Well…damn, getting up and getting moving is getting to be a long process these days that takes about an hour….and it’s a lot of work…okay, drinking coffee and doing these is not a lot of work but it is work that helps my brain get started…so, more coffee….slept okay last night but was up at 4, as always, and that is getting wearing…I actually got some work done on the house yesterday with patching the door frame of the bike room and getting it stabilized and attached to the studs with nails instead of duct tape…I wonder if the previous owners knew how to use a hammer? I guess they didn’t with the 20 bent over nails I removed from the trim when I fixed it….it did snow overnight so I’ll be back out shoveling after the rides and it does look like I’ll be out shoveling the alley since I have a dentist appointment at 8:30 tomorrow morning and I’m going to do the grocery run after it so I don’t have to go out again this week…lots of dollar stuff at Meijers this week so I can refill my staples…so I need to do some meal planning today along with reading so I can go to the library and get more books…it’s only 14 degrees out here with the low in single digits the next two days but there is a warm up coming next weekend…and the high today is 15 and I am so damn tired of the cold….more later…

Well…when I got up this morning, I fully intended to just do two rides and take an easy day today but I just couldn’t do it….I had the first two done before 10am and still had enough time to get another one in before Man U lost so I did…and I even took time to continue the work of the frame for the bike room door…I can’t believe how half assed the work on this house is…I mean, really…holding the trim together with duct tape that they then painted over…and the trim on the left side of the door was even at the top and off plumb by 2 inches at the bottom and they used 3 different kinds of nails along with some screws to hold that piece on…and the frame is not even attached to the studs at all…just to wallboard and the top piece is held on with screws that just go into the wallboard, too…and there is a big hole in the inner piece of the frame where it looks like they ran out of wood and then just covered the hole with the duct tape…oh, well…will need to take some time to fix it all this week….

Well…the huge snow we’re supposed to get hasn’t gotten here yet but the alert is on until 7pm so we will probably still get 6 inches or so…ick…it’s looking like I’ll probably have to cancel my dentist appointment for Tuesday morning since they haven’t plowed up here all week and I won’t be able to get out…and I am so tired of the stress from it…slept okay last night but I am so damn tired that I may just do two rides today and then work on the door frame downstairs…I started the latest Harlan Coben book yesterday afternoon and will finish it this aft…and that leaves another one for tomorrow…he sure can write…damn, it 6:45 and I need to get on the bike by 7 so I can watch Man U play at 11:30 but with only two rides, that will be easy…it’s going to be cold the next two days with highs below 20 and lows in the single digits but then a little warm up and I can use that…my gas bill was 131 bucks this month and that is the highest one I’ve had since I bought my house…and I’m even 14% under the average for a house the size of mine…not much to do today…and for once, I may hold myself to that…I am going to miss the race today since the idiot trump is going to be there and I will not look at that asshole’s face….more later…

Well…just found out that the idiot trump is going to be at Daytona for the race tomorrow so I won’t be watching it…I refuse to have his ugly mug pushed into my face…the rest of the day today was okay…didn’t have to cook and won’t have to until Monday when I’ll make the stir fry chicken that I just took the chicken out of the freezer for….the chicken burritos will last two more days and maybe three so the Masala won’t be made until Tuesday…that chicken will have to come out tomorrow…I did get the rides in and then out to do the 4 inches of snow that fell overnight and it looks like another 5-10 inches tonight and through the day tomorrow…I really am thinking about getting an electric snow thrower next year even though shoveling is still pretty easy…okay, just looked on amazon and I can get one for about 250 bucks so I can swing that…and they are pretty light so I can hang it on the wall in the garage…I’ll start looking later in the summer…have been looking at a stupid repair on the door frame of the bike room and today it just got to me so I tore off the duct tape they painted and cleaned it all up and have wood to do it right so I’ll work on that tomorrow…oh, and I gave myself a hair cut and trimmed my beard so I look human again…okay, back to the race and reading…

Well…only two weeks til we get to March and the first sniff of spring and it can’t come to soon for me…we have single digit highs coming for the first part of the week next week and I really have had enough of them…up at 4:16 this morning but was able to get back to sleep til almost 6 so I guess that’s okay…man, I would love to just sit here and have coffee all morning but that’s not going to happen…it’s 6:29 and I need to get on the bike by 7 or my whole day will be off…I did notice a funny thing in the tv show “Continuum” that I have been watching on the bike…the hotel the main character is staying in has the exact same heat registers that I have in this house…and they have just as much paint on them as I have here…weird…didn’t get anything done yesterday but cook the chicken for chicken burritos and today looks the same…have three more days of leftovers but I will have to do some meal planning for early next week and it looks like Masala and some chicken stir fry…have way too much chicken in the freezer and need to start emptying it…not much to do today…just need to get moving and that is harder than it looks…maybe getting on the bike will help? More later….

