Well…after waking up exhausted this morning and thinking I was going to take it a little easy, I did the stupid thing I always do and got started as soon as the sun came up and got the first ride in with the brutal wind out there…then out to run an errand, back here to do the leaves that took over two hours and I filled 8 more bags…thought I was going to have to go out and get more bags but I had exactly enough room in the bags to finish them up…then a quick lunch and back on the bike for the second ride where the wind was even more brutal than this morning…and that meant 6 hours of busting my butt and now I’m going to take it easy for the rest of the day…after getting the leaves done, my back froze up completely and I couldn’t move for a good minute…so I did take some ibuprofen before I got on the bike and it appears to have helped…so now I need to find a topic to do in politics…so, more later…

Well…man, I’m tired this morning…up at 5:41 and then out of bed at 6:41…and I need to get going but don’t want to…today starts the cold weather and it’s supposed to snow later tonight…so that means I need to do the leaves today even though the big tree hasn’t dropped it’s leaves yet…but I’m going to hope the wind will blow them away…so it may be a one ride day today and I’ll be in full thermasuit or almost full thermasuit since it’s only 50 out there and the temp is going to drop all day…didn’t get anything done yesterday but cook the big meal so I do need to get a few things done today…and need to have it all done before the F1 finale in Brazil later in the afternoon….it has been a pretty crappy season and I’ve kind of lost interest in it but it will give me something to pass the time….the wind is going to blow 10-20 today but it’s only about 8 right now so I need to get out as soon as it’s light….not much to do today…might have to make a run out to daily deals to get some summer sausage that is on sale for 2 bucks a pound and that would go good with cheese and crackers for a snack…I know it’s bad for me but I’m to the point where I just don’t give a damn anymore….so that will have to happen after the first ride and before I get to the leaves…and then it will be the start of hibernation season where I should be working on the house…but I’m not going to…just don’t feel like it….more later….

Well…after trying for years, I finally had a patched tube last through two rides and that has never happened before…I think the farthest I’ve ever gone on a patched tube was about a mile and most times they would leak out all the air even before I got the wheel back on the bike…so now it will be interesting to see how long it will last before the tire goes flat again…I did hurt myself again today with the wind blowing a good 15 out here but it was a good hurt being back on the bike after the day off yesterday…and I did get the big turkey meal in the oven and on the stove and will be eating here in a half hour or so…and after the very little food I had yesterday, I am hungry today and can’t wait to eat…and then there is the clean up after and my plan is to get that done before Man U comes on at 3….not sure if I’ll do leaves today…I guess we’ll see how I feel after I get everything else done….I could do them tomorrow since it’s not supposed to rain til Saturday…more later…

Well…boy, I’m worn out today…I think getting two teeth removed took a lot out of me yesterday and I’m still feeling it today…but my mouth doesn’t hurt much today so I’ll take that as a plus…just turned the turkey in the brine and spilled it all over the fridge and that sucks…but even the brine smells good so I have hope that it is going to turn out okay…just remembered to take a stick of butter out to soften it so I can make some rosemary butter to slather it in and put under the breast skin….going to eat like a lion today and I’ll probably be uncomfortable later…doing the entire t-day meal today with stuffing and green bean casserole and that will make leftovers for the next week…didn’t eat much yesterday so I can lay it on today…need to get out on the bike here in a few minutes and I hope the repaired tube in the back wheel holds up so I can get two rides in this morning….and Man U plays at three so I hope to get the meal done before then…but I need to get the two rides in so I can start getting the sides done for the meal before noon….I am enjoying reading the books I got from the used book sale…have already done a Patricia Cornwell and Jonathan Kellerman and I’m going to start another Cornwell today….helps to pass the time without watching tv all day…not much to do today…just the rides and cooking but I really should get to the leaves today, too but I’m not sure I’ll have time…it’s the last warm day of the year and I should be outside to enjoy it…there is snow in the forecast but that doesn’t bother me…it’s November in Michigan and you need to expect that….more later…

Well…after I got back here from the dentist, I did what I normally don’t do…read the after procedure instructions and one of the surprises I found in them was a prohibition of any strenuous activity…and the way I ride the bike is pretty darn strenuous so I decided to take the day off the bike and just do some reading instead…one good thing that happened was that the bleeding stopped before I even got home since I had to go out to run an errand and hit aldis and two Meijers…but I was able to get butter at aldis for 2.45 a pound and I had to go to a second Meijers to get a spare tube for the bike…and they had the bike tires that I like and I got one of those since the rear that I have on the bike is wearing out and has about 15 holes in it……I was even able to eat something and it didn’t hurt or start my mouth bleeding so I’ll probably be able to have turkey tomorrow…I did put a repaired tube back in the back wheel and have checked it a couple of times today and it looks to be holding air so I can get out on the bike tomorrow…removing that loose tooth has made my bite right for the first time in years so I’ll take that for now…the problem I’m having is that I didn’t plan for meals today but I do have a box of mac and cheese I could make up and that is pretty soft and won’t hurt to eat…or maybe just some pasta…that might work….we’ll see…

