Well…running a little late for me this morning and it’s just from going back to bed for an hour after getting up a little after 5…I decided to start trying that instead of just getting up at all hours of the morning and I am surprised that it has been working some….almost got back to sleep before I gave up…I did get some things done around here yesterday and that felt good…my bathroom is finally cleaned and I got some bike stains out of the carpet that have been annoying me for a while…but, I skipped the bike ride yesterday with the wind blowing over 20 for most of the day and it is raining like crazy right now so it looks like I won’t be going out until this afternoon…I do have an errand to run this morning before I get to the workout…GOT starts it’s final season Sunday night and I am going to treat myself to some cheese and crackers…but, I forgot the crackers when I did the grocery run earlier and I need my Mega tickets for tonight…so, out in the rain in a bit…at least it’s not snow….more later…

Well…have reached another milestone here at my site when I noticed this morning that I have done 7,000 of these…7,000…by any measure that is one hell of a lot of posts and I wonder why I keep doing it…okay,, not really…part of it is habit but part of it is to preserve my sanity and give me an outlet for my semi lucid moments…and I am constantly gratified that quite a few people come here every day to read what I have to say…and I do feel an obligation to you to make the effort to stay relevant in these weird, weird times we live in….so, I’m going to keep it up for as long as I can and I hope you keep coming back…I may stumble onto something cool…and you won’t know unless you do….thanks….

Well…it appears like I have an entire day on my hands and I am already trying to find something to do…so, of course, I come here to try to get some thoughts down before the coffee wears off and I lose my motivation…with everything going on in politics these days, it is pretty easy to be overwhelmed and to long for the days of “no drama Obama” when there was not a new scandal every damn day…and it can get wearing just living in this toxic swamp even without paying a lot of attention to the news…and I used to be a news junkie who had tv news on all the time and read 3-5 newspapers a day…but, as the costs of newspapers kept rising, I had to look at the cost and realized I was spending close to 100 dollars a month just for the papers that I read so I cut that out and now limit myself to one per week…what does that have to do with anything? Not much…just a thought…I am little excited to see the Falcon heavy launch this evening…it was supposed to happen last night but high level winds were too strong for safety so tonight looks like the night…and they are going to try to land all three boosters, two back at the launch pad, and one on a drone ship off the Florida coast…the first launch of heavy they landed two of three and it was synchronized and so cool to see…oh, okay….I was going to talk about trump’s sister but I think I’ll do another one for that…

Well…damn…I’m sore this morning and I’m really not sure why that would be…didn’t do a lot but work out and ride the bike yesterday and that would not be the reason I hurt everywhere…but, I do…and my allergies hit like a hammer last night…so bad that I had to take a red dot for it…I was just damn miserable all night and I may have to take another one this morning since the symptoms are still here and I feel like crap from them…man, I feel worn out today and I am glad I did the grocery run yesterday and have nothing to do today…not even going to ride the bike since the wind is already blowing over 20 and it is only going to get worse as the day goes on…I’m hoping that will help with the pain, too, but I may take something for that just to get the swelling down in my shoulder….everything is covered in snow this morning with the storm that came through last night but it should melt off later this morning and then we have thunderstorms possible for later this aft…sound like a good day to hibernate here and just veg all day…not much to do today…if I can get motivated, I may clean some but I can’t promise anything with how I feel right now…need the coffee to work first and to read some news….more later….

Well…now that I’ve started to really pay attention to the quantity of salt in food that I buy, that generated a question to me…why so much damn salt? Went out yesterday to my daily deals store to get some turkey breast they had on sale for 77 cents a pound and made the point to look at the label…in every 2 oz serving, it had almost 400 milligrams of salt in it…or 25% of the amount of salt limit you can have every day…and even to make a sandwich, you would probably have 4-5 ozs and that would put you at the limit for the day…I mean almost 2 grams of salt just in one sandwich? Needless to say, I didn’t buy it and instead bought a whole turkey this morning at 49 cents a pound that has no added salt…but the smallest one I could find was 16 pounds and I think it was a deal for under 8 bucks…and it is the biggest turkey I have ever bought…hope it fits in my roaster….

Well…hmmm…I wonder if the bug is finally leaving me? Slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad right now…even have some energy and that is not too normal for me…at least for the past couple of weeks…and, there is still progress with my shoulder that I am going to test on the weight machine this morning…had hardly any pain overnight and even slept on it…didn’t even think about it for the first time since I hurt it…so, yay….didn’t get a damn thing done yesterday but run an errand to get some bacon for 2.44 a pound…I know I shouldn’t eat it but that was too cheap to pass up and I am really craving a BLT….the exact same bacon is 5.99 at Meijers so that’s a pretty good deal….I did remember that GOT is starting it’s last season Sunday night so I started catching up on season 7 last night and need to get through it before then….don’t remember much of it so it’s almost like seeing it for the first time…not much to do today…Man U plays Barcelona in the champions league this aft but I don’t have much hope they can beat them…at least I’ll start watching it…and Space X is going to launch the second Falcon Heavy at 6:35 this evening and try to recover all three first stage boosters so that will be cool to watch…shouldn’t be too boring of a day…more later….

