Well…have been pretty depressed all day with the dental work starting tomorrow and not being able to chew for months as they pull three more teeth and the we have to let the swelling go completely down before they can fit me with the partial dentures…another 861 bucks out of my pocket but I think we’re getting to the end of it…I hope…these endless appointments with my doctor and dentist are starting to get really old…and I just want them to end…not sure if they are going to pull all three teeth tomorrow but I hope they do so we can just get it over with…so I’m not going to feel like doing much the rest of the week…but I am going to have cocktails tomorrow to help me deal with it…didn’t get much done today other than the two rides and reading and no cocktails tonight since I want to feel okay with all of the work tomorrow…just want to get it over with…

Well…man, I’m beat today and it’s only 30 degrees out there and snowing and that is damn depressing…and it’s the last day of being able to chew for me and that is depressing, too…oh, well…won’t be getting 30 miles in today since it’s not getting much over 40 and I’m just too tired of the cold…slept okay last night and it is strange that I have been waking up on my back when I haven’t been able to sleep on it for 50 years…we had nice storms come through here yesterday and it greened up my lawn a lot but the tasks of taking care of it is not appealing this year…and I don’t think I’m doing a garden this year after the fiasco last year of not getting one tomato…or anything else and that has never happened before…I mean how the hell do you have 30 tomato plants and not get a tomato that is edible? Damn, it’s after 7 and I can’t get moving so I won’t be on the bike before 7:30 and I feel like a slug…today is harder than most to get moving but I know I need to…it’s only going to be a two ride day indoors and I may just read and eat my last hard foods and start to plan soft stuff…I just hate that my body is giving up on me and I wonder what is going to be next? More later….

Well…as I was sitting here reading some news this afternoon, I noticed that the little weather widget at the bottom of the screen said 60 degrees and cloudy after all the rain all morning…so I suited up and went out for and outdoor ride and ran right into a fog front that was sliding across Muskegon Lake and it was really foggy all the way from there out to Lake Michigan…I could barely see in the tunnel of trees and I couldn’t see Lake Michigan from my water stop…and the problem was that I was dressed right for 59 degrees but the temp dropped about 10 degrees in the fog and I wasn’t dressed for that…oh, well…I survived it and it was a nice ride to get me to almost 30 for the day…no Stupid today but he’s not out there every day…finished up the 2nd book today and I’m going to start the 3rd one right now…

Well…finally, back to the normal routine and I really did miss it…getting my first cup of coffee and coming here to do one of these has been my thing since 2010 and it has been comforting for 15 years…I did sleep okay last night and that has been the story for a couple of months now so I’ll take it…it looks like no outdoor rides today with the rain coming in and the fact that it is cold out there at only 45 degrees and I really don’t want to be cold…so it will be one indoor ride to start and then see if the weather cooperates to let me get an outdoor one in…but that means I need to get on the bike in 17 minutes and I’m not ready for that yet…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and probably won’t today but I’m not sure about that yet…don’t have to cook with lots of bacon for blt’s and the last bowl of Masala but I have no clue what I’ll make tomorrow…don’t have much in the freezer but I do have pasta and garlic bread and I can take some soup out of the freezer since I won’t be able to chew after Tuesday…oh, well…down to 13 minutes before the bike and I need more coffee….more later…

Well…up early again this morning but I had to be with needing to get three in before 11 so I could see some races…and I did get three rides in but but I got WET on the third one when it wasn’t supposed to rain out here until the afternoon…luckily I had my rain gear on so I stayed dry from my head to my waist but was soaked from waist down and I’m not sure if my shoes will be dry before tomorrow…it is supposed to rain heavily tomorrow so I may just do indoor rides and call it good sine I’ve had three days in a row over 30 miles…Stupid the turkey was alongside the trail today and when I rode by him he started following me up the hill at full run and a guy on the street rolled down his window and said “hey, do you know you have a turkey following you?” and I said “yep, that’s Stupid” and laughed my butt off…when I was coming back I noticed Stupid was standing in  a driveway across the street watching a guy unload his car from about 5 feet away…and was acting like it was the most interesting thing he had ever seen…strange, strange bird but very entertaining…okay, have a political one to do and wand to try to remember what the topic was….more later

