Well…up early again today since I want to get the rides in before the grocery run…but that could be a problem since it’s raining right now but not hard so I may just put the rain gear on and go out anyway in the dark…it’s over 70 so I don’t mind riding in the rain…and I really don’t want to wait til after the run to get the rides in…I guess we’ll see…slept okay last night but it gets harder to wake up and get moving as I get older and I wonder if I should move the coffee timer up to 5am since I usually up by then anyway…or I could just wait til I get up to start it since it’s not something I’ll ever forget to do…had a lazy day yesterday and today will be the same other than cleaning…I really do wish we’d have a day where it rains all day so I could just clean and listen to the rain all day…and that would keep the idiots from burning their campfires…there was a house that someone had started to rehab down the hill on 7th but it appears that it was hopeless and they tore it down yesterday…now come and do the rental…please…it’s in worse shape than the one they tore down and it really should be next…not much to do today…need to make a bagel to get the day started and pour down another cup of coffee and get on the bike by 6am….more later…

Well…after getting the rides in this morning, I decided to head out to the beach since it was in the mid 70’s here with rising humidity…but it wasn’t like that out at the beach…out there it was in the mid 60’s with a cold wind blowing and when I took off my shirt and hat, it was just too damn cold since there was a high cloud layer that was blocking out a lot of the sun…so after about a half hour, I packed up and came back here to read and relax for the afternoon…and that was a good idea since I had time to finish up the book I had going…just finished that and needed to come here for this one and I still have the weight work to do that I’ll get on as soon as I’m done here…I did order the ventilated laptop stand that I think will do two things…it will raise the keyboard to take some of the strain off my wrists and give me the option of raising it since it has 5 different levels to do that…and the fans run off one of the USB ports on the laptop so it doesn’t need to be plugged in to the wall…when the computer got really hot the other day before I realized I had a problem, it started to freak out and blink off and on and I thought I had to buy a new one…and the stand has cool blue led lights in it, too with 4 speeds for the fans…pretty cool…for 14 bucks it looked like a good deal and it got great reviews so I’m looking forward to getting it tomorrow…I had hundreds or starlings using the water bucket in the yard yesterday so I cleaned it and refilled it this morning an not one bird today…weird…

Well…damn, I’m going to have to hustle to get moving this morning with not dragging my butt out of bed til 5:30 and that leaves me about 15 minutes to do this and drink coffee before I need to get on the bike…probably not before 6:30 but that will still have me done with the rides before 9am and that’s early enough…slept okay last night with a little help and I feel bad about that…really need to go commando about that stuff and just not sleep unless I can do it on my own…tonight…one of the traps I have when I make soup is overestimating the calorie content in it…I assume that it’s like a normal meal but a bowl doesn’t have more than 400 calories and paired up with a pork loin fillet and fries for dinner, that’s just not enough…and I’m skipping the bagel today since it’s already after 6 and I need to get moving…oh, well…I’ll be curious to see if my legs go flat on the 2nd ride from the restricted calories…not much to do today…might just clean or I may go out to the beach with the storms coming in tonight and making the water cold again…more later….

Well…finally…got some of the cleaning that needed to be done done today after the bike rides…started out with getting the laundry going and then tore into the couch and vacuumed it and rotated the cushions then cleaned the rest of the living room…right after that, I took the fridge apart and cleaned it since it really needed a scrub job that I had been putting off for too long…so now all I have to do is my room, the bathroom, and the kitchen but that will wait til tomorrow…or later in the week…still want to get out to the beach a couple of times before summer is over…didn’t have to cook much today with lots of soup left but I did bake a couple of chicken breasts to make sandwiches tomorrow…or wraps I think…made a new batch of pickles yesterday and need to make one more before the cuke spoils…I do need to look at getting more lids and rings since I have some that are rusted and tossed them…I did look at getting a laptop stand that has twin 4 inch fans in it that are run from a usb port and is adjustable so I can keep the thing from overheating…and it’s only 14 bucks so that’s pretty good…will probably order it tomorrow….okay, reading time…

Well…not going to talk about sleeping this morning since it was okay for me but I was still out of bed by 5am…a night with no sleep aids at all and that’s okay…feel good today…again, for me and I’ll get ready for the bike rides here in about a half hour…sunrise doesn’t come until after 6:30 now and it sucks that it will get later and later and push my schedule back…but that’s life….didn’t get much done yesterday but I will have to do laundry today and clean a bit and cook some chicken breasts for sandwiches so I will have a little to do today… and I’ll dig through the freezer to plan some meals for later in the week…thinking about buying a new pair of shoes for the Italy trip but I’ll have to do that soon to break them in before the trip…and I still need clothes so that is on the to do list, too and I need to get off my butt and order some stuff…the wind has been pretty calm lately with just about a 15mph one out of the east yesterday and I hope it is easy again today…makes the rides much more enjoyable when I don’t have to work so hard…so I need to get going and do the weight work before I head out…should eat a bagel but not sure if I’ll have time…yeah, I know, I don’t really have a schedule anymore but it sure feels like it….more later…