Well…I guess I slept as well as I can expect with getting up for the first time at 5:14 but going back to bed until almost 6:30….had some weird dreams about heavy earth moving equipment and the brakes not working on the Miata but there was no real story going on so it was a little less than satisfying…still think I have that damn bug with my lungs involved that I will try to burn out…again…on the bike this morning…I seem to have much less lung capacity right now and it shows by the time I’m out a couple of miles and continues for the entire ride…I do have a day off the bike day in my pocket with not taking Sunday off so I can use that this week if need be but that will trigger the guilts and I don’t want that…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I may clean some around here today…just haven’t felt motivated lately and that continues this morning…still pretty exhausted for some reason and the coffee isn’t working all that well yet…I do need to start planning meals for the rest of the week and getting stuff out of the freezer so I’ll do that this morning….didn’t eat enough yesterday so I’ll have to make up for it today with at least two meals but I don’t feel like eating anything right now….more later….

Well…at least my pain is symmetrical today…both my shoulders hurt, both my Achilles tendons hurt, and both of my calves have cramps in them…at least I didn’t take anything for them yesterday so I can today…maybe before the bike ride? Slept okay last night and I wonder if it’s the newly bleached sheets with the bed being made before I crashed last night? Who knows? I do know that I’m still tired but not as bad as Saturday so that’s progress I guess…still wondering if it’s a bug or not…and I think it is but don’t want to take it easy and let it win so back on the bike for a long hard one this morning to try to burn it out…I probably should schedule a non sprint day since I was supposed to do that over the weekend to let the legs heal and didn’t…will probably wait until it gets cold again tomorrow for that….didn’t get much done yesterday but laundry and a little cleaning and I am going to  try to do more today before soccer is on this aft….it is a little frustrating that my daily deals store has everything I like on sale this week but I can’t eat any of it…bacon, ham, smoked turkey, summer sausage…too much salt and fat in all of it…and my freezer is full anyway so I guess I’ll just save some cash and use what’s in there…more later…

Well…just opened the windows here for the first time this year and it smells good that spring is on the way…for today anyway, cold weather comes back this week with highs in the 40′s and that is depressing…oh, well…not going to do any politics today since I just can’t get motivated to do the research necessary to be cogent and not repeat myself…so, I’m just going to muse a little about a few things and see where it goes…still not feeling 100% but feel better than I did yesterday but that’s not too hard…got a nice long bike ride in this morning and I am thinking about going out again since it is 72 right now and that would be perfect for shorts and a t-shirt…but, right now, I’m watching the Bristol race and I can’t believe how few people there are at the track…20 years ago they had a waiting list for tickets but today the track is half empty and they have closed off entire sections that would hold 50K people…Nascar has to figure that out or there won’t be a Nascar after a few years…I did wash my bike today to get the mud and dirt off it and I hope that cleans the shifter and makes it more normal…it has been all over the place the past few days and I just want the shifts to be consistent so I can adjust if need be….I also got a bleach laundry load done this morning to try to get my white stuff white again and I’m not really sure if it worked…have to check out the dryer to see…okay…that’s enough for now…going to watch the rest of the race and then the Indy car race at 4….and veg out completely….

Well…felt like crap most of the day yesterday and really did think that I was coming down with a bug…was exhausted all day and sweating through my clothes just sitting here…and it has started again this morning so I think it must be true…at first, I thought it was from not eating enough since all I had to eat Friday was a sandwich and that left me at about 500 cals for the day so yesterday, I tried to make up for it but eating two meals but it has had little effect other than I’m not as tired today…yet…but I wasn’t until the afternoon yesterday, either, so we’ll see….not going to talk about sleeping today since that is boring me and I’m sure you, too…or about how sore I am this morning…I am…but about the nice bike ride I had yesterday…I did…but didn’t wait until I could get out in a t-shirt since I am used to getting out early and wanted to get on with my day as I will today since it is already 50 degrees outside and that is warm enough to go without gloves…didn’t get anything done but cooking yesterday…made another batch of instant pot refried beans and they came out good again…and without the fat and salt they put in canned ones, they really are quite healthy with lots of fiber….don’t need to cook today with having enough chicken and beans for a chicken burrito again and maybe some pasta later…oh, and I am going to try to clean some…have already done a bleach load of laundry for all of my whites that I pre-treated last night and that looks like all I’m going to do until later….need more coffee tight now….more later…