Well..damn, up at 6:10 this morning and I am worn out again today…still have water in my right ear from swimming yesterday and I am sore from it but it’s a good sore…crap, I have to be at the dentist in less than an hour and a half and I sure don’t want to do that at all….I was really hoping that it would rain out here today but it looks like the storms are staying to the north and that sucks…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done and I may be having lunch with T today so that will make for another wasted day…still need to clean so this place will be presentable when my daughter gets here but I have til Sat afternoon to get that done….going to hit DD this morning to get some lean ham for 3 bucks for a pound and a half and then take a look at the bargain freezer to see what they have…probably shouldn’t with the food my daughter is bringing but I don’t want her to have to cook all the meals for the two weeks she’ll be here…not much to do today….have to be at the dentist in an hour and can’t get moving….going to be a lot of work….more later…crap…I’m going to have to come back here since the appointment is so early and DD doesn’t open til 9…oh, well…

Well…when I was out on the bike coming back after the second ride, I heard the phone ring and while I would normally just ignore it, with all of the calls from the people working on me I took the phone out and it said “healthcare” and that meant it was from the U of M health system…so I pulled over and I’m glad I did since it was the scheduler with the time of my surgery next Tuesday…they need me there at 5:45 in the morning and I couldn’t be happier…I like to get this stuff out of the way as early as possible as my daughter does so she was happy to not have to wait all day…and that means I should be done with the surgery by 10 or so and that will get me out of the hospital early Wednesday morning…so it’s all coming together…now I just need to go to the follow up at my periodontist at 8 am tomorrow morning and I’ll be ready for moving forward….getting there…

Well…feel so worn out this morning and I’ve been grinding my teeth so they hurt like crazy today…and I only have 14 minutes before I need to get on the bike to get the first ride in before I do the grocery run…have two years worth of beer cans to take back and that will be the first time since I’ve lived here…got some cleaning done yesterday and need to keep that up today to make sure everything is clean before my daughter comes…I am concerned she is going to be disappointed with me and this house and how I live…and that is not helping with my depression at all….forgot to close up the house last night and it got down to 58 so it’s cold in here right now…only have 5 more days that I can ride the bike and I have no plans on what to do when I can’t ride anymore….need to starve myself for the next two months and get down to around 500 calories a day but I don’t think she will allow that….trying to not think about how hard this is going to be….not much to do today…damn, I’m late for getting on the bike already but I’m so tired….this is going to be a hard day…more later…

Well…running a bit late this morning with not setting up the coffee last night..I’ve been grinding my teeth as I sleep and that has left me in pain this morning from the pressure on the molars on the right side…I’m going to have to replace this laptop soon since it appears that it is having a problem with overheating and the fan is running all the time…I have way too much money going out this month to be able to afford it…5 grand for the surgery, 1720 for the dental work, 505 for my car insurance, and 400 bucks for my summer taxes….it is going to take me a year or so to recover from this and that doesn’t even include the thousand bucks in copays I’ve paid since the cancer bullshit started….I did get a bit of weird yesterday that I am still thinking about…my brother called and said he had a 50 inch tv that he doesn’t need and he is bringing it over today…that would be an upgrade from the 42 inch I have in the living room and ads to the new stuff my daughter has sent and that’s a lot of change for me….and it’s it’s only a week until the surgery and it’s becoming real with my daughter getting here Sat…so it will be a marathon cleaning session from now til then….not much to do today…need to get on the bike soon to get the two rides in this morning…have too much food thawed that needs to be used so I may be throwing some away and that sucks…more later…

Well…didn’t get out of bed til 7:14 this morning and that is going to make me latr for everything today and I don’t like it…so I won’t get out on the bike til 8:30…I do need to get the ride in before noon since the nascar race was postponed until today…have so much to do today with needing to cut up the branches I took down and bag them to put out for pickup tonight and cleaning to get this place ready for my daughter’s visit….my teeth still hurt from grinding them but I was able to use the electric toothbrush yesterday and I guess that’s progress…have to go back to the dentist Thursday for the after surgery check up and have to be there by 8 am and that’s pretty darn early…but I prefer getting it out of the way…have been thinking about taking a day off but I’m going to have two months off soon so I guess I can dig deep and keep going for 6 more days….man, I’m so worn out….need to lose 5 more pounds before the surgery but I also have to make room in the freezer for the food my daughter is going to make….so I’ll be eating a lot…took the last of the Italian sausage out of the freezer along with the last container of ham soup so I won’t need to cook much this week….not much to do today…just need to get moving and that is looking harder than it should be…more later….

