Well…survived the night and just dumped the last 12 pills in me for the second round of cleansing and I am just frickin worn out….no food for two days and no sleep, or very little sleep is not a recipe for feeling good but the pills are just so much better than drinking the gallons of cleanse I had to do last time….9 hours from now it will be all done and I hope it’s the last one I have to do….finishing up the empty calories of the half gallon of apple juice I bought to keep my body idling over the past two days and I never want to see that again…and I’m going to have some coffee here in a minute since that is considered a clear liquid and I do need the caffeine to continue to move…but I have to be done with everything by 11:30 since I can’t have even water from 3 hours before the procedure and that is going to be a task…I can chew ice chips so I guess that will have to do…I am so looking forward to making the 4 cheese self rising pizza I bought just for this day and I am going to add olives, onion, and ham to it to bulk it up a bit….and I’ll probably eat half if it since that will give me a fast 1,000 calories and lots of carbs….and I am going to need to have a cocktail or two for tonight just to relax and try to make up for the sleep deficit from the past two days…okay, the pills are starting to take effect and I need to drink more water….more later….

Well…just took the medicine that is supposed to clean me out for the colonoscopy and it feels just like I lit the fuse for a bomb that is going to go off here in about an hour…this stuff is in pill form but the damn things are huge and you have to take 12 of them…still better than drinking the gallons of stuff I had to do for the last one…that stuff had me puking my guts out as it cleaned out my colon and I think that is why it didn’t do a very good job…and I have 12 more of them to take at 7am and I really don’t think I’ll be sleeping until tomorrow night…I don’t think I slept at all for the last one either but it would be nice to get a few hours tonight….at least the process has finally started…the waiting was a pain but I have less than 24 hours and the whole thing will be over…should be done by 3 or so tomorrow afternoon….it really hasn’t been too hard to not eat since last night and it did make me realize that I do eat sometimes by habit and not for fuel as I should….and I really will only have missed about 3,000 calories and that won’t make much difference….I’ll probably be pretty worn out after this whole thing but I will be back on the bike Tuesday….

Well…as I was out getting the last rides in before the colonoscopy tomorrow, I started doing the math of how many miles I’ve ridden on my many bikes over the years. I bought the first bike from my brother all the way back in 1974…a 1971 Schwinn Supersport that I still have and rode that for 30 years but never had a computer on that one but I rode it quite a bit when I was younger so I am going to claim 12,000 miles in that 30 years…..then I got my first mountain bike, a Motobecane that I rode for years and did have a computer on it the whole time and racked up 33,000 miles on that one before the rear swingarm broke and the thing was so worn out I couldn’t fix it…then I got the first of two Gravity mountain bikes…the black one that I rode 16,000 miles before the chain and sprockets wore out and, at that time, I didn’t know how to replace so I just bought another one just like it only in grey and black and I now have 21,000 miles on that one after replacing the sprockets and chain at the end of last year….and I almost forgot my other bike I bought from my brother…a Specialized hybrid that I use as my indoor bike and have ridden that one 1,400 miles over the past two years…so that totals to over 83,000 miles in my lifetime…or since I’ve been an adult…I couldn’t even begin to guess how many miles I rode as a kid….thousands, I’m sure…now the only thing left to wonder is if I can get to 100,000 miles before I die? that would be pretty cool and should only take about 4 more years….and I plan on riding til I’m 80 at least so that’s doable…who knows?

Well…he we go…it’s the start of my two days of no food in prep of my scope tomorrow and I just want it to be over…the bad part is coming tonight and I’ll probably be up all night…and that goes with getting up at 5:23 this morning….so there will be a nap this afternoon and I’ll get myself into survival mode as the day goes on….the only thing I get to eat today is apple juice and water…oh, and the coffee I’m having right now….the one decision I need to make today is if I get out on the bike or not….not sure if my body can support that with no calories going in but it may be a chance to lose some weight if I burn a thousand calories or so….I guess we’ll see in a hour or so when it gets light….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks the same but I really should clean some after I have more coffee…..and read the news….can I use the procedure as an excuse to veg out today? Nope….it will be a lot easier if I just do the day as normal…I did have the top down on the car going out to get the paper this morning and there was just this tiny sliver of the moon visible that looked really cool….and I looked up to see Orion hanging over my head it was so clear…pretty nice…and probably the last time I’ll do that on a Sunday morning since the temps are going to fall into the 40’s for highs later in the week…not much to do today….just going to wing it here for a bit and have more coffee as I ease into the day….can’t wait for tomorrow at 4 when all of this crap will be over….at my age, I think this will be the last colonoscopy I’ll have to go through…or they’ll find cancer and it will kill me and I’ll still not have to go through another one….more later….

Well…I’ll admit that I really haven’t thought about a topic in politics today, but that doesn’t mean that I not going to try soon…I’ve just had a lazy day today with just getting the rides in and then running an errand to get some cash for Tuesday lunch with T and then to Meijers to get some pasta sauce since I wanted to have pasta for my last meal until Monday afternoon today….my back is really bad today for some reason and every time I need to get up off the couch, it stabs me with pain and I actually said ow a few times…I did have some medical paperwork to do on mychart that I finished up so I don’t have to do it at the office Monday….and I have to remember to bring my vaccine card so they can update my records Monday, too….it is kind of cool to have my medical records available any time I want them….and I did look at what they are going to do at my doctor’s appointment on the first and it looks like they are throwing every test there is at me….cripes, they are going to need a lot of blood….oh, well….okay, need to watch the race since Man U is losing….more later….

