Well…man, I got scorched out at the beach yesterday….went out to get a swim in and spent a couple of hours out there…the water was just right and I spent at least an hour just fooling around in it…might just start getting the biker tan evened out….didn’t sleep too well last night and was up around 6 this morning feeling pretty worn out….and my legs are feeling pretty flat…but the excuse of rain I was going to use to take the day off is missing us again so I’m sure the guilt will kick in and I’ll be out to ride in a few minutes….I do need a day off soon but I don’t know when that would be…I can’t believe how dry it is out here…all of the rain we were supposed to get in the past week never happened…it either goes north or south of here and that sucks…..didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same…just have no motivation at all and I’m not sure why that would be…probably just depression that has been happening a lot lately….I need to get the exterior paint next week and get started on the door frames…I am glad that the frames and the bricks in the foundation are the only things that need painting on this house….I hate painting windows and won’t have to do these ever…just need to clean the rest of them…and might get some of them done today….more later…

Well…darn, woke up when it was still dark this morning and that sucks…didn’t sleep well and that is a little strange after how exhausted I felt yesterday….it used to be you slept well when you were tired but I guess that doesn’t work anymore…oh, well….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I need to get some more grass seed down today since it may rain tomorrow…the lawn is filling in slowly and by next year I may have a good looking one…but, I really don’t feel like doing much today after I do the grocery run…I do need to hit target to get another set of bath towels since it is so huimd out here that the towel never dries and I need another set to change them out at least once a week…and only having one set of towels is a little weird when you think about it…I was going to go to menard’s to get some stuff but items are so hard to find in that store that I don’t feel like doing that much work this morning…I still have 3 stores to hit without menards and that is still going to be a lot of work…I did finally get the air bubbles out of the radiator of the car and it looks like it is now working like it’s supposed to and now I just need to change the oil at some point but I need to get a filter but that won’t be til next week….not much to do today…just the grocery runs and then on the bike but my legs hurt this morning and I can’t figure that out…..probably part of hitting the wall yesterday and I wonder how much rest I need to recover…still feeling it this morning and that’s not good….more later….

Well…I knew this was coming…have felt pretty worn out the past couple of days and was just waiting to hit the wall and it happened today…went out hard at full sprint on both rides today and then fell off the cliff this afternoon….have been exhausted all day and it feels different than just tiredness…. and I know part of it is trying to keep the calories down, too, and I might be doing better at that than I should…but the big thing is that I need a day off the bike and everything else to just veg out and restore my body….but when will that happen?  Not any time soon unless we have a day full of rain…and that isn’t going to happen out here…although I did get wet on the bike both times today but looked at the radar and one little cloud was over here while the rest of the state was being flooded…..it was cool on the second ride when a thick fog rolled in at the beach and took visibility down to about 30 feet…I couldn’t see to the end of the boardwalk or the beach from just across the road….I need a new phone so I can take pictures again….

Well…after all my bitching and complaining that it never rains out here, I was wrong…it did rain overnight since there are puddles on the roads and I even got wet out at the beach when it started raining like crazy out there…but it quit after about 5 minutes and I rode back here with it just spitting…but, it looks like there is more rain coming in soon and we may even get a small thunderstorm so I showered up and am going to wait til the afternoon to go back out…rain I can take…but not lightning…

Well…I wonder if it’s ever going to rain out here? It has been forecast for quite a few days in the past few weeks and it never comes…I was really planning on a day off the bike today but it looks like I’ll be out there in an hour or so….darn….slept okay last night but still feel pretty slow right now and that seems to be the new normal these days…I did get out of here for a little while last night and I needed that…just jumped in the car and took a cruise out to the beach and stopped at the joint down the hill for a beer…need to get out of the rut I’ve been in and start doing things…but my brain has not been too amenable to doing that lately….I did have my 3rd day of quiet up here yesterday and that is pretty relaxing but I know it’s not going to last…there seems to be a cycle to it but I am still going to keep up quashing the idiots when they pop up….I just noticed that the swelling is down in my elbow and it doesn’t hurt nearly as much as it did even with abusing it yesterday by mowing and feeding the lawn…it has been months since it was pain free and I welcome any improvement….not much to do today…I was planning on just taking it easy and getting some cleaning done but that looks like it’s not going to happen without the rain….rain was my only excuse to not ride today so I may have to re-think rest days….have done almost a month of 30 miles a day and I’m worn out…more later….oh, I did see one cool thing on the way back from the beach last night….a huge mass of at least a hundred bike riders on a guided tour with all kind of riders and bikes in it…need to find out what that is about….

