Well…after getting the first two rides in this morning, I decided to mow the lawn, do the trimming, and do the repairs on the front of the lawn….and after that, I made lunch and now I sit here thinking “what to do”? Do I go out and do the third ride even after working on the yard for a couple of hours or do I just take it easy until Everton comes on at 2:45? I have about 7 minutes to make the decision and I am leaning toward going back out to get 45 miles in for the day…the wind is blowing like crazy and it was a pretty brutal second ride but I think I can handle it…and rain is coming in from the west earlier than forecast…it’s almost at Milwaukee heading right at Muskegon so only about an hour and a half away….okay, I can’t just sit here and do nothing….might just as well abuse myself some more….15 more miles…

Okay…forgot to post this one so it’s out of order…it’s supposed to go ahead of the last one….

Well…not sure how I feel about sleeping last night but I was up at 3am for the first time and then out of bed for good before 6….I wonder why I’ve been tossing and turning so much lately? Probably the allergies that have been so crappy lately….the cars that sit outside out here are yellow with pollen and even in the garage, mine has a thin coating all over it….and nothing that I take really gives me much relief…but at least I can breath a bit and will be getting back on the bike today in abut an hour or so…need to get everything done by 2:45 when Everton plays so it is going to be a really busy day if I’m going to get everything done….and three rides to make up for the day off the bike yesterday and the day off for tomorrow with the storms and rain that are coming in…it looks like there is going to be a window of about 3 hours tomorrow afternoon that it will be dry so I may be able to get one ride in anyway….and I’m going to try to not feel guilty about not riding much the next couple of days when I really do need some time off for my legs to heal up some…I do need to get some grass seed in out front today, too, along with planting some perennial seeds to try to put a little bit of color there, too….lots to do today….as I said, I need to get going here in and hour or so and that will put me on the bike by 7:30…and I do have to remember to eat today to support 45 miles on the bike…need more coffee….more later…

Well…darn, what a wasted day…with all of the rain, I didn’t get on the bike either inside or outside today and that sucks pretty much…so that sets me up for needing a triple tomorrow and it looks like the weather will cooperate with the temp getting over 50 by 8am so I’ll be able to get two in tomorrow morning and then one and the recon ride in the afternoon….and I didn’t do any work around here but drill one of the bottom roller shafts on the garage door so I could put a pin in it to keep it from pulling out every couple of days and making lots of noise….so we’ll see how that works out….I do have to get some grass seed planted out in the front of the house along with the two types of perennials  I bought to try to fill beside the blocks that lead to my mailbox….and I want to use up the rest of the sunflower seeds to plant all over the yard just to see if any of them come up….going to line the east side of the house since I need to water the grass seed out front anyway and then I can keep them watered, too….and I’ll probably throw a couple in the back to replace the three that the animals ate….oh, I did try the new chicken slabs that I got today and they are pretty good…baked them in a little olive oil until they browned up and then made a sandwich with lettuce and tartar sauce…and at 38 cents each, it’s a cheap meal that only takes about a half hour in the oven….lots of cheap food this week and I’m going to have to find room for the 3 pounds of burger that I need to store in the freezer…I am going to have an olive burger tomorrow and then make some sloppy joes over the weekend so a little variety to break up the chicken, chicken, chicken I have been cooking…

Well…had a nice run out to 4 stores this morning and was even back here by 9:40…got the grass seed, dirt, and flower seeds for the front of the house from menards, then zipped over to aldis to get burger for 2.19 a pound along with the normal stuff I get there, on to Meijers to get the rest of the stuff I need to make burgers, sloppy joes, and salads for this week….and then over to DD to get  5+ pounds of seasoned and breaded chicken breast patties for 9 bucks so I have something to eat when I really don’t want to cook….but now, I have everything done for the day and it’s only a little after 10 so the boredom is going to start right now….might be able to get out for one ride after the rain stops but I really hope that the rain doesn’t stop…my lawn is really drying out and turning brown and needs much more rain…at least we are supposed to get storms Friday and then some rain Sat, too, so maybe that will save it…who knows?

Well…damn, getting up at 6 with the heat running on May 18th really sucks…but, I did sleep okay last night so I guess that’s something….and it is finally raining out there and that may save my lawn without spending a hundred bucks to water it…actually feel pretty good this morning and have a little energy for a change….I did start throwing in a recon ride around the city in the evening to start to get a better picture of how to get around here…and it only took a year of living out here to do it….this is a pretty run down city but there are pockets of people trying to make a difference and that is pretty cool to see….I’ve always found that riding is the best way to really see a place since you can take your time to look around without worrying about clogging up traffic…not that there is much traffic around here to clog up….I am still marveling that I’ve done over 10K of these and I will add to that count today with the rain and taking the day off the bike that I really need….I do need to do the grocery run today and stop at Menards to get some shade grass and dirt to do some repairs on the lawn in front of the house where I killed it with salt to keep the walk to the mailbox clear….and there is one more thing I wanted to get from there but I can’t remember it right now…darn….not much to do today….with the rain, I may only be able to get one ride in and that is okay…and I’m really hoping I can’t get any rides in since my legs do need a rest…and I could use some time to clean around here….more later….