Well…as the surgery date quickly approaches, I did make the goal I had of 3,000 miles before it…might even make it to 3,200 since I’ll hit 3,100 tomorrow…and the big goal of 4,000 miles with all of the time off the bike starting next week looks doable…two months without riding is going to be hard but I’m going to try to get on the bike before the UK trip since they said I could get on it after 4-6 weeks…but I don’t want to re-injure myself so I think it will be a short trial on the indoor bike to start…it would be nice to start getting my fitness back before we go…we’ll see…

Well…had a pretty good birthday yesterday with hearing from a lot of my Mastodon friends and lots IRL, too…woke up this morning with back pain that is all across my lower back and I wonder if it’s just from cleaning up the bike room? Whatever the cause is, it’s stiff and I can barely move…but I will be getting on the bike soon…didn’t get out of bed til around 7 today after waking up before 6 but that is about normal…I was going to take the day off yesterday but after starting to put the tools away from changing the shifter on the bike, I decided to clean the bike room since it really needed it and I had lots of equipment to put back in the boxes and stack with some organization…got rid of the spiders and webs and need to to that for the rest of the basement this week…not sure how much I’m going to do today but I do need to clean the bathroom…don’t really have to cook other than breakfast for lunch since I have leftover chicken for the second meal…my damn teeth still hurt and I’m doing it to myself by grinding them overnight and I need to work on that along with getting my muscles fit for the surgery…going to spend an hour on it today after I get done with the rides…not much to do today…just need to get the bike rides in and then I can wing it for the rest of the day…more later…

Well…happy birthday to me…had a sucky day yesterday with the renters throwing a loud party with lots of yelling and screaming and noise that went from noon until 9 last night…going to start videoing them today and going to find out who owns the house and send an e-mail to them telling them what is going on…probably going to threaten them with a lawsuit if they don’t control their renters and I will continue to call the police on them every time until they get the hint that they can’t pull that bullshit…I can’t believe how terrible the people are who live up here…they are like animals who don’t care about anything but their partying…happy birthday to me, huh? I am so damn tired of this shit that I am thinking of selling this place again…I think it will be after the UK trip that I will list it….only owe 46 K on it and I will list it for 140K so I’ll have 90 grand or so to put down on the next place…and it will be away from people….okay…what to do for my birthday? It rained a bit overnight but that looks like that is over…my teeth hurt like crazy today and I’ve already taken an ibuprofen for it…so I’ll be out on the bike soon but I should take one day off….but with being forced off the bike for two months I’ll have lots of time off after the surgery….I’m feeling pretty depressed today and I shouldn’t have to feel that way on my birthday…god, I hate those assholes…more later…

Well…damn, woke up this morning with my back hurting and thought I was going to take it easy but no such luck…got the bike rides in and then mowed the lawn and did the weed walk with the sprayer…then whacked the neighbors brush that was overgrown so much that it was blocking the sun from my garden and then trimmed all the tree branches that were hanging low and I had to dodge when mowing…now I need to get some chicken cooking for dinner and decided I’m just going to cook it in the air fryer instead of the grill since I really don’t want to do that much work and the chicken needs to be cooked before it spoils….so I’d better get to it…more later…

Well…damn, didn’t get out of be til 7:28 and my back is hurting so bad that I have the heating pad on it and I have no clue how I hurt it…I did carry the big ladder to the front steps and climbed up to clear the downspout but if that is enough to hurt my back, I’m getting too damn old….it was a good day yesterday with the good health news but I have bruises on my arms from people fishing around trying to draw blood but part of that is on me from having such small veins to work on…I did get some stuff done yesterday and got the metal box spring put together and it was really pretty easy…going to unbox the mattress today so it will have time to expand before my daughter gets here….it’s pretty sunny out there right now and there is some wind blowing the branches around so the rides may be a chore today…and it’s after 8 and I can’t get started…it was supposed to storm today but there’s nothing on the radar right now so maybe later….okay, just looked at the weather and it looks like the rain won’t come til tomorrow and might make it easy to take the day off for my birthday….not much to do today…going to grill some chicken later after I make breakfast for lunch but I still need to watch the calories….I should have bought a steak or something for my birthday but I have too much stuff in the freezer that I need to use…man, I’m worn out…I think the medical stuff has caught up with me it is so much work and stress…and it’s only going to get worse….more later…