Well…as you know, I find amusement in some pretty strange places…but that keeps me smiling when I could look at it differently…just this week, I was looking at the ad for my daily deals store to see the specials for the week, and came across what they called herbed cheese with garlic and that kind of put a light on in my head about a cheese like that that I really liked many years ago called Boursin…a soft, spreadable cheese that has herbs a lots of garlic in it…so, I decided to check it out since I don’t have a lot to do and found that…surprise, the cheese they had on sale was the same Boursin cheese that I used to pay almost 5 bucks a package for…but it was so good it was worth it for a treat every once in a while. But, this Boursin was not 5 bucks, or 3 bucks or even a buck…they were selling it for 88 cents for the same 5 oz. package that I used to pay 5 bucks for…so, being a person of excess at times, I bought 4 of them and it was so good that I went back and bought 3 more today…so I now have 6 packages in the freezer and it makes me laugh every time I open it…I mean 30 bucks of cheese for 5 bucks? Too good of  a deal for me to pass up even if it is bad for me and I will probably die after eating it…but, I’ll die happy…

Well…geez…got the grocery run done early today and got back here by 11 minutes after 7 and it only took me 14 minutes to read the paper…not sure why I’ve been in so much of a hurry today but maybe it’s that I feel okay…mostly okay, that is, I think I have a cold with the coughing and runny nose this morning but I have noticed that things are starting to flower so it could be allergies…but that doesn’t explain being warm to the point of sweating right now…feel okay so I guess I can ignore that and just get on with the day….I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but with the wind blowing at 20, it was brutal coming back to the West and that left me so sore that I had to take something for it last night….maybe that’s why I feel better this morning? The lack of pain is a welcome change from my normal creakiness in the morning….I finally got my stuff put back in my storage closet yesterday after they finished repairing the ceiling and it makes this place look so much bigger…I do need to clean some today with a run up to Mt. P happening tomorrow morning which will ensure I won’t get anything done then…but, that’s okay…don’t have a lot to do in here…if I just keep my glasses off, the place looks perfectly fine…more later….

Well…not sure why I can’t get started but I’ve been up for an hour and I’m just pouring my first cup of coffee….one good thing is I’m not too sore today…so far…and I slept as okay as I can so maybe that’s all the start I can hope for…one of these days, I’m going to break out of my routine and wait until later to do this…if I can put it out of my mind enough that is…okay, that won’t work..this gets my head started clearing in the morning and I do need that…it was an okay day yesterday and I did get out to ride in shorts but that is not going to happen today…the high is still going to be in the 40′s so it looks like light thermasuit to ride in today…but that looks like it is going to change for the weekend with it getting to almost 70 but then back to the 40′s again for the next two weeks and that is damn annoying…oh, well…April in Michigan…at least there is no snow in the forecast and that is a possibility any time until May…not much to do today…I ran errands yesterday so I don’t have to do that today…but, I do have to do some cleaning and I should be able to put my stuff back on the shelves after they finish up the ceiling repairs… so that will be my day….more later…

Well…got all the way to 6 again this morning and seem to have slept okay…but I did sleep on my right shoulder and it hurts again and is very stiff….still feel exhausted, though, and I think that’s more from the lack of calories than anything else…I did have an interesting day yesterday with getting my taxes in and having to write checks for 2500 bucks but I am glad that I had the money to do it…and I got a call from my oldest son to let me know he is engaged to his girlfriend whom I met last fall in NYC…pretty cool and great news…so it was a good day even though I had to lay out a bunch of cash…other than that, didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I have errands to run this morning…going to head out to DD to get a pork loin for 88 cents a pound and that will be the first red meat I’ve had since I had a burger in NYC last September…but, I can’t pass up 88 cents a pound….I should get some cleaning done today and I probably will do the bathroom this morning since this is not a workout day and I don’t have anything else to do….more later….

Well…I am still a little amused when I replaced the ink tanks in my Epson printer with generic ones and got essentially that message when I hit the print button…that using non Epson inks will probably ruin your printer, anything you’re printing, and start WWIII. But, I decided to chance it since I got all 4 tanks for less than one Epson tank…and that is just nuts…I know that the printers are just loss leaders to get you to buy the much more profitable ink, but there is no way they have more than a buck fifty in each tank…and they charge almost 25 bucks for each one…and that is only 10 bucks less than I paid for the printer…the weird thing is they have a little button in the printer software that says to “continue printing” even after the dire warning comes up. I will say this about this Epson…when I fired it up for the first time after not using it for a few months and it barely printed since the nozzles were dried out and clogged, all I had to do was run the head cleaning program twice and it prints like new…something that the the three Canon printers I’ve had wouldn’t do…once they were clogged, that was it…there was no bringing them back and I just had to throw them away…I was kind of hoping for an explosion and ink flying everywhere…that would have helped alleviate the boredom…

