Well…darn, still hurt everywhere this morning and the swelling in my thumb is still pretty bad so it looks like another day of taking it easy but that won’t be easy with all the things I have to do today…slept okay last night but spent most of the time on my left shoulder that was damaged in the crash and that hurts worse today than it did yesterday…..oh, well…all I can do is live with it until I heal up….didn’t get much done yesterday but I do have lots to do today with the grocery run that has 4 stops in it since DD has thick cut bacon for 1.99 a pound and I haven’t had breakfast food for dinner in a long time….and I think I’ll make a bacon and cheese omelet later in the week…and I need to mow the lawn today since it is going to rain tonight…I probably could wait til tomorrow but I don’t want it to get too long…I am planning on having to work on the mower later in the week but I need my thumb to heal up some first….can’t believe how swollen it is but it doesn’t hurt as much as it did so I have hope that it is healing…will probably only do one ride today since Man U is playing at 3 and, even thought they have been stinking up the place lately, I do want to see them play…..more later….

Well…it’s still amazing to me how much damage even a slow speed crash on the bike does…I basically hurt almost everywhere with new spots of pain popping up almost by the minute…my left side is howling right now and I must have landed on my left hip and shoulder with how much it hurts and the pain wraps around my back all the way to the right side…and now my ribs hurt on the right side in the front…and, needless to say, my thumb is swollen and stiff and weeping plasma so badly I had to re-bandage it to soak it up….I did get two rides in today but shifted much less than normal since it hurts my thumb to downshift and I hope it will be better tomorrow…it looks really bad, too, laying one injury on top of another and it looks like it will take probably a year to get the nail damage grown out….so, I didn’t do anything else today since it really hurts to do anything and I already took an ibuprofen this morning so I can’t take another one til later today….so, I think I’ll take the rest of the day off and watch some soccer….I have to work on the lawn tomorrow and I sure hope I can get through it without another breakdown since I can’t really do repairs until my thumb heals a bit…darn…

Well…just took the bandage off my thumb and it looks really bad…and it is still quite swollen and stiff…not sure if it will keep me off the bike today…will probably try it in a while…I hurt everywhere from the crash and probably should just take a day off of everything to heal up but you know me…just can’t do that and will give it a try…I am going to take some ibuprofen before I get on the bike to see if that will help…and will probably continue that all day today….I did sleep okay last night and didn’t get up til around 7 so that is why I’m running late this morning…forgot that I have a bandage on my knee, too….need to remove that and take a look at how that damage is healing here in a bit….I did find out one thing about this house putting up the shades yesterday…all of the trim is oak and I wonder why anyone would paint fine grained oak? Now that complicates the interior rehab for me…do I strip and finish it or do I just sand and repaint? If I strip it, that won’t go with the grey that I planned to paint the interior so I’ll have to think about it…I already have too much work to do on the inside and don’t need more work…I may do a test strip to see what it looks like but it would be cool to have oak trim…I wonder what color of paint would go with that color trim? Hmmmm…not much to do today…after I try to get on the bike, I may mow the lawn today and see if the fix on the mower works…will probably have to rework it but I need it to last until winter….and I need to trim branches some time this week but my thumb is not going to allow me to do much….damn….more later….

Well…damn..crashed the bike again this aft and I am a little pissed…some idiot parked his trailer right across the trail so I tried to go around him on the abandoned train tracks that run alongside it…but there was a huge hidden hole that pitched me off the bike and into the street…tore the skin off the back of my right thumb that had just started to heal after the last injury and took a big chunk out of the thumbnail…and jammed the thumb joint that has arthritis in it and it has swelled up quite a bit…and I took a big patch of skin off my left knee…can barely move my thumb but I don’t think it’s broken since I can still move it….and all just because some asshole didn’t care that he blocked off the trail….but that will keep me off the bike tomorrow since I can’t shift the bike with the injury….damn, and I have things to do around here that I can’t do now…I’m glad I got the shades done this morning….crap, crap, crap…

Well…running late today with not getting up til around 7 for the last time…don’t feel as sore as I expected from riding in the wind yesterday but I do feel my legs burning a bit but not much more than normal after a two ride day…I do feel pretty burned out for some reason and it may be that I tossed and turned a lot in bed last night and only had a grilled cheese for dinner to go with the third of a chicken breast and some onion rings for lunch…I do need to run an errand this morning as I wait for the temp to come up before I get on the bike…going to get the new dining room shades and some self tapping screws to try to fix the mower so I can mow the lawn again…the grass is still growing like crazy and I still need to feed it with the fall food I got last week…and I need to do some tree trimming before winter to keep the branches off the power and cable lines….so maybe that today, too, but I’m not sure yet….the coffee hasn’t started to work and I just want to sit here for a while first….need to read some news and think for a while first….and get the cobwebs out of my brain….more later…

