Well….after looking at the garden and the other work I have to do, I think I’ll work outside today…I did pick almost all of the tomatoes and have them sitting on my chair out front with a free sign on them and I hope someone takes some since I am getting all tomoatoed out and just don’t want to eat them anymore….I think I’ll wait to mow the lawn til tomorrow, though, since it really can go another day or maybe even Wed….and I do need to find a topic for later but there just isn’t anything in the news that grabs me right now…so I guess we’ll see….more later…

Well…didn’t get out of bed until 6:35 this morning and that should mean that I feel okay but I don’t…still feel pretty worn out and I hope that is not the new normal for me….I know I’m getting old and that feeling crappy is inevitable but I have too much to do around here to let that control me….man, I would just love to have a day off and just screw around and I used to know how to do that when I was younger…oh, well…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get anything done…I am going to get on the dining room today and start prepping it for paint…need to take the shades down from the windows and put some paper over them so I can start sanding and filling them….and I need to start working on the door frames, too…I sure hope that the filler I have downstairs is still good or I’ll have to run out to depot and I don’t want to…I do need to get on the bike for two rides today and would like to start by 8….but right now all I want to do is have more coffee and sit here for a bit….there are live drag races on all afternoon so that will give me the background noise I need to get some work done….I really should clean some, too, but we’ll see about that….don’t want to overdo it….more later…

Well…yeah, if I don’t have a political one done by this time of the day, I probably won’t do one…but who knows? I did get two rides in but the first one was so brutal with how I felt and went out so early in a vicious wind that I was sure I wasn’t going to be able to do the second one…but, after watching the F1 race and then watching Man U beat Arsenal…yeah, I’m in shock, too…that buoyed my spirits enough that I suited up and went back out and the second ride was much better even though it was still pretty windy…but, I feel like crap right now after making way too much food for dinner…haven’t eaten like that in years but all I had was a bean burrito and 6 chips loaded up with two tomatoes, lettuce and onions so I guess there was a lot of no calorie stuff on it…but I won’t need to eat again until tomorrow night….there was a huge new cruise ship down at the landing today that had a French name so I’m guessing it came out of Quebec…very modern looking dark blue and streamlined…and it was there all day….okay, that’s about all I wanted to say right now…the nascar race is starting and I need another glass of water….

Well…damn, I feel worn out again this morning and I need to get out  the bike in about 20 minutes so how is that going to work? Man U plays at 11:30 so that means I’ll only get one ride in today… the F1 race is on at 9 so I do need to get out early but I sure don’t feel like it right now…it was a chore to go out for the paper and I wonder why I still do it…it’s basically worthless and cost 5 bucks so I think I’ll wean myself from that habit soon…slept okay last night but I keep losing earplugs so I wonder if I need to buy new ones? The ones I’m using are years old and that may have something to do with it….I did only have one meal yesterday and I think I’m going to feel it later…I do need to start limiting my calorie intake if I’m not going to do two rides a day….but I am going to use lots of tomatoes again today when I make a bean burrito for the one meal I’m going to have….okay, I may have two but the second one is going to be just tomatoes and maybe a couple of tortilla chips….it looks like today is going to be a wasted day…almost, and I’m not sure how I feel about that…I do need to keep some discipline but one day isn’t going to kill me, is it? Wouldn’t that be funny if it did? Not much to do today….it’s getting light so I need to gulp another cup of coffee and get on the bike soon…more later….

Well…just looked down at my hands and they look so old and wrinkled…just as  the rest of me does…and that is depressing….but I’m old so I guess that’s to be expected…slept pretty crappy last night and I’m feeling it right now but still need to get out on the bike by 7:30 to be back here to see F1 qualifying at 9….but I’m not sure if I’ll do two rides today with Michigan playing at noon…I think I may be able to do it if I get back on the bike right after qualifying…but I’m not motivated to do that right now and I hope that changes but that’s a lot to ask of  a couple of cups of coffee….I did watch the first two episodes of the new Lord of the Rings show last night and it didn’t grab me at all….never said wow about the story and I hope it gets better as it goes on…they spent 465 million dollars on it but I sure don’t see it…and I wanted it to be a grabber…oh, well…I need to cut out some calories today so it looks like the second meal is going to be just tomatoes and I’m glad I put the burger for tacos in the freezer to wait to make them until next week….feel really fat right now and I think I’ve gained weight over the past week or so and I don’t like it….not much to do today….just going to wing it and force myself to get two rides in before noon and then veg out and watch Michigan play and I think there is a race on, too…so I won’t be too bored…more later….

