Well…it’s probably not a good idea to only have a bowl of soup to eat for an entire day…feel pretty lousy this morning and just frickin  worn out…but the new coffee tastes like coffee so that’s a win in my book…I mean 45 ounces of coffee for 6.99? That will last me until February….it was such a busy day yesterday but won’t be today…just the rides and some cleaning and my amazon package is supposed to be here today with the new shower curtain hooks and weights and the coffee grinder and beans…so I’ll make some of that tomorrow…have the final episode of “Yellowstone” to watch tonight and it’s always a little bittersweet when a show that I like ends…and I’ll always hate costner for his bullshit that ended the show…and I didn’t know that Taylor Sheridan was actually acting in the show until Tom told me and that is pretty cool…and I’ve seen Michael Connelly acting as an extra in “Bosch” that he wrote….it appears that my BP can’t be controlled by lifestyle changes so I started taking my allergy meds again and I have finally gotten rid of the headache I’ve had for weeks…and that is a failure to me…my body is failing me as I age and I guess I’ll have to get used to that…crap…not much to do today…it will be an easier one but I do need to get on the bike here in 20 minutes or so to finish the rides before noon…but more coffee first…more later…

Well…damn, I need to stop running all the time…yeah I know I say that a lot but today it caught up with me and I am just getting done at 3:30 when I started at 7:30 this morning…and the soup I made today did not come out good at all…it has a burnt taste to it and I think it will probably end up in the trash…the ham bones that I used didn’t look good and I wonder if they were freezer burned? Oh, well…have two new ones that I can use to make a new batch next week…and I’m going to limit my calories today to just that bowl of soup… did get out to DD and HF today to get some dollar deals on smoked turkey and coffee for 6.99 for a huge 45 oz can…it’s a weird brand that I didn’t think they made anymore and I think I’ll open it up and use it for tomorrow’s pot…do you remember Yuban? Yeah, probably not…and I got a couple of trim paint brushes and AA and AAA batteries at HF so now I can just sit here for a couple of weeks and clean…I still have the weight work to do so I better get on it…

Well…damn, I am so tired of having to get moving every morning and one of these days I’m not going to do it…yeah, I know I say that all the time but darn, when does a 71 year old get a rest? Not today since I have the rides to do, a run over to DD to get 45 ounces of coffee for 6 bucks and then over to HF to get batteries since they are cheaper than on amazon…I wonder if I should hit Ollie’s to check for cheap t-shirts with them right next door to HF? Then I have ham soup to make at some point today but I don’t have that planned out yet and that leaves a bit of uncertainty that I don’t like…I do need to get my running done before the snow starts…not much of it but I washed the car yesterday and don’t want to get it salty again…slept okay last night and I think I’ve resolved to start taking my allergy meds again since I can’t get my BP down by not taking them and I’ve been miserable with sinus headaches since I stopped them a few weeks ago….only have 20 minutes before I need to get on the bike to get the day started and need to pour another cup of coffee down before that…I forgot to do the weight work yesterday so I’ll have to carve out time for two today…going to be a lot of veggie chopping for the soup and I’m going to try different beans in this batch just for the hell of it…more later…

Well…with the free trial of amazon prime quickly getting to cancellation time, I thought I’d use it to get some things I wanted…and spent 91 bucks to do it…I did buy a coffee grinder and beans, a 50 ft lightweight hose that I can run up from the basement to wash the bike in the winter, a set of Fiskars shrub shears to replace the broken harbor freight ones…some weights and new shower curtain hooks…and I even forgot some things that I’ll get next week…mot of it will be here Thurs but some of it is going to take longer and that’s okay…the stuff I wanted quickly is getting here fast so I can have good coffee Friday…a lot to spend but things I really wanted and can afford…especially the shower curtain rings to replace the hooks that keep falling off the bar…okay, need to find a political one to do…

