Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…again….and I will try to make today different…how much different, I don’t know….running late again, too, for some reason and I didn’t even shower this morning…yet….just can’t get started even with the second cup of coffee….sitting here, I was hoping that the back pain had subsided with all of the cracking it did yesterday but then I moved and it hasn’t…darn….feel okay, though, so that is something….not sure what, but something…haven’t had to put the snowies on the car yet and it looks like I won’t have to until late next week….I do need to take advantage of the warm temps to get that done….had them on the first week of November last year and I am pretty happy that there hasn’t been any snow yet this year….it is cold today, though, an that will make for full thermasuit if I decide to take a bike ride today…have been out with it as cold as 19 degrees but that is pushing it…not much to do today….just going to clean since the spiders are in the bathroom again and the kitchen looks like an abandoned house…more later…
Category Archives: My Life
January 20, 1975
Well…sitting here watching ‘Celeration Day”…the concert film with Led Zeppelin and it made me think back to when I saw them in person…January 20th, 1975 at the old Chicago Stadium, of course in Chicago. I know my friends have heard this story many times but I just realized today that I missed my chance to write about it on it’s 40th anniversary last January, so I thought I’d do a short one on it today. Getting the tickets is another story that I’ll talk about another time but it involved standing outside for a day at the box office…and had blood, ripped stitches and other cool stuff in it so maybe there is a post in there somewhere. The crazy day started when we checked into our room at a Holiday Inn at 1 south Halstead, in what we didn’t know at the time was the real inner city…we realized it when we noticed we were the only white faces in the place, and coming from west Michigan, it was a surprise to say the least. Okay, to the concert…we took a cab out to the stadium, which, at the time, was in the middle of a part of the city that looked mostly abandoned….the concert was cool but Robert Plant’s voice was totally fried and you could barely tell it was him…one funny aside, at the time I wasn’t really a Zep fan yet so I don’t know a lot of the songs but it was still fun….after the concert, the plan was to catch a cab back to the hotel but the cab driver that took us out neglected to tell us that they didn’t run out into that neighborhood after 11 pm since so many of them had been robbed…so, we set off walking through the worst neighborhood in Chicago, dressed for a cab ride, on the 20th of January, 20 blocks back to the hotel…a bunch of white kids freezing and stumbling through the dark. After the first block, my girlfriend at the time got some of the swirling dirt in her eyes and, wearing contacts, was basically blind the remaining 19 blocks. But, we made it okay…I think it may have been too cold for any muggers to be out and I was really glad we had turned the heat up to 85 before we left our room. It’s a day I remember vividly even 40 years later….the crazy crap you do when you are 21….
Oh, one last thing….the tickets cost $7.50….a lot of money at the time when I was renting a two bedroom house for 100 bucks a month…
December 17th
Well…running a little late today just because I can…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…didn’t get anything else done and today looks the same…just not motivated to do much…and it is snowing out there and that is depressing…it shouldn’t be since this year is just so much better than last year…we had already had below zero temps last year and all I have to do is get through the next three days of cold to get back to the 40’s and 50’s so I guess I shouldn’t bitch too much…my back seem to be a little better today but we’ll see as the day goes on….it still twinges some when I move and I am still going to try to get it to crack later so the pain will really go away….it looks like full thermasuit for the ride today but that’s okay if I can get out for a ride in the snow…..not much to do today….going to try to get a few things done around here and do some cooking but that’s about it….more later…
December 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool….it looks like I’ll be able to pay the rent in January so that takes a load off…slept okay and had dreams of landslides and Ada and that was weird…running for your life in front of a landslide is kind of exciting, though, so I’ll take it….my frickin back is still hurting like crazy and it is taking all the energy out of me, but trying the old things to help it is just making it worse….need to think that one through and see if I can figure out something new….the new tire on the back of the bike is making me smile…I didn’t realize how bad the old one was…reminded me of the cartoon bikes with square wheels that were in my youth….not much to do today…pool, I think, and making lunch but that is about it….I did do the grocery run this morning and got some russett potatoes that are just huge…one could make two meals for me so I’m not sure how to cook them…may have to make mashed to portion them out….more later…..
