Well…damn, my right eye is still hurting every time I blink so I will have to call my doctor tomorrow and that means another day of pain like I can’t remember…and let’s stack the time change on top of that so this is going to be a miserable day….I did sleep okay so that may help a bit but it’s already 7:28 and I need to get on the bike a half hour ago…oh, well…it’s already warmer than when I went out on the bike yesterday so there will be two outdoor rides today…and that will have to happen before 12:30 when Man U plays so I’ll have to be on the indoor bike for one by 8am and then straight on the outdoor bike for two…and that will give me the first 30+ mile day of the year…I do need to bake some chicken today to go with the leftover cabbage but that will be it since I still have stir fry for the second meal and I really do need to remember that doing 30 miles is enough to pay for two meals and I need to have the fuel to keep it up…I am contemplating doing another 30 day free trial of prime so I can buy some more coffee beans since they are not included in the free shipping at 35 bucks but no Colombian beans are affordable…I wonder if the regular beans are as good…who knows? Don’t have a lot to do today other than the rides and I do need to carve out some time to read later since I didn’t read much with the eye pain yesterday…more coffee and on the bike…more later…

Well…damn, I think I have a sty forming in my right eyelid since it hurts like I have a grain of sand in it…and that has been going on all day and that sucks…if it keeps up tomorrow I think I’ll call my doctor Monday and see if they can get me in…the last one I had left a permanent scar on that same eyelid and I don’t want that to happen again…I did get an outdoor ride in today and the bike shocks felt a little stiff with it being only 31 when I went out but it shifted fine so that was okay…and the trail was clear all the way out to Lake Michigan except for all the sand on it right out at the beach so I only had to walk about 50 yards to get past it…and with the two rides indoors, I got to 29 miles for the day…and tomorrow I’m shooting for one indoors and two outdoors for 33 miles…and I’ll be able to just ride outdoors all week and will be in shorts Wed-Fri when it’s going to be over 60…probably should find and wash my baseball hat that I wear in the summer…the cabbage and steak was really good for lunch but way too many calories in the steak so I’m skipping the second meal again today…although doing 30 miles should be enough to support two….just not hungry I guess…time to read…

Well…that was a little better…after not sleeping at all Thursday night, I slept all the way through last night and didn’t get of of bed til 6 this morning but I still feel worn out…it’s still too damn cold for March at 19 degrees and there is a slight warm up coming but then we’re back in the 40’s for highs and I need it to be warmer…it’s nice that when I got up “Top Hat” was on the tv and a dose of Fred and Ginger hit the spot to get me moving…well…not moving yet since I just poured the first cup of coffee and it’s not working yet…I may have to sign up for another 30 day free trial of prime since the shipping cost of a bag of coffee beans is 7 bucks and I won’t pay that…and the normal 35 buck order for free shipping doesn’t apply…I am really looking forward to having a t-bone steak for lunch with cooked cabbage, carrots, and potatoes…so I think that is going to mean only two rides today…having a tooth extracted yesterday didn’t hurt at all and I was able to eat with no pain for both lunch and dinner…so I think I’m going to indulge myself today and have two meals even though lunch is going to be huge…not much to do today…just cooking and the rides and some reading…I think there are races on later but I’m not sure…could look but don’t feel like it right now….more later…

Well…after today’s tooth extraction, I pulled the trigger on getting the rest of the work done on my teeth…so, April 1st we start with a 360 degree x-ray and then three teeth have to come out so they can fit the partial denture so I can chew again…but there has to be about 4 months of recovery between them so I’ll be eating soft foods for that time…all of the work including the making and fitting of the partial denture is covered 50% by the Medicare dental insurance so my end of it is going to be about 850 bucks and I can easily afford that…it will be a pain taking the denture out every night to clean it but I guess that’s part of getting old…so, I’m making a t-bone tomorrow while I can still chew it along with chopped, cooked cabbage with onion, carrots and potatoes with oregano and thyme in the instant pot…and that side should last me 4 or 5 days…and I’ll probably make it again next week since I really do like cooked cabbage…I may leave today as a 2 ride day but I’m not sure yet…still have time for the third ride this morning…we’ll see..

