Well…damn, up at 5:04 this morning to go with getting up at 4:53 yesterday so I am worn out today…and there will be no coffee to get rid of the cobwebs until after my doctor appt at 9…I did get two indoor rides in yesterday but it is already 52 out there so I may be able to do an outdoor ride after I get back here…forgot to buy fresh ginger yesterday for the chicken Masala so I’ll have to stop at Aldi’s or Meijers after the appt so I can make it tomorrow…and I think I’ll try to drag some more of the downed branches into the pile…still haven’t heard from my brother about a tree service so he must be on vacation….so I’ll start researching companies over the weekend….have been good for a week but that ends tonight….have a lot of shows in the queue to watch that go with cocktails and I’ve just discovered a show called “Bosch: Legacy” that is pretty good along with the soccer documentary “Welcome to Wrexam” that I’m working through the first season of….so, plenty of entertainment for later today…not much to do today…just riding and the doctor appointment this morning and then I’ll be winging it for the rest of the day….more later….

Well…damn, the string broke this morning and I didn’t sleep in…up at 4:54 and I went to bed late so about 6 hours of sleep and I’m feeling it today…didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to do the grocery run this morning and try to get a name of a tree service from my brother so I can get in the queue and get my yard cleaned up…it is going to make me cringe driving the perfectly clean car in the slop this morning since there is still snow on the roads that they never plow up here…but I do need things and I can’t wait til tomorrow with the doctor appointment at 9…I do need to get on the bike today since I took the day off yesterday but I just don’t feel like it right now…so maybe after I do the grocery run…might be able to ride outdoors tomorrow and Saturday with the highs in the 50’s…it’s only 36 right now so I’ll be inside today….not much to do today…just need to get moving in an hour or so but I’m not motivated at all…and I do need to clean more today but that won’t happen til this afternoon…more later…

Well…after another tree fell and hit the house this morning, luckily no damage to the house, I called my insurance agent and she passed it on to my insurance company…whatever you do, don’t use Frankenmuth for your home insurance…they don’t cover trees falling unless it falls and damages your house…so, it looks like I’m on the hook for 2-3000 dollars to get the other half of the rotted tree taken down and get all of the branches cut up and get the sagging ones cut off…and it’s going to be almost 7 weeks before anyone can get here…fun, huh?

Well…damn, at least the power stayed on last night…but I lost so much of my big tree that I’m not sure it will survive…and it’s 16 frickin degrees out there on the first of November when the normal lows are in the mid 30’s…and we got 13 inches of snow yesterday so that means I can’t even get out to do the grocery run…have a doctor appointment Friday morning and I’m not sure if I will be able to get to it since they never plow the streets out here…so here I sit…depressed as hell hearing more and more branches fall outside and knowing I’m going to have to spend thousands to get my place cleaned up…so today is going to be just sitting here and doing nothing…don’t have the energy to clean and don’t want to ride the indoor bike…crap, I’m getting too old for this shit…more later…

Well…we’ve had almost 13 inches of heavy snow out here today and I’ve lost half of my big tree to the weight of the snow snapping branches off…and half of my mulberry tree is touching the yard since the biggest branch snapped but is still connected to the rest of the tree…so now I have two frickin weeks of work to clean up after this and it is not even over sine it is too cold to melt the snow off until tomorrow…when I was shoveling the snow, it sounded like shotguns going off as branches shattered all over the neighborhood…and now it’s going to cost me at least  a couple of grand to have a tree service come out and cut the branches off that are still hanging on…I just don’t need this…

Well…that was a little weird…hit the sack at 11 or so…up once at three and then didn’t get up again until 7:34…so, I’ll consider that a good night’s sleep…and I feel good this morning even though my neck hurts and I have a slight headache but I think it will work out after I sit here a while…it was the third day of being good and I’m starting to like how I feel when I get up in the morning…we have a winter weather advisory on today with the possibility of 6 inches of snow out here and it’s going to be cold so I’ll be back on the indoor bike for two rides this morning…and I’ll continue cleaning the kitchen…don’t need to cook since I have lots of leftovers still but I have the ingredients for the chicken masala that I’m going to plan to make later in the week…and I need to look at the recipes that my daughter left and find a second one to make and get those ingredients tomorrow…still have chickpeas and lentils she left me and I want to use them….going to ease into it today but I want to get on the bike by 9 so I can get both rides in this morning and have the afternoon free….not much to do today…have lots of coffee left over so I need to have a couple of cups before I get on the bike…and I think I’ll have some toast to use of the 4 buck loaf of rye bread I bought two weeks ago….more later….

