Well…cripes, I’m running late this morning and there is no reason for it other than I just forgot to do this one…and, the MotoGP races have been on so that has been distracting me, too…and, I stayed in bed until almost 6:30 today…not sleeping but trying to sleep but I think that may have helped just letting the frustration go and trying to stop my brain for just a little while…so, I don’t feel too bad this morning other than my damn thumb still being sore…I think I have a decision to make about that….a doctor’s visit only costs me 5 bucks so I guess I should just go in and have them look at it and see if there is something that can be done…the pain has really extended into my forearm, elbow, and shoulder so it may be just the moving tendonitus that I have been suffering for years now…who knows? I did get a start on clearing out the spare bedroom yesterday so I can get working on it and will try to complete that today so the prep work can start…and I do need to get a bike ride in after it warms up to get to my goal but that will wait until later…right now I need to finish my coffee and veg for a bit….more later….

Well…that was some night…felt worse than I have in a long time with my molar giving me fits of pain and my stomach went to hell for the first time in a long, long time and that continues this morning…and I feel hot and crappy so I think it may be a bug but it can’t be the flu since I had a shot…at least I hope it isn’t….we’ll see as the day goes on…I did sleep all the way in to almost 6 this morning and feeling so crappy might have something to do with it…I did go back to my regular coffee this morning since the extra caffeine stuff is just too much….I guess it would be okay for someone who is used to energy drinks but I’ve never had one of those so my tolerance level is much lower….I just want my coffee to wake me up, not get me so wired it is overwhelming….I’m down to only 7 1/2 miles to go to get to my record but it looks like that is not going to happen today with the temp in the low 20’s and only getting to 34 or so today…and that will leave the trails icy all day and I am not going to risk crashing and hurting myself again…so it will wait til tomorrow when it’s supposed to be almost 40…not much to today…I do need to get some work done to prep the spare bedroom for paint and clean some if I feel well enough…but, right now I need more coffee and to catch up on the news…more later….

Well….it has been an interesting day today with lots of things happening…some good…and others that all I could do was laugh at…this morning, I ran a couple of errands that I really needed to do to get some things that I wanted instead of needed, starting with a cable that lets me hook my mp3 player up to the my receiver and it sounds better than I expected it to even without working on the equalizer in the player to match it up better with the receiver…that’s a job for another day…it is so damn cool to now have all 1700 songs on the player available to listen to in the living room without having to use my ear buds…and that along with the vinyl…some of which was never available on cd’s makes my library complete to me…oh, and I went to Kohl’s to get a pair of lounging pants to add to the two that I have since it is damn cold in here and I need to dress warmer…and at only 10 bucks they were a deal. After that, I decided to get out on the bike to start riding the 20 miles I had left to do to break my record, but about a mile and a half out, I had a flat from a staple that punctured the sidewall of the tire that is not protected by the tube protectors that I have in the tires…so, after a mile and a half walk back here, I luckily had a new tube that I bought a couple of months back so I changed out the old one and got ready to put it back on the bike…but, as I was doing that, I noticed that the cords were showing through the tread so I again, luckily, had a new tire in the box so I took the whole thing back apart and put the new tire on with the new tube…finally, and got out for a bike ride that wasn’t bad but still a little icy and now I’m down to 7 1/2 miles to go to break the record…and my new piece of equipment came this afternoon and I had to install that before I could take a break…but, it’s veg time now and I’m taking the rest of the day off…

Well…cripes…didn’t get up til 6:04 this morning…for the second time, that is but it’s an improvement and I’ll take it…but, I’m sore again today and there is no reason for it…all I did was fool around yesterday and do a little prep work on the vestibule getting it ready to paint so for my back to hurt is weird…I did carry the speakers upstairs but if that is enough to make me hurt then I am getting damn old and that is no fun….I really hope we get some warmer weather so I can get out on the bike and take a look at the trails…I only have 23 miles left to do to get to the record and it would be a shame if I have to do it indoors…and I can sure use the exercise…just feel sluggish when I can’t ride…this is the second day of the supercharged coffee and I think it will be saved for times when I need a good wake up…it may be a little too much for daily use, especially after I get some sleep the night before…it was only 1.49 so no big investment….not much to do today…I do have a couple of errands to run…need to go out to office depot to get a cheap audio cable so I can plug my mp-3 player into my fixed receiver and then to kohl’s to see if I can get some more long lounge pants to try to stay warm….I have a sinking feeling that it is going to cost 400 bucks a month to heat this place so I need to budget for that…and that will really cut into the money I was going to save by moving in here….oh, well…more later…

Well….as you know from this morning, I got my old antique receiver working and have been playing vinyl all day but it didn’t sound as I remembered it…I guess it’s getting old or my ears are…I guess both…but, I remembered that I saw another pair of speakers sitting in the basement and thought what the hell, I’d hook them up and give them a try….and they worked! So now I have the living room filled with sound and they made all the difference! Now this is how I remember my stereo sounding and it is pretty cool listening to some Joe pretty damn loud…I’ll bet my neighbors are freaking out a little…good….

