Well…when I got started today, it was all I could do to just get moving at all and expected this to be one of those survival days where I just keep moving to keep moving…but, after the first bike ride, I finally found a dentist to take on my dental work that takes my Medicare extra dental coverage…and they just had a cancellation so I can get in tomorrow morning at 8:30…and this one is only about 2 miles from me right over by my depot and aldis so easy to get to….and the person I talked to sounded nice so I’ll take a chance on them…that raised my spirits a bit to finally get the process started and then I headed out for a second ride and got it in before the wind got even worse….it is supposed to blow 20-30 this aft with gusts on top of that and it was hard enough going into the 15mph wind coming back….then I headed out to Hardings to see if I could get any of the half price protein they had on sale and got both chicken and pork chops so I am set for the next couple of weeks…and I put the top down on the car and was wearing shorts it was so nice…so, all in all, a productive day so far…and I will be back for a political one after I have a bit of lunch….and read the news to find a topic…

Well…darn…have been pretty depressed the past few days and I’m not sure why…part of it is the assholes up here in every rental think they have the right to play their damn music loud enough that it can be heard in GR…so that puts me back in the role of being the sound police up here as I have been for the past year and having it start all over again this spring is such a pain in the ass…after all of the calls I made last year, I thought there was enough progress made so I could open my windows as it gets warmer but I guess I was wrong…at least it is warm enough for me to get out on the bike by 7:30 today which I need to since the wind is supposed to come up to near 30 this afternoon and that is too much for me….got two rides in yesterday and hope to do the same today and I may run out to Hardings this morning to do the grocery shopping for the week but I guess I could wait til tomorrow for that…I do have to get on the weeds again today since I didn’t get to all of them yesterday but the yard is looking pretty good and it is more just maintenance now…and I have bean plants ready to go in the garden along with some tomato plants that I am going to try to put in, too, since it appears that the cold nights are behind us and no more freezes are forecast…and this week is the first real spring temps we have seen so far….it may even hit 80 tomorrow and that would be cool…but my allergies are so bad that I don’t know if I can even open the house up to air it out some but I am going to give it a try anyway….not much to do today….just going to wing it with no plans other than to ride the bike….but I am finding that taking it easy is a little bit harder than I expected so I’ll probably start thinking of the next big project and get started on planning it…and I will come back for a political one even if I have to force it….more later….

Well…I am so depressed about what is going on in politics right now that I just can’t bring myself to even read any news right now so that makes it a little difficult to even find a topic…so I’m not going to…but I did get out to do two rides today and even ate lunch in between the rides and got back here with enough time left to put weed killer on the front lawn and a little on the back…and the F1 race is not going off at 2 as it said on the listings so it looks like I would have had an extra hour to work outside but I guess I don’t need to fill every minute with work…I do need to get out this week to get more weed killer and some grass killer to keep the grass out of the cracks in my sidewalk…and it is going to be really weird this week with not doing a grocery run to Meijers since they don’t have anything on sale that I want for the first time in years…going to hit Hardings instead since they have pork chops and chicken for half price so I may just as well get the rest of the things I need there, too…really, really strange…

Well…as I sit here, I’m still thinking about trying to get out for two rides today but I’m running out of time to make it work before 2 when the F1 race comes on…if I wait til 11, that will get me back here at around 12:15 and then will have to be back out by 12:30 and that will not give me enough time to have lunch in between so that will set me up for a  one meal day today and under 1K calories and I’m not sure that will support 75 miles on the bike the past two days…but I feel fat today like I’m gaining weight again and I don’t know how that is happening….oh, well…probably should watch the match that I planned for today instead of doing this….more later….oh, I did get the bathroom cleaned and put a 100 watt led bulb in the fixture in there, too…now I can see much better….

Well…running about on time for a Sunday and I’ve already read the paper and had my first cup of coffee and it’s only 7am….and that is going to set up some boring time here since I want to watch Everton play at 9 and see if they can win and manage to stay up in the Premier League or go down to the Championship for the first time in over 60 years….and it’s too cold to go out on the bike right now at 39 degrees so I’m kind of stuck and have to just relax a bit until then…that’s harder than it looks and maybe I can use the time to clean the bathroom? It sure needs it and then I’d have an accomplishment that would keep the guilts at bay….still not sleeping well and I think that is not going to change so I’m not going to bitch about it…after all, I don’t remember ever sleeping like a normal person so that is just how it is…I’m not nearly as sore as I should be after doing 45 miles on the bike yesterday,  just more stiff than anything and I can live with that….the next goal is to do a 60 mile day and then start training for the big day coming up when I ride my age like I do every year from the time I turned 56….that one was a big frickin deal but I was only riding about 10-12 miles a day back then and 56 in a day was a good goal….I do have a spare rear tire that I am going to need to put on the bike in a month or so and I hope I can find another one for later in the year…there are still shortages since they all come out of China so I probably should start looking right now and get a couple of spares….not much to do today…I still think taking Sundays off is a good idea but that appears what it is evolving toward…an idea instead of reality and it will be hard to stay off the bike and not work on anything…so, I’ll probably be out on the bike by 11 after the Everton match but I’m not sure about cleaning the bathroom…we’ll see….more later…

