take a benadryl last night to keep from getting up at 4am…again…not sure how that is going to work for me today but I know I feel pretty crappy right now and need to pour the coffee down to get jump started…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to get the ingredients cooked so I can make potato salad tomorrow…still thinking about getting a steak for my birthday but spending 15 bucks for one meal seems a bit much…I do need to run an errand after the bike rides this morning to pay the water bill and return some books to the library and get more…I did get a LeCarre last time but I find his stuff to be too dense and small so I’m not sure if I’m going to finish the one I started…I guess we’ll see…okay, I just remembered that I did get the car washed yesterday so I guess that’s something…so I’ll have a clean car to run errands with…I do want to get out to the beach this morning and that means I need to get off my butt and get going soon…so no bagel today or later for that…think I’ll take coffee on the first ride since I don’t want to sit here wasting time to have a 2nd cup…more later….

Well…after getting the two rides in…the front wheel is fixed and I’m still kicking myself for screwing that up when I know how to work on bearings…they’re a pain in the butt since they are just 9 loose balls on each side of the wheel…but, if you do it right, it’s easy…and I figured that out after spending an hour trying to re assemble the wheel…and after I got back here after the 2nd ride, I washed the car…finally, from top to bottom and even did the glass…didn’t wax it since the water is still beading pretty good so I’ll let that go to til the next time…there was a lot of sand in the interior but that happens when you go to the beach a lot so that took a bit to get vacuumed up…then I washed the interior to get rid of the dust that builds up everywhere…and then I’ve taken the rest of the day off from about 11am on to read and that is going to be what I go back to right now…won’t have to cook for a couple of days and I wonder if I should splurge on a steak for my birthday? Or make some potato salad…that sounds good and I think I’ll do that tomorrow…reading time…

Well…didn’t sleep for crap last night and it’s not from the heat since I had the little fan on and it almost felt like I had air conditioning…but not now…it is so damn humid that I am sweating just sitting here…and it’s going to get worse this week with a high of 92 Wed…but I like it hot so no big deal…I sure hope I’ve got the front wheel on the bike fixed but I’m pretty sure I did once I decided to do it right and set the bearings correctly…I do have some work to do today and want to get the car washed since it’s dusty and there is no rain in the forecast for the next 10 days or so…I do need to vacuum the sand out of everything from going to the beach but that is part of summer around here and it makes me feel like I do live in a resort town…I do need to go to the library tomorrow and pay the water bill that I almost forgot…not really, they just move the damn thing around from the 8th to the 15th of the month and I need to keep track of that…hard work I know…I do need to get food in the freezer that I got this week and then plan on what meals are going to be for the week…I do need to make masala before the ingredients go bad that I got last week…going to skip the bagel this morning since I just don’t feel like eating…and I need to get the first ride in before 7:30 since the MotoGP race is on…2nd ride won’t be til after that…more later…

Well…I guess I was a little premature when I said I didn’t like the pickles I made with the new spices…after letting them sit overnight, I think they’re pretty good…different from the spices I’ve been using but pretty close and has new flavor that I really can’t place but I like…I do need to use less spices with the next jar since I think a half cup might be a bit too much…think I’ll try a quarter of a cup and then just add a little more if it leaves the pickles tasting like cukes…..but I have enough to make 10 or 12 jars and I have to think about it as being the best pickles I’ve had and not compare them by price since they do cost about 2 bucks per jar…I may sprinkle just a tiny bit of cayenne in the next jar since these new ones are not quite as spicy as the first ones and I like them with a bit of a bite…still damn exhausted after getting up at 4:50 this morning…oh, well…