Well…that was about normal…went to bed at the normal time, tossed and turned for the normal two hours trying to get to sleep, and then out of bed at the normal time of 6am…so about 5 1/2 hours last night but I feel okay today so I’ll take it…just saw a pretty cool thing…I moved the hummingbird feeder over to hang from the tree just outside my kitchen window yesterday and, with the sun coming up, it looks like there is a light inside it and it glows…I hope the birds find it this year…if not, it will be the second year I’ve had it up with no birds….I really don’t hurt as much as I should with doing 45 miles a day the past two days and I am going to get my day started today with getting the first ride in at 7am before I do the grocery run which will set me up to do 45 again today….with not working on the house, I have a lot of time that needs to be filled and I guess riding the bike is as good as anything until the water gets warm enough to go out and swim every day…I almost went to the beach yesterday but the 20mph wind would have sandblasted me and that is just no fun…and it looks like it won’t be warm enough to go out the rest of the week with highs in the 60’s and lower 70’s…I do think I found out why my allergies spiked over the weekend…it looks like all of the tall grass along the trail is blooming and the high wind is spreading the pollen everywhere….was just damn miserable the past few days and was hoping the rain we didn’t get would wash some of it out of the air…no luck…not much to do today…just riding and the grocery run and I may have to start using the sprinkler on the lawn to keep it alive til next week when it’s supposed to rain….and that will cost some large dollars but it has to be done….oh, well…more later….

Well…If you were here last night, you saw that I called myself stupid for tacking on a third 15 mile ride for the day and it was a struggle to finish it…felt like crap afterward but did that stop me from doing it again tonight? Nope… but this time I felt good coming back and even did a full sprint all the way back from the beach…I will use the excuse that I was trying out all of the adjustments I made on the bike today starting with the seat position…and I can’t believe the difference that moving it about 3/8ths of an inch and tilting the front up one notch does…no pain on the way back when it hurt like crazy coming back on the second ride this morning…I wonder if it’s the electrolyte stuff that my daughter sent me…two of those a day and I think it’s making a difference….we’ll see….I think I’m working on making 45 miles a day the new normal as long as the weather cooperates….ha,ha, it never rains out here so that won’t be a problem….last one for the month…yay!

Well…running really late today with not getting out of bed til almost 7 and I feel really beat today…and I think that’s the fallacy of doing 3 rides a day…I shouldn’t even do two today to let my legs repair themselves but I will…I think it’s going to be a while, though, my thighs have a constant pain that I’m going to have to work through to get any speed up this morning…oh, well…as I said, a little stupid to do 45 miles a day….didn’t see any meteors last night but I was only up til 11 or so and I think the peak was supposed to be almost 2am and there was no way I was going to stay up that late with how beat I was….I’ll have to check the news to see if it was a boom or bust…not sure if I can support another hard work day like yesterday and I think I’m going to have to take it easy…have been coughing like crazy after getting back from the last ride yesterday and it has to be allergies…may have to take one of the bad allergy meds today to try to cope with it and I am not looking forward to that…not much to do today…have no plans at all other than to ride twice and take care of the lawn and garden….the wind is blowing like crazy again today and that might be one of the reasons my legs hurt so much today…going into a 25mph wind yesterday was just brutal and it looks the same out there this morning….more later…

Well…sitting here feeling like all of the energy has drained out of me and you can call me stupid for doing it to myself…after I made a sandwich for dinner, I still had time on my hands so I decided to go out for a third ride to make it 45 miles for today and that might not have been such a good idea with how I feel…even fixed up some of the electrolyte mix my daughter sent me the other day to help with dehydration since my toe started to hurt and that is a big sign that I can’t ignore…other than that, I had a pretty good day today…got the errands run and cleaned the porch and all the dirt out of the windows but they will need to be replaced since they are double pane and have fog inside of them that can’t be cleaned off…but, I’m not going to spend 4 grand to have them done right now…and I got to use the porch today to have my coffee and read the news along with doing one of these and that hasn’t happened at all this year….and I do think I came up with a way to cheaply replace the rotted lattice on the front steps…going to get some pressure treated fence boards and cut them in half and screw them to the supports to fill it all in….and it shouldn’t cost a lot since I only need about 30 boards with cutting them in half and I can get them cheap at lowes…about 2.20 a board on sale so I’ll to fill the Miata up and get started on that this summer…so, all in all , a pretty good day but I am waiting for the idiots to start pollute the neighborhood with their boom boom crap any minute….but, right now I need to just take a break and have another glass of water….

Well…for the first time ever, I am writing one of these from my porch couch…have all the windows open and the is wind blowing the curtains around and I have my last cup of coffee sitting next to me and things are okay…I am waiting for the boom boom boom to start but I am going to enjoy the sound of the wind blowing through the trees until it does…this porch really need to be cleaned, though, and I may work on that this afternoon…or I may not…it is nice not having the tv on for a change and just listening to other things….had an interesting morning going out to look for shoes at Dunham’s…they didn’t open til 10 so I had about 45 minutes to kill…luckily the store is near all the other ones I use so I started the time wasting at Target since I needed another set of bath towels…I mean a grown man should have more than one set, right? So, I even color coordinated it with the grey that I painted the bathroom so now I have a blue and a grey set that I can rotate in there…and it only cost me 13 bucks for the new set so that is cool….but I still had lots of time after that so I shot over to the dollar store and got a bunch of stuff including one of those static dusters like a swiffer for doing my blinds and other stuff when they get dusty…which is all the time, and it only cost 1.25 instead of the 10 bucks a swiffer costs….and I got lots of other stuff…some stainless steel scrubbers, some dish scrubbers, and a new pair of garden gloves all for about 5.50 so that was a bargain…but, I still had time to kill so I went over to Aldi’s to get a couple of things I needed and then it was 10…so back to Dunham’s to look at the shoes,and they were ugly so I didn’t get them…and that kind of sums up the day so far….I am going to get to a political one today but I need to make lunch first…it’s heading toward one and I haven’t eaten anything yet…so I need to do that right now….more later…

