Well…it’s another 4:54 morning this morning and that is getting old…one good thing is that my shoulder barely hurts this morning and I slept on it for a while…slept okay but not nearly enough and I can feel it catching up with me but won’t be able to do anything about it today…the leaking pipes in my washer closet is being replaced today and I expect that will last a couple of hours and, even though I don’t have a lot to do, it is still disruptive to my day and to have people in here for hours is a pain in the ass….I did get a new blind put up in the living room yesterday to replace the one that the sun had turned brittle and that had started to crack and break…got a pretty nice one for 20 bucks and it lets more light in even closed that I think I like…not as dreary in here…and it doesn’t have any cords to raise or lower it…it goes up and down like a roller shade and that is pretty cool…it is over 50 right now and that is tempting me to put the top down for the grocery run and I just might if it’s not raining when I go….not much to do today….other than gritting my teeth and enduring the work here, I’ll have to clean up after the guys when they are done but that will about cover my day….more later…

Well…it’s another 5:38 morning this morning and I am exhausted again….I did sleep okay but on my right shoulder again and that makes it hurt again but it’s not nearly as bad as it was Monday…I did get a workout in yesterday and I think it helped with the scarring in there since the popping and grinding is much better today…we’ll see as the day goes on…still think I may have a cold since I have had a low grade headache for a week now and I may have to go back to the red dots to try to get my head to clear up so I can breathe…have only taken a couple since last year trying to keep my BP down but I feel crappy enough to risk it this morning…I did get a few things done yesterday and I have more stuff to do today…my blind here on the living room window is exposed to the sun quite a bit and over time has become quite brittle…it cracked into pieces when I raised it to clean the other day and it looks like crap so I need to go out and replace it today…along with a couple more stops…I was hoping to put the top down on the car today but it’s already raining so that may not happen until tomorrow…more later…

Well…it’s another 5:37 morning and I guess I should just resign myself to not sleeping much…or well for that matter and I’m not sure how sustainable 5 hours of sleep a night is…I guess we’ll see…it seems my shoulder is getting worse again and it feels like something is still damaged in there with all of the popping and crunching that is going on and it may take a visit to the doctor but I don’t want to spend the money right now….I did get my weight machine fixed yesterday and will take it for a test run this morning to see how it works…it only cost me 4 bucks to fix it so however it works I guess that is no big deal….I didn’t get my nap in yesterday for national nap day and I really could have used it….maybe I can make up for it today when soccer is on later…other than working on the weight machine, I didn’t get much done yesterday but I will clean some today and continue throwing stuff away that has accumulated over the years…need to strip things down to just what I need in case I ever find a house…oh, and I do need to cook today since all of the leftovers are gone so there will be chicken for lunch….more later….

Well…as always, the time change is screwing me up and I was up really early this morning…and I’m still doing the time conversion in my head which would make it 4:38 when I got up this morning and that is way too damn early…slept for crap, too so today is going to be a lot of work just doing the normal stuff…and I do need to get out and get the new cable for my weight machine and fix that….I still think I have a cold or something since I do feel pretty crappy and worn out and I hope it doesn’t get worse…this has been going on for a week now and I am getting tired of it….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I do need to get back to the fitness routine with taking yesterday off the bike…I needed it with my legs just going flat and sore but that locks me into taking 600 calories out of my intake for the day and that is part of why I feel so worn out today…but I think I’ve lost my appetite and getting to 1500 cals is going to be tough….oh, well…more later…

Well…another damn time change and it’s going to take me all day to get used to it…I think the spring change is easier for me but we’ll see as the day goes on…slept normally for me and that means I am a little worn out right now before I get at the coffee and I hope that will go away in a while…I am going to take a rest day from the bike today with riding twice a day every day last week and my legs do need a rest to stop the low grade pain I’ve had all week….and I hurt everywhere again this morning so resting should help that, too…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but watch soccer and races and today is going to be the same with Moto GP and soccer that starts at 8 and then two more soccer matches ending with Man U at 12:30, then into the indy car race and Napcar later…so, I’ll have background noise for the whole day…I really should clean some, too but I’m not sure how motivated I’m going to be…more later…

