Well….it’s official, I’ve got a damn cold and feel pretty crappy…it started to get bad yesterday with a sore throat and lots of coughing and that explains why I have been so exhausted lately, too…and just getting out of bed and sitting here on the couch I’m sweating through my clothes…I sure hope it’s not the flu and I would be pretty irritated if it is since I got a flu shot this year for the first time in a long time…so, it looks like a do nothing day today…okay, not do nothing…I am going to try to work out and get at least one ride in but I feel pretty miserable right now so we’ll see…I did sleep okay last night…for me, and didn’t hurt my shoulder much so that is a good thing but I think there will be a nap in my future to take care of the cold…I just want to lay down with a blanket right now but I have a few things to do…I need to read the news and I should vacuum my bedroom today since the plastic coating on the cables of the weight machine is shedding all over the place and it is annoying to look at…but, I don’t think I’ll get much more done feeling as I do….more later…

Well…running a little late for me today…didn’t get out of bed until after 6 and you would think that would mean that I slept okay…not really, tossed an turned all night and feel really slow right now so I hope the coffee will start to work soon…I did get out of here for a while last night to have a couple with G and it was not terrible…and I didn’t get back here until almost 9:30 and that is a late night for me…that may be part of why I feel so slow today…but, it was nice to get out for a while and be around some people again…I am waiting for the big snowstorm that was predicted for last night but it hasn’t happened yet…it does look like there is some ice out there that will have to be melted off the car but not much snow…of course, I’m not bitching about the lack of snow…I could do without any more snow this winter….I did get out to run some errands yesterday but I am going to lay low today and just do the normal routine….going to try to clean a little before Man U plays at 3 but I’m not going to worry much about that…more later….

Well…not sure if I should celebrate not getting out of bed until 6 today or not…I did sleep okay last night and my shoulder doesn’t hurt much so that is celebration worthy and I’ll take it…didn’t have any dreams that I can remember but that’s pretty normal for me…I did try to eat enough yesterday but, as you know, that is pretty hard for me…going to try again today…you would think it would be pretty easy to do but it isn’t for me…I guess it’s ingrained habit from years of trying to control my weight…and not too successfully…didn’t get a lot done yesterday with all of the sports on and today will probably be the same…I do need to get out and get my hair cut this morning and put gas in the car for the mess that is coming tomorrow…another round of show/rain/sleet/freezing rain and the rest of the crap that I am getting really tired of…but, I guess it’s February in Michigan so I need to just roll with it and hibernate for another couple of days…I think I may try to do a bike ride that mirrors the normal ride on the trail…I’ve done it so many time that I can remember what gears and how many shifts it takes…I do wonder how to simulate the coasting downhill since the trainer just stops when I stop pedaling…maybe use my imagination? More later….

Well….have been trying to think of a topic to do in politics today and have just decided to give up for now and just noodle around a bit…I did watch “Bohemian Rhapsody” last night and it was an okay movie but, since I’ve seen a few documentaries on Freddie Mercury before, their were no surprises in it and I think the portrayal by Rami Malek was kind of like sleepwalking through the film….I think the only reason I watched the whole thing was that I decided to have cocktails last night after taking the whole week off…I’m still fighting the frozen locks on the car and I can’t figure that out since it has been above freezing since the big rain and freeze last week…I could barely get them open to go out to have a couple with K yesterday, and going out to get the paper this morning, even with flooding them with WD-40…well…kinda flooding them…I found that my normal WD can still has material in the bottom but it was out of propellant when I went out this morning so I had to use the water resistant can that still worked…need to get more this week with the new ice storm that is coming Tuesday…this weather is wearing me down and I need it to be over…I think today is the first day we haven’t had a watch or warning out in a couple of weeks but that ends tomorrow night and then it gets COLD again later in the week….I can live with it if I can get in the car….

Well…running a little late today and just can’t get started…wasn’t good last night and feel pretty crappy this morning…don’t want to do that anymore so I think I’ll go back to no cocktails tonight and keep that up for the week…slept okay last night but my shoulder was hurting again and I can’t figure that out….it happened after I went out to have a couple with K and the pain was back to after I just hurt it….so I did have to take something for it…it’s not too bad this morning so maybe that is all it takes…it was nice to get out of here for a while and get caught up with K and I think I need to do that more…just need to find things to do…I think I may take today off the bike…just can’t get motivated to do much right now and I am looking forward to just vegging out here today and watching some soccer and races….but right now, I need more coffee and to read some news…man, I can’t believe how slow I feel this morning…should just go back to bed….more later….