Well…darn…I need to get moving right now with doing the grocery run today and getting three rides in…so that means I need to do one before I head out so that gives me 15 minutes to have coffee before I head downstairs…the bread I made yesterday came out really good…light and tasty so I can start refining the method of using my casserole dish or maybe using my bread pan next time…I think I’ll add extra yeast to get more rise next time…and I need to wash the car at the car wash this morning so the two extra rides will wait til the afternoon…one of these mornings, I’m not going to get on the bike and rush through the day but I am so afraid of gaining weight that it probably won’t happen soon…damn, have 5 minutes before I have to get going so this is going to be a short one…feel pretty lousy this morning and I’m just so worn out that I could go back to bed and start a lot later but the habit of moving is too strong…only have one cup of coffee in me and the second is going to wait til after the grocery run…ick…more later…

Well…sitting here a little bored today so I decided to try to make a loaf of bread today but I only followed the recipe to a point…instead of using a cast iron crock pot, which I have, I mixed up the dough and then just poured it into my buttered 2 quart heavy glass casserole dish, put the lid on it, and set my air fryer to proof to get it to rise and then I’m going to just bake it in that dish after the dough rises…if that works, I’ll be making a lot of bread and not buying any anymore…even had some bread flour to use…it will be interesting to see if it works at all…I guess we’ll see…

Well…it’s been a busy morning until now and I’m happy to report I may be getting my sense of taste back a bit after switching to a simple toothpaste from the anti plaque one that I was using…I could taste the turkey soup I had for lunch when a few day ago when I made this batch I couldn’t…so that gives me some hope that it will continue to come back…I did get three rides in this morning and it felt okay and then got to three of these and a post out to Mastodon…and I don’t have to cook today with making the ham yesterday…I am going to make ham soup later in the week and I may even try my hand at baking some bread but I’ll have to learn how to knead it if I want it to rise at all and not be the flat, hard loaves that I normally make with the no knead method…still have to do the weight work this aft and look for bread recipes…and I want to get some reading time in…

Well…darn, another fitful night of sleep but an okay one with my week on no cocktails starting…just curious to see if cocktails are the major cause of my high BP but I’m not sure if just a week will make any difference but I guess we’ll see…got back on the bike for 24 miles yesterday and will do that for the rest of the year to see how many over 10K I can get in before the end of the year…it’s going to be above freezing until Saturday so the snow will be gone…and then into the twenties for two days and then a week above freezing to end up the year…then only two more months of winter to endure…I did check the coolant in the car while the ham was cooking yesterday an it was only down a half pint or so in a month so I can cripple it along until I buy a new car…and that is going to be my project for the winter…find one and buy one…and I really do need to paint the dining room and all the trim and just need to start and live in dust for a month as I fill and sand the windows and trim…not much to do today…just the rides to start things off and then I’ll figure out the rest of the day…I am going to make the first batch of ham soup Wed or Thur using the old ham bones…sure hope I can taste it….more later….

Well…just did a little math on the amount of calories I burned this year so far on the bike for the 10,032 miles I’ve done…assuming 600 calories burned for every 15 miles, which may be a little low, I burned 401,440 calories…and that converts to keeping 133.81 pounds off by riding…so now you know why I keep torturing myself by riding so much..

Well…have two rides in this morning and have the BAH on the grill, the potatoes peeled, and the trash put out…now it’s time to enjoy my last cup of coffee for the day as I wait for Man U to play at 11:30…the Lions don’t play until 4:25 so I think I’ll go back down for a third ride today so I won’t feel guilty about having two meals today…the second one is only going to be a bowl of soup so I don’t think that’s too much….it is nice to have a second and third streaming service to use downstairs on the tablet since I added netflix and got pluto working to go with freevee since I was running out of things to watch….I do need to clean the kitchen some today after I get done with the big meal for lunch but that will wait until after the third ride…I do need to figure out the goals for riding next year but it hasn’t even entered my head yet…just need to relax a bit for the next couple of weeks…I wonder if I could do two years in a row of riding every day?  Or maybe do my normal riding but do 10 100+ mile days? I’ve got a couple of weeks to think about it so no big hurry….more later….