Well…damn, running late this morning with getting up at 5:11 and the laid back down til after 7…but there wasn’t a lot of sleep in there and I am just tired today…and I have two bike rides to get in before Man U plays at 12:30 and I need to figure out what will be my last meals until Monday night…can’t have any dairy so no pizza or milk…I should run out and to get some cash for lunch with T on Tuesday but I’m pretty sure that is not going to happen…I could use some pasta sauce to make pasta today…that doesn’t have any fiber in it and that’s another thing I have to avoid….really not looking forward to prepping for the scope but it has to be done to make sure I’m not dying….had an okay day yesterday and I’m glad I got the outdoor ride in early with the wind coming up later in the day….it’s already almost 60 out there right now so I’ll be able to get out as soon as it gets light but I sure don’t feel like it right now….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I don’t think I’ll do much the next couple of days with the scope hanging over my head….I don’t like having so many things going on with the scope, the zoom meeting with the travel agent, the yearly checkup with my doctor, and then another dental appointment going on in the next two weeks…once this stuff is over, I’m taking a week off to watch the world cup…it’s already almost November and I haven’t even started on the dining room yet and I wonder where the time has gone….not much to do today….need to get started on my day right now since it finally getting light out there and I can get on the bike….at least I’m going to lose some weight with not eating for two days…could get down to my target of 170 if I keep this up…more later….

Well…damn, can’t get started today and all I want to do is sit her for the whole day….but I won’t…need to get an indoor ride in soon and then make a run out to get food for Monday and some chicken broth that will be my only food Sunday and Monday….not really apprehensive about the procedure but just want it over with so I can get on with my life….slept pretty well last night but it’s only from self medicating and I need to stop that after Monday night and get back to healthy habits….it does look like I’ll be out on the bike later in shorts and a t-shirt if I wait til the afternoon with the high getting to 64 today…need to convert the mower to bag the leaves today and run it over the lawn to start the clean up process…I did get my water bill yesterday and I’m almost back to the normal cost after paying a hundred bucks a month to water the lawn…not sure what I’m going to do next summer when it’s dry…I did so much work to make a lawn that it would be a shame to lose it but maybe I should think outside the box to figure out a new way to handle that…I only have 10 minutes before I need to get on the bike and I’m feeling rushed this morning….that’s pretty weird when I’m retired and really don’t need to anything I don’t want to do….not much to do today…need to get moving and once I start, I’ll be able to muddle through the day and get things done…but it’s going to be a long one….and I just want to sit here…oh, well…more later…

Well…after I went on and on about how stupid it was to go out on the bike in the big wind yesterday and that I’d never do it again it was so brutal…well…I got tempted to do it again today for exactly the same reason as yesterday…I looked out the window and it was sunny and the wind didn’t look that bad up here…but today the wind wasn’t as bad as yesterday…and yep, that means I went out to do an outdoor ride today…and in shorts since it was 50 or so around 2pm…and this time, I was right about the wind…I looked at the weather channel on the tablet and it said that the wind was out of the NW at 8 and I go out in winds that strong all the time with the wind always blowing out here…when I hit the point, it was blowing more than that but I was able to come across it with the bike in 5th on the rear sprockets which is pretty normal and not the brutal 2nd gear pedaling from yesterday…and the rest of the ride was okay going out and fun coming back with the wind at my back the whole way…it was nice to get two rides in today with knowing I am going to have to take Sunday and Monday off prepping for the scope on Monday….and tomorrow is going to be in the 60’s and I may have to mow the lawn to start picking up the leaves…I’m still going to do a downstairs ride since that gets me one ride in before it gets light but I’ll work at doing an outside one, too…and I need to run to Aldis to get a self rising pizza to have after the scope Monday since there is no way I’m going to want to cook….okay, that’s enough for the day…need to get ready for a cocktail and some tv….

Well…as of today, the preparation for the colonoscopy begins…have to stop eating anything that has fiber in it for the next two days, and then eat my last food Saturday so it will be two days without any food at all and I am lucky that I do periodic fasts that go a day and a half for practice…and I talked to the doctor’s office this morning to get the loose ends tied up since they sounded like they don’t have any records for me and I can’t figure that out because mychart has all of that stuff in it…hmmmm….and then I talked to my brother who is going to give me a ride there and back so everything is a go for Monday…so now I can relax a bit until the cleanse starts Sunday and continues until 8 hours before the 2:30 procedure Monday…I probably should get a self rising pizza to eat Monday evening so I don’t have to cook anything til Tuesday…so now I go into anticipation mode for the next 4 days and then survival mode for Monday…I AM having cocktails Monday night….no matter what they find…either to celebrate that I don’t have cancer or to drown my sorrows if I do….Oh, well…

Well…I think all the effort I put in on the bike yesterday hit me last night and I slept through it…not too sore today but I do feel pretty worn out and I’m not sure if I’ll attempt an outdoor ride today…it’s going to be warmer but the wind is supposed to be about the same as yesterday and that was too brutal for me….it does look like the rain is over for a few days and I need to start thinking about mowing the lawn one last time without having the bag on it to pick up the leaves…. and I need to run the string trimmer one more time so the yard will look neat over the winter….but that can wait a bit…I think I need a day off everything and that will probably be next Tuesday after the scope….who knows, it could be found that I’m dying of colon cancer and then nothing will matter anymore….I wonder how I’ll react to that? Damn, I’ll miss the UK trip if that happens….but I’m not going to worry about that right now….I do need to start eating the right things today to prep for the procedure Monday but I have to read up on that to make sure I do it right….and I have leftovers that need to be used today so that may wait til tomorrow….not much to do today…just going to ease into it with more coffee and some news before I get on the inside bike…don’t have a lot of work that I need to do after that so it may be an easy day…and yeah, I will probably try to get an outdoor ride in, too, because I’m just not too bright…or stubborn…that’s probably a better description…more later…