Well….running a little early today…how the heck can you be bored at 7:25 in the morning? Oh, well….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done…again….but, I am going to wash the car this morning…that will probably be my accomplishment for the day since I’m hoping we shoot pool today…I think I may have cured my ant problem but I still have a few of them on the kitchen floor…they’re dead but they are still there…I do need to cook today since I don’t have any leftovers and I am going to try the new broiler on some ribs….woke up a little creaky today so I think I’ll take some ibuprofen before I get on the bike…should help with the cramps in my calves, too….not sure why but I had them just lying in bed last night and that is annoying…more later….

Well…running a little late today with doing the grocery run and reading a real newspaper today….I did get a few things done yesterday and finally have a clean bathroom…but, I’m now fighting some big black ants that showed up a couple of days back…sprayed around the doors and in the kitchen and now I’m waiting to see if that worked….I did get the top down on the car this morning and that was cool…and I almost have the parking brake fixed..it just takes a little tug and it releases now so I’m on the right path…..and the new rear brakes are bedding in so I have much better brakes now….don’t have  a lot to do today but more cleaning….and the normal stuff….the car needs to washed again with all of the dust around but I think I’ll wait until tomorrow to do it….it will just be dusty again in about an hour so I’m not sure why I keep doing it….more later….

Well…running a little early today since I got up early…again…and I am having a hard time getting moving without coffee…not that I’m not having coffee….just that it hasn’t started to work yet….I did get some stuff done on the car yesterday…finally got to the driver’s side rear caliper with the penetrating oil and then decided to do all of the bushings since I have a little groan in them when I get in the car…but the groan could be the new pads making noise…still only have about 20 miles on them in the week since I put them on….the new brake smell has gone away so that is cool….didn’t get a lot else done yesterday…so I will have to today….but I have to get me hair cut this morning and then the normal stuff first….more later….

Well…with getting to 954 miles for the year on the bike this morning, that makes it 30,000 miles on the Motobecane….I think I’ll keep riding it until the rear swingarm falls off…maybe the new goal should be 50K? I did have some parts that wore out over the past 5,000 miles:

1 rear shift cable

2 rear tires

3 rear tubes

1 front tire

and a pair of Asics gel running shoes…

Well…now I’m sore from the good bike ride yesterday and I will have to take ibuprofen this morning….it was kind of a boring day yesterday and I didn’t get anything done…and I don’t feel bad about it…I should, but I don’t….I do think I’ll clean some around here today and then get more resumes out….what a boring day this is shaping up to be….just like yesterday….oh, well….I should work on the car…okay…not feeling this at all right now so I think I’ll stop here and come back later to add to it….more later…

Well….with this being another day of boredom….I just thought I’d noodle here a bit to get me into the night…I may have fixed the handbrake on the car…almost at least…it releases some of the time the first time and if not, I just give it a little tug and it releases fine….I do need to get back into the driver’s side with the penetrating oil but I think I may have to do the bushings again since the car squeaked when I sat in it going to wash it today….had to do that when I first got it with the front so I guess I should do the back bushings now…had a great bike ride today and I’m not really sore…it was so much fun just blasting around with it…made me feel like I did when I was a kid….and lots of people waved at me on the trail today…that always lifts my spirits some….I was going to do some political stuff today but didn’t out of respect for memorial day….but, I will be back tomorrow with all of the crap the freak in the WH did today…..

Well…no rant this time…was on the bike and heard the perfect song for Memorial Day…”Find the Cost of Freedom” done by CSNY on their album “Four Way Street” and written by
Stephen Stills….a very simple, two line song but still very powerful…go out on you tube and take a look…it goes like this:

“Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground…Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down…”

Well….running a little early today since I didn’t sleep much last night…that’s turning into a thing and I know I don’t like it….didn’t do much yesterday but watch races and use the grill for the last time…smoked a bunch of salmon and then re froze it but that will be it…need to give the tank back to Brian this week but that will be in a couple of days…my back was sore again yesterday and it is starting the day with a little twinge that I hope doesn’t get worse…not going to do much today, either, should clean and I may do the bathroom and vacuum…but I need more coffee first and to just ease into the day….more later….

Well….running a little early today with wanting to get this one done before the F1 race starts….feel okay this morning and not too sore….my back cracked again clearing the dishwasher yesterday and I really do need to figure out what motion it is that does it…that may come in handy….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today will be a complete washout with it being the biggest race day of the year…I do need to wedge a bike ride in after Monaco and before Indy so it will be a short one today…only have about 85 miles left to do to get to 30K….okay….going to get more coffee and watch the race…more later….

Well…have been thinking about the changes to the wildlife that I have noticed and that others have commented on…when I was out with K last weekend, she mentioned that she had not seen any chipmunks around her deck and pool this spring and she usually has lots of them…and I mentioned that I had not seen any tiny bunnies this spring either…that changed int he past two days and I have finally seen about a half dozen of them…not the amount I saw last year when there was one day that I saw 54 on one ride…but, at least there are some finally….oh, the other stuff, at my water stop in Kentwood, just west of Kalamazoo near 52nd street, a crow came hauling out of the tree line with a small hawk attacking it from behind….the two of them then landed in a tree about 6 feet from each other with the hawk screeching so loud that I could hear it over the music in my ears…not sure what that was about but it was pretty cool to see…..