Well…don’t really feel like doing one on politics today…just feel exhausted and have just been able to get up off the couch and move around for the first time today…well…not the first time…I have been on the bike twice today and that was a lot of work…but, I did get to a kind of a milestone on the bike today when I got to 500 miles for the year…with the majority of of that being indoors on the trainer after getting in a hundred miles or so before the weather got bad and closed the trails. I do like the idea of just walking across my place and getting on the bike but I am getting antsy to get back outside…I don’t miss being cold at all, though, and I may just wait to go out until after it gets warm enough to go with light gloves and no stocking hat. So, it looks like I’ll already have 600 miles on the bike before I hit the trails and that just may get me to 4,000 miles this year…

Well…running a little late today with getting sucked into a tv show this morning and not really having any motivation to get moving…and I got up a little later than normal staying in bed until 6:41 after getting up for the first time at 5:18…and I didn’t sleep too badly with my shoulder no longer keeping me up at all…and the damage from yesterday is not too painful so it appears it was just a little muscle strain but we’ll see as I get moving around here today….I am going to try to make instant pot refried beans this weekend since, looking at the label on a can of them, they are just saturated with salt with each serving of half a cup having over 600mg of salt added and I can’t tolerate that much salt in my diet…and it will give me something to do later today or tomorrow…didn’t get a lot done yesterday since I am just idling waiting for them to come next week and fix the water pipe in my storage closet and I’ll probably not do much today…need to watch some soccer and ease into the day with coffee and a little news…more later…

Well…my fitness program was interrupted today when my weight machine finally broke…or a cable on the machine broke as I was doing pull downs with 150 pounds on it…when it broke, it released all the pressure I had on my back and legs and I ended up hyper extending my left leg, hurting my hamstring and the ligaments in the back of my knee along with my calf…I could barely walk on it when it happened but I was able to get on the bike and keep it warm so it didn’t freeze up on me…but, it still hurts and I am a little irritated that the damn machine only lasted 15 years of almost daily use…yep, that was a little joke…I have a plan to fix it by splicing in a new piece of cable Monday…have been thinking about how to fix it ever since the cable started to fray quite a few years ago and it shouldn’t cost more than 10 bucks so that will be cool….

Well…another morning of single frickin digit temperatures and that is pretty damn depressing for March…I am so tired of the cold and snow and winter and we are even to the daylight savings time change this weekend and it is still 8 degrees out there…oh, well…slept okay last night and feel just a little slow today and I can deal with that…just had the first sip of coffee and need it to work right now so I can get on with the morning…not sure why I still feel the need to adhere to a schedule every day but I do need to keep my days organized and that helps some…don’t want to have everything unstructured since that would mean I would have to think more and I don’t want to do that…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I think I’ll try to clean some today but who knows? I do need to get out and run some errands this morning with the powerball getting up to almost 400 million for tomorrow and I do need something upbeat to think about…but, I’m going to get more coffee and read some news first….more later…

Well…running a little late today with doing the grocery run before this and not getting out of bed until almost 6…I did sleep okay last night and my shoulder continues to improve…slowly…and I have very little pain today so that is a welcome change even with working out yesterday…I did have to take some antihistamine last night since my head was stuffy and I had a headache that had gone on for a few days…I had forgotten how well the little red ones worked and I am still clear this morning…hadn’t taken any of those since last September since they raise your BP too much…I did take an ibuprofen to go with it and that may have something to do with my shoulder being better…need to get the swelling down in the tendons since I can feel them clicking when I move my shoulder…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I feel okay today so I think I’ll start sorting out stuff that I don’t need anymore and get rid of it…need to simplify and streamline so I’ll have less to move when I do…it’s another leftover day today so I won’t be cooking but I do need to plan for the next stuff I need to cook and get it out of the freezer…I think I have enough in there to eat for a month so…more later….