Well…I did get out for two rides today which were almost as brutal as the one that hurt my ribs Saturday….and I know I’m going to hurt like crazy tomorrow…but there is good news…I got some work done today…as I mentioned earlier, I planned to clean the two windows in the dining room and get ready to replace the crappy shades in there with actual white ones…and I got them done! And I’ve figured out a method that appears to be the most efficient way to clean them and the second one took about half the time as the first one…and they look so good finally being clean that I can see through them for the first time…now I can open them for ventilation that I couldn’t before with all of the dirt that was in them and I’ll be able to let some sun in when I get shades that work…will probably do the three in the kitchen tomorrow and then I’ll be down to 6 to go….still can’t believe how much dirt they collect in the bottom of them…but I think with getting grass in all of the bare spots that used to be half the lawn, there will be less loose dirt to blow around and maybe they will stay cleaner longer…hope so…

Well…running about on time this morning with getting up at 6:13 and I am sore from riding in the wind yesterday….my ribs on my right side have been sore since I got off the bike and that normally happens in over 20 mph winds…but, I’ll be out this morning with it being almost calm but I will have to wait until the temp comes up some…and it gets light…still not used to it being dark so late in the morning and I get a little antsy waiting to get out…I guess I’ll have to cope with that since it will only get worse…didn’t get much done yesterday and it looks like I’ll be down to one ride again today but I do want to start on the fall cleaning of the windows since I have 11 of them to do and some of them are pretty dirty…the heat has been on since yesterday around noon and that is one thing that was a relief when it came on….I always feel that way in the fall but I have to remember that this one is newer and should start and run all winter with just a little wd on the combustion blower…I am going to tear into it this week to see about the bearings on the blower to see if they need lube or if they are sealed…it does feel good to know that I have enough cash to buy a new one if I need it…not much to do today…just going to get the first ride in as soon as it gets light if it’s over 50 but I haven’t looked at that yet…and I do have to clean the dining room widows today and measure the shades so I can get new ones that work and put them up this week….and there are races on this aft so I want to be done before them….more later…..

Well…that was brutal…after the temp came up around 8, I went out to get on the bike since it was 52 and the weather channel said the wind was blowing around 10 and I’ve dealt with that plenty of times out here…but, they were wrong, oh so wrong….when I made the turn across the flats next to the lake, I knew it had to be blowing more than that since I could barely move even with being all the way down to 3rd on the back sprockets when I normally go through there in 7th….but the wind was coming from the NW so I decided to carry on and struggled all the way out to the lake…by then, the wind was blowing so hard I had to pedal down the steep downhill to the beach when I can normally coast down it at 20mph or so….on the way back, I used my patented way to measure the true wind speed and got about 22 and I never go out in winds that high…and it’s supposed to blow harder later in the day so it looks like a one ride day but we’ll see…my legs already hurt like crazy and the ride took almost an hour and a half and it normally takes about an hour and change….soccer time…

Well…darn, I wonder if my wake up times are going to cycle all the way through to the times I go to bed? This morning I went from 5 yesterday  back to 4 but I was able to get back to sleep and didn’t get out of bed til almost 7 so I guess that better than yesterday…feel pretty beat up today and that is with just one ride yesterday and I won’t be able to get out this morning since it is only 45 out here and that is too cold to go out in shorts…and Man U plays at 10 so that means the earliest I could get out is around noon unless Man U stinks up the place against the Foxes and I just give up on them for the day….Michigan doesn’t play today so that will help me get on the bike twice so I can get to 4K miles this weekend and then keep racking up the miles to see where I end up this year…I am losing my motivation to ride…well, and to do almost anything and I wonder why that would be? Just tired, I think and that may need a couple of rest days to get over that…and just get the fall cleaning started…need to do all of the windows to get the dirt out of them that blows around everywhere up here…but I think I’ve helped that by growing grass in the half of the back yard that was bare when I moved in here….not much to do today….yeah, that’s not true…have so much to do that it is depressing…but I don’t want to do any of it right now…just want coffee and to read some news with soccer on in the background….damn, I’m getting old….

Well…I think I hit the wall today and I am just so damn tired of working all the time….got on the bike for the first ride a little after 9:30 and then back here to mow the lawn…the fix on the mower crapped out after almost all the mowing and that was disappointing…so, right after lunch, I waded back into trying to fix it again….used JB again but filled the stripped out screw hole with it and then screwed the screw into the hole to get it as tight as I could and I hope the JB will hold it in there…and I made a clip out of some extra siding and glued that over a flange on the part of the actuator that has a broken screw in it and I hope that will relieve the pressure on the JB and hold it in place…an that took an hour and a half and I am just getting done and it’s almost 2:30….may have to buy a new mower if this doesn’t work since I need one to pick up the leaves and I can’t get a new transmission….and that sucks since I really do like this one…oh, well…and I feel guilty that I only did one ride today…but it is going to rain here in a few minutes so that is my excuse…..maybe more later…