Well…that title may be a little misleading…I AM depressed about politics and how the repubs are killing this country, but I’m not depressed about anything else…I just don’t want to write about it today…well…maybe later but not right now…had a pretty pleasant surprise the other day when I stumbled on the Led Zeppelin concert film ‘The song Remains the Same” on AXS tv while I was just a little bored and running through the channels…damn good to see them from the same year that I saw them live in Chicago in January of 75…and it was pretty funny seeing Jimmy Page using a theremin on stage when I just saw Joe Bonamassa do the same thing in a concert from a couple of years ago….if he comes to the area, I will probably spend the cash to go see him since he plays the kind of rock, blues, funk that I like….what else? Oh, I did get the spring cleaning of the car done today just in time for it to start raining in a few minutes but I knew that was coming over the next few days and I don’t care…the inside of the glass will stay clean even if it rains and I like the way it looks with the water beading on the paint from waxing it and the glass from the Rain X I applied to it today…hmmm…that’s enough for now….I want to take it easy for a while since I’ve been on the go since 6:30 this morning….more later…

Well…running really early this morning with getting to this at 5:44 but I have a reason for it…have a busy morning set up with the grocery run…then I have to wash and wax the car and do the first total cleaning of the interior and the glass…then I need to get a bike ride in before it rains…it’s supposed to be a two ride day today and it might be since I just checked the weather and the rain is holding off until around 4 this afternoon and it is going to be 75 today…don’t want to waste a day like that…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done since I felt like crap most of the day…just no energy again and that is getting annoying…I know I’m doing it to myself by not eating enough but I think there may be something else going on…not sure what that would be but I am going to try to eat more today and see if that helps…I did get out and get some cheap chicken at DD..couldn’t pass that up at 49 cents a pound but now I have 10 pounds of leg quarters in the fridge that I have to partially thaw so I can break it up and freeze some…don’t think I’ll get to anything else today but there is going to be lots of rain the next few days so I’ll have plenty of time to clean….more later….

Well…feel like crap this morning and I think it’s an extension of how I felt yesterday all day…after I got back here after the second ride, I felt so worn out and lousy I thought I may have a bug of some sort…still coughing this morning and have no energy so it’s going to be a low key morning as I ease into it…I seem to have slept okay last night and nothing hurts too much so the ibuprofen I took last night seems to have worked but I am still a little concerned about taking one every day….I think I am going to have to alternate 30 mile days with 15′s on the bike…just too damn old to do 30′s every day and I don’t want to make riding a chore so I won’t do it…I do have some errands to run this morning so that means I won’t get on the bike until later today…I want to have a top down run to get some cheap chicken at 49 cents a pound and the car could use some running…haven’t used it at all this week and that is not good…and I do want to check on the fix for the coolant leak….not much to do today…the way I feel right now, I don’t think I’ll be doing much for a while…need lots of coffee to jump start my day….more later…

Well…it’s another 5:04 morning…sung to the tune of “Tequila Sunrise” by the Eagles…even though that was early, I still slept okay but my shoulder is aching today and I must have done something to it overnight…darn….I did have a dream with golf in it for some reason and I had broken my driver somehow…that whole thing was weird since I haven’t had the clubs out for over two years now…I think I may have to go out to the driving range next week just to see how the shoulder would hold up to it…the pain in my shoulder may have something to do with going back to 30 miles yesterday after “only” doing 15 miles Sunday…and it looks like the weather will be nice enough to do the second ride this afternoon with no fleece and that will be nice…it looks like a warm up is coming and the first wisps of spring will be here by the end of the week with temps approaching 80…I think I’ll finally be able to get the spring cleaning done on the car…the glass is just filthy and it needs to be vacuumed and there is winter’s worth of dust on the plastic that has to be removed…and that will make me happy after fixing the coolant leak yesterday…not much to do today….I do need to cook and clean the bathroom along with dishes and laundry so I will have something to do today…more later…

Well…as you know, I have been having a problem with coolant leaks on the car for the past couple of weeks with the top of the overflow tank being soaked in coolant and leaving small puddles under the car…so, this morning, I decided to check it out to see where the leak was coming from so I didn’t have to think about it anymore…so, after I fired the car up and let it run for a few minutes, I could see that the coolant was coming out around where the overflow tube is attached to the fitting that is on the cap….so, I thought it was broken since it is 25 years old plastic but when I took it apart to check it, I found that the tube that goes down into the tank was completely plugged so the pressure that made was pushing the coolant out around where the tube connects to the cap…so, after cleaning that out and putting it back together, I let the car run for a few minutes and no leak so that’s a relief and makes my day…it looks like I’m due for another coolant system flush….

