Well…damn, that sucked…someone hit a power pole out here and that shut the power down to the whole area around 9:30 last night that lasted until 3:30 in the morning….and the light coming on in the living room woke me and I wandered around here resetting all of the clocks for 15 minutes and noticed I hadn’t loaded the coffee maker so I had to do that so I would have my morning jumpstart…back in bed by 4 and up at around 6 so that gave me about 4 hours with all of the trouble getting to sleep originally and then being up and down all night…but I feel okay this morning with getting back to being good in prep for my checkup next Monday morning….had another skunk in my yard last night and got a good photo of this one with my phone and it wasn’t the big female that was here a few weeks back….and I wouldn’t have noticed it without the power being out and having nothing to do but sit on my front steps….it has cooled off quite a bit out here and the humidity has dropped so it will make for a nice bike ride this morning and I will try to get two in before I get to work on the car….going to run it up on the ramps my brother gave me so that will give me lots of room to work safely under the car….the pan I’m removing is held on by lots of screws so I’m going to use my drill/driver to try to save my shoulder from the strain…then I’m going to drive the car for a few days without it so I can make sure that the leak is from the water pump before I spend 800 bucks on it….not much to do today…just the rides and the car work…probably won’t get out to the beach today since the storm probably turned the lake over again and it will be cold for most of the week…..and that is one of the reasons I like to go…to be able to swim and relax a bit…. but, we’ll see….more later….