Well…I was reading a little news and noticed the temp outdoors was 48 degrees and you know that means I’m going to try to get an outdoor ride in…so I suited up, aired up the tires and went out…went down the hill to the park to see how much ice is on Muskegon Lake and the whole thing is frozen over and thick enough that there were ice fishers and people riding quads on the ice…but the end of the trail where I start out is still under 2 feet of snow and it looks like it will be mid to late April before I get out on them…but, if it’s this warm tomorrow, I’ll be back out there to get another 10 miles in…streets are okay but still have lots of ice on them…going to be sore tomorrow…

Well…damn, I’m just exhausted this morning and I think the lack of sleep has caught up to me…have been up before 5am for ages now and that makes for about 5 hours of sleep a night and that’s not enough…and I’ve had 5 days in a row of only one meal a day and that needs to change today…so I’ve already had a bagel and will have a burrito for lunch and then a chicken wrap again for dinner… and that will still be around 1K calories for the day…and I have so little energy that I only did one ride this morning and I’ll take it easy the rest of the day…got good news yesterday when my brother called to tell me that he has hired a couple of guys to exchange the appliances in the SIL’s house so I don’t have to do it and that is a relief…just can’t move fridges anymore…body just won’t take it…I do have the laundry started and that will be the work for the day…more later…

Well…damn, out of bed before 5 again and I may have finally reached my breaking point with not sleeping…but I wonder what the effect will be…I know I’m feeling so damn worn out that even doing this seems like too much work…only had two small meals yesterday with a bean burrito and a chicken wrap and I’m sure that is under 800 calories for the day…I did get a little bit of work done yesterday and I’m going to try to keep that up today…but I do need to figure out meals…have one more burrito to make but the 2nd meal is going to be a challenge…maybe a pizza? Have 4 of those in the freezer and need to use some of them…it did get over freezing yesterday and it’s supposed to be nearly 40 today and it looks like an 8th day of no snow and I’ll take that all day long…need to get going right now and get the weight work started but I need more coffee first…more later…

Well…it’s not snowing here for the 7th day in a row and that hasn’t happened since October of last year…and it may not snow again until Next Wed…yay! Had everything done today by 10:30am and even washed all of the throw rugs I use in front of the kitchen sink and the washer/dryer…even vacuumed the floor downstairs where I tore boxes down to go out to the trash…it is up over freezing right now so we may lose a little snow and we need to…still have 2 feet of it on the yard along with the huge piles of snow that will probably be there until April or later….still need to work on what I want to see in Italy so I think I’ll start with Rome right now…

Well…boy, sleeping this morning was a little different…up at 4:14 but was able to get back to kinda sleep until almost 6am and that make me later for getting my day started..6:20 and I just took my first sip of coffee so I am so damn late that I don’t think I’ll catch up…will need to get the weight work done by 7am and get on the bike…luckily, I don’t have to go anywhere today and I’ll be using up leftovers so I don’t have to cook…have been doing the one meal thing for a while now and I need to keep it up to lose the 10 pounds I need to…it looks like the 7th day of no snow but we’re not warm enough to melt it much…only 17 degrees right now but it is supposed to get above freezing for the next few days and still no snow in the forecast so I’ll take it…not sure why it should be but I am sore all over today and it may but how I slept last night…have been using voltarin on my left elbow and right thumb and I may have to do that again this morning before I get on the bike…more later…

Well…with no snow today, it makes it 6 days in a row without any and I’ll take that…the next precip is rain next Wed as it’s going to get into the 40’s for a few days…inching closer to March when we could see a bit of a warm up…had to run an errand this morning since I was out of books and needed more from the library…and I stopped at Aldis to get some dijon mustard but they didn’t have any so I guess I’ll get it next week…other than that and the normal stuff, didn’t get much done today but put the trash out…the cream I’m putting on my face has started to burn pretty badly as it eats down though the skin and I still have a week to go with it…ouch…and now the US men’s hockey team plays in about a half hour and then the Duels from Daytona are on at 7pm so I won’t have to burn any shows tonight or tomorrow night with the truck race Friday night…more reading…

Well…I sure as hell don’t want to get out of bed at any time with a 4 in it so I stayed in bed for another hour and out of bed at 5:07…and that is still way too damn early…still pretty worn out but need to get going soon since I have errands to run today…forgot a bunch of stuff from the grocery run and I can’t figure out how I let myself run out of dijon and spicy brown mustard…it is only 11 degrees out there and I am so damn tired of the cold…will have to start the car and let it run for 15 minutes or so before I go out…it may be a one ride day today since I am out of energy and I’ve only been up for 25 minutes…have leftovers for today but I will need to make a pizza to use up the green pepper I got Tuesday but it was only 89cents so I guess there is no urgency to use it before it spoils…not much to do today…just need to pour coffee down and get going in 25 minutes…the US plays in Olympic hockey this aft and the the Duels at Daytona is on tonight so I’ll have things to watch today…more later…

Well…got started early today and finished up before 9:30am and that’s pretty good with doing two rides…it is just perfect temps for riding downstairs after finding the window open yesterday and closing it…in shorts again today and it looks like that will be the plan for the rest of the winter…it hasn’t snowed in 5 days here and it feels good to not have to shovel…and it looks like no snow until next week and that gets us one week closer to March…still has been a brutal winter here this year and I can’t wait for it to be over…so the rest of the day is going to be an easy one with just reading and cooking the chicken that I marinaded overnight…and that will be the only meal I’ll have today…okay, time to read…

Well…up and moving a little after 5 today and that really is the new normal that I don’t like a lot…5:40 right now and I really need to get going and get at the weight work by 6 if I’m going to stay on schedule…did the grocery run yesterday so I really don’t have anything to do today but the normal stuff and that will be a welcome thing…it’s still over 30 out there and I need to look at the weather to see what it’s going to be this week…okay, it’s going to be in the 40’s for highs for the next 5 days and I really hope it melts some of the damn snow and we don’t get more…and that’s how it looks until next Wed when It’s going to be 46 for a high…haven’t heard from my brother so it looks like we’re not moving stuff today and that’s just fine with me…marinated some chicken yesterday and I’m going to bake that today with a baked potato and some veggies for one meal but I’m not sure what the second one will be…maybe just one meal with a bagel? I guess we’ll see…more later…

Well…have been trying to figure out why it’s been so damn cold down in the bike room and the rest of the basement all winter…it was so cold down there that I was having to wear long pants and t-shirts just to keep from shivering and this is the first year that has happened…and today I figured it out…I left one of the small glass block windows open and it must have been that way all winter…once I closed it and had a heat cycle go, I was able to put shorts and a t-shirt on and was perfectly comfortable…and it was so nice to ride in shorts that the 2nd ride just flew by…and I was even going to skip that ride until my guilt fully kicked in and I just had to go down and not be lazy…probably cost me an extra hundred bucks this winter…oh, well…