Well…you know, you’d think with all of the work I’ve been doing and all of the bike rides I’ve been taking, that I would be tired enough to sleep at least a little…but it was another 5:04 morning this morning and the strange thing is that I’m still exhausted but that never translates into being able to sleep…oh, well…I did get out for a ride but late in the day yesterday and I really don’t like it with all of the traffic on the streets that I need to cross…and I don’t like how the light looks, either…cripes, I’m in a crabby mood this morning….it looks like I’ll be doing laundry all day today to use this giant washer to get things washed that won’t fit in the normal sized one at the house…doing the first of the pillows now and will do the comforter in the next load as I tear apart the broken weight machine and get it out to the dumpster….and I still need to cook today since I bought some Italian meatballs from DD for 1.99 for 2 1/2 pounds and they are thawing in the fridge…so maybe some spaghetti and meatballs…it looks like it may rain all day today so I might have the day off the bike but we’ll see..oh, one cool thing did happen yesterday…I washed my car in the driveway for the first time and that was cool…but, the new hose I bought is pretty stiff and I’m not sure I like it…but for only 25 bucks for 100 feet I guess I can live with it…more later…

Well…as you can see, I’m running really late today but it’s not my fault, this time…my internet connection was down when I got up this morning and it stayed down until I left to head over to the house…had to be there at 8 for the water guy to come and turn the water on…but he didn’t show until after 10 but that was okay, I had painting to do anyway…and now the water is on and everything works! Checked out the water heater and the washer and dryer and they all work so I have a fully functioning house ready for me to move in…now it’s just cleaning, painting and outside work left…next step is internet and I am going to order that Monday…man, I’m tired today and just got back here…and it looks like no bike ride today…just looked at the radar and there are storms coming in that will be here before I have lunch and get out so, darn, I have to take the day off…I really should clean around here and I may but right now I just want to have more coffee and sit for a minute….more later…

Well…I should be out on the bike right now but I ran out of clean clothes and needed to do a load so I’ll have some to change into when I get back here…damn…not sure how that happened and it really disrupts my morning…I did sleep okay last night and didn’t get until almost 6 so that is a win for me…but I still feel off this morning and I’m not sure why…I’m not sure why I would be so sore with only doing one ride yesterday but maybe it’s the painting? All I know is that I have been hobbling around here the past day or so and I don’t like it…and the ibuprofen didn’t help at all so maybe it’s just from overwork…I wonder if doing two rides a day is even helping the pain and not causing it? Now wouldn’t that be irony? I just realized that I can discard the water jugs I have been carrying over to the house for the past two months and that feels good…it has been such a pain in the butt working over there with no water but that ends tomorrow…so now that means I need to buy a garden hose and borrow the power washer from one of my other sons and get the exterior of the house cleaned up….that should be fun to really get to cleaning…and I even have supplies bagged up and ready to go and I may start cleaning the interior Friday since I now have a bathroom to use and I can stay there as long as I want….but today is errands and taking it easy…and I need to go up to the office and sign the no more leasing form so I don’t owe them more money…my last lease payment is Tuesday! More later….

Well…it’s been a heck of a week with everything going on at the house so I hope you give me a little break with me not doing much politics here lately…I promise I’ll get back to it next week since I got some good news today and we are entering the home stretch on the house…I have gotten the electric and gas bills switched over to me and coming to the house and, miracles of miracles, the water is being turned on Friday morning so we’ll have a functioning house again! My son did all the heavy lifting on that and thanks to him. All of the bills are current including the property taxes, too…so no surprises there…all I’m going to have left to do is contact Comcast for my internet connection and the move can be scheduled for any time…and that gives me a month to move so it should be pretty easy if the car holds up….man, what a lot of work done in under three months and the place looks pretty good….can you see me patting myself on the back? Yee Ha….