Well…still not looking at any election results but I did see that Prop 3 passed protecting women’s rights here in Michigan and governor Whitman was elected to a second term….I did see that Fetterman beat the carpetbagger Oz in Pennsylvania so that was a bit of good news…but a sense of dread is still hanging over me and I’m not going to get over that for a few days…I did wake up at 5:40 this morning and I’ve already been down to install one of the repaired tubes in the back tire of the bike but I don’t really have much hope that the repair is going to hold…so I’m going to go to Meijers after I have the teeth pulled and see if I can get another new one….and I do need to hit aldis to get butter they have on sale for 2.39 a pound and another package of brown and serve rolls since I am going to need soft food for the next couple of days…and a loaf of bread for sandwiches….I am sore from going into the wind with the flat yesterday and I am going to be even more sore from having the teeth extracted later and I’m not sure if I’m going to ride the inside bike today…I need a day off…not sure what I’m going to eat today….not going to roast the turkey until tomorrow and I don’t have any leftovers in the fridge…but I don’t feel like eating anything…should probably have some toast here in a minute to settle my stomach and have some calories to run on today but I don’t feel like it….it’s going to be a long, crappy day today and I just want it to be over….more later…

Well…as you’ve probably figured out, I am still isolated from the news and won’t be doing a political one today…just can’t even check at all because I have a bad feeling about it…so let’s just talk about the next damn thing that happened to me today…as I started to wind down for the day, I decided to go downstairs to check on the rear tire that I repaired and the damn thing was flat…and when I took the tube out it had a cut in it about a quarter inch long and I have no damn clue how that happened other than it just failed…have had that happen before but it wasn’t on a seam so I am confused…so, I took a couple of older tubes and put patches on them and am going to try one of those tomorrow as I try to recover from having two teeth removed…my life sucks right now and that is before I know anything about the elections….I just want this crap to end….

Well…if it wasn’t bad enough that I’m going to have two teeth removed tomorrow, this day just keeps getting worse as it goes along…when I got back here from getting groceries, I decided to get an outdoor ride in so I hopped on the bike and took off even though the wind is blowing about 15…so, I got out to the beach and headed back when the bike just felt too hard to pedal even though I was going into the wind so I reached down to feel the back tire and it couldn’t have had more than 15 lbs in it and I was almost 5 miles away from home…so I went as hard as I could to get as close to home as possible before it went flat and made it back here before it was totally flat but it still hurt like crazy to do it and it’s going to hurt even worse tomorrow…luckily, I had a new tube downstairs and I found 3 pieces of thin steel that looked like staples stuck in the tire and one of them just missed the tube protector and punctured the tube….so the crappy day is continuing…and I think I’d better eat everything hard today sine I won’t be able to anymore after tomorrow…crap, and double crap….

Well…damn, got some bad news from the dentist this morning…have two teeth that need to come out tomorrow morning since they are so infected and won’t heal…and that is going to cost me another couple of hundred bucks and then I need to go for a consult to a periodontist the first week of December that will cost me another 4-500 bucks…so I needed to do the grocery run today since I won’t be up for it tomorrow and need to get the turkey in brine tomorrow so I can cook it Thursday, and I just got back from that…sure hope I’ll be able to eat it with the teeth gone….or I may just have to cut it up and freeze it for later after my mouth heals up some…damn, what a pain in the ass…

Well…this is a day I have been dreading for months now…another election day and another news blackout to try to maintain my sanity….slept through the night until 6:04 and I’m not sure why that happened…but I’ll take it…sure don’t feel like I did but I hope the coffee will fix that…I did go into the 20+ mph wind yesterday so I only did one ride but my back feels like I did 12…I am so damn sore today…but I’ll be on the indoor bike here in a minute to get a ride in before I head out for my dentist appointment at 10:20…and that will be the last thing I have to do for a couple of months…and I am looking forward to that…I do need to get moving on this place and finish up the leaves in the next couple of days but my only goal today is to get through the appointment and get back here…I have all week to do the leaves so there is really no urgency…I did get the microwave and coffee maker cleaned yesterday and I’ll probably continue to work on the kitchen today…I did do a lot of reading yesterday and finished up the first book and started another one…haven’t done a lot of that for the past few years and it’s because it seems like a waste of time when I have so much to do…not much to do today…just the dental appointment and bike rides so far…other things may come up later but right now all I want to do is have more coffee but I won’t read any news…more later…