Well…my site is finally working again but only on my laptop…some error on my phone and tablet but I told my son so I think he can fix it…I hope…man, I am so used to doing three of these a day that it left a big hole in my life…okay, phone and tablet are now working so I’m back to as normal as I can be…after doing 13,000 of these, it does become a big part of my life and there were news items that I was itching to write about so I have an hour to try to get caught up…more later…

Well…today was grocery run day and I got some deals at DD…I mean hard salami at 2.00 a pound? Or thin sliced chicken breast for 2.00 a pound, too? I even got an outdoor ride in this afternoon and that felt good and I’ll be sore from that and going up on the weights from 5 to 8 pounds on the low side and I can already feel it just sitting here…I did finish up the last book today so I can go to the library tomorrow and get 4 more…Muskegon Lake has started dropping again after recovering a foot last week and I wonder how low it can go? I’ll bet if it gets much lower they will have to dredge or the gravel freighters won’t be able to get in to the docks…so I did a 29 mile day today with two indoor and one outdoor ride..and it looks like I’ll be able to get outdoors again tomorrow for two rides then it’s going to rain for three days…so I’ll miss the almost 60 degree weather and it will plunge back into the 40′s until the second week of April…oh, well…

Well…I’m really not looking forward to a busy day today with a three store grocery run after getting a ride in downstairs…and I need to get going before 7am but that seems to be too much work right now…slept okay last night but it was another 4am wake up and then just broken from that point until I dragged my butt out of bed by around 6…I may try to get an outdoor ride in today since it’s going to be in the mid 40′s but I’ll probably just ride indoors and call it good…it looks like I’ll be able to hit the library tomorrow with only a half of a book to read today and no cooking to do so I’ll have time…I do have to grill tomorrow to eat all the protein I have thawed and I think I’m going to buy some chicken at 2.29 a pound but I’m not sure why…won’t be able to chew anything after Tuesday and that includes chicken…oh, well…damn, it’s only 25 degrees out here and it’s almost April and that sucks…another year of no spring and that’s pretty wearing…I should be in shorts by now and that’s not going to happen soon….not much to do today…just need to keep putting one foot in front of the other and get started…should have all the rides in by noon and then can take it easy again….more later…

Well…hit the 2,001 mile mark today so I gave myself a rest day and only did two rides…and that is my only goal for the year other than riding every day…have never gotten to 2,000 miles in March before…I think I had half that last year and still made it over 10,000 miles but I’m not shooting for that…yet…I’ll have to see where I’m sitting around July 1st before I commit to any new goal…so, I finished up book three this afternoon and started the last one that I need to have done before Friday so I can get 4 more and keep reading…might be able to get outside for a ride tomorrow through Sat but lots of rain in the forecast so I guess I’ll see…I really am tired of all of the maintenance I have to do on this old body…I know I’ve bitched about that before but damn, teeth, eyes, cracked skin on my thumbs,  toenails, and a plantar wart all need attention twice a day…and that goes with three hours on the bike and a half hour with the weights…it never got out of the 30′s for the past 5 days and I am really tired of the cold…and there is just one day of warm up in the next 10 days so it won’t be until April until spring is here…okay….going to read now and then do my teeth, eyes, and toenails…

Well…getting up today was a long process that started at 4:04 then 5:20 and out of bed at a little after 6 and that is not why I’m feeling really worn out…only had about 500 calories to eat yesterday and that is why I feel like I’m moving in wet cement…it’s still cold out here and I’ve given up on it ever feeling like spring…I mean there is still snow on the ground and it’s the end of March…and it is supposed to snow more this morning and we’re under a gale watch…again… so the house will be shaking again and I won’t be outdoors on the bike for the rest of the week…and that sucks…I think I’m going to only do two rides today so I can make the Masala I need to have two meals today…will be grilling tomorrow to use up the steaks and chops but I still need to figure out what to have with them…maybe some air fryer potatoes? It looks like another wasted day today with not getting anything done..or not planning to get anything done…just need to put the grocery list together and read after I cook…will have the Masala for lunch and the finish off the stir fry for dinner and try to get the calories up over 1,000…that’s harder than it looks…for me anyway….more later…