December 15th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I got a lot of stuff done so that was cool…slept okay but my back seems to be deteriorating to the point where it is hard to move around at times when it decides to stab me…I know what the problem is but I don’t know what to do about it..and that is the most frustrating part…at least my neck is starting to heal some but that is not enough….think I need some ibuprofen…I did have to get a new tire for the rear of the bike since the old one split across the tread on the way home Sunday…glad I had the tube protectors in it…rode home with them sticking out…the bike is so much smoother now and it was fun to go out yesterday….but 20 bucks for a bike tire? The tires on the Miata were only 40 bucks each….not much to do today…have to run an errand and then out with G later but the rest of the day is going to be trying to get my back to pop so it will stop hurting…more later….
December 14th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool…didn’t get anything done around here but that will change today since I have lots of stuff to do and I can’t avoid it…slept crappy again last night and I am getting tired of it…and my neck still hurts so that is going to make doing what I need to do even more of a pain…it looks like no bike ride today since there is rain all the way to Tennessee that is aimed right at us but that’s okay, I can use a day off the bike to get rid of the everywhere soreness I have had for the past few days….the car is still starting fine and not leaking so that is cool and I don’t have to think about that anymore right now….not much to do today….just work around here that will take me til at least noon if I start right now…but, I need to finish the coffee first and get out to Kos to read a little…more later…
One last thing…if I hear the build a bear workshop commercial again, I am going to scream….
Give me more El Nino….
Well…don’t really have anything earth shattering to talk about today since I have been avoiding politics lately since it is all Trump all the time and I just don’t have the stomach to listen to that idiot or comment on him….not today anyway…I do want me some more of this el Nino weather…and no, it’s not global warming causing the temp to be 64 on Dec 13th….the same thing happened in the last El Nino a few years back and, if i remember correctly, I was out on the bike in shorts on New Years day that winter…hope that happens again this winter…I was out on the bike in a t-shirt today and it felt so good I did a long ride…my neck still hurts, though, and that is really a pain…for three days now….the car is back to normal after the dead battery on Friday and I am not curious enough to get the meter out and stand in the rain to try to find the problem….okay…dinner is ready and I do need to eat….
December 13th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get a lot done…I am sore everywhere and I think it must be a bug….have had a pain in my neck for the past few days and it just won’t go away and I’m not sure what the heck it is…I did have a nice running text conversation with T as she was working with her volunteers yesterday and that kept me from getting too bored…I di get a nice bike ride in but it looks like that won’t happen again today…there is s frickin thunderstorm going on right now and the rain goes all the way south of Illinois so maybe today will be the day to rest and try to heal a little…not much to do today…have an errand to run this aft and I’ll make a little cash so that will be cool…I should clean but I probably won’t since I am low on energy today and it hurts to just sit here….more later…
December 12th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool…slept crappy again last night and it has been so up and down lately I’m not sure what is happening….and I think I have a bug of some sort since I am warm and have been coughing for the past two days…don’t feel bad enough to stay off the bike, though, so I guess I’ll just weather it….did get out to have a couple with T and had so much fun…good conversation with a hot woman just made my day…I did discover why the center brake light wire was cut…there must be a short in it somewhere since, when I went out to start the car to meet up with T, the battery was dead and the car wouldn’t start….I did get to use my battery booster and that worked like a champ…so, I pulled the wire back apart and the car started fine this morning…might have to get my meter out and try to figure out what the problem is….not much to do today….need to get out on the bike this morning since Man U plays at 12:30 but then it will just be laundry and fooling around here…and two more of these today since I am already way behind for the month….more later…
December 11th
Well….it was an okay day yesterday and I got a few things done so that was cool…the car is clean and ready for winter and I did get the center brake light fixed…the wire to it was broken and I repaired that but screwed the radio up when I pulled the fuses…need to try to find the instructions so I can reset the radio clock and display…slept okay last night but I think I’m coming down with a bug since I have been coughing all morning and feel a little warm…I am glad I got everything done yesterday so I can take the day to rest today….thought I had the back sorted out but I was wrong…it still hurts today and I’m a little disappointed in that….did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but the wind was brutal and I hope it’s not like that today…it is warm enough to go out right now so I am going to as soon as I finish this…not much to do today….going to make a ham and maybe have a couple with T later…..more later….