Well…my coffee is not hot enough…aargh…back the microwave…okay…that’s better…but it doesn’t fix that it was another 5:34 morning today….but, I feel okay so maybe that’s enough…I think I slept okay last night…for me..so let’s not talk about that anymore…I did take an ibuprofen last night and probably took three years off my life but I hurt frickin everywhere after doing 5 days straight of 30 mile rides…and I have a brand new pain…yay? On the ride yesterday, I got a shooting pain under my right kneecap that I’ve never had before that is really annoying and it continued after I got off the bike…doesn’t hurt this morning but I think my legs are saying they need to have me back off a bit…so today will just be 15 miles and then it looks like a rainout tomorrow so I’ll take the day off…it may be cool to have thunderstorms all day if the forecast is correct…I did see a really cool soccer match between Liverpool and Barcelona yesterday in the semi finals of the Champions league…they play two games and use the aggregate score to see who goes to the finals…Liverpool was down 3-0 from the first game and came back to win this one 4-0 which sent them through to the final…pretty cool and there is another one on this aft with Spurs and Ajax…so guess what I’ll be doing this afternoon? Yep…not cleaning again but I do have to cook today…going to fire up the instant pot and do a pork loin that has been int the freezer a while…so, red meat and ibuprofen…crap, I’ll probably die tomorrow…more later…

Well…just can’t get motivated this morning and that makes me late to get this done….my allergies were killing me last night and I had to take two different kinds of meds for it…it seems that everyone was mowing their lawns on my bike route yesterday and it blocked my head up like concrete…still have a low grade headache right now but I can’t take anything for it after last night so I guess I’ll just have to live with it…slept okay last night and feel okay this morning with very little pain but I took something for that last night,too…have been avoiding taking ibuprofen lately since it is supposed to kill you but I did some research and the warnings start to kick in if you take more than 2400 mg a day…but, I never take more than one 200 mg a day so I think I’ll risk it for the pain and inflammation relief…even after 4 30 mile days in a row, the one ibuprofen I took last night got rid of almost all of the pain….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I will clean some today…and will probably only do 15 miles today since it is cold and rainy out there and I just don’t want to get wet when it’s only 46 degrees out there….where the hell is our spring? Just looked and there is no 70 degree weather for the rest of the month…and that sucks…more later….

Well…I was pleasantly surprised today when I opened my mailbox and found my passport had arrived! It’s the first one I’ve had in my lifetime and the possibilities it opens up are pretty darn cool…whether or not I’ll use it much is not really the point…it was something I’ve wanted for a few years now and if not now, when? It even has a good picture of me in it and, from what I understand, that’s pretty unusual. Now maybe I can take advantage of the 49 dollars to Europe fares that I have been seeing on the internet…probably won’t but it is cool that it is now a possibility….oh, and it only took three weeks to get it…pretty cool…

Well…that was an interesting night…started to sneeze and cough like crazy when I went to bed last night and that kept me up until after midnight and you would think that I would be able to make up for it by sleeping in a little…but no, back up at 5:45 today and I am exhausted…again…but part of that may be doing my second 30 miler in a row…had to take something for the pain last night since my neck and shoulders hurt as much as my legs…I’m now starting to re-think doing 30′s every day…maybe every other day would be a better plan? Still coughing a lot this morning and that is just damn annoying….didn’t get a lot done but the bike ride yesterday and today looks the same with the napcar race being rained out and rescheduled for noon today so I need to get out and get the first ride in this morning before the rain comes so I can nap during it…still no cooking today or tomorrow for that matter since I’m still using up the leftovers from the cooking binge last week…still have a tray of thighs that I got Thursday that will need to be frozen today so that means I won’t have to buy any protein this week…unless daily deals has something cheap…I should clean some today but, how I feel right now, that is not going to happen…more later….

Well…it’s another Sunday morning at 7 am and the coffee is starting to work but this still may be a short one…didn’t get up until almost 6 and that was welcome and a long night for me…cripes, I’m sore today from doing 30 miles yesterday and I am thinking about doing it again today if I can get out early enough but Man U is going to dictate that…and the temp…they play at 9 and I think I’ll watch the first half and see how they play…they have been really bad lately and it may be a good thing that the season is ending in the next couple of weeks…had some problems with the bike yesterday and the damn rear shifter is driving me nuts…but I was just thinking if that is the only thing I have to bitch about, things are okay and I’ll figure it out at some point…I do have to get under the car this week and lube up the parking brakes since they are hanging up and not releasing but that is no big deal…just need to do it but can’t get motivated right now…don’t have to cook today with trying to use up all the leftovers and I can’t figure out how I ended up with so many…still have stir fry chicken and a homemade pizza to use up and that will last me the next three days so I may have to freeze the chicken thighs that I bought Thursday…okay, need more coffee and to watch the MotoGP race that is coming on in a minute so I’ll end here….more later…

