Well…4 days without any allergy meds and my head is completely plugged up this morning…but, I don’t have a headache so I guess that’s something…and I slept all the way in until 6 so I think that makes it 6 days in a row of pretty good sleep and that never happens…I’ll take it but it is still a little confusing….I abused myself on the bike again yesterday and that leaves me in quite a bit of pain this morning but it looks like I’m going to get a day off this weekend with rain in the forecast and that can’t come too soon…getting too damn old to take 30 miles a day every day and I don’t want it to turn into work so I don’t want to ride at all and I’m edging up to that point…I do need to cook today with 10 pounds of chicken in the fridge and most of that will end up in the freezer if I have room…will have to fire up the instant pot tomorrow but I need to find a new spice blend that will kick up the flavor some….kind of bored with what I have been using and I have a full spice cupboard to choose from so I just need to search for something…just bought some smoked paprika that could be part of it….more later….

Well…running a little early for a Thursday and I’m not sure how I pulled that off with feeling as crappy as I do…on the third day of no allergy meds and the low grade headache that comes from that is starting to get annoying…but, I can breathe some so we’ll see how that works out over the course of the day…slept okay for the 5th day in a row now and I am still confused about that…haven’t done anything different so I’m not sure how to replicate it when it goes away…I did get out to have a couple with K yesterday…oh, okay, that’s why I feel crappy today…had some fun and it was nice to get out of here for a while….I did get two rides in yesterday, too, and I think I’ll try that again today but I just can’t get started right now…I should be on the bike but the couch and coffee is a bit better of a draw so I think I’ll do that instead…and I do need to read the news to ease into the day…didn’t get anything done yesterday and will probably do the same today…just can’t get motivated this early…oh, I did do something yesterday…a load of laundry…does that count? more later…

Well….sitting here trying to decide whether to go out for a second ride and thought I’d come here and talk about something that came to me on the ride this morning…as you know from my rant about food yesterday, a new study has shown that eating chicken is not much better for your cholesterol levels than eating red meat…that was pretty depressing given that I gave up red meat last year for just that purpose…but, on the bike this morning, I remembered one of the things that not eating red meat does do…like lowering your chances of getting colon cancer by almost 50%….that made me feel better about missing out on burgers, steaks, and pork chops and will keep me motivated to continue just eating chicken and fish…along with more veggies….so, this was not a rant today…just don’t have it in me….

Well…running a little late this morning with not getting up until almost 7…feel a little crappy this morning and part of it is the experiment of not taking any antihistamines last night to see if that was helping me sleep…I’m completely plugged up this morning but I slept okay so I think I can say that it’s not the drugs…but, that leaves me confused since it’s been years since I’ve slept well…hmmm….not taking any ibuprofen last night has left me really sore this morning, though, after a double on the bike yesterday so I may have to re-think that….I guess my liver will thank me but being in pain is not a lot of fun…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but there is rain coming in so I will have some time to clean today…and I have a couple of errands to run today…even though chicken has been shown to be as bad for you as beef, I still can’t pass up leg quarters for 59 cents a pound at Aldi’s so that will be a stop….and I am going to try to kill myself with a pizza from DD for 2 bucks….I am going to skip the chips from now on and that depresses me some…oh, well…more later….

Well…After trying for so long to try to eat better; cutting out red meat and eggs etc. and getting much more exercise, new studies out over the past week basically say don’t bother…everything’s bad for you and your going to die anyway. The food study took a look at the difference between eating a diet with chicken with one of beef for the primary protein and guess what? Yep, they showed there is no difference…or very little difference in cholesterol levels between the two diets other than chicken results in more large cholesterol particles which aren’t as bad for you as the small ones that you get with beef. Essentially, the study said that all of us who are suffering with eating only chicken to try to control our cholesterol really aren’t doing any good, that to be better, you have to eat only fish if you are going to eat animal protein at all…but what does that leave? Going vegan? There is no way that I can afford making fish the primary source of protein at over 6 bucks a pound when I can get chicken for 59 cents a pound….and vegan is not cheap either. So, I think I’ll just start to try to edge to that direction and try to eat many more veggies than I do and hope that helps. Oh, the exercise thing…well…it appears that my chosen mode of exercise, riding my bike, does nothing for preventing osteoporosis…you need the pounding of running to keep the bones strong but I refuse to do that…I used to be a runner and hated it so I wouldn’t do it…I think I’ll do some more research and not hang my behavior on a couple of studies…it is a little disheartening that all the work I’ve done is really for nothing…I guess I’ll just have to think of riding as something I enjoy and that will be the reason for doing it….and there is cardiovascular benefits so that’s something…

