Well….running pretty late today with not getting out of bed until after 7 and I wonder why that would be? I think I slept okay but feel pretty slow right now…I wonder if it could be from the vaccine? My arm almost doesn’t hurt and the slight fever seems to be gone, too, so I guess it’s about over….man, got 4 more inches of snow last night but I’m going to wait a while to get out and shovel…can’t remember being so sore from shoveling, shoveling, shoveling….at least it’s almost over with getting toward March and next week is going to be in the upper 30’s to around 40 on moving day….so, I think we’ve survived another Michigan winter….not going anywhere today and all I’m going to do is pack…have two totes done already and have 6 more here to pack today…should have the kitchen and all of my car stuff done today and then I need to start getting my tools packed but it’s too damn cold to work out in the garage so I’m going to let that wait til later…not much to do today…just packing and cooking and getting the move organized in my head…after much more coffee that is….more later….

Well…no, I’m not having remorse about getting the vaccine…I believe in the science behind them and would do it again in a minute…my remorse is the fact that there may have been someone else that needed it more than me and now can’t get it because it’s in my arm. When I was at the clinic yesterday, I really didn’t fit in since most of the people there were leaning on canes or in wheel chairs and the ones who weren’t didn’t move too well….and here I go striding through the place with my normal fast walk like I’m twenty years younger than anyone there…and that is still bugging me a bit…I probably could have waited til later but I guess I’m still part of the process of getting to herd immunity that everyone who gets the vaccine is part of…I try to not be selfish but I guess this is one time that it is warranted and I really don’t want to die from this damn virus or even get sick since it would cost me 5K in what medicare doesn’t cover….so, I guess I’ll just live with the idea that I may not have deserved to get the vaccine yet…but, there’s nothing I can do about that now….but that won’t stop me from thinking about it…

Well…man, I’m sore just about everywhere and I wonder if it’s the vaccine or that I didn’t take any ibuprofen before bed last night? Or any allergy meds and my nose is running like crazy and my head hurts from the congestion…other than that, I feel okay…ha,ha….I did sleep okay last night but had weird dreams about an apartment I never lived in and people I never knew…but it was a dream and I’ll take any of those I can get…I did get started on the kitchen yesterday and I need to get out to Menard’s today to get some totes to pack all my dishes and the rest of my stuff in…I can get 18 gallon ones for only 4 bucks and that is only a buck more than u-hual wanted for boxes so I think that’s a good deal…I wonder if the 8 I need will fit in the car? I guess we’ll see when I go out to get them….didn’t get much else done but the vaccine yesterday but I do need to get started packing more today…and I need to dig the trash bin out so I can put it out Friday if I fill it by then….but, with how sore my shoulder is from the shot, I may wait to do that until tomorrow….more later….

Well…got my second vaccine dose today and that is a major relief and takes a load off my head…but, the side effects seem to be a little worse this time with soreness in my arm and a general feeling of being off and not feeling right…it hasn’t gotten worse over the last hour or so and I think this is perfectly tolerable for the results that have been reported for the Pfizer vaccine that I got…in a new study out of Israel where they compared the vaccinated population to their remaining unvaccinated people that had 600,000 people in it, they showed that a week after the second dose the vaccine was 95% effective and that grew to almost 97% after two weeks…and many in the vaccinated group who did contract the virus didn’t even know it the symptoms were so mild. So, there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel….I just hope that the Moderna and J&J vaccine is as good and people get vaccinated as soon as they can….I still worry about my kids and my friends who are not eligible yet…sure hope they get it figured out soon…

Well…you’ve all read about my real estate saga that played out over the past 7 months or so, but new statistics emphasize just how lucky I was to find and buy a house in this market. Just yesterday as I was doing my normal reading, I was astonished to see that the stock of available housing for sale is down almost 50% from last spring…and that is one factor in how screwed up the market is….when I was talking to my brother the realtor the other day, his new reality is the asking price has nothing to do with how much a house will sell for….in my case, I immediately bid 10K over the asking since I knew it was the best house I had seen and had everything I wanted and I didn’t want to lose it….in the cases my brother talked about, he is selling houses for 30 to 40K over asking and has 20 or more bids in on all of them….and the days of it taking months to sell you house is long gone unless it is a dump like all of the houses I looked at before I found mine. I guess what I have to say is that, as time goes on, I feel more and more lucky to almost have the whole thing behind me and to have a place to live that I’ll be in two weeks from yesterday…phew…

