Well…I tried the new BP machine as soon as I got up this morning and getting a reading of 134/69 gives me some hope that I can do lifestyle changes to keep me from stroking out….started a little experiment of not taking any allergy meds last night and I can’t feel any difference this morning so I guess I’ll stop taking them…not sure if that had any effect on the BP but the ones I was taking do tend to raise it so I’ll see…slept okay last night but I’m pretty worn out today and have only 15 minutes before I need to get on the bike…down to 179 miles to get to 10K so I need to keep grinding it out 24 miles at a time to get done before Man U plays at 12:30…it didn’t snow last night and it’s already above freezing so we’ll start seeing the snow go away and that will continue until Wed next week until the temp drops into the 20′s for a few days…but no really cold weather til the end of the month and that leaves only January and February to endure the winter weather and I can take that..especially with the new boots…not much to do today…just going to do the rides and then figure out the cleaning that needs to be done…it looks like the turkey soup will wait for a few days since I still have potato soup to use up before I make it so it looks like Tuesday will be the day….more later…