Well…yeah, I did decide to go out for a third ride and the wind had changed from the NE to the NW and that made for a good ride coming back when I was flying around 20mph on the flat…and my legs didn’t feel it at all and still feel good right now so maybe that will be the new normal for miles every day…okay, nope…two is normally enough but I think I will try to do a 60 here in a bit since today went so well…not even tired at all and that feels good…I did notice that I got sunburned even with 50 sunscreen on but I guess with being out in the sun for almost 4 hours could be the culprit and there may even be some windburn there, too, with doing so many miles…so, does that give me a day off tomorrow? Ha, ha, no….will get out for at least one after the Everton match…I may have to change the soccer team that I root for after Man U sucked like a grade school team today….at least the season is over and I won’t have to watch them anymore…cripes…

Well…just finished painting the mailbox an re-installing it and now I sit here thinking if I should go out for another ride today to give me 45 miles for the day? The first two rides were pretty good and I could go out in a t-shirt if I wanted to, and F1 qualifying is not on til 4 so I have the time even though there is a nascar race on but I could watch that tomorrow morning…what to do? Okay, going out…need to go now since it is after 2….

Well…damn, the allergies are bad this morning and my eyes feel like they are filled with sand they are so itchy…and my shoulders and neck hurt like crazy from being out in the brutal wind yesterday and having to pull so hard just to keep moving into it…I did sleep okay…for me….and feel okay today but need to get moving by 9 to get two rides in before Man U plays at 12:30…the wind is down to about 8-9mph today and that will be welcome after the 20-30mph from yesterday and it is nice to have the bike working right again so I don’t have to think about that…and the new cable is stainless steel which the ones that came on the bike weren’t and there was some rust inside the cable sheath that goes to the shifter and the cable just fell apart inside the sheath…..the first ride is going to be pretty cold at around 51 degrees but the sun is shining so that will help…I so have some work to do around here today and the bathroom will be today’s project…not sure when I can wedge that in but I’ll figure that out….don’t have any leftovers to eat today so it will be a day of cooking two meals but it is still all chicken, all the time, and I am starting to get tired of it….and I am going to fill the freezer with the leg quarters I got wed at Aldis….I am feeling pretty old this morning and really don’t want to resign myself to feeling like this all the time…but what can I do about it? Not much it seems…I did have that wave of depression hit me again last night and there really isn’t any reason for it….things are going okay and summer is coming with some great 70’s weather for the week with no rain so I wonder what the hell is going on….oh, well…not much to do today…just going to read some news for the next hour or so and get more coffee and hope the temp comes up by 9 so I can ride comfortably…I am looking forward to getting a real sweat up on the bike next week and doing some sprints to get back into summer shape….more later….

Well…I know I bitched and whined about not having a schedule or any organization for my day…and with how busy my day became, the next time I bitch, slap me….started out pretty normally with doing the first post and having my coffee, then skimming the news for a minute until I remembered that I wanted to clean the kitchen…or just the sinks, window over them, and the blinds that go over that window…so, I worked on that for a hour and a half…and yeah, it was that bad, then got on the bike by 10 and the ride was a lot of fun going out but coming back into a 20-30mph wind was just do damn brutal that I was all the way down on the 3rd sprocket on the back when I’m normally in 7th or 8th…and when I looked down at the computer, I was going 6mph….and could barely make any headway….while I was out, the rear shifter started to stick and shift really hard and I noticed that the cable was starting to come apart right by the shifter…and luckily, I have 5 of the cables that I ordered last year…but it wasn’t time to work on that yet…when I got back, I put the chicken in for lunch, and since I knew that it was going to take 45 minutes to cook, and the lawn takes the same amount of time to mow, I decided to mow the lawn…then lunch, and downstairs to work on the cable….I had to laugh that I’m getting pretty good at that and it only took 10 minutes to take the old one out and put the new one in…and I hit the calibration of it perfectly and didn’t even need to do any fine adjustments when I took it out for a test ride…but I turned around after a couple of miles since the wind was blowing even harder and I wanted to see F1 practice at the new Miami track….so now I’m done and it’s 2:30…and remember, the next time I bitch about nothing to do, slap me…I’ll take one of those days sometime…back for a political one after I read the news….more later..

Well…another 5:23 morning and I really don’t feel any urgency to get going…I wonder if this is going to be the new normal with taking the summer off? Damn, my brain isn’t working this morning….with no urgency, I don’t have any organization or schedule and that is a little disconcerting after an entire life of having regimented days…hmmm…I did get two rides in yesterday and my legs are feeling it a bit but the pain is manageable…I did have a left hamstring problem on the second ride where it hurt every time I pedaled and that was a bit new with it just coming out of nowhere…not sure how I hurt it but I am working up to mid summer speed and that could be it….I wonder if it was from bending over to weed the back of the house and plant the flower seeds? That stretches the hamstrings quite a bit but they didn’t hurt then….another hmmmm….okay, here’s another weird weather watch that is on this morning…we are under a fire weather watch and I have never seen that before…I think it’s connected to the strange humidity alerts we have been having out here but this time it is too low at about 30% and with the 20-30 mph wind that is forecast, I guess there could be some grass fires out here…but there is not really any action items to do to prepare….just don’t burn stuff?  Maybe that will keep the campfires down around here….not much to do today…I had planned to mow the lawn this morning but there are some showers moving in…and how the heck does that fit in with the low humidity warning? I think the weather people have ADD….and I do need to get two rides in today or even just one and clean this place up some…I think I need to make a cleaning schedule for this place so every room gets done at least once a week…this place is pretty dusty even without doing any sanding…I wonder if I should get one of those swiffer dusters to do a quick once over every day? We’ll see….more later….