Well…it’s been a pretty busy day that started out with me looking at the weather and the temp of 38 out there and deciding that was just too cold to ride in, so that meant I had to get the indoor bike ready by airing the tires and hitting the chain with wd…but then I discovered that the battery in the computer on it was dead so I had to find the spare batteries and the instructions on how to program it so I could log the miles…I finally got that done by around 10am and then got two rides in totaling 16 miles and that felt good since all I had to do was walk downstairs in shorts and a t-shirt dragging my tablet and it’s tripod with me so I could watch tv while I rode…and it’s a good thing I got it up and running with the “enhanced” lake effect snow that is going to be falling all day tomorrow that will keep me off the outdoor bike probably til Friday or Saturday…and it’s going to be cold with highs in the 30’s so there is no way I was going out in it…I did have a problem with my bluetooth earbuds when one of them died by dead battery about halfway through the second ride…so, I may have to buy another pair…only about 20 bucks so no big deal…and then I made the best pizza I’ve ever made on the grill…loading the crust up with garlic powder and Italian seasoning and then putting turkey pepperoni, thin smoked ham, green pepper, onion, and green olives….big taste that I needed to do since I can’t taste much anymore…I’m only going to have that one piece of pizza today since I need to cut calories…need to lose ten pounds since I overshot gaining…oh, well…

Well…damn, it’s 36 out here with a “wintry mix” going on right now and I am just not ready for winter yet…and it’s only getting up top 41 today so it looks like I’ll be riding downstairs after I work on the indoor bike…only did one ride yesterday so I feel like a slug today but I was good last night so that kind of makes up for it…didn’t sleep for crap with taking over an hour to get to sleep after going to bed at 11, then waking up at 2, and then up for good at 5:13 but I feel okay so I guess I’ll have to live with it for now…the darn leaves are hanging on the trees so I won’t have to pick them up until later in the week or next week…they all need to be cleaned up and out by the end of November but with this cold coming, they should all be down in a couple of weeks…I just noticed I only did one of these yesterday so I will try to do better today and get at least one more out….probably two since we are getting to the end of the month….I really do need to tell my doctor about this damn cold that I’ve had for almost a month now…of my Mastodon friends thinks it may be allergies and I can’t disagree except for the coughing and feeling flushed…it could just be the next phase as my allergies continue to get worse as I age….not much to do today…just going to ease into it and have a lot more coffee and maybe some rye toast for breakfast….need to keep the calories down sine I’m not burning as many as normal….more later…

Well…didn’t get out of bed til 7 this morning after getting up once at about 4 and had some dreams again and I wonder what I’m doing different to make that happen…still feel pretty crappy today and I don’t think I’m ever going to get over this cold…or I’ve picked up a new bug since my skin looks red and I’m scratchy and I wonder if it’s the lotion I’ve been using to try to keep my skin from cracking? All I know is that my face looks like it’s sunburned…I wonder if it is? There wasn’t any sun when I was on the bike yesterday so that can’t be it…crap…at least I have a doctor appointment Friday that I can ask about this crap….I did get a few things done yesterday and I do need to clean today but I don’t feel like it right now…it’s only 43 out there and I’m not sure if I want to get as cold as I was yesterday so maybe I’ll skip the rides today and work on getting the downstairs bike ready to ride…shouldn’t take long with only having to air up the tires and wd the chain….have to vacuum the back stairs to get rid of the dead bugs from the box elder bug infestation on the back of the house from a few weeks back….still don’t need to cook but I do need to make a pizza in the next couple of days to use up the ingredients before they spoil….not much to do today…man U plays at 11:30 but they are going to lose against City so I may not watch it…there are two races on this aft so I may just take the day off and read a bit but I’m still gaining weight and that has to stop….more later…

Well…it’s a little after 2 pm and I am done for the day…it has been busy since I got out on the bike around 8:30 in almost full thermasuit  since it was only 42 when I went out…after doing the two rides and getting back here with my hands white and numb, I warmed up and then decided to finish the car…cleaned the interior, washed the glass, applied rain-x, and then did some repairs to the top to get it through it’s last winter with me…now it’s time to take a bit of a rest for a while and watch some F1 practice and the xfin race and then F1 qualifying…one more night of cocktails before I take a week off to get my BP down for the doctor’s appt Friday…it worked last time so we’ll see…more later…