Well…that really sucked…couldn’t get to sleep so I stayed up until after 1 and still got up at the normal time so that makes it about 4 hours of sleep and I am dead this morning…and I feel so sore after being on my feet for 6 hours that I may have to take something for it before I get on the bike…I didn’t get a ride in at all yesterday and I know I didn’t eat enough, either so today looks set up to be a low energy one but I still need to go over and paint the hallway to keep on schedule…and I do need to load the car up since the move date is coming on fast and I haven’t moved enough stuff…needless to say, I didn’t get anything done around here yesterday and probably won’t today, either…I have just so much energy and that needs to be focused on getting the house done…okay, this is going to be a short one since I need coffee and to wd the shifter on the bike before I go out….more later…

Well…the condemnation has been lifted! After the two and a half months of work and getting the windows in today, the inspector came and approved of all of the work and I am now out of the clutches of the city…and the guys who did the windows did a really nice job but they backed their damn truck into one of the aluminum awnings over the windows and crushed it and now that has to be replaced and won’t match the rest of them…but I told my son and he really doesn’t care so I guess I can live with it. For the first time in the life of that house, there was a cool breeze blowing through it with the windows open and that just made it so much nicer…and the windows are pretty cool in that you can take them apart to clean them with just the push of a button. Now it’s just the detail work to do with the bills and getting the water turned on…I did get the gas bill put into my name today and am going to try to get the electric done tomorrow…and my son is working on getting the water turned on since he is the owner and the only one that the city will allow to do it….and that will take almost two weeks so I am bumping up against my deadline of mid October since I still need to clean the entire house before I start putting my stuff in…going to be a busy few weeks…but, not tonight…I am going to reward myself with some cocktails and a little rest tonight..it has been a long day…

Well…damn, up again at 5:04 and I am feeling the lack of sleep today…I think part of it may be stress, too, with having the windows put in today and having the inspector come to approve the repairs I’ve done…I have my fingers crossed that everything will pass and I’ll get the water back on next week…I did check the water heater yesterday and the pilot is still burning so I think I’ll just have to turn it on when the water is turned on and it will work…I do need to get over there by 8 this morning so no bike ride until this afternoon….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but more prep work on the hallway…didn’t want to have fresh paint on it while the installers are dragging the windows in and out so that will wait until tomorrow…can’t wait to see if the washer and dryer still work and then start getting at cleaning the place up so I can plan when the move is going to happen….no later than the second week of October but that means I need to get with Comcast and get internet service started by then…so, still lots more to do but I can see the end of the tunnel…more later…

Well…yeah, I know…I haven’t been doing much on the political front lately but I have an excuse…I have been darn busy with the house and that seems to be keeping me from reading the news enough to get outraged about it lately…I will try to do one later today but just wanted to share a little bit of good news that I just got today…no, I didn’t win the lottery but it almost seems that way to me…with the windows going in the house tomorrow, I thought is would be a while before I could get the inspector back there to approve the repairs but I contacted him today and he will be out tomorrow morning! So maybe, just maybe I’ll have the water turned on by this time next week and be out from under the city’s gaze, too. Tomorrow could be a good day…sure hope so…

Well…didn’t get up until the coffee alarm clock this morning and that made it 6:30 and that is really unusual….I think I may have had too much sleep and that make me really groggy and slow right now…but, I think it may be better later in the day…at least I hope it will…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t do much but watch sports all day but I have work to do at the house so it will be busier today…hoping to get the hallway painted today and some work in the basement done along with prep for the windows going in tomorrow…but I don’t feel like doing anything right now and I hope the coffee kicks in soon so I can get on the bike in a few minutes…one of these days I am going to take the day off of everything but that will probably have to wait until after I move….I did get some cooking done yesterday and that will make today easier since I don’t have to cook…I think there is too much chicken going on, though, and I need to change it up at some point…but not today…more later….

Well…trying to get out early to get some miles in before the F1 race, I looked down at the computer on the handlebars and it read 0 so I took the head unit off and cleaned the contacts, which worked sometimes, but not this time…no matter what I did, it read 0 so I had to come back here and put the new on one so I could make sure that I can record all the miles to get to my yearly goal. I knew it was going to fail at some point with how inconsistent it has been over the past month or so…with it even showing me going 64 mph on the flat yesterday…the only problem with the new one is that you can’t enter the mileage from the old computer but you have to start at 0 and that is a bit of a pain…so, the 3730 miles I had on the old one for the year needs to have 508 miles added on the new one to beat the yearly mileage record…I do like the bigger screen on the new one and I think I have it calibrated to within 5 feet in a quarter mile so that’s better than the old one….I will have to post a photo on facebook of the old and new readouts to prove that I actually did those miles….