Well…not sure what the heck is going on but I was up at 4 am again today and out of bed by 5:30 and that is just too damn early for me…or for anyone who is on a normal schedule…I think I’m going to have to clean the car out of the garage since it’s just a little too big to get in and out of the doors when it’s in the garage…but I have the glass done and I can put the beach sticker on and be ready to go out and get some swims in as soon as it gets warm enough…not going to buy a new beach chair since it wouldn’t fit in the new car’s trunk so I’ll use the 4 by 4 shipping pad I got from HF for my new beach blanket…but that is not going to happen til way into June…I sure hope the water is warmer this year…only had a few comfortable water days last year and I’m running out of years to swim…it looks like a one indoor and two outdoor ride day today and I need to wedge in the MotoGP sprint race at 9 so that gives me a lot of time to sit here and have coffee with it only 6:05 right now…might even have to make some pour over to get my old butt moving today…not much to do today…I really just want to go out and drive the new car but I don’t know where to go so I probably won’t…still too damn task oriented even at my advanced age and I need to figure out how to just fool around…have never been good at that….more later…

Well…after I decided to only do three rides today, that gave me enough time to work on the car a bit so I decided to do the glass and rainx it and then clean the interior and waxed the inner door parts that everyone always misses…then I cleaned the under hood parts of the front fenders and the trunk and I’ll start on the wheels tomorrow if it’s not raining…have to remember to put the registration and proof of insurance in the glove box…there are so many clever little details on this car from the way the top folds to be it’s own cover when it’s down to the soft opening glove box and the little cubbys of storage that are behind the seats and between them…I did get the string trimming done this morning but put the trimmer away with the gas cap pointing down and it dripped all over my bike and made for a long clean up and it still smells in the garage…oh, well…

Well…damn, it’s only 34 degrees out here right now and that is just wrong for the second week of May…woke up at around 4am today but was able to get back to sleep til almost 6 but that is not making me feel any better…have been trying to eat enough to support doing 30 miles on the bike every day but that’s harder than it looks…and I’m going to try to do two indoor and two outdoor rides today to go over 40 miles for the first time this year…but that means I need to get on the bike by 7am…just looked at the weather and it’s not going to be warm enough to go out til this aft so I guess start time can move back a bit…I really don’t have any big tasks to complete until I need to have blood drawn on the 26th so I am just going to enjoy the lull and take it easy for a change…it’s going to warm up into the 70′s for the next few days and I wonder if it’s time to go into shorts for the year yet? Don’t have any that fit me so I may have to buy a couple new pairs after losing a few of inches off my waist…not much to do today…just an easy wing it day after getting everything done yesterday…so I’m going to pour more coffee down and wait for it to work…more later…

Well…finally got the paperwork done for the car at a cost of almost 700 bucks so I’ll need to stop spending for a couple of months to get some money coming in…was pretty easy and only took about 10 minutes to do all the stuff I had to do so that wasn’t bad…had the top and windows down for the fist time and they really have done a nice job of wind management since there was no buffeting even with the windows down…and the injector cleaner I put in this morning really smoothed the idle out and I’m pretty sure it’s just from a little condensation in the fuel tank…I really do need to eat more…when I don’t eat enough, the caffeine from coffee makes me jittery and my hands shake…so I might need to have three meals today to catch up…okay, I did stop at the library to drop off two books and pick up three more so I think I’ll read for a bit….

Well…as I sit here finishing up the coffee and getting ready to get on the indoor bike, the thought hit me that I really do have a pretty good life as I head to the end of it…I mean I have the house and car sorted and don’t really have to do anything about that anymore…and the new car makes me grin and even with burning through almost 15 grand, I still have enough cash to be comfortable and most people can’t say that…so I’m going to enjoy this day and the rest of them that I have…the idea that I have a car that I can take anywhere that I want liberates me from the trapped feeling I had with the old car failing as it was…not sure if I’m going to do the one lap of America but the fact that it is a choice I have with the new car makes me feel like there are possibilities I didn’t have a couple of weeks ago…so now it’s time to get on the bike and get this day moving…