Well…okay…maybe there is a good thing to being good and having no cocktails…for the first time in a long time, I had dreams all night long…three different threads that ranged from storms, to murder, to two Audi TT’s racing and crashing into the Grand River…and yep, they were just as weird as they sound…probably the best sleep I’ve had in quite a while and didn’t get up until 6 or so even after going to bed early from boredom last night….I wonder if that sleep will help with the exhaustion I’ve been feeling lately? I think I need to re-adjust my calorie intake without the calories from the cocktails…I know they are empty calories but they are still calories and without them I’m down to around 1,200 a day and that is not enough with riding the bike twice a day and getting back on the weight machine….so I need to figure out how to add calories that are not red meat…I did buy lots of fruit and veggies this week so maybe I can make up the difference with those…I hurt pretty much everywhere this morning but my shoulder is not too bad…the pain from sleeping on it went away as soon as I got off it so that is progress that I welcome….not much to do today…I may get out to have a couple with K either today or tomorrow but that is about it…still didn’t clean much but I will cook today with doing some chicken in the Instant Pot…I do have 10 lbs of chicken that I need to cook or freeze in the next couple of days so that will be in the plan for the day…more later…

Well…about on time this morning with getting up at 5:44 and was only up one other time all night so that makes it a good night…slept okay and there were some dreams that had my old Fiat in them and lots of blankets for some reason…so that was cool…haven’t had them in quite a while and I wonder if it’s the no cocktails finally changing my sleep patterns? All I know is I’m going to continue being good until next Thursday when racing starts and we’ll see if maybe I’ll even go past that if the improvement in how I feel continues…I am going to hurt my shoulder again this morning by getting back on the weight machine but the pain wasn’t so bad last time so I may be improving enough so it won’t hurt too much…I did get two rides in on the bike yesterday and even extended each to 25 minutes and I think that will be the goal for today, too….I do need to thaw the car out today so I can go out and get my powerball tickets but the wind is howling out there and it will take time to get the doors open after the rain yesterday and the freeze overnight…didn’t get much done but cook yesterday but I will get some stuff done around here today…not sure what but something…more later….

Well…running a little late today with doing the grocery run before the big rain and freeze comes in…it started to rain pretty hard on the way back from Meijers and that didn’t help the skating rink that is the parking lot here…glad I’ve got everything done and can just veg out here today…slept okay last night but was up at 4:44 to start but was able to get back to sleep until almost 6 so that was a bonus…and, with being good, I feel okay today so it looks like the skipping cocktails is going to turn into a thing that I am going to want to continue for a couple of weeks at least….and it saves me a bunch of money so that is cool…I did work out yesterday and it appears that the damage that I do to my shoulder is getting less every time…and I think the skipping days helps with the healing…so I’ll keep that up for a while and see where it goes…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but errands but I think I’ll try to clean some today…the kitchen counters need some work and I still need to vacuum so that will be the plan for this aft….more later….

Well…as you know, I braved the ice this morning to go out and get some groceries at Aldi’s…okay, I didn’t brave the ice…the only place there was ice left by the time I went out at 10 was in the parking lot here…the roads were just wet with a few slick spots so no big deal…oh, I did find out that I pulled the overflow hose off the radiator tank sometime when I was screwing around with the car…or it just came off with the hose being pretty old and stretched out so it didn’t fit too tightly anymore…so I lost a bunch of coolant and had to re-fill it today, and I found a small clamp to put on it to make sure it doesn’t come off again….but, that’s not what this is about….I just checked the packages of chicken thighs I got this morning…didn’t even check how much they weighed when I bought them…the two of them together weighed over 10 pounds…now, I’m not sure if anyone needs 10 pounds of chicken thighs but, damn, how can you pass up 69 cents a pound? Just knowing I have 10 pounds of chicken, again, made me laugh….

Well…running a little late for normal this morning with not getting up until after 6…okay…for last time after 6 but was up and down all night and wrenched my shoulder somehow so there was quite a bit of pain that seems to have subsided….but, I don’t feel too bad this morning with the first night of being good under my belt…going to continue that for a while just to see if I can get through the winter losing weight instead of gaining it like normal…looks like quite a bit of ice out there this morning and the Miata is coated pretty thickly so I need to get a photo of that to post today…it appears that the ice has already started to melt since there are rivers running down the parking lot and the rain is supposed to be over by 8 or so…I need to get out some time today to get some groceries at Aldi’s since they have chicken thighs for 69 cents a pound and can’t pass that up…a couple of trays will keep me in protein for a couple of weeks for about 7 bucks and I can make lots of different dishes with them…I did get a few things done yesterday and I am going to try to continue that today with clearing some of the dust and cobwebs along with vacuuming….and some laundry that needs to be done…and maybe some soccer if there are any matches on….more later…