Well…after eating smoke from all of the damn campfires around here, I have found my next project…getting the city to enforce the open fire ordinance that tells people they have to put out fires when the smoke or smell enters someone’s house…as it does here almost every day. It’s a pain in the ass to not be able to open my windows on an 80 degree day and have some breeze blow through here…so today, I sit here cooped up with a fan on since some ass has had a fire going on since Friday…but it’s not just one person…it’s basically everyone up here and it reminds me when I moved in and everyone played their damn music all day long…with my efforts, that is much better…still making noise calls but I can get 3 or 4 days in a row where I don’t have to….so, starting Tuesday, I am going in full force on shutting the fires down up here….wish me luck….

Well…darn, after getting the bike rides in, I feel so damn worn out that I have just laid on the couch for the past two hours and that is just not normal for me…but, I guess I can take it easy every once in a while…the TDF was on for a bit and then right into race day with the F1 race and now indycar is going to start here in a few minutes, then IMSA, and after that nascar so I could just sit here the rest of the day and watch races and I just might…and I don’t think I’m going to feel guilty about it at all…but I might do some cleaning since I haven’t done any in the past week and the kitchen could use some work…the back steps need to be cleaned, too, along with the mats so I may just do short little bursts to get the bad stuff done…and I should scrub the stairs while I’m at it….and the stove has gotten pretty ugly so that should be done, too….maybe I’ll squirt some cleaner on it and let it soak a while…but the race is starting so I need to see that first….more later….

Well…damn, I’m getting tired of getting up at any time that has a 5 in front of it…and today it was 5:14 and that kind of sucks…I mean I just read a study that says anything under 7 hours means that you are going to die earlier that people who sleep well but I really don’t know what to do about it…don’t want to take the otc sleeping pills again since they make me sluggish all morning so I guess I’ll have to think about it a bit…I did have a pleasant surprise this morning when the car sounded normal when it was kind of loud when I went to the beach Friday….okay, I floored it in 5th at about 20 so that could have done it…I would like to get a new car before this exhaust goes so I can save 4-500 bucks…I did see the fireworks from my front porch last night and that was kind of cool…was not going to go down the hill to see them….have seen enough fireworks in my life and I’m not going to make any effort to see them again….I had a laugh yesterday when I steamed my first batch of green beans out of my garden…had a half a plate of them and, as always, I had to check how many calories they have in them…each bean has about 3 calories in it so the plate full only had about 60 calories….I had estimated that it would have been about 150 so I stayed under a thousand for the day, not that it was the plan but it worked out okay….I do need to get on the bike right now at 6:45 if I’m to get two in before the F1 race on at 10 but it is not too attractive sitting here right now…I could use a day off at some point but I’m not sure what the point would be…not much to do today….oh, the damn weather force field that keeps the rain away worked again last night when a storm with thunder in it was heading right toward us but fell apart just as it was hitting the coastline…and that really sucks since my lawn is dying…I think I’m just going to wing it today and not plan anything….have missed the tour de France that started a couple of days ago so I’ll have to remember that for later this morning…more later…

Well…didn’t think I would be able to get two rides in before F1 qualifying came on but I gutted it out and got on the bike by 7:30 and got back here by 9:45…went like crazy for both of them and started to run out of steam on the way back on the second one but I kept going as hard as I could…the dredge was back at the beach this morning putting more sand on the beach but it looks like the wave action took about 25% of what was put on before and washed it away yesterday…where it’s going I don’t know but there are a bunch of new sandbars that made me walk out about a hundred yards into the lake before the water was deep enough to swim…..it will be interesting to see what happens if it storms like forecast Monday and Tuesday….but right now I need to finish up the coffee and watch the last 5 mins of qualifying….more later….

Well…man, I think I’m going to have get some swimming ear plugs if I’m going to be going out to swim so much this year…didn’t get the water out of my right ear until almost bedtime last night and it was so damn annoying not being able to hear out of that ear all night….I did sleep okay last night and just feel a little worn out today but the coffee should help with that so I can get moving and out on the bike soon…I think I may have to have a new exhaust put on the car since it sounds like the baffles have collapsed in the muffler…and it’s about three years since I put this one on and that’s about all they last…darn…and that is going to be about 400 bucks but will be the last one I put on this car….I did get out to the beach yesterday for a while and got a little sun that I am feeling right now and there were still a lot of dead fish out there that smelled really bad and I had to move to the far south end of the beach to get away from it….it is nice to have a working phone again and I was able tot take pictures that I used for the wallpaper in the phone that look cool….I did get downtown last evening but there wasn’t a lot to see and all they had going was this awful EDM concert going on that I could hear from here all night long and it was over half a mile away…and I wonder how anyone could have stood how loud it was up close…I rode by when they were doing a sound check and it was painful to my ears even with my earbuds in…weird….not much to do today…I wonder if this will be a take it easy day for me? Going to watch F1 practice here in a minute then out on the bike for the first ride but won’t get the second one in before qualifying starts so it looks like I’ll have to go out this afternoon….no beach today or tomorrow and it looks like rain Monday and Tuesday…yay! So I may not get out again until Wed…and I think my skin can use the rest….more later….