Well…okay, this is weird…that was the 4th or 5th day in a row that I slept okay and I think it may be the allergy medicine that I have been taking just to survive…so, tonight, it looks like experiment time to see if that is it…won’t take anything today or tonight…well…maybe some ibuprofen if I do a double today…had a good day yesterday with getting out to shoot pool and a nice top down drive out and back…oh, and I won so that was cool…and I ran the table for one of the games and that never, ever happens….have to look under the car this morning to see if it leaked any after the drive yesterday…not going to worry about it, though, since I don’t drive much but I think I’ll start saving some cash to plan on a new water pump or whatever the leak is…didn’t get anything done yesterday but will try to do something today….not sure what that will be right now but something…only did a single on the bike yesterday but may go out for two today if I feel like it but I have to cook today since I am almost out of leftovers so that will take some time….more chicken…yummy?  More later…

Well…I remembered to come here! Yep, pretty low bar to have a successful start to the morning but what else is there for me? Damn, it’s cold out there this morning with 40 showing up in frickin June…and I had to put the heat on last night but I didn’t run it at 75 like I normally do…just wanted it to not be freezing in here when I got up…slept okay last night and don’t feel to bad this morning but I think I am going to have to make breakfast since I have eggs to use and I know I didn’t eat enough yesterday with getting back out for a second ride…that one was torture when my legs went flat about a mile out and then I had to struggle the rest of the way…but, I survived it and don’t hurt too much today so I guess there is no permanent damage…didn’t get much else done yesterday and probably won’t today, either, but I don’t have a lot to do so that’s okay…might be having pool later today so I need to look for quarters in the drawer…should have enough so I don’t have to go to the bank…I have to start using sunscreen on the bike since my tan is looking really weird again…using my riding gloves has left my hands white but my forearms and legs are getting tanned…might have to drag the tanning chair out again and lie out in the sun….more later…

Well…it finally happened…I completely forgot to come here to do this….not sure why that happened but I did want to get out on the bike early and I was transfixed by the Moto GP race that was on so I’ll blame it on that…can’t remember ever being this late…I did sleep okay last night and don’t feel too bad right now after the ride and a shower so I may go out for a second ride after I make lunch in a few minutes…my back has been hurting since last week and I just can’t get it to crack so I guess I’ll have to work on that later…makes it a little uncomfortable on the bike when the pain shoots down my left leg but I can live with it…didn’t get anything done yesterday but a little cleaning and today will probably be the same with there being two races on this afternoon and I think I’ll take a nap…looks like the heat will be back on tonight with the low getting down to 41…in frickin June…I wonder when we are going to get some 80 degree temps? Oh, well….

Well…another month starts and I’m not sure what I think about that…slept okay last night but the storms that rolled through around 3 woke me up even with ear plugs in…and I stayed awake for a while to see if there were going to be more but no such luck…maybe this afternoon…feel pretty sore almost everywhere today and the tendon pain has settled in my forearms and that is pretty weird for this late in the year…and I can understand the pain in my crash shoulder but having similar pain in my left leaves me scratching my head….oh, well….I did get a double in on the bike yesterday but I’m not sure if I’ll do that today…I think I may just do one early this morning and then clean instead to let everything heal up some…and I do need to cook today since I used up all the leftovers yesterday…might make some stir fry chicken or the last of the red meat that I dug out of the freezer yesterday…haven’t had any pork chops in a long time so that may be nice for a  change…more later…

Well…with getting to 600 miles in one month earlier this week, I had a few days left to try to get to 650 but I missed it by 6 miles today…I could probably have kept going to get there but I am just worn out and don’t want to do any damage…or any more damage, that is…my legs hurt just sitting here and resting my arms on them to type this even hurts…I did see one cool thing in the woods on the second ride that I have never seen before…as soon as I got into the woods, I noticed hundreds of little green caterpillars falling from the trees in what looked like slow motion rain…suspended by their webs as they fell…they were everywhere and I had over 50 of them on my t-shirt when I stopped to brush them off and still had a few when I got back here…just one of the strangest things I have ever seen…now, I’ve seen one or two of them at a time but never the hundreds as today…pretty cool to see something new even at my advanced age….