Well…running a little late today with not getting out of bed until after 6 and then reading the paper….as I always do on Sunday…I wonder if I can keep that habit up after I move? Haven’t checked if I can get the press delivered out in Muskegon, or any paper for that matter…when I was young it was easy…every city had at least one newspaper and even two or three….but for some reason, the local news is not important anymore or it has gone online and that is just not the same….slept okay last night but wasn’t good so I’m feeling it today and will just ease into the day today…don’t have much to do but go out and get my second vaccine shot at 4:15 and continue to pack…I am going out to get some totes to use instead of boxes since I do need storage at the new house…and I can get 18 gallon ones for 5 bucks each but I wonder if I can fit them in the car? Going to get 6 of them tomorrow and then see if I need more….I did make progress on the kitchen yesterday but I’m not sure how much I’ll do today….Man U plays at 9 and I want to see that and I need more coffee and to read the news…I am going to have to widen out the driveway here to get the truck into it but I’m not motivated to do that right now…still have a couple of weeks until the move so I have plenty of time….more later….

Well…that was a little better…didn’t wake until 5:41 and stayed in bed til after 6 but I was not good last night and I wonder why…just feel lousy this morning and don’t like that at all…and I have a new crack on my right heel that hurts like crazy and I hope I can heal it up before the move in two weeks…I did decide to get out Monday to buy some plastic totes to help with packing for the move since I don’t have any boxes here and I will need some storage since the new house doesn’t have a lot….should be able to pack the entire kitchen in two of them and then use lots of garbage bags for the rest of the house…just like I did in the last move….I am a little excited that I get the second vaccine dose tomorrow and will be almost immune by moving day…and the vaccine protects you from dying from the virus even if you do catch it so that takes a load off…I did get out to shovel the driveway and walks yesterday and got some packing done and it looks like snow again today so I’ll be out there again…and it’s going to be the coldest night of the year tonight with it getting down to -1 but I’m sure the car will start with it being garaged….not much to do today…just packing and cleaning and watching some soccer….more later….

Well…damn, the string is broken and no more precessing….didn’t wake up at 2:14 like I was heading to…I did wake up at 2:20, though…and yeah, that was snark…then got back to sleep til 5:30 and stayed in bed til 6:30 so it wasn’t too bad…and I was good last night and that may be turning into a habit…would like to go a week or so just to see how I’ll feel and that just may be possible…feel pretty good this morning and just looked outside and there is no snow so that is a relief….it’s going to be damn cold the next few days but not a lot of snow in the forecast so that’s a good thing, and we are moving toward March which is supposed to be warmer than normal so maybe we’ll survive another Michigan winter…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but packing and will continue that today have almost all of the downstairs done and now I need to start packing up my tools that I have from working on this house and get them ready to work on the next house….I do feel like I have one more house in me and I am looking forward to transforming the next one into something cool that will be uniquely mine….and working on my own yard….have been thinking about planting some apple trees in the top part of the yard but I know I won’t live long enough to see the apples, but that will be okay…the next people to live in it after I’m gone will have a treat….not much to do today….just going to try to finish up the packing in here and start on the kitchen…have way too many dishes that I don’t have any place for at the new house but that will help me slim down to keep only what is necessary….more later….

Well…this is a little weird…my wake up times have been precessing for the past three days…two days ago I woke up at 5:14, yesterday, I woke up at 4:14, and today I woke up at 3:14…I damn well better not get up at 2:14 tomorrow morning…what’s next? Not sleeping at all? I was good last night and survived a boring night but have been so damn cold the past couple of days that I ended up shivering in bed last night…and pretty violently, too, but I was able to shake that…ha, ha…shake that….by just breathing into the covers for a few minutes but I am still cold again this morning and I m getting damn tired of how cold it’s been…haven’t been able to get on the bike in over a week and I feel damn sluggish from it…didn’t get much done yesterday but talk to the mortgage folks and I have been pushing them to get the closing scheduled earlier than the 23rd which will only give me a couple of days to prep for the move on the 27th….so I may have to move clothes and stuff afterward since I’ll have two weeks until my son gets here….I am going to get my second covid vaccination on Sunday and I am looking forward to it to finally put an end to worrying about getting sick, but that will take a couple of weeks after the shot which will be before the move so that timing is cool….not much to do today…just packing and more packing and a little soccer….more later..