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…

Well…running a little late this morning and there is no reason for it other than boredom…and not having a bit of motivation…woke up at 5:14 but stayed in bed until almost 6:30…not sleeping but just didn’t want to start the day that early…still damn exhausted as I have been for a week now and I am starting to get a little concerned about that….hmmmm…I finally got a few things done yesterday morning and at least that is something…while I was waiting for the temp to come up enough to ride, I washed the car and put the summer wheels back on the car and I was really surprised at how much just that little bit of work made me hurt later in the day…my left hamstring is hurting again and that’s not the only thing…it felt like everything hurt so I had to take an ibuprofen to make it tolerable…and it is better this morning so I think that was a good idea…I am considering waiting to ride until it is warm enough to get out in shorts today since it is going to be 54 or so but I really don’t like waiting to ride…we’ll see…I do need to get some cleaning done and I am going to try to do that after I have lots more coffee and get some time on the weight machine….more later…

Well…I’m pretty sure you are as tired if the idiot trump as I am so I am not going to write about him today….instead, I’m going to do the first trail update for the year…there’s not a lot to talk about but here goes…it appears that the beavers have left the pond along M-6 some time during my indoor riding…the water level has dropped almost 10 feet since winter and I don’t see any evidence that they are still cutting trees around it….that’s too bad…less entertainment for me…one funny thing happened yesterday while I was on another part of the trail…a mouse came running out of the brush and smacked right into my front tire, flipped about two feet in the air and, if I had been quick enough, I could have reached out and caught it in the air…one of those things that appear to be in slow motion and are so damn amusing that you just have to smile…and the mouse hit the trail and took off running back into the grass so I guess there wasn’t any damage…I sure can’t wait until I can get out in shorts and a t-shirt…it is starting to get annoying always being in thermasuit and gloves…maybe tomorrow…

Well…running late today since my son forgot to renew my domain name and I just got back online right now…I do need to send him a check for 12 bucks to cover it for the year and that’s not bad…I feel quite a bit better today and now I know the exhaustion is from not eating enough since I stuffed myself all day yesterday…well…stuffed myself as much as I can which means going from 1,000 cals to 1,500 but that made the difference for me…I will still think about having a bug since I am still sweating again right now…I need to remember that I can’t assume causality with just one data set but it is good to have a little energy for the first time in a while…I did sleep okay but got up at 5:14 again and that happens enough that I don’t really need to talk about it….no dreams again that I can remember but that just rates an oh, well…I did just get out to get my powerball tickets for the 750 million jackpot for tomorrow night…which would be almost 500 mil in cash and I think I may be able to live on that for a while….I think I’m going to wash the car to get ready to change to my summer wheels tomorrow