Well…up kind of early this morning with waking up at 5:04 and out of bed at 6:27 but my back doesn’t hurt much so I’ll take it….and my teeth don’t hurt much either but they’re going to later if they stay with the normal pattern….still pretty worn out and I know part of it is from not eating enough with only two tacos and a burger yesterday and that will be the same today…I need to continue to restrict my calories since I’ll be off the bike starting Friday….think I’m going to start walking around the neighborhood to try to burn some calories and break in my new walking shoes but I know that won’t burn the calories I need to so I’m thinking of going down to one meal a day…if I can stay under 1,000 calories a day I may be able to limit my weight gain…and then do three rides a day to make up for the time off…didn’t get much done yesterday but I am going to try to keep going on the kitchen today….the stove, microwave, and floor needs cleaning and that is going to be the goal today…I am curious about how the new battery cable end is going to work…the car should start better but we’ll see…..more later….

Well…took it pretty easy again today after getting the bike rides in and fixing the car and that may have helped my back since it doesn’t hurt right now…I am going to keep my fingers crossed that it continues to get better and that my teeth will heal up some…still have that weird bruise on my finger that I still can’t figure out how I got but it must have been working on the car….I did get started cleaning the kitchen and got the sinks done and will do the stove tomorrow along with the microwave….and the grocery run first thing since I’m going over to Stermberg road so I can stop at Ollies on the way back and get some more t-shirts…need a couple more long sleeved ones and at 1.99 even some more short sleeved so I can just toss the ones that have holes in them….but right now it’s time to settle in for the night and watch some shows…I am really liking the new version of “Leverage”…it just so old school and I don’t have to work hard to enjoy it…

Well…a month or so ago, I noticed that the battery cable that I remove from the battery when I’m not going to be using the car had gotten kind of floppy and loose but didn’t think much about it since the car ran fine…but this morning when I was going out to get my mega tickets, I took a closer look at it and the main cable had sheared completely off and I had been running everything in the car on one separate 12 gauge wire that remained….so I stopped into autozone to pick up a new cable end for 8 bucks and installed it when I got back here…and I just noticed that I bruised my right ring finger in the process somehow since it is black and blue now….I really don’t understand how everything in the car including the lights and starter could run on that one small wire without melting it…it will be interesting to see how the car starts tomorrow for the grocery run…sure glad the cable was long enough to reach without replacing the whole thing….

Well…running about on time today with getting out of bed at 6:23 after waking up for the first time at around 3….one good thing is my back is better today with just a little pain so I’m not heating it right now and I hope I won’t have to later…it does feel tight but I can live with it that way…slept okay last night but I still have that feeling of fatigue that has plagued me for a long time and I wonder if that is ever going away? Didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I do have to run an errand to get my mega tickets after the first ride here in a minute…I think I’m going into slow mode today to save some energy but I still need to get everything done before Man U plays this afternoon at 3…I don’t have to cook today with leftover tacos and a burger for the second meal…I probably should look in the freezer to plan the second meal for the rest of the week but I am getting some chicken drumsticks at aldis tomorrow so that will take care of one of them….not my favorites but at 59 cents a pound, I can’t pass them up…so I’ll get a 5 pound bag….not much to do today….need more coffee and to get on the bike in 20 minutes or so but it is hard to get started right now….more later…

Well…just went downstairs to check for water on the floor and now it’s been dry for more than a day so maybe I don’t have to be so freaked out about it? I did get back on the bike for two rides today and that felt good and I had to call and cancel the urologist appointment since they set it up in GR and there is no way I’m driving 80 miles for an appointment…so I need to call my doctor tomorrow and see if they can get me in to a spectrum doctor in Grand Haven since that is only 12 miles one way…I wonder why they don’t have one here in Muskegon with how big spectrum is in west Michigan? I do need to make tacos for dinner since I didn’t feel like cooking for lunch and just finished off the chili I made last week….but I’m still full from just one bowl of chili so maybe I’ll just make the taco meat and then only eat one for dinner….I do need to drag my butt out to Meijers tomorrow morning to get my mega tickets since the jackpot is up over a billion dollars and that cash would come in handy…okay, soccer starts here in about 15 minutes and I need another glass of water before that….