Well…damn…I just want one night that I sleep…I know I bitch about that a lot but I remember sleep and it was a good thing…oh, well….almost made it 6 today and I guess that’s better than 5….I am sore this morning with doing a double on the bike yesterday and that is the plan for the day today, too….I am going to take something this morning for the pain since both shoulders now hurt and I think my left one is just the yearly pain that moves around each year to a different body part….at least it’s not my elbows this year…that was bad a couple of years back when I couldn’t pick anything up without screaming pain…okay, that’s enough about that…I did have an okay day yesterday and got a few things done…damn, just checked the Mega site and didn’t win 250 mil…but, I could win 300 mil on Tuesday so there is still hope….I do have to clean today but I’m not sure how much of that I’ll get done…still need to do the kitchen and vacuum and I think I can wedge that in between or after the bike rides today….more later…

Well…got all the way to 5:53 in bed this morning but tossed and turned all night with losing an ear plug at some point during the night…I am so used to the silence they afford that when I lose one my furnace sounds like a 747 taking off and that wakes me up all night…darn…slept on my right shoulder all night and that spiked the pain in it and I can barely move it right now…this happened even before I crashed on the bike so I’m not sure if it’s normal or not…just getting old I guess….and I feel pretty beat up everywhere, too, so it is going to take a while to get everything working this morning….I do need to take something for the pain before I get on the bike today…have been avoiding it since ibuprofen will kill you if you just look at the bottle according to the latest breathless warnings…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I will clean some today after I make a pizza for lunch…the ingredients are a week old and need to be used so I can get to the stuff I bought yesterday….going to make some instant pot chicken over the weekend and I do need to make some alfredo…have been thinking about that for two weeks and just need to do it….more later….

Well…I really don’t know how I can be running late with getting up before 5 but I am…oh, well…I wonder if I can say that I slept okay when I got about 4 1/2 hours of sleep last night? That follows two days of 5 hours each and I should be exhausted from it but I don’t feel too bad this morning…and there was not even a nap to compensate yesterday so maybe today…when I was heading out to do the grocery run, I noticed there is nothing leaking under the car and cars are not supposed to fix themselves…so that means it was probably not my car that was leaking, I just parked on someone elses leak….and that is pretty cool since I don’t have to climb under it…other than to lube up the parking brakes that have started to hang up…forgot to do it while I was putting the summer wheels on so that will be a project for next week…I did get a bike ride in yesterday between the rain but a big part of the trail was flooded and I had to ride through foot deep water for a quarter of a mile to get to high ground…my shoes are still soaked from it and that is going to be unpleasant when I go out later….not much to do today…no errands to run but I do have cleaning to do…the kitchen needs work and that will be the focus of my day…if I can focus later…

Well….that didn’t work…up at 5:03 this morning and I just knew that I wasn’t going back to sleep so I just gave up…and that makes me a little early here today…didn’t go to bed until late, too so that makes the night about a 5 hour one that is just not enough…oh, well…I’ll live through it and might just take a nap later to make up for it…okay, that made me laugh…that’s not going to happen but it’s a good thought…I did get a bike ride in yesterday but it was only 45 when I went out and the wind was blowing 20 out of the East and that made for a brutal ride that I didn’t warm up from all afternoon…it looks like I won’t get out until late afternoon today since it is raining now and it is supposed to rain all day with almost an inch forecast….I am getting really tired of all the damn rain and it is late enough in the spring that I can’t dismiss it by saying “at least it’s not snow” anymore…just want a couple of days that I can put the top down on the car and enjoy some sun…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but some errands and today looks the same…I did get two dozen eggs yesterday at 79 cents each and I think I need to make some omelets since I do have all of the stuff to make them that I bought last week for pizza…and I do need to make another pizza before it all spoils…but not today…I need coffee, coffee, coffee and to read some news before I do anything else…more later…

Well…not sure how I want to start this one today…it’s the end of the month and another month that I made the goal of two a day but I have been doing that for years now so that’s not really any accomplishment…hmmm…I did sleep pretty crappy last night if that’s a way to start…but, I don’t feel too bad so I guess I can live with that…and taking the day off the bike really helped my legs and feet…not too sore today but I do have an overall stiffness that is probably that I’m just getting old and will have to live with that…I did work on the bike yesterday trying to get the oil and crud out of the shifter and sprockets and did get some of it out but without some high pressure water, there is just so much I can do…I did re lube the shifter and chain after I finished since I noticed that the chain is showing some wear and will probably have to be replaced soon….I am hoping to get out on the bike later today but may have lunch with T so that will make it quite late and maybe warm enough…I just hate the cold lately and I refuse to go back to long pants and gloves…it is almost May after all…I haven’t even gotten into shorts yet this year and it looks like that is going to wait a while yet…not much to do today…just going to ease into the day and have more coffee…I am going to buy some eggs for the first time this year since my daily deals store has extra large ones for 79 cents a dozen…I know I shouldn’t eat them since they will probably kill me but I do miss making omelets and having them sunny side up with toast….more later….