Well…up and down all night last night and I think I got about 4 hours of sleep in total…out of bed at 5:26 and need to pour down the coffee so I can get on the bike by 6 so I can get two rides in before the dentist appointment at 8:50…and that will probably be it for me today but we’ll see when I get home…don’t have to cook today but I am going to make cooked cabbage with carrots, onions, and potatoes in the instant pot and that will a side that will last me a few days…didn’t buy any corned beef since it’s 4 bucks a pound and that means the smallest one I could get would be close to 14 bucks and I’m not spending that much…the good thing about this cabbage dish is that it is really low in calories and if I left the potatoes out, half a plate would be about 50 calories…and you need to put in a whole cabbage rough chopped in it so I may stop at aldis and get another one since my dentist is right near it…and then I can make another batch next week…going to try to eat a steak tomorrow with it and I think that could be a good combo…don’t have a lot to do but read so that is what I’m going to do today…it looks like I’ll be able to ride outdoors from Sunday through Sat of next week and we’re going to be over 60 on Wed…so maybe three outdoor rides for 39 miles? We’ll se….more later…

Well…I wrote this morning that I had a dentist appointment this morning to clean my teeth but that quickly went to hell with the discovery of an abcess behind a tooth that has to come out tomorrow morning or spend a year and a few thousand bucks to try to fix it….and I’m not going to do that…but this is the last dental work I’m having done unless it’s a screaming emergency…I need the rest of my teeth to be able to chew anything…and the dentist quoted me 30K to have implants put in and that is not going to happen…so it was a pretty lousy day…and now I won’t b able to chew the t-bone steaks I bought…life sucks…

Well…up at 4:04 this morning and tried to get back to sleep with not a lot of success…so, I’m pouring coffee down and trying to get going to be on the bike before 7 so I can get two rides in before the dentist appointment at 10:30…they called yesterday afternoon that they had an opening for the cleaning they cancelled a couple of weeks ago…it did snow out here overnight but just a dusting so I won’t have any problem getting out…the wind is still blowing quite hard out here and has been since yesterday afternoon and I’m really getting tired of how loud it is…I think I have enough coffee to last most of the year with 4 cans of ground and 3 pound of beans and if it isn’t enough, I’ll have to switch over to tea since the prices are going to get higher as the year goes on….I do need to cook today and that will probably be a chicken stir fry but not until dinner since I do have leftover chicken burrito materials for lunch…the steak will wait til Sat since I have two days of the burrito stuff left…not much to do today…just the rides and getting the teeth cleaned then back here for the last ride…the afternoon belongs to me so I think I’ll read a bit…the power stayed on even with the high wind out here and that is surprising….more later…

Well…it was just a regular Wednesday today and that means it was busy with the grocery run where I had to hit 3 stores…and I did go to DD to get two t-bone steaks for about 4 bucks each since they were 3.99 a pound…going to grill on of them this weekend…it will be the first time I’ve had a steak since I moved out here and I am looking forward to it…they were vacuum packed and frozen and look nicely marbled…okay this is weird…when I looked at the coffee beans on Amazon yesterday, the two pound bags were 28 bucks…but I just checked and now they are 14.51…only 52 cents more than last week…I need some allergy meds so I think I’ll order a couple more bags…or one more since I already have three pounds here and the allergy meds are over 25 bucks so that will get me over the 35 buck free shipping limit…okay, I probably do that right now…nope, I was wrong…the 14.51 is for a one pound bag of Colombian so yes, it has gone up to 28 bucks for two pounds…oh, well…

Well…up a little early today at 5:40…no, that’s out of bed at 5:40…I was actually up a little after 4 so this is going to be a day of conserving energy since I have a lot to do…it stayed over 40 last night so we may lose the last of the snow today but it’s going get colder until Sunday so I’ll be riding indoors until then…I was thinking about going outdoors today but we are under a gale warning and I can hear the wind blowing like crazy out there…going to hit DD today for t-bone steaks for 3.99 a pound…haven’t eaten any beef for almost a year and a grilled steak would be good…but we’ll see…they also have flat iron steaks for 1.99 a pound and that could make some stir fry beef that I haven’t had since I moved out here…and I’m going to see if they have cheap coffee since the price is going nuts…and I think that’s just the first of it…going to get on the bike early this morning to get a ride in before the grocery run but I need more coffee first…there is going to be a time coming that I can’t afford coffee and that is going to suck…more later…

Well…it has been an easier day today with just the rides, laundry, and some more cleaning up downstairs…I still do need to do the weight work and get the grocery list done for the run tomorrow…I did finish up the 4th book today and it was the Harlan Coben that was his first novel written in his early 20’s and that he put a foreward in that said “put this book back if it’s the first one of mine you’ve chosen”…but I don’t see it like that at all and I’ve read a dozen or more of his now…you can tell it one of his…very complex with lots of great characters and lots of surprises…so back to the library after the grocery run tomorrow…I know St. Patrick’s day is still two weeks away but aldis has corned beef tips for 2.99 a pound this week and I like to have some once a year…have the potatoes and carrots I need and it only takes a few minutes in the instant pot along with the cabbage…never liked cooked cabbage when I was younger but I do now…okay, need to do the weight work…