Well…okay, I came to the realization today that I’m boring most days and I’m not going to apologize for it…look, if you’ve lived as many years as I have you just run out of novel things to do or have happen…like today, yes I got the 2 bike rides in but after that I just screwed around and read…and what’s interesting about that? Not much to be honest…I did see two herds of deer on the rides this morning…one with 8 deer in it and one with 7…do those numbers make a herd? Who knows and who decides? If I call it a herd does that make it a herd? To me it does so herd it is….I had a flock of starlings hit my yard this afternoon to use the water container I put out for the animals and it was funny to watch them take turns splashing in it…I’ll have to remember to fill it tomorrow…you know how boring my day was? I think trimming my beard was an accomplishment…what did I have to eat today? Hmmm…it wasn’t memorable but I do remember a bowl of potato soup and two eggs and two slices of toast for dinner…okay, that doesn’t sound like much but I forgot the bagel with cream cheese I had before I got on the bike…so that makes it a little over 1K calories for the day…and yes, I know that’s not enough but I really can’t eat more than that…no popcorn tonight since last night’s didn’t taste as good as earlier in the weekend…okay, need to figure out what the heck to watch tonight…no more reading…crap, I still need to do the weight work…

Well…don’t really want to talk about my crappy sleep anymore so I won’t…okay, I did have a frustrating dream last night where I lost something and the entire dream was trying to find it…yeah, that sucks and it leaves me with discomfort right now…oh, well…we did get a bunch of rain yesterday and it was about time…the whole system set up and came at us from every direction as the day went on and the low moved through…it was our turn to get rain and it looks like there is more coming Wed and Thurs…glad I got the lawn mowed the other day…going to get out on the bike as soon as it gets light this morning which gives me 20 minutes or so to pour the coffee down and hope it works with how worn out I feel…need to toast a bagel this morning, too since I am in danger of not eating enough again even though I made popcorn again last night…feels like depression is coming again and I hope the bike rides will help that but I’m due for a bout since I’ve been good for such a long time…so today I’ll hunker down and sleep walk through the day until I know what’s going on….more later…

Well…while I didn’t accomplish much today, I get a couple of things done and that was enough…both bike rides were in the rain this morning and with the wind blowing 25 out of the east, I darn near gave up after one ride but I gutted it out and got both in…some asshole ran over a couple of geese at the boat launch downtown and I can’t figure out why…I mean geese are annoying but to just run over a couple sure looks like a sociopath is on the loose here…someone who would kill harmless animals just for the hell of it is the worst kind of asshole…I did get out to get the new weatherstripping for the doors today and when I got back here I installed them and it was pretty easy but I did have trouble getting the old ones out of the back door…my kitchen shears cut them easily and I even saved a couple of the old ones to use on the garage door…I did finally make a batch of potato soup today and I may have made too much so I’ll be eating 2 bowls a day to use it before it spoils…I did make popcorn with real butter that I could really taste last night and I can’t figure that out…but I may try it again tonight since I don’t think a bowl of soup and a chicken sandwich is enough…don’t want to fall back into the calorie trap again but I’m on the verge of it with being exhausted this afternoon…oh, well…I think I’ve gained 5 pounds since I started trying to eat enough…and that sucks…

Well…damn, I may be getting this sleeping thing down with not getting out of bed til 5:31 this morning after going to bed at 10 or so…feel okay even without the coffee working yet but I am still pouring it down so I can get out for a ride before I head to menards to get the new door seals this morning…it looks like we may get some rain today but it looked like that yesterday, too but we didn’t get a drop…radar was filled with it but not a damn thing…oh, well…I did get some work done yesterday and will get a little more done today…want to wash and wax the front door after I put the new seals in and then I’ll get to the garage door…but not if it rains, I’ll have to wait a couple of days til everything dries out…don’t have any leftover food left so I’ll have to figure something out…if it rains, I think I’ll make potato soup since I still have 10 pounds of potatoes to use and they don’t last like they do when it’s cooler…have about 10 minutes before I need to get on the bike so I have to get going….more later…

Well…it’s been a busy day today with getting the two rides in, mowing the lawn, applying the weed killer, and then tearing the front door apart, then prepping and painting it…and then running to the library since I ran out of books…got done around noon after starting at 6am and I am sore and exhausted…and I’ll be heading out to menards in the morning to get the new gaskets for the doors so I can get them replaced tomorrow…have to cut them to fit but I have the old ones to measure with so that should be easy…need to lubricate the parts that slide in to hold them with some dish soap so they’ll be easy to install…will probably take a 10 minutes per door and I’ll finally have them looking and working like new again…the old ones are really weathered and looked like crap and I’m glad I got off my butt and got them started…next project will be the garage door that needs to have the trim painted, too…but right now I need to think about dinner and using up the last of the leftovers…and then get to reading…