Well…it is really strange to me how consistent my wake up times have been all week with no cocktails…5 days in a row of just a little after 5:30 am and I’m okay with that…have settled into a different rhythm but I’m going to disrupt that today with cocktails tonight and I’m not sure why…have felt good but yesterday I really ran out of steam after the rides and mowing the lawn…I sure hope that’s not a permanent part of getting old…I am going to order the 4 new covid tests that I’m eligible to get for free to keep my stockpile up…the new variant causes very little latent effect but really attacks the body for long covid and that’s pretty scary when you can’t tell that you have covid but it wrecks you later on…4 years on and covid is still just as destructive as when it started but people are just ignoring the 1200 people a week who are dying from it…I am going to get on the outdoor bike by 7:30 this morning since it’s warm enough to go already at 55 degrees so it’s just waiting for it to get light enough…think I’ll only do two rides today with an errand in between them and I need to make another batch of chicken masala since I have the chicken thawed…and I have yogurt that goes into it that is a couple of weeks old…not much to do today…I think I’ll take an easier day today and just do some cleaning this afternoon…the couch and living room need work so that will be the plan for the day….more later…

Well…you know, owning a house and being solely responsible for it’s upkeep is a full time job…as is the upkeep for this old body…after getting three rides in this morning, I did some cooking since I wanted some more pasta salad to have in the fridge and then had some lunch before I decided to mow the lawn today so I could convert the mower over to bagging to start picking up the leaves that have started to fall…I hurt my darn neck working overhead yesterday and it’s same place I hurt before that had just started to heal…darn…ran out of energy on the second ride today and I’m pretty sure it was from a lack of calories with only a dog and a sandwich for the entire day yesterday…and didn’t even have any empty calories from cocktails to compensate and that will be repeated today…no drinks til tomorrow night and I feel good about that and that will get me in practice for taking a couple of weeks off for my yearly physical that is coming up in November…got scheduled for my blood work and the physical today…I do still need to do my weight work today and will do that right now…one of these days, I am going to take it easy for a day…I’m tired…

Well…up at a little after 5:30 again this morning and that wasn’t bad with only getting up a couple of times overnight…and now I have an hour and a half or so before I need to get on the indoor bike…it’s only 51 out here so there will be a wait to get outdoors this morning…okay, nope..it’s only 49 out here so it looks like I won’t be outdoors until 10 or so and maybe I’ll just take it easy today…don’t have a lot to do but make some pasta salad and clean so I really can ease into it today…my upper body hurts like crazy today after working overhead yesterday but it could have been worse working around the power line…I was right yesterday when I estimated 4-5 inches of rain when the official total for here in Muskegon was 4.45 inches…but there were places along the coast here that got a foot of rain from that storm and there is widespread flooding out here…okay, the little weather widget is saying record high for the day and that is going to be a spread from the record low this morning..weird, weird weather…have been good all week and have one more day to go before I can have a cocktail tomorrow night…feel pretty good getting back to taking care of myself and this is going to be the new normal along with taking entire weeks off…it’s a nice reset and I feel lucky I can do it…okay…need to get a post out to Mastodon and keep pouring coffee down….more later….

well…yeah, I know I do it to myself but that doesn’t make it any less busy…started out with getting an indoor ride in and finishing up “Jack Ryan”…then out to get groceries and gas along with stopping at Menards for lawn bags and lawn food then home for a cup of coffee and back on the bike for two outdoor rides…after lunch where I had a jalpeno and cheese hotdog that I got a couple of weeks ago for a buck and then out to clean up the containers I left outside in the rain and then trimmed the shrub next to the back door…attacked the damn overgrown bushes in the fence and cut some branches back from the power line to the house…during that time I made a noise call to the cops since the asses in the rental were at it again and I sure wasn’t going to wear earplugs to work in my own damn yard…didn’t get finished until almost 2 pm and have been doing some reading after watching Man u stink up the place in the Europa league…now I need to take it easy for a bit before I start my night…another one of being good since I am starting to like it….

Well…up at a little after 5 this morning and that’s early but I slept okay and I’ll take it…man, it rained for 18+ straight hours yesterday and I don’t think I’ve seen that in the 3 1/2 years I’ve lived out here…we must have gotten 4-5 inches of rain and there will be flooding on the trail when I get out there this morning…going to do an indoor ride to start the day here in 20 minutes or so but I need to pour down some coffee first…with all the rain, that sets me up for some yard work today and I need to stop at Menards for fall lawn food and some big yard bags since the leaves are starting to fall and I do need to clean up the side of the house and get rid of the dying flowers…with perennials mixed in, I can’t just pull everything out by the roots so I’m going to take the string trimmer and cut them down to soil level…might just put in some grass seed on some bare spots so it will sprout in the spring….the end of the rain last night was a small storm and it rained so hard I could barely see across the street with some 20-30 mph winds and that was cool…I do have some storage containers that I left outside overnight that I will have to clean today so the afternoon is going to be busy…going to make a batch of pasta salad to use up the end of the celery in the fridge since I like having that around…need to take the last of the chicken out of the freezer to make masala Friday but that will use up all of the protein I have so I’ll need to make some bean burritos…not much to do today…I’ll be busy all morning with the grocery runs and rides and will do a couple of hours on the yard after lunch but I’ll have to be done with that by 3 when Man U plays…more later…

Well…man, today is the first day in a long time I’m not going to get an outdoor ride in…it has been raining since I got up before 6am and it looks like we have 3 or 4 more hours of it before it’s over and I’m reveling in it…after the indoor rides, I got right after getting started on the basement and I have the tools all put away, lots of cobwebs have been vacuumed up along with cleaning the floor, and I took the AC unit out, cleaned and dried it, and put it away downstairs…so I think I’ve earned a little take it easy time before I get on to the weight work here in 15 minutes or so…have the grocery list done for tomorrow and really don’t have a lot to get so I’ll be eating out of the freezer for this week….it does feel strange to not even think about riding outdoors today but that is helping my thighs heal that I hurt yesterday in the wind…so now I’m going to read a bit and get out the weights…

Well…that was okay…went to bed at the normal time and just tossed and turned a little until 4:14 but was able to get back to sleep for another hour and a half so I’ll take it…no dreams to speak of but that was okay…feel good after the first night of no cocktails and I am looking forward to keeping that up til Friday…it looks like I’ll be doing at least the first ride indoors this morning with the rain and it’s supposed to rain all day off and on so I guess we’ll see if I can get outdoors later…I did need to get some work done today and get the basement organized and remove some cobwebs…will have to get the grocery list done this aft even though there is not a lot to get this week…will have to do some meal planning since I’m getting tired of sandwiches and would like some hot food but I don’t know what that would be yet…I do have the ingredients for chicken masala so I’ll make some in a couple of days……not much to do today…need to get on the bike by 8 or so to start out the day…it’s going to warm up over the next week or so and that will give me time to get out and do some yard work…might even have to mow the lawn with the rain we’ve gotten….more later….