Well…damn, hit the wall this morning and feel just so worn out that I’m not sure if I’m going to get on the bike today…when do I get a day off? I’m sure part of it is not eating enough and that is compounded by having to use the antibiotic for my teeth that makes everything taste like crap….haven’t felt like this in quite a while and all I want to do is lie on the couch and rest….but, you know me, I’ll probably drag myself out here in a minute and get a ride in before F1 practice starts at 8…and I need to do my teeth first so I need to get my ass in gear…slept okay last night and got all the way to 6 this morning but I feel like I didn’t sleep at all and that sucks….read a study yesterday that says you need to have at least 7 hours of sleep a night or you will die 10 years earlier than you should so I guess that means I’m living on borrowed time and could go any time since I never get more than 6 hours a night….oh, well….I did get my capital one app fixed yesterday so I can pay my bill this month but it was a pain in  the butt that the damn thing kicked me off and locked up for no reason….there are times that technology sucks….not much to do today….damn, I need to get moving but I don’t want to and I’m not sure if I’m going to get out to the beach today but I want to….I am so damn tired….and I’m running out of time….more later….

Well…since it’s the last day of the month, I thought I’d just noodle around a bit and talk about what happened…over the past week, I got everything done that I had on my plate…getting the cleaning done on my teeth…that now takes me at least 15 minutes twice a day to maintain and uses 3 different tools along with an anti-bacterial mouthwash that makes everything taste like crap for 3 hours…and that cost me 800 bucks out of pocket but I had to get it done if I am ever going to get my gums to heal and keep the rest of my teeth…yesterday, I got my new phone and new plan which was number two on my list and that cost me much less than I expected…and saved me 20 bucks a month and that’s not a bad deal….and I like the new phone but need to get a case for it since it is so thin and I am used to having a case on the old phone…but, after spending 800 bucks over the past couple of weeks, I really don’t want to spend any money at all so maybe I’ll wait til I get my next influx of cash in three weeks…oh, and I just read that the cost of living increase for next year could be 11% and that would add over 250 bucks to my monthly payment…and that would be pretty cool…and I did find a doctor to finish my to do list even if I won’t see him til next month…I did get out to the beach to play in the waves today and that was fun…but there was an alewive die off so there was a fishy smell and lots of small fishes washed up on the beach and floating in the water….but I still went swimming but was only out there for an hour or so since I wanted to get the potatoes done for potato salad that I’m going to make tomorrow….so it looks like I have the weekend off and I may even have a cocktail for the first time in over a week to celebrate….we’ll see…no more this month…

Well…darn..went over to the doctor’s office this morning for my checkup and that didn’t work…the person I talked to over there didn’t say that it was for Thursday, July 28th, she just said Thursday, so I assumed it was this Thursday…but no….so I came back home and had lunch and then hit the beach for some wave fun for an hour or so and then back here to peel the potatoes for the potato salad I want to make this afternoon….and now I’m looking for a topic on politics that grabs me so I can get one of those out here in the next hour or so….still drinking coffee at 1:30 in the afternoon and I think that is because I was up at 5 and I’m running out of steam…I do like the camera on my new phone…it is so much better than the one on my tablet and I posted the first photo to FB this morning from the beach at 7am…yep, way too early…..more later…

Well…up early this morning around 5 but I slept okay so I guess I’ll take it…man, what a busy day yesterday with the bike rides, dentist, and getting the new phone set up but now the healing can start in my mouth…but the medicine I have to use twice a day to get rid of the infection in my mouth makes everything taste like acid for three hours after I use it so I need to figure out the timing so I can still eat twice a day…probably early in the morning since I don’t eat breakfast and that will give me time for the effect to go away so I can have lunch…I’ll probably lose some weight since I won’t be able to taste anything if I want to have a snack at night so I probably won’t…damn…at least my teeth don’t hurt anymore and if I have to do a little work to heal them, I’m in….I like my new phone but it is going to take a while to get used to it and I need to buy a case since the one I had for the old phone worked so well….much brighter screens and a better camera so now I can shoot all of the stuff I haven’t been able to since the camera on the old one died last year…and the tech was able to clone the new one from the old one so everything that was on the old phone is in the new one with no work by me…pretty cool…I do have my yearly physical this morning and need to get my two rides in before the 11 o’clock appointment….sure hope not having cocktails has helped my blood pressure since I don’t want to have to take meds for it…and my cholesterol was borderline in my last checkup 3 years ago and I’m hoping that has gotten better, too….not much to do today….just the bike rides and checkup and I think I’m going to hit the beach and relax after I get back here and have lunch…it has been a long week with a lot accomplished and I need some time to do nothing…it is already 72 heading for 86 this aft so it will be a good day for it since it is supposed to rain again tomorrow…sure hope so…more later….

Well…only one wake up last night at 2:24 and saw a few flashes of lightning before I got back to sleep…I wonder when I’m going to see an actual storm during the day out here? That was the first rain in over a month out here and my lawn is teetering on dying but at least I won’t have to water it today…slept okay last night and have some energy today and I’m going to need it with the long day I have in front of me….but it will mean progress on all of the necessary things I had to do and I’ll be able to settle back into a routine by the end of the week…I did get the remainder of the food on the lawn yesterday and I hope it will green it up a bit with the rain last night…haven’t had to mow this week and will probably not have to do it until next week the way the lawn looks…with getting the new phone later today, I hope they can just dump my address book over to it or I’m going to spend the rest of the day and into the evening recreating it so I’ll have my numbers in it….it normally takes a while to get a new phone dialed in and this one probably won’t be too different…just as long as I can text with it by the end of the day I’ll be okay….and it’s an android so I know how to work most of it…it is going to be strange to just leave the data on all the time and not think about it…but cool….not much to do today…and, as you know, that’s not true…need to get on the bike here in a few minutes and get the first ride in and that will start this long day….but I will feel good when it is done with only one more thing to do this week….more later….