Well…up at 5 am again today and I’m really not sure why…I mean I’m working my ass off to get things done and it should tire me out but it’s not…so I sit here before 6am trying to figure out my day and I think I have a plan…not going to skip the indoor ride like yesterday since it really does jump start my day and gets me going…I had a hard time getting going yesterday without it and don’t want to do that again…going to be eating some bad for me food the next few days and I don’t really care…going to make chips and cheese and some sandwiches with ham and turkey I got yesterday…and maybe some bean burritos…who knows? I do have to be at the SoS office at 1:40 to get the paperwork for the car done and that is going to cost around 900 bucks but then I’m done and I’m going to enjoy getting that done and the car officially mine…then I need to go to the library to get a couple more books to tide me over into next week…I did get the lawn mowed yesterday and I need to run the string trimmer to get the yard finished up but that won’t be til tomorrow…so, not a lot of urgency to get going today and I can have more coffee and ease into it…more later…

Well…up at 4:14 this morning but was able to go back to sleep til 6:35 and that makes me late for the whole day…need to get on the bike in 9 minutes to get out for the grocery run by 8am and I sure don’t want to…just poured the first cup of coffee and that means it won’t be working until halfway through the indoor ride…and I think I’ll need to make some pour over coffee today since there is only one cup left in the pot…going to put the top down on the new car for the run out this morning even with it cold enough to have the heat on…and why the hell is it that cold in May? Didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I need to do more today….have laundry and cleaning to do today but don’t have to cook with making the potato soup yesterday…and I have an open jar of pasta sauce so I should make some of that in the next few days…need to start planning the work that I need to get done on the house and yard but I don’t feel like it right now…I wonder if I can skip the indoor ride this morning and just sit here until I have to go out? That would leave me with only 25 miles and that should be enough but with my warped brain I think of it as a slacker day…it is sunny here and it hasn’t rained in weeks…and it’s not going to for at least the next 10 days and that sucks…oh, well…more later…

Well…I finally got the chance to read a bit today after no being as busy as I have been lately…just did the three rides and then made a batch of potato soup and I’m gad I decided to smell the milk before I started thickening it since it had started to go off and it would have ruined the soup…don’t have a lot to do the rest of the day so I’m going back to reading here in a minute…tomorrow will be busier with doing the grocery run along with stopping at Menards for more weed killer and some injector cleaner for the car… and I’m hoping that it will be warm enough for a top down run…then three rides..I did go over 3,000 miles on the bikes this weekend and that isn’t a goal for the year…the only goal left is to keep riding every day for as long as I can…already up to 565 days from October 19th 2023 to now…okay, time to read…

Well…that was better…woke up at around 4…again…but this time I was able to fall back asleep til almost 6:30 and that is a win in my book…but I’m still pretty darn  worn out…and I think I’ll ease into this day with coffee and more coffee…haven’t made pour over coffee in weeks and I think I need to make some soon…need to eat more, too…since my face is starting to look too thin but part of that is the missing molars and there is nothing I can do about that…the heat is still coming on in May and that sucks and I wonder when that is going to stop? Not much of a spring this year and that sucks, too…I do need to do the week walk today to keep the damn weeds from killing the grass like they did last year…and I need to get some grass seed in the bare spots…the bucket garden is not working for the tomatoes and I’m about ready to give up on them…oh, well…need to get on the indoor bike here in a minute but I am going to have the second cup of coffee first…then an indoor ride and two outdoor and I’m not sure if I’ll have any time to read today…still have two books to read this week and could really use a day off to do it…ha,ha…that’s not going to happen…more later…

Well…since the stereo in the new car doesn’t have an 1/8th inch input to hook my mp3 player to, I had to go back a decade or more to dig up my old cd cases and cds and will put them in the car…I did listen to a couple on the way out and back today and even though it’s clunky it sounded good and it will give me the opportunity to listen to entire albums again when I’m not listening to the radio…and I can live with that…and with the two cases I dug up, I have about 40 cds and that will be enough…it was kind of cool to have cruise control on the new car and with the controls on the steering wheel, it makes it pretty darn convenient along with the stereo controls on there…so yes, even if I paid a lot of money for the car I think it is really worth it and I don’t have to think about another car the rest of my life…and that takes a big load off…