Well…got all the way to fresh coffee smell o’clock before I got out of bed this morning and that is a little later than normal…and I slept on my right shoulder again and it is grinding and popping like crazy like it has swelling in it again…and it hurts in new places so that will take a while to figure out….still feel pretty crappy just like I have for a while now but I hope that will get better today…not sure why I think that I will but I can hope…it’s kind of funny that I hadn’t used my instant pot for a month and then used it three times over the weekend…and now I don’t have to cook again until wed or so but I do have to decide what to do with the 4 boneless skinless thighs I still have in the fridge…will probably just freeze them for another time…didn’t do much yesterday and today looks the same but I won’t have all of the sports that kept me busy so I have to think of other things to keep me from boredom…not sure what that would be but maybe the coffee will get me thinking…more later…

Well….there’s progress on sleeping today with not getting up until after 6…yeah, small progress, but progress and I’ll take anything I can get….still don’t have a lot of energy yet and I have been coughing and sneezing this morning so I’m not sure what that is about…nothing is blooming yet so there can’t be any pollen but it sure feels like allergies…I think I’ll stop talking about that, too…I did get the new tires for the bike and will have to put one on the back this week since the rear tire is bald and I noticed it has some holes in it…small ones, but holes that can split and make the tire come apart…but, not today…I think I’m going to take the day off the bike today since it is going to stay in the 30′s and I just don’t want to be cold anymore….I did make instant pot refried beans yesterday and they came out pretty good with no fat or salt in them… a little bland but a good base for refining the flavor….and, made this way, they are pretty healthy and full of fiber…I wonder why the canned ones aren’t made this way…they have so much salt and fat in them I can’t eat them anymore….can’t wait to try them in a burrito…not much to do today…I got my printer working yesterday and that was really the only thing I had to do…other than cleaning….more later…

Well…I’m tired….and I’ve only been up for an hour or so…that seems to be the new normal and something that I’ve been bitching about for too damn long….not sure what to do about it other than bitch, though…oh,well…just need to have the coffee start to work and I’ll be okay…got a nice bide ride in yesterday but it looks like today is going to be a bust with it raining already and a huge blob of it still coming from the south…maybe I’ll just make today the day off I was going to take tomorrow….but, we’ll see…at lease I won’t even be attempting going out until the afternoon but it is going to be cold so I’ll be back in light thermasuit and gloves today…the premier league comes back today with Man U playing at 11 and F1 qualifying is on at the same time so there will be some flipping this morning…I am going to try a new recipe for boneless/skinless thighs for lunch and cook a little rice to go with it….not sure if I’ll use the instant pot but probably should since I haven’t used it in a while….but, right now there is an F2 race on and I need more coffee so I’ll end here….more later…

Well…made it all the way to 5:37 this morning and that is just not enough sleep with not getting to bed until almost 12 last night….feel pretty crappy right now and I hope that goes away soon but I’m pretty sure it won’t…have been exhausted for the past week or so and that is getting really old…and the disruption around here with them patching the holes in my ceiling and putting in the new disposal is  a pain that will continue today with more ceiling work to be done…just want them to finish so I can put everything back in it’s place and get things back to normal…I did get a nice bike ride in with no fleece yesterday and it was quite early for that this year…but, it looks like the weather is going to be changing back to cold starting tomorrow and that is a little depressing…but it’s Michigan so that is to be expected….didn’t get much done with all of the crap going on around here yesterday and today looks the same…I do need to run out and get some chicken at Aldi’s later and get a workout in but that will be about it for the day if I continue to feel this lousy…more later…

Well…running a little early for it being a grocery day and I’m not sure whey that would be…had to run the entire grocery section from front to back and had lots of stuff to buy so that should have take more time…oh, well…didn’t sleep all that hot last night and was up by 6 or so and I should feel worn out from that but I don’t feel too bad this morning…I wonder if it’s the bug going away or that I’ve started to try eating more…whatever it is, it is nice to not be exhausted just walking out to the couch in the morning…I did have a nasty surprise last night when my disposal started leaking like a sieve and dumping water all over my kitchen floor…so now, I’ll have to call it in at 9 so they can come and put in a new one and I can use my kitchen sink again…may have them replace the kitchen faucet, too since it has been leaking for a while now and my sprayer fell apart a couple of weeks ago…so that will screw up my plans of getting a bike ride in early today with it being almost 50 already…got out in shorts yesterday and want to do the same today…it is just more fun riding without the thermasuit and gloves…more later…