Well…another 5;37 morning and I am getting damn tired of it…ha, ha…that’s a funny, unintended joke….feel worn out today and that is going to make the ride here in a few minutes pretty brutal….and the wind is blowing 15 out of the south that will make the uphill run back here into it pretty darn hard….I wonder if I’ll ever take care of myself and take a day off? I do need to run an errand this morning to Dunham’s to take a look at some Fila running shoes they have on sale for half price and it’s a pretty good deal for 20 bucks…I need a new pair to ride and walk in since the NB’s that I am using now have never been very comfortable and I need a new pair if I decide to start walking to get ready for the UK trip next year….and it looks like I’ll be out on the bike by 7 since it is already over 70 out there and I’ll still have to wait to run the errands since nothing opens out here until 9….it looks like I’ll get to the first thousand miles on the bike this week and to 2K total by early next week but I need to start riding at least 45 a day to hit 6k this year…and that seems like a daunting task with how I feel right now….and I think back to the first time I got to 500 miles in a year and thought that was such an accomplishment…didn’t hit that until late August that year and I wonder how I lived without doing thousands of miles like I do now? Oh, well….not much to do today….just the errands and riding and not even cooking since I still have leftovers…and I really don’t feel like eating anyway so I could easily just skip it altogether….more later…

Well…yeah, I’m not doing my job by doing a political one today but I’ll get back to it tomorrow…I hope…today was not as bad a day as yesterday and it was pretty quiet until right now so I had to make another call to have the cops come out and shut down the same house as last night…but, that’s not what this is about….after I got my morning ride in, I parked the bike in the back yard since I knew I was going to get back on it at some time today…and I did but just as I took off from the alley, the damn bike had a flat rear tire…so I put it back in the garage and took the back tire off and went downstairs where my tools and parts are to replace the tube…and I found what had pierced it which is normally a relief…so I put a new tube in the tire and aired it up but didn’t notice that I had run over something that had cut the sidewall of the tire and had made it unusable…so I had to take the whole thing back apart to put a new tire on, too, and that took me a half hour altogether and didn’t get back on the bike until after 4:30 which made me late to come here and finish up for the day….I did need to replace that tire at some point since it was pretty bald so I don’t feel bad about that and I am going to try to repair the tube since it was punctured with what looked like a small piece of wire and I should be able to fix it for a spare tube…I hope….will save me 8 bucks…

Well…damn, I had this day all planned out but everything had to work perfectly for that plan to work…and, it didn’t…it rained in Monaco and that put the race back an hour and it just ended so there is no time to get the second ride in before Indy starts in a half hour…so, what to do? There is a window in between Indy and the world 600 at 4 or so and, while I don’t like going out that late in the day, I just may do it today…still can’t figure out why I can’t just not do the second ride and give myself a little break but I can’t and that’s just me….need to burn those calories every day or I’ll end up fat again…even feel like I’ve gained 5 pounds over the past few days even with getting double rides in every day and not taking in any extra calories…oh, well…who the hell do I have to look good for?  At least there are no houses going nuts with music so far today…probably shouldn’t have written that, huh? More later…

Well…it was a pretty crappy day yesterday and I didn’t sleep at all last night which just compounds it…it seems I’ve lost all of the progress on noise that I’ve made over the past year and it’s all back to square one and I see another long slog in front of me to get the quiet back…even had an officer come to visit me for a chat to make sure they understand my frustration with what is going on…and it doesn’t help that I’ve been fighting depression again, either, since this crap just adds to it and feeds it…and I told him that they are going to hear from me as many times a day as it takes for them to shut this bullshit down….so, today starts out with the anticipation that it is going to be another crappy day even on one of my favorite days of the year…it’s race day with F1, Indy, and the world 600 on today and will keep me entertained all day….and that starts at 9 so I need to get out on the bike before 7:30 to make it back here for the start…and then there is a window of an hour and a half between the end of the F1 race and Indy that I can fit the second ride in and it is warm enough already to go out in a t-shirt so that will be nice…and I had the top down on the car going out to get the paper and enjoyed that little ride….so, small pinpricks of light in a sea of blackness…and that sucks….but, we move on…one foot in front of the other until things get better or don’t…I know I can control how to react to this crap and need to get back to that….something else to work on….more later….

Well…darn, even with feeling pretty crappy, had another busy day today and it is getting pretty old to have to keep doing it…I know, it’s part of owning a house but I wonder if I’ll ever get a day off the rest of my life? Started out with getting on the bike before 7:30 to make it back to see F1 qualifying at 9…but the problem was that qualifying wasn’t on til 10 and I must have read it wrong…so, back on the bike for ride two about 9 or so and that was pretty brutal with no rest between the rides…so I got back here a little after 10 and watched qualifying, then out to mow the lawn, run the string trimmer, and getting some grass killer along the fence on the east side of the house that the neighbor doesn’t trim and lets the grass just grow until it’s two feet tall in my fence…so, just as I did last year, I am going to kill all the grass along the fence line….I still have to hit some ant nests and do weed killer but I think the weeds will wait til tomorrow…just made the food for my hummingbird feeder and I’m going to fill it and set it on top of my regular feeder here in a minute…and then I am done for the day…have been running since 7:30 and it’s two now and that is enough work for one day…more later…I hope…