Well….I guess this new coffee does work…after a couple of cups I looked down at my forlorn JVC receiver that I’ve had since 1974 and just had to take it apart to see if I could fix it…since I moved in here it didn’t work and not having music was starting to get to me to the point that I was looking for new receivers to buy online this morning…but, I just couldn’t pull the trigger without taking a closer look at the JVC…and I found it was just one of the 5 fuses in it had blown…so, I replaced it and now I’m sitting here driving the neighbors nuts at 7:15 blasting Aja by SD on vinyl and it is just so damn cool to have something work out…so now, there is a Yamaha one sitting downstairs with the same problem…no power output so I am going to take that apart this afternoon to see if that one is a fuse, too…that would be cool since it is a 5.1 surround sound with 500 watts of power…I just laughed out loud that I could fix this old thing…going to have a smile on my face all day….and it is so cool to have a house to play it in so I can play it LOUD….

Well….have been up for an hour already and it’s 5:54 but I did sleep through the night so that’s okay….and I just feel a little worn out but I think that will pass as I have my coffee…tried a new style that I got a DD yesterday that has 50% more caffeine in it just for the heck of it and I am wondering how that will work…and, it was only 1.49 for a can of it that normally costs me 3 bucks at Meijers so I may just keep this in reserve for days when I need a boost in the morning…but, we’ll see…ha, ha…on days when I need a boost in the morning…that’s only on days that end in y….it tastes okay if a little bland but that’s not much different than the coffee I make every day so I can live with it…it’s a little strange that my car is running a lot better just by putting the new battery switch in so I wonder if it was limiting the voltage that the car had to use…all I know is that it starts great in the morning now and idles better but I am still going to get a new set of plug wires after I get my deposit next wed since the old ones are held together with blue silicone….I am going to try the car wash that is just around the corner this morning before I run a couple of errands since I need to get the salt off the car and can’t do it here in the driveway when it’s this cold…then I need to go out to depot in the south end since the one out here doesn’t have the patching plaster that I like and I need to get the last gallon of paint so I can get started on the second bedroom next week….and start work on the last of the pink in the kitchen….need to get off my butt and get this place finished….more later….

Well…it has been a day today that started out weird with the garage door not opening again this morning but I figured out it is the cold, making the door stiff and tripping the safety…and the strange thing is this opener doesn’t have an adjustment for the safety like my old one did…you could just turn a screw and it would work even if the door was stiff…so I lubed everything and it appears that it worked the one time I tried it but I don’t think it’s along term fix…I may have to take the cover off and see if there is an adjustment in there…but it is too damn cold today so I’m going to wait until it warms up later in the week and then take a look at it…but, if you want really weird, I was cleaning my shower today and decided to do my shower curtain with some shower cleaner that I have used many times before….but today, the stuff started to melt the bamboo patterns that were painted on so now most of the pattern is gone after using the curtain and cleaning it for more than 10 years…just too damn strange for me…I am curious as to why it would happen now…so, next time, no patterns unless they are embossed in…

Well…I had really hoped that getting up at 5 was not going to be a habit but just a passing thing, but that doesn’t seem to be the case with the months that have gone by….oh, well…even with only getting 5 hours of sleep, I feel okay so I think I’m one of those people who are genetically disposed to not needing as much sleep as normal people….I did get some work done around here yesterday and now I have an almost normally opening front door but the lockset needs to be replaced since the inside knob is loose and I don’t think it can be fixed….but, I really can’t spend the money on that right now…I’m in no spend mode for the next month or so…need to build up my cash supplies for a while….the garage door jammed yesterday for some reason and I had to crawl under it to get a look at why…but, I didn’t see any problem and it is working again so that will be a project for  a warmer day….no much to do today…have grocery and depot runs planned for this morning and then I want to get back here for the impeachment hearings that start today….but I can’t start on those until 9 or so with DD not opening until then….need more coffee and to read the news until then…..more later….

Well….I’m getting really, really tired of my damn thumb getting hurt every time I use it to do some work around here…just finished up moving the storm door latch on the front door and changing the screen with the storm glass, to try to keep more of the cold outside and when I was fitting the glass, I did what everyone does with these things, I just whacked the glass to make it go in with the heel of my thumb and immediately knew I was an idiot for doing it….that’s the problem with not resting my hands completely…how I use them is such a habit I don’t think about it and I keep re-injuring them…and now my thumb is throbbing and I’ll have to take some ibuprofen for it again…damn…