Well…is it another morning? And what day is it? The days just run together now and I can’t tell one from another….I guess that’s what happens when you’re retired….and the boredom….way too much of that….oh, well…I did sleep okay but sure don’t feel like it right now….it seems that I feel worn out all the time but that’s probably just from getting old….okay, that’s enough of that….didn’t get much done yesterday but the bike rides but I do need to mow and feed the lawn today so I wonder if that will be enough so I only do one ride today….we’ll see….I could be getting an off day tomorrow with the rain that is forecast but that was supposed to happen yesterday and it didn’t rain at all so I’ll believe it when I see it….we could sure use the rain out here since we are almost 10 inches under from normal and that means drought…and that extends across the center of the state…..I do need to get out and get some exterior paint so I can get on the door frames and get them painted but that may wait til next week since I do want to get out to the beach for a swim or two this week….I live 5 minutes away from the lake and have only been swimming once? And my biker tan is getting pretty ugly so I need to even that out….not much to do today….don’t have to cook with doing all that yesterday but I do have to plan meals for the rest of the week….and I really should mow but I’m not motivated to do anything right now….I think I’m going to do a post on that later today…feel like I don’t know how to just live without something to move toward and that is concerning me some….more later…

Well…running about on time for a Sunday…got up a little before 7 and headed straight out to get the paper and the cool temps woke me up pretty well with the top down on the car….but, I need more coffee….had an okay day yesterday and didn’t have to make a noise call so the counter starts at one again….got two good rides in and took my tablet on the second one to take some pictures of the trail and posted them to fb….working on the second week of no flats on the bike and I think I’ll change out the rear tire soon but the bike is working so well I don’t want to screw it up…even the 5-6 shift is working and every time I take the rear wheel off changes that….so I may just wear the rest of the tread off before I change it….it looks like the rain that was forecast today is not coming so I won’t get a rest day until later in the week…we really need rain out here but it never comes and I wonder if that will hold into the winter when this place gets all the lake effect snow? I wonder if I’m doing potatoes wrong since they keep falling apart when I boil them for potato salad…I don’t remember ever having this problem before and I guess I’ll have to go out to the internet to check what the problem is….not much to do today….Sunday is the one day that I try to not do any work and just relax and not feel guilty…and there are races and soccer that I want to see so that will give me something to do later today….more later…

Well…I felt pretty exhausted yesterday and that showed last night…fell asleep on the couch and didn’t get to bed until after 2 and didn’t get out of bed until almost 8 this morning….and I still feel pretty worn out today and I am really hoping for a rest day tomorrow since it’s supposed to rain all day…at least that was the forecast yesterday and I haven’t looked at the weather yet today…I do know it only 55 out here right now and that means a long sleeved t-shirt when I get out here in a few minutes….didn’t even get to coffee until after the machine turned off and that happens about twice a year….had an okay day yesterday and cooked lots of food so it will be leftovers for the next few days but I do want to make another batch of potato salad and cut up some carrots and celery for healthy snacks to have with ranch dressing that I load up with horseradish…very yummy…if I get the rain day tomorrow, I’m going to change out the rear tire and put the new one on and lube up the chain….will probably do the chain later today after I get the rides in so it can dry by tomorrow…not much to do today…just going to do the rides and a little cleaning but I’m not feeling I have enough energy to do much more…I do have another one to do today about the malaise I have been feeling lately but I need to flesh that out on the first ride….more later…

Well…it’s uncanny that I keep waking up at 6:30 every day give or take a couple of minutes….and that is better than 3,4, or 5 o’clock that was the pattern for a long time….I wonder what the next pattern is going to be? Had an okay day yesterday but the noise started up again in three different houses that I had to shut down…and the officer I talked to said this is the end and these folks are going to get fined from now on…it’s about damn time….I did see a stoat on the ride yesterday…the small animal that looks like a ferret and is a member of the weasel family…it just ran across the main drag out to the beach right in front of me…pretty rare to see one…I know it’s only the third one I’ve seen in my long life and that was pretty cool….I’ve had almost two weeks since the last flat and I am getting cautiously optimistic that the electrical tape I added to the rim solved the problem but I am going to have to change out the bald old tire with the new one over the weekend and that could introduce another variable to the experiment….we’ll see….not much to do today…going to take the car out for an errand and I hope it will get the rest of the air out of the system..it should be okay since I put the same amount of coolant in that I took out but you have to very careful with Miatas since they don’t take well to overheating….I do need to cook today and I am getting enough green beans out of the garden to have some every day so that is cool….can’t wait for tomatoes to start ripening….more later….

Well…..as you know, the plan for this morning was to change out the coolant in the car since it had changed over to a rusty gel substance that just isn’t good for it…and Miatas should have the coolant changed once a year…and the last time I had it changed was over 5 years ago so I may have to do it again before winter because you never get all of the old coolant out…I did find that the radiator has a drain plug and that made the job so much easier not having to take the bottom radiator hose off….the coolant that came out was pretty much black instead of the green it was when it went in and that was ugly…I did have to take the overflow tank off and wash that out since it was filled with brown goo and it needed cleaning badly…that stuff had the consistancy of 100 weight gear lube and it’s supposed to be like water…and I let water run through the radiator for 15 minutes until it ran clear coming out so I hope this helps…the new ramps that my brother gave me worked like a champ and I felt comfortable being under the car without stands…going to use them again when I change the oil in a couple of weeks…so, I guess I can get on the bike here after this cup of coffee and watching some of the TDF….more later…