Well…damn, this is not a pattern I want to continue…up at 4:14 and then out of bed at 5:27 but no dreams this morning and that kinda sucks…going to be another grind day today and I need to get going fast to get everything done before Man U plays at 10…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I’ll be getting through the last book today and that will leave me two days to get this place cleaned up before I get to the library for more books Wed…not looking forward to another spring storm that is coming and the wind has already started and I sure hope it doesn’t get as loud as it was Friday…going to rain today before the snow comes in Monday and I am just going to hunker down and survive it…there are two races on today to go with Man U but I’m not sure when I’ll see the F1 race since the replay starts at 8 and I’ll be down on the bike by then…I do need to figure out meals today to use up the green pepper I have in the fridge so maybe and omelet or a pizza? Who knows? More later…

Well…I really think I’m turning into a slug after taking the 3rd day in a row easy…not sure why that’s happening but I know it’s not sustainable but I’m on the last book and won’t be able to get til Wed for more so I’ll have a couple of days to actually get some work done around here…it was so damn nice to not have the wind howling up here and I’m glad we’ve had some warmer days or my yard would be filled with broken branches…I was thinking about how nice it is to have a car that starts after sitting a week without disconnecting the battery…will probably be able to ride outside later next week with it getting to almost 50…not sure what I’m going to watch tonight…for some reason I have three shows that I just started on Plex and then abandoned…weird…okay, need to get ready for some tv after the race ends…

Well…up and out of bed at 5:11 today but woke up at 4:16 and that is just way too early…damn, it was so loud with the wind blowing hard for 12 hours yesterday…sounded like sitting next to a 747 at full throttle all day and it just wore me out sitting here thinking that another tree was going to take my power line out again…the next few days are going to be trying with 5-8 inches of snow starting Sunday night and damn cold that I am just tired of…but I remember when I was 14 or 15 when we had a foot of snow in April…this is Michigan but damn, give us a break, okay….I forgot ingredients for the masala so I put the chicken in the freezer and will wait til next week to make it…so I need to figure out what to make…probably some bean burritos and maybe a pizza to use up the green pepper…not much to do today…need to get off my butt and get going since it’s 6am and I have things to do…more later…

Well…crap, the wind has been blowing like crazy up here today and just a little earlier the gusts were close to 70…and now we have a winter storm coming for Sunday night through Tuesday with 5-8 inches of snow and a high Tuesday of only 22…and this one is one of those named storms so it could be bad…this has to be the last snow of the year or I’m just going lie on the couch and curl up into a ball…didn’t do a lot today but exercise and read and I did get to the first 1,000 miles for the year…but now all I’m going to do is start another book and read for the rest of the afternoon….and figure out what I want for dinner after skipping the bagel today…time to read…

Well…up at 4:03 this morning but I had enough of no sleep so I laid back down til 5:14 and even had a dream in that hour that surprised the heck out of me since I never dream anymore…we have another high wind warning on and that’s to be expected with the severe change in temp that’s coming Sunday with the high only 25…so I guess it’s hunker down time and I don’t have to go anywhere until next Wed…the cold weather has moved back to Tuesday but then it’s colder at 21 degrees and we won’t see 50 again for two weeks and that just sucks…I am so damn tired of the cold..and I really need to eat more after only having cabbage and a small potato for both meals yesterday and that is about 700 cals for the day and just might be why I feel so damn worn out today…I did get some cleaning done in the kitchen yesterday but I need to keep that up today…it I do two rides today, I’ll hit 1,000 miles for the year so far so I guess that’s a goal for the day…but right now I just want to have more coffee and ease into the day….more later…

Well…after the busy day yesterday with two hours on the chat with Dell to fix the track pad on the laptop, it feels good to be back to the normal routine…have already gotten an hour in reading this morning and I’ll be going back to that after I do a couple of these…don’t even have to cook today with the leftover chicken, cabbage, and potatoes that will last until the weekend so I won’t make masala til Sunday…and it’s not going to get over 40 here so no outside ride today and won’t be back out there until late next week…okay, need to look for the 2nd topic in politics to make up for not doing one yesterday…

Well…damn, what a day yesterday…started okay but then the damn trackpad on my laptop stopped working so that took 2 hours in the chat with Dell to get it fixed…and that screwed up my whole day and left me behind on these since I didn’t have time to come here for the political one…so, I’ll do two of those today…didn’t get out of bed til 5:31 this morning and that shouldn’t feel like a win but it does after getting up so many times in the 4’s…I did get some cooking done but I had to run an extension cord into the bathroom to be able to run both the instant pot and the toaster oven at the same time…should probably upgrade the electric service but that would cost about 3 grand and I don’t want to spend that…getting close to the first 1k miles and that means a double ride indoors today since it’s going to be too cold to ride outside for the next week…and we have snow in the forecast for the next week…maybe this will be the last gasp of winter that I thought was already past…not much to do today…just the normal stuff and then some reading…more later…

Well…I’m running late with this today since my internet was out for 3 hours today…so I’m trying to get caught up but it’s harder than I expected…it started with being on the phone to DTE after I got an overdue notice in my e-mail that my bill hadn’t been autopaid and found out that they had a computer glitch the un-enrolled thousands of people from it…so that’s fixed and then I couldn’t get my phone to re-connect to the wifi and had to screw with that for 45 minutes until I figured that out…so now everything’s working again and I owe a political one of these that I will start looking at topics for…oh, I did make cabbage, potatoes, and carrots in the instant pot and I wonder why I don’t make it more often? Still can’t taste it much but it has tons of fiber a very few calories and it makes a good side dish…baked some chicken with it for lunch today and I have enough chicken left over to make a masala this weekend…didn’t get any corned beef since the cheapest I could find it was 5.99 a pound and I’m not paying over 20 bucks for a tiny little roast…okay, topic time…

Well…feel like crap this morning and I’m not sure why…didn’t do anything different last night than any other night so it’s probably not eating enough after just having a bagel and 2 pieces of pizza and doing 21 miles on the bike…won’t be riding outdoors today with the temp falling into the 30’s and that’s just too damn cold for me…it was raining and hailing last night and it was nice to sit here in my warm house and hear it…but the weather is going to get really crappy with temps falling into the 20’s for highs and snow for Sunday…I know this is spring in Michigan but damn, we could use a break and actually have a spring…oh, well…I do need to do the grocery run this morning but I don’t have a lot to get so it will be a quick one…still would like to get some corned beef but that’s not going to happen so I’ll settle for chicken with the cabbage and potatoes I’m going to make in the instant pot…think I’ll add some onion and garlic to spice it up a bit…more later…

Well…today didn’t go at as planned…I was going to get the weight work in and then an indoor ride then right after that, an outdoor ride…but it rained here all morning and it did dry out to 2 pm…I did get out after that so another 21 mile day and that leaves me under 30 miles to get to a thousand for the year…the ride was fun with less wind today but it was still blowing over 15 out of the east and that meant that I went into the wind all the way back…there is no more ice on Lake Michigan but only 4 days ago there were car sized icebergs along the shoreline and it sure didn’t feel warm enough to melt the ice that fast…going to make cooked cabbage in the instant pot tomorrow and I’ll probably throw in a few potatoes so I’ll have cheap and low calorie side to go with the chicken…could get any corned beef since aldis was already out of it on the first day of their sale…and that sucks a little…oh, well…back to the movie…