Well…up at 4:04 this morning and out of bed at 5:33 and that sucks a bit…I feel so darn own out this morning and I have tons of things to do that I will need to muster the energy for…two indoor rides and at least five miles outdoors to get to 500 miles for the month…along with the grocery run and I wonder if I can get the first ride in before I head out at 8:15? I did get some good news on the price of my house yesterday when I found out that the tiny 900 sq ft house on a slab with no garage near the back of my lot sold for 141K so my brother thinks mine is now worth 175 K with it’s 1100 sq ft up and 800 sq ft in the basement and a garage…along with a lot that is 4 times the size of the one that sold…so in three years I’ve made almost 90K on this place and that is a long way from being broke 5 years ago…and that gives me 131K in equity that I can pass on to my kids when I go…it sure feels comfortable to be financially solvent…and we went out to lunch at the Mexican place a couple of blocks from here that has good, cheap food…I mean 3 soft tacos for 6 bucks? That’s a deal…I do need to go the the city offices tomorrow to pay my water and property tax bills and that is a grand going out but I have enough in the bank that I can just shrug about it…and that feels good…not much to do today…yeah, that’s not true…grocery runs and lots of rides that will be a chore but I don’t think I’m going to try to get one in before I get out…more later…

Well…was up at a little after 4 today but stayed in bed til after 6 and that has me running late to get on the bike by 8…I am tired today but don’t have much to do but the bike rides…I do need to do meal planning later to figure out how much work I want to do to be able to eat…and right now it’s not much….just poured the first cup of coffee and I hope that it will give me the motivation to get moving sine I have none right now…I do need to mail my water bill and property taxes today or tomorrow but i don’t know if I have the stamps so I may have to go over to the city offices and pay them in person…and that will be a thousand bucks going out…so I won’t be adding to my bank account this month…oh, well…damn, my eyes have been giving me problems for a week now and part of it is my allergies being so bad…and I wonder what the hell is blooming to do that? It’s 7;30 and I need to get on the bike in 30 minutes to get my day going and the possibility of taking the day off is fading into the distance…not sure why this 70 year old is so compelled to get the miles in every day other than weight control…need to lose another 10 pounds or so and the only way to do that is to get off my ass and torture myself…so I’ll leave a fit corpse when I go….more later…

Well…when I got up this morning, I planned to get outdoors for a ride today but it never got over 35 out here with almost 20 mph wind so I just couldn’t do it…I did get two indoor rides and and then grilled some food for a late lunch and then did my weight work…then I decided to do some reading to relax and have gotten 2/3rds of the way through both books…I am really sore from using the wights but there is progress in getting some tone in my so I’ll keep it up til summer…not going to make it to 500 miles for the month..or I might if I do two indoor rides the next two days and then two outdoor rides wed…and that won’t be too bad but I’m going to have to have some 800 mile months in there and I think I can do it…I guess we’ll see…now I’m done for the day and going to relax for a bit as i put heat on my back….

Well…that sucked…the Lions lost and didn’t get to the super bowl and I didn’t sleep and woke up at 4:40…but I did stay in bed until after 6 and just poured the first cup of coffee that I need to work right now…it was a little busy yesterday and I am going to end my healthy eating for a few days by grilling some burgers and brats today that will last me the rest of the week…have two days of soup left and I wonder if I should buy some chicken thighs this week…I guess I’ll have to look in the freezer to see what’s there before I do…got lots of exercise yesterday and I am going to try to do the same today but that means getting on the bike in less than an hour…this warm weather is going to last through the 12th of this month and that puts us only two weeks from March and the start of the permanent warm up for spring…all of the snow on my yard will be gone by the end of the week and I’m going to have to start feeding the squirrels again…they have been more active with the warm up and have taken the bread I threw out there…not much to do today…just the rides, weight work, and grilling…and I need to watch the FA cup match this aft since Wrexham is playing….more later…

Well…after the Daytona 24 hours ended, it was only 1:45 and 40 degrees so I decided to suit up and get an outdoor ride in…first was a ride down the hill to take a look at the trail and see if it was passable but there was still so much snow on it I couldn’t tell where the trail was…but the roads were clean and dry so I did a couple of laps around the city and got 10 miles in…absolutely no traffic at all and only a few people out so it was nice…I think I’m going to add an outdoor ride to go with the indoor rides since I need to start pouring on the miles if I’m going to hit the goal of 7,000 for the year…already have over 400 miles for the month but that isn’t going to do it…I need 600 miles a month to do it and I’m already behind by 200 miles…but I’ve ridden every day this year and I wonder if I can get to my record of 186 days in a row? I guess we’ll see….go Lions!

