Well…it’s one of those days finally that I don’t have to feel guilty about not doing enough work…got the door frame painted and the work room cleaned up, then outside to take the rest of the tomato plants down and cut down the remaining flowers at the back of the house and bag them up for pick up tomorrow…then out on the bike for two rides and cleaned and filled the window bird feeder and scrubbed the window and sill that had tons of seed spilled on it…then I just ordered some stuff from Amazon I needed…a new electric toothbrush, a case for the new phone, and some more allergy spray that I am almost out of…so I spent 65 bucks on things I needed but it is still hard spending any cash since I’ve been burning through it over the past couple of months…and now I’m going to put the striker plate back on the bathroom door frame and put the hinges back on the door so I can hang it tomorrow….and then take the rest of the day off and watch a little soccer…I think I’ve earned it….maybe…

Well…there are benefits to being good at night and one is having more energy and ambition when I get up in the morning…it’s only 8:45 and I have all of the inside work done that I had planned…got the second coat of paint on the door frame and have the work room cleaned up and ready for the next project which will be the door to my bedroom but I’m not sure when that will be…think I’ll do the dining room first and I think that will take me about a month to do with how bad the windows and baseboards are…it appears like they had carpet in there since some of it is still stuck to the baseboards and that will mean I’ll have to use my angle grinder with a flap disc like I did in my bedroom but I still have the outside work to do over the next few days including getting the sand out of the car and trying to treat the rust and fix the top before it starts getting cold later in the week…so, it’s going to be busy this week and I don’t mind that…but it’s still only 39 outside so I think I’ll wait a while before I get started on the outside…still have some flowers that I can cut and put in a vase inside so I can enjoy the last of them…and I do need to take my scrub brush and hose at the bird feeder and the window it hangs on so I can fill that…so that means no bike ride until the afternoon but I am still going to try to get to rides in today….

Well…I am really hoping for a normal feeling day today after only getting up once at around 4 or so and the out of bed at 6:23 and I even had some dreams last night that I don’t remember but I remember having them…so, I don’t feel too bad right now and I’m just starting on the coffee…but it’s a big cup new coffee pot day so I have hope that it will work soon…really didn’t get much done yesterday since I took the day off after the painting I did Sat to give my back and shoulder a rest…and it’s going to be a slow start day today with it only 37 degrees out there so I think I’ll clean up the work room after I read the news here in a minute and then get on the bike around 11 or so…I am taking the last of the tomato plants and flowers out today to put them out tomorrow and I still have a few green tomatoes I’m going to see if they will ripen indoors…didn’t have nearly as many tomatoes this year and that is okay…they were coming ripe just about the speed I wanted to eat them and that worked out well….and I still had some to give away…I do need to plan next years’ garden a little better and do more prep work on the soil…and plant lots more beans and peppers…not much to do today…just going to enjoy taking it  a little slow to start the day…I do need to put a second coat of paint on the door frames I did Sat…I thought I could get away with one but, as it dried, it showed some bleed through from the old paint and bare wood so I need to cover it so I can hang the door back up in a couple of days…darn….more later….

Well…I’ve know for quite some time that I am a little weird and I’m okay with that…but how weird was emphasized with what happened with my bike the past couple of days…the other day, I noticed that the thread had broken in one of the seams of the seat cover, so I thought I’d trade that seat out with the one from the black bike since they are identical and I can repair the seam later….so, to make sure the adjustment was correct, I measured the height of it from the bike frame and put it at the same measurement….that was close, but it was a little too high and I was stretching to get power to the pedals…so, I adjusted it down about a quarter of an inch since I know that small adjustments are all that are needed…but, that quarter of an inch lower made me feel like I was cramped on the bike so I made another adjustment between the rides of 1/8 of an inch up on the seat and it was perfect and I feel great riding again…but 1/8th of an inch? How the hell do you feel 1/8th of an inch? That is why I think I’m weird..I CAN feel that 1/8th of an inch and it made all the difference from uncomfortable to perfect….and with that adjustment, I got two great rides in today…flying on the way out to the beach with the wind and even going well against it coming back…so now you know, I’m weird….and I’m okay with that….

Well…man, I’m tired today….didn’t get out of bed til 6:21 but it feels like I was up all night….the coffee is not working at all this morning and I really do want to go back to bed for the whole day…but no, the F1 race is on at 8 and Man U plays at 9 so I won’t be out on the bike til 11 or so and the temp won’t be over 50 til then anyway….had an okay day yesterday and got some stuff done but I need to clean up the work room today to keep the paint chips from spreading all over the house…I can’t believe how much I hurt today just with painting yesterday…making the old guy noises when I move and that just sucks…oh,well….not sure what I’m going to do today but I should get some work done outside…but that could wait til tomorrow with how I feel right now…I am pretty happy with how the door and frame came out…looks nice and clean with the eggshell finish and I can’t wait to put it back up and get that done…but not today….should take the shades down in the dining room and get the newspaper up on the windows but I think I won’t…I need a day off and today may be that day…..not much to do today….I really do need to just ease into it today and read some news before I even think about what to do….just want to sit here for a bit and have more coffee before I make any decisions…life is a lot of work….more later…