Well…just took a look at the post count and missed the big milestone of 10,000 of these that I’ve done that I hit yesterday….wow, 10,000 of anything is a lot but sitting down to do all of these and reaching this milestone is pretty cool…10,000 ideas, 10,000 times of coming here to put down my thoughts, to rant, and to write enough that the “e” has disappeared from the keys of my laptop….I really hope that I’ve added to the discussion of what is important in life…mine anyway…and I’ve made it pretty clear where I stand on politics and stupidity and the damage that can be done when they are combined by cynical assholes grasping for power over the good of this country….and I guess I’ll keep it up for a while more…maybe 10K more? Sounds like a goal to me….thanks for reading…

Well…as you can see from me doing three of these before 9am that waiting for the temp to come up has become boring and is taking way too long to happen….I mean damn, it’s getting into late May and it’s not even 50 yet? I suppose I could find other things to do like clean etc but I really like to get the rides out of the way before I get on to working…I do think that 19 days of doing 30 miles a day is starting to wear me out a bit after the flat legs I had yesterday, but that could be a function of not eating enough…yeah, I know you hear that from me almost every dam day and I should weigh 130 pounds with the calories I take in but that’s not how it works for me….but I have lost some weight so far this year so I guess I shouldn’t bitch but do something about it….I think it is going to take a mindset change to take the summer off if today is any example….I’m just no good at sitting and waiting…..but that is going to be my life from now on…and I don’t know how I feel about that….

Well…that was better…slept mostly through the night and didn’t get up til 6 and feel okay today…so three for three…and it’s only 42 out there so I won’t be on the bike until at least 9 and that will be strange…but I’m a little sore and can use the rest…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but didn’t need to so that is okay…I really did get bored yesterday afternoon so I got back on the bike around 5:30 and just fooled around riding around downtown just to see more of it and get a better idea of it’s layout…I did find out where Apple ave starts just a few blocks from here and I didn’t know that before so that adds some knowledge that I can use…not sure if the lilac cuttings are going to survive so I guess I need to look at other methods to get them to root…I used to be pretty good at getting cuttings to start and need to apply some of those techniques and I think I can get them to start…I did have the idea to start some blackberry canes along the small part of the yard along the west side of the garage to have my own little berry patch and I still may do that…we’ll see…it looks like I’m going to have the same problem with the yard that I had last year and that is that it doesn’t rain much out here and I’m already losing part of it after the past two weeks of no rain…and with the sandy soil up here, what rain that does come just drains into the ground too deep for the lawn to use….but I am not going to spend a hundred bucks a month of water to keep it alive….not much to do today…..just the rides and some fooling around with the garden…and maybe a little cleaning….and I may continue taking the dropped ceiling out of the second bedroom just to do something to prevent getting bored….we’ll see…more later….

Well…some damn animal is cutting down my sunflowers after they get up to about 3-4 inches and now I am on a mission to find out what is doing it and kill it…until that time, I’m going to have to buy some clear cups and invert them over the flowers until they get big enough that they can’t be cut down…and it’s the only flowers they are paying any attention to with lots of others up out there…so I won’t be putting the ones that have sprouted downstairs in the back until I get the cups and can protect them…and I may just plant the rest of the pack out back, too and that may allow me to have 3 or 4 that survive…have felt pretty crappy all day today and my legs were so flat on the bike that it was hard to get up any sprint speed and I’m not sure what that is about….I know that I did get up at 5:30 and didn’t sleep for crap so that may be why I took a short nap this afternoon….but that didn’t help much and I’m still pretty worn out…oh, well…probably just old…

Well…that sucked….missed the eclipse last night since it was cloudy out here all night..and we didn’t get any rain from it so it double sucked…and it’s only 47 degrees out there right now so I won’t be out on the bike until the temp comes up some…and I’ve been up since 5:30 and I’m already bored….so this could be a trying day with already feeling pretty depressed….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but get the seeds in the garden and water the lawn…with the two bike rides, of course, and today looks about the same…but I do need to hit Menards to get food for the garden and a new set of funnels to use in the garage…not sure where my old ones went and it’s a pain maintaining the car without a set….not sure if the lilac cuttings are going to survive until they root so I may have to figure out another way of getting some plants for the back yard….I wonder what temp reading I should use? The one from the weather channel says 47 degrees and my computer says 52 and it does make a big difference in how I dress to get out on the bike…not going to wear full thermasuit since it is frickin May and I should be able to get out in shorts….not much to do today….should clean a bit in here and get the rides in but that’s all I have planned….and the bean plants are getting big enough to feed so the Menards run….but I don’t really want to do anything right now…just feel depressed….more later….