Well…feel quite out of sorts this morning and I’m not sure why that would be…slept okay last night and I really don’t hurt too much so that is a welcome development…part of that is not doing 30 miles yesterday and taking it easy on the short ride that I did…okay, and the ibuprofen I took last night but I needed that for the pain in my neck that would have kept me up all night…need to make sure that I don’t let that be a habit so I think I’ll skip it this evening no matter how much pain I’m in…and I think I’ll have to do the same thing with the red dots that I take for my allergies since I’ve had them for 3 days now and I do have to think about my BP…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I do need to cook today since I used up all of the leftovers I had in the fridge…have been thinking about making some Alfredo for a couple of weeks now and today may be the day…but, I have some thighs thawing that need to be used, too, so I’ll have to think about that….more later…

Well….just can’t get started today and there really is no reason for it other than I burned myself out yesterday on the bike and I’m still feeling it this morning…slept okay last night but was up at 5 again today even after not hitting the sack until almost midnight…that might be one of the reasons I’m so wiped out this morning…or I’m just getting old but I can’t accept that I’m going to feel this way forever…maybe the second or third cup of coffee will help…I am still thinking about taking the day off the bike but that will be harder than going out so we’ll see…maybe just a leisure ride to take a look at the scenery…but, that won’t happen until this afternoon since there is an F1 race on in a while and then Man U plays their last game at 10 so I think I’ll take a relaxing morning and just read some….had coolant on the top of the overflow tank again today so that will be a project for tomorrow to find out where it’s coming from but it should be an easy one…not much to do today…need to continue to work on the bathroom but with my energy level so low, that may not happen….more later…

Well…as you know, I have been doing 30 miles a day on the bike for the past 9 days but with the rides today, that is enough…I can’t remember tougher rides that these today and my legs, neck, and shoulders are screaming in pain that just continues to get worse as every day goes by…I guess an old body just can’t take the abuse. It was torture out there today with the wind blowing almost 20 mph but I survived the first one okay…the second one, not so much…I should have known that it was going to be bad when I was hobbling just to get to the bike in here and had trouble carrying it up the stairs…by the time I got out a half mile I was struggling so badly that I almost turned around but, because I am an idiot, I kept on and pushed through til I got back here. The way I feel right now, I will need an off day tomorrow to try to heal up some and I am trying to tamp down the guilt by reminding myself that I’ve done enough miles in the past 9 days to carry me to the end of the month…but, I would like to get to the goal of 500 miles for a month for the first time so that means more 30′s to make that happen…yeah, I know…I’m an idiot…

Well…I wonder if 3:34 is a new record for getting up for me? Okay, I didn’t really get up then but I was awake then and barely got back to sleep before I got out of bed at 6 or so…pretty damn tired right now and I think part of that is going 8 days of 30 miles per on the bike…there has to be some fallout from that since I’m not young anymore but I’m not too sore so maybe another one today…it’s going to depend on the temp and when it comes up enough to get out with the frost happening out there right now… and yesterday was pretty brutal with the wind blowing almost 20 all day…had a weird leak of coolant in the car yesterday where the top of the overflow tank was covered with coolant and there is no way that should be…checked the hose that goes to it and everything else but couldn’t find any reason it would be there…will have to wait until I run it and get it hot to check to see what that is about….at least it going to something simple to fix when I find it…didn’t get anything else done yesterday but I do want to do the bathroom today and maybe a little kitchen cleaning, too, but I’m not sure about that…more later….

Well…just got back from my 8th day of 30 mile rides on the bike and I really can’t figure out why I’m doing it…you know I have the most well developed sense of guilt of anyone I know…guilt about what I eat, guilt about spending money, guilt about almost everything and it appears that my guilt has caused a paradigm shift in my thinking about riding the bike. It started out just doing one double just to see if I could do it and to see how much damage it would do…then, the second day, I felt okay and the weather was nice so I thought why not? Let’s do another one…and that led to day three, four, five, six seven and eight…the first 7 was to get to a goal but I met that yesterday…and today I went out early for the first time and froze my fingers and toes in the cold and brutal wind…so, I was going to skip this afternoon…after all, I had ridden a lot more than normal all week….but, I just couldn’t do it…no matter how inviting the couch was, or how fatigued my legs are, it now appears that one ride a day is no longer enough for my guilt and it is going to torture me by forcing 30 miles a day from now on…not sure I like that….