Well…yeah, I know I said I wasn’t going out to the beach today but it got to be almost noon and I said what the hell…a good way to end the summer of the beach is to do it on a Friday…and I’m glad I did….it was mostly empty but those same damn yakkety people set up right next to me again and they had the whole damn beach that they could have used…what the hell? But, I didn’t let it ruin my day since the water was warm, the waves were fun, and I could stay in for 45 minutes so I didn’t have to listen to them….getting a swim in was the topper for the season…and I didn’t feel the melancholy that I used to get when we did weeks at Harbor Springs since I know I can do it again next year if I’m still alive…should have the house done by then so there won’t be any guilt from taking the summer off…I do have some wood finishing to do down the back stairs, the porch ceiling, and the cabinet in the bathroom and I may try to get those done over the winter, too, so I can really take the summer off to train for the two week trip to the UK that’s happening the end of Sept. next year…we’ll be walking a ton over there so I need to be ready to walk 10 miles a day and that will take some training since riding the bike doesn’t do it….but right now a little football and then the new Lord of the Rings tv show…and that will take up most of the night….

Well…one of the great joys of being retired is supposed to be that when you wake up in the morning, you can just roll over and go back to sleep for a while…but because I HAVE to get two rides in every day, that is just not an option for me and that sucks…and I think I overdid the sun yesterday so I’m not going to the beach today to let my skin rest and that will probably end my beach days for this summer…slept okay last night and had weird dreams where I broke my tablet in half and I wonder where that came from? And they had mutated animals in them, too, that was really weird….it stayed really warm overnight and it’s already 70 degrees out there so it will make for a nice ride here in a few minutes after I get more coffee in me and wake up a bit…I do have so many tomatoes that I think I’m going to have to just eat them for a few meals over the weekend and I am putting off making tacos until next week so I froze the pound of burger I had for them to make sure it didn’t spoil….so it looks like I’ll make bean burritos tomorrow after I use up the leftovers…still want to make some of the onion rings I bought the other day and maybe they would go with the last burger that I’m making later today…not much to do today….need to get moving soon but want one more cup of coffee first and to watch the first F1 practice but it’s almost over so I can go in about 10 minutes…and I don’t really have anything else to do today so I’ll just wing it…and not going to the beach opens up the day to possibilities to just be a veg for a while….more later…

Well…as you can see by how late that last one was posted, I’ve had a pretty darn busy day that I just finished up around 3…the whole thing started with the two bike rides, then out to the beach by noon and I even got a swim in….back here by 1:30 to work on the garden and picked lots of tomatoes and 4 cukes, then I made a big batch of salsa and a jar of pickles and cleaned up….and now it’s doing these and watching the Man U match…and I think I’m done for the day…unless I read the news and find another topic that grabs me…but right now I just want to watch the match…

Well…another crappy night of sleep and I’m feeling it right now…it’s 7:11 and I’m just starting on my first cup of coffee and I sure hope it starts to work soon…not sure what is going on but I hurt everywhere today…even both Achilles tendons are howling and stiff and I can’t remember that happening…and that little notice in my lower banner is screaming “pollen high” so I know why my head hurts and need to remember to take some allergy meds before I get on the bike….it’s a new month and I’m not sure how I feel about that…time sure is flying by and I really do wonder how many more of them I have left….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I will need to get at the garden and pick a bunch of tomatoes and cukes today…. and I may make another batch of salsa but I am not putting any cumin in it…I seem to have developed a real aversion to that taste and need to find something else that will give it a normal taste…and I can use it for the tacos and bean burritos I’m going to make tomorrow….I have to remember to put some lime juice in it that I forgot with the last batch…or should I use lemon juice? I guess either would work….not much to do today….don’t want to do anything but I know I need two rides to get back on track and Man U plays this aft and I may go out to the beach again…damn, my right big toe is hurting again and I think the gout may be coming back….what else is going to happen? More later….

Well…okay, this is pretty weird…after only doing one ride today after the grocery run this morning, I feel like I’ve gained 5 pounds and look like it too…so how can that be? I only avoided burning about 6-700 calories (my estimate) so it should take 5 days of that to gain a pound…crap…and calculators say riding an hour with my weight at 180 and 15mph burns around 900 calories so riding for 2 1/2 hours a day should burn over 2K…probably shouldn’t worry too much about one day but you know how guilty I get about this crap…other than that, I had an okay day and did get out to the beach finally…but the water was too cold to swim…at least with how I was feeling when I got out there..so I just burned my skin a bit and came home after about an hour or so…. and then just took it easy the rest of the afternoon…and I just realized that tomorrow is Sept. 1st and I sure don’t know where the summer went….oh, well….