Well…damn, I feel like crap this morning and I think it may be not eating enough…only had two bowls of soup yesterday but I feel so fat that I may cut that back to one today….I really could use a day off the bike today but I may just delay until 9 or so…still thinking about getting outside on the bike today since it’s almost 40 but I don’t want to think about anything right now….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I wonder why I feel that I have to do something every day? Haven’t take a day off of everything in a long while and lying on the couch and watching the race is pretty attractive to me….and eating whatever I want….I wonder if I have anything in the freezer to cook on the grill? The doves disappeared yesterday with only 3 of them on the feeder all day and I wonder if it’s the warmer weather? Only had to fill it once yesterday and it’s still full right now…okay, it’s still dark but it was full when I closed the blinds last evening…not much to do today…it’s 6:46 and I have an hour or so before the bike rides start but I don’t want to start them…just so damn tired….more later….

Well…just looked at the yard and was really surprised to see some bare spots appearing…we have lost almost 2/3rds of the snow out here since last Wed when the warm up started and I buried the car in 10 inches of slush in the alley…and the alley is clear right down to the dirt and I hope it stays that way…and it looks like the snow will all be gone by the end of next week since the high temps are going to stay near 40 until the 10th of Feb…and I’ll take that all winter…I will be riding outdoors a bit if it dries up some…won’t be on the trails but I can use the bike lanes on the street or just ride in the streets without them…will be nice to get outside and put some miles in to add to the 400+ indoor miles I’ve done this month…we’ll see…

Well…up at 6:05 this morning and that always makes me think of the SD song “Glamour Profession”….slept okay last night but sure don’t feel like it and I hope the coffee starts to work soon…have had back/hip pain for a couple of weeks now and it is getting really old as is all the pain I feel every day….man, I’m feeling old today…but I’m also feeling lucky to have this place and everything I need when so many people of my age are struggling….and there is something wrong with that….got a bunch of cleaning done yesterday but I’m not sure how much I’ll do today with the 24 hours of Daytona on starting around 1…it will be good background noise for whatever I do and there is a Barrett-Jackson auction on, too…so lots of car stuff today…and soccer….but I need to get on the bike in less than an hour and I really don’t feel like it…but I’ve been on the bike every day so far this year and have over 400 miles in and need to keep it up…do I try to get to my record of 186 days in a row on the bike? There are people on Mastodon who have over 1,000 days in a row on their bikes and that is something I’ll never be able to beat….more later…

Well…just went out and filled the bird feeder and decided to take a look at the alley and it looks like it will be all melted by the next time I have to go out for the grocery run next Wed…it has two tracks of bare ground and it is raining out here right now so the snow is going away pretty fast…and the weather is going to stay this warm until at least the 9th of Feb and I may even be able to ride outdoors next week…won’t be able to ride on the trails but I can ride around on the roads and get a few miles in….I did get a bunch of work done today with finally getting to the living room…tore the couch apart to clean it and rotate the cushions to even out the wear, then I cleaned the tv stand and tv, vacuumed the rug and cleaned the wood floors and vacuumed the rug in my room and got rid of the cobwebs everywhere…just had the tiniest Nuthatch on the feeder…the thing is only about half the size of a Chickadee….this is kind of funny…when I went out to do the final filling of the feeder last night, I counted 32 Doves sitting in one of my trees…reminded me of a scene from “The Birds” and now I know where all the food is going…

Well…damn, slept through the night last night until 5 this morning…the rolled over and stayed in bed til 6 and I’ll take that any day…and I feel a sense of peace this morning with not having anything to do but the bike rides today…so I’m going to enjoy that as I have my first cup of coffee and contemplate what my day is going to look like…don’t have to cook today with making the potato soup yesterday but I do have to think about what I’m going to make next week…but there is no urgency to it and I have a couple of days to decide….I’m pretty beat up from chopping ice the past few days and my right shoulder is screaming at me right now so I may have to take something for it even though I don’t like to…when I went out to do the last fill on the bird feeder yesterday I counted 32 doves in one tree in my yard and now I know why I’ve been using so much food…and they were slugging it out on the feeder…much more aggressive than normal…I really do need to clean a bit around here today to make sure I have at least a little accomplishment to keep my guilts away…not much to do today…have an hour or so before I have to get on the bike and I don’tthink I’m going to use that time productively….more later…