Well…just finished the 2nd ride and needed one more cup of coffee so I thought I’d try my pour over with no filter in it and it was such a damn mess that I’ll never do that again…the coffee tastes the same with or without the filter and that was one of the things I wanted to check…experiments…so now we have another winter storm watch on for tonight and tomorrow with a possible 5-8 inches of snow…again…and that is going to continue til Monday night…oh, well…I did get to 1,000 miles for the year yesterday and that is the only goal I had for the year other than riding every day and keeping my almost 500 day streak going…okay, need to go down and get the 3rd ride in….oh, took my BP when I got up this morning and it was 117/72 and I can live with that…

Well…after the busy day yesterday, I really do need to take some time off today and get some rest..but they just issued another winter weather advisory for 4-6 inches more snow and I am getting damn tired of it snowing all the time…but I think this is normal for living on the coast of Lake Michigan and the no snow years we’ve had out here is not normal…so I’ll suck it up and live with it…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but the rides and soup and I wanted to make stir fry today but I’m not sure about that…I do have chicken that needs to go in the freezer or make some chicken burritos…that sounds good so I think I’ll do that for lunch….didn’t eat enough yesterday but that is not news for me…need to get on the bike in 9 minutes to get going before 7 but maybe I can wait til 7:30 and have more coffee first…it’s only 16 degrees out here and it’s going to be really cold for the next week…have to figure out how to ignore the weather and just live but that’s harder than it looks…not much to do today…just the rides and a little cooking…did laundry yesterday that I forgot to include in the busyness so there is just cleaning today…or maybe just reading and taking it easy…yeah, that’s not going to happen…more later…

Well…man, another busy, busy day and it seems like every day is like that…and I do really think things need to change so I can get a little rest some time…and I hurt my neck carrying a 50 pound bag of salt in Wed and the stretching I have been doing are not working right now…so I must have injured it and that sucks…oh, back to today…started out with getting a ride in and starting the ham soup in the instant pot while I did the 2nd ride…then put the veggies in the pot and started it again then down for ride 3…after that I finished the soup and had lunch and then out to do the snow…again…over the past day we’ve had 13-14 inches out here and it has finally stopped snowing…but it’s going to snow some every day until next Tuesday…at least they came out and plowed both the alley and the roads up here so I should be able to get out to my dentist appt Tuesday morning…after the snow, I cleaned up the kitchen and washed the dishes then did the weight work…made a bean burrito for dinner when I probably should have skipped it..I noticed that the wear plate on the bottom of the snow shovel has worn almost through but I think it will last the rest of the winter so I’ll have to buy a new one for next winter…but it’s time to read a while now…

Well…we didn’t get the foot of snow they were forecasting but we did get about 7 inches from the storm and that is enough…will have to go out and shovel this morning but I’m having trouble getting going and the coffee is not working yet…we still have a winter storm watch on until noon or so and the radar says it’s snowing but I’m not seeing it..have to figure out meals for today and the weekend and I have choices like ham soup, Masala, stir fry, and chicken tacos but they are all a lot of work and I really don’t want to work that hard right now…so I guess we’ll see…man, I’m beat…so the rides are going to wait until 7:30 or so…will get to 1,000 miles today and I’ve never done that in Feb before so I guess that’s something…but the idea of getting on the bike in the cold downstairs is not attractive and it’s going to take some effort that I don’t have in me right now…but I have a half hour so maybe that will change…not much to do today…just shoveling the snow and the rides along with cooking but I don’t want to start just yet…a new episode of “The Repair Shop” just came on and I need the quiet gentleness of that show to start my day…more later…

Well… it appears that 5:06 is the new wake up time since it’s been 5 days in a row I’ve been up at that time and I’m not sure I like that very much….feel pretty crappy again today and I know I didn’t eat enough yesterday with only one meal and I wonder how long I can keep that up? Or should I keep that up? I know I can use to lose another 10-15 pounds but that takes away all of my energy…felt really lousy all day yesterday and I don’t want another one of those days today…DD has chicken breast on sale for 1.60 a pound and I wonder if I should go out there and get some before the snow starts? But that would mean I need to hit meijers for the stuff to make Masala…and I want to go to the library to get a couple more books and depot for some salt to melt the walks when it gets really cold this weekend…but the snow is coming in around 8am and I don’t want to be driving around in it…it’s only 13 degrees out there right now and that will mean ice on the roads so when do I just say enough? Not much to do today…venturing out is going to be the goal for the morning and then nothing for the rest of the day….more later…