Well..yeah, this isn’t a political one…that will wait til later if I get to one at all….what I did want to talk about is the fact that I’ve been running all day but have accomplished a lot so it’s worth it…as soon as I got up this morning, I finished sanding the bathroom door and cleaned it up to get ready to paint…then I panted the inside of the door and the edges with two coats, masked off the door frame and painted that, then stood the door up against the wall and painted the outside of it with two coats again….oh, in between that I got the first bike ride in as I waited for the paint to dry so I could handle the door…and I just finished cleaning up and now I’m watching some of the Michigan game before I get back on the bike for the second time…and it is almost 70 so I’ll be out in a t-shirt when I get on the bike around three so I can get back here for the race from Talladega at 4….I am going to have to wait for a few days for the paint to cure before I can put the door back on so I’ll start working on the windows in the dining room….I think I’ll take the rest of the day off after the bike ride…and come back here for one more for the day….

Well…crap, just lost a whole post that I had done with a glitch in this program so now I need to recreate it…still feeling pretty worn out today with getting up at 5:14 and then out of bed a little after 7 and I wonder if it is just getting old…after all, I’m not young anymore and not getting younger….it was a little funny yesterday when I reached over the arm of my couch to plug my phone in and hurt my side so badly that I could barely breathe…that’s getting old, folks and it still hurts this morning…but it has been hurting for a couple of weeks now so I’m kind of used to it….I did get some work done yesterday and I am going to paint today but not right now…F1 qualifying is on at 9 and then I need to get on the bike and get the rides in so painting will wait til the afternoon…I did find a small and big roller covers that I had cleaned the last time I used them and appear to be good enough to be reused so I didn’t have to make a run to depot but I’m not sure if I can clean them enough to do the second side of the door in a couple of days but well see…I do have enough paint but will need another gallon to start on the baseboards and windows in the dining room…I do need to do some outdoor work over the weekend, too….need to clean and fill the window bird feeder and take the hummingbird feeder down and clean that, too….didn’t see one hummingbird this year but I’ll put the feeder back up in the spring…and I need to take the tomato plants and flowers down to put out Tuesday but that could even wait till Monday since it’s not going to rain any time soon….not much to do today…yeah, that’s not true…should be working right now but I’m going to have more coffee and read some news first..it’s too cold to go out on the bike at 45 degrees and it won’t be over 50 until around 10 or so….so I have an hour to jsut sit here and gather my energy for the day….more later….

Well…yeah, this is cheating…just to get my post count up…not really…just sitting here waiting for the night to start and thought I’d just do one more and see where it goes…I knew the summer is truly over today when I saw that they have put the sand fences up at the Pere Marquette beaches over the past couple of days…not sure how effective they are since they had about 3 feet of sand over the road that runs along the small beach in the spring…I wonder how deep it would have been without them? I did get some work done today and have the door frame and door ready to paint, almost…just a little more sanding on the door that I’ll do in the morning…and I just painted the hinges and screws a few minutes ago so I’ll be ready to hang them when the painting is done…I think I’m going to paint the outside of the door after I hang it back up so I don’t screw up the back of it that I am painting tomorrow…it takes forever for the paint to cure and it would probably stick to the sawhorses even after a week and I want it done…okay, need to get ready for the night and make some ice….

Well…man, I’m not sure what it is but I felt so crappy in the late afternoon yesterday that I could barely get off the couch I felt so worn out….if this is what getting old feels like, I don’t like it one bit…and that led to me not getting out of bed til 7:30 and I still feel exhausted right now….so the work I planned on getting done today is going to be on hold until I get through this…or until the coffee starts to work…still have that damn headache I’ve had for weeks now…okay, that’s enough whining….it was nice to get two rides in yesterday and that is plan for today but it is only 41 right now so that is going to wait til around 11 or so…and that will give me time to get some work done on the house….might even get some painting done later….would like to get the door frame done today and maybe the hinges but I need to see if I have any roller covers downstairs since I will be rolling the paint on the door….I did get the weed walk done yesterday between the rides and I am going to strip the last of the tomatoes off the plants today so I can take them down and put them out Tuesday….not much to do today….okay, I do have lots to do today but I have to remember that I really don’t have a schedule and if the work gets pushed back til tomorrow, I won’t die from it….and that’s pretty hard….more later…

Well….I know it’s early, but I just had dinner that I cooked in my slow cooker all day and it came out way better than I expected…it could be the  best thing I’ve ever made in it and it was all by accident really…just threw stuff together and let it cook all day with bottled traditional pasta sauce as the liquid with a little water that I used to rinse out the jar when I poured it in…that along with the chicken leg quarters, onion, potatoes, carrots, garlic, and some celery I had in the fridge..oh, and I added quite a bit of Italian seasoning…but I think what made this dish was turning it up to high and adding half a box of elbow macaroni for the last half hour since it thickened the sauce up so it stuck to everything….this is comfort food that I am going to make again and again over the winter…oooo, some sausage would go good in it, too, it doesn’t need it but I may try that next time and I may de-bone the chicken, too so I don’t have to pick through it as I eat….and I don’t think it has that many calories in it since it is mostly veggies, pasta, and chicken….but whatever is okay since I skipped lunch in anticipation of eating a lot for dinner…man, I’m full…