Well…not sure how this is going to work today but I’m starting out without coffee to try to keep my blood pressure down for my checkup this morning…read an article yesterday that said coffee can raise it by 5-8 points and I need all the help I can get…along with no cocktails for the past 10 days, I have hope I can get it down to 130 or so…and losing the weight I have might help, too, at least I hope it does…but I didn’t sleep well at all last night so that probably cancels out all my work…have been up since 5 and was up and down all night so only about 4 hours last night and that is probably worse than having cocktails…oh, well…I wonder when the weather channel is going to fire all of their forecasters who keep forecasting rain out here and it never happens…I mean they had it at 100% for this morning and nothing, not a damn drop and nothing on the radar…I guess that could be looked at as a good thing since I can get two rides in before I go for my checkup but I was really looking forward to having a day off without guilt but I guess that is too much to ask…didn’t do much yesterday but get the rides in and watch soccer and races and today will be another easy one after the checkup….might go out to the beach when I get back here if there are no surprises with my health…and I am going to have cocktails tonight and try to get back to the normal routine…my skin has rested a couple of days and can take a trip out to swim and relax a bit….and then back to it tomorrow…more later….