Well…damn, I’m so tired of being in pain…my back was okay most of the day yesterday and my teeth didn’t hurt much but now both of them are howling at me and I have the heating pad on my back again…it is exhausting to hurt all the time…took the day off yesterday but I can’t do that again today no matter how much I want to….but I just poured the first cup of coffee and it surely hasn’t started to work yet….didn’t get anything done yesterday but laundry and didn’t even make the tacos I planned to…so I’ll have to do better today….but that means I’ll have to get off this couch soon to get on the bike for the first ride and then get the second ride in before 11….I’m still wondering about the water on my basement floor even with not seeing any more through the day yesterday but if it happened once, it can happen again and that sucks….have way too much money going out in the next two months to add another 1500 bucks to it….I guess we’ll see after I shower after the first bike ride….or before that when I go down to ride here in a few minutes….not much to do today…just going to go into survival mode and try to get through til lunch…I’m just so damn worn out…more later….

Well…just checked the basement floor and 4 hours later it is still dry and that is taking a load off me…have been checking it every half hour just in case…not sure what I’d do if it starts leaking with the drain higher than the heater so a hose wouldn’t work and I don’t have a pump to pump it anyway…I wonder if I should get one just in case? Maybe….

Well…just went downstairs to put the clothes in the dryer and there was water on the floor by my water heater…so I opened it up to take a look and the inside by the burner is dry…I mopped up the water an hour ago and now the floor is dry and I can’t figure it out…it could be that it pushed a little water out of the overflow but when I checked that tube it was dry…so I guess I’ll just keep an eye on it for now…I did just take a shower before I put the laundry in so I wonder if that had something to do with it? The heater is less than 10 years old so the tank shouldn’t be leaking and I sure don’t want to spend 1500 bucks on a new one…crap…

Well…damn, my back hurts again this morning and I have started to heat it again hoping it will stop….had an okay day yesterday and I am looking forward to having a day off the bike today and just vegging a bit….I really don’t ever take days off but I think I need to put one in the schedule once a week…I am retired after all and I think I may have earned a day off now and again…at least my teeth aren’t hurting right now so I’ll take any bit of good news I can get…I really should clean some today and I might but I know I’m going to do laundry at least and I may make tacos….and aldis has chicken drumsticks on sale for 59 cents a pound this week so I am going to buy a 5 pound bag that I don’t need but for under 4 bucks that is a deal….and I have to hit Ollies to get some more long sleeved t-shirts for 3.99 and will probably get some more short sleeved one, too, at 1.99 each….but that sale doesn’t start til Wed so I’ll do the Stermberg road Meijers and go there on the way back….not much to do today…just going to ease into it with no schedule at all and that is harder than it looks….need more coffee and to see if there is soccer on this morning….more later…

Well…had a pretty good day today after my back settled down in the afternoon…normally, lying down helps it so I am confused why it hurt so badly when I got up…and then right after lunch my teeth went nuts for some reason with a lot of pain that the orajel didn’t cut this time…so I took an ibuprofen and that may be why my back got better, too….still only had about 1200 calories today with making an olive burger with Swiss and some chips and then a bowl of chili for dinner….I did get two rides in so I guess the extra 200 calories are okay….had a lot of activity over at Mastodon today with a bunch of people following me but I wonder if that will trigger me into doing more over there like I do here since people do have expectations….there are some nice people over there and I’ve had more interactions in the month I’ve been there than the 10 years I was on twitter…much different mindset than the bird site….but I am going to keep my politics over here…I just want Mastodon for fun and not arguments….I am going to watch Svengoolie tonight since he is showing a movie at 8 that I haven’t seen before and has some good actors in it…so that is going to be my exciting night with a couple of cocktails and maybe even a snack….exciting life….