Well…sitting here with my 3rd cup of coffee and just noticed that I have a milestone of sorts in reach…I have never gotten to 80 of these in a month but I am only 2 away from it…so guess what? There is going to be filler today! If you’ve been here for any time, you know my use of fillers has dropped dramatically over the past few years since idiot boy has given me so much to write about…and yes, I know, reading about him is probably a little boring for you and it even gets that way for me, too…so, as I wait out the 9 below to get out and start the car, I’ll be doing one more of these to get to 80…can you tell I’m a little bored…already?

Well…running really early today with getting up at 5:08 and I’m pretty tired of it…and I am tired of it being 8 damn degrees below again this morning….but I don’t have anything to do today so I don’t have to start the car until later this morning…it started okay yesterday morning at the same temp with the booster box attached so I expect it will start again this morning…didn’t sleep well at all and my shoulder hurts from working on the weight machine yesterday so today will be a day off…I did get two rides done on the bike yesterday and it is much more fun spreading the 40 minutes across two than doing it in one boring stint….will probably do that again today but I will wait to start the car until I stop sweating from it…it’s just too damn cold to go out like that…didn’t get much done yesterday except the errand I ran in the morning but I am going to clean the bathroom today…and maybe the kitchen, too but that may be too ambitious with the lack of motivation I have been feeling lately…more later…

Well…that was a little better…didn’t get out of bed until almost 6 and slept okay…for me, that is…and it was my first night with no ibuprofen for the shoulder and it is just stiff today…not really any pain and I know I slept on it for a while so that is progress…I think I have a cold with some coughing and sneezing and generally not having a lot of energy so I think I’ll take it easy again today…the only thing I have to do is clean off the car and get it started later and run an errand if it’s not too bad out there…this weather is taking a lot out of me and doing the grocery run yesterday has me thinking that today is Friday….it’s bad enough normally when the days just run together and I have to think about what day it is…oh, well…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but ride the bike and today will be much the same…I am going to test out the shoulder by working out on the weight machine and then I’m going to do a half hour on the bike…that much time hurts like crazy and it is much more work than riding on the trails where you can rest on the down hills…it feels like my long uphill sprint but for the entire time I’m on it and my legs show it…they feel like rock after I’m done and they hurt…I can’t wait to get back outside and see how easy it is to ride there…more later…

Well…it is damn cold outside and there is good news about the car…it hasn’t leaked at all since I tightened up the hose clamps and I have idled it here for almost two hours since then…but, that’s not what this is about…around 10 this morning, I warmed the car up…again… to run a couple of errands that I wanted to get done but, after hitting FF for my powerball tickets for tomorrow, I started off to get some groceries at Aldi’s but it was snowing and blowing so hard that I turned back and skipped it…and that never happens…usually once I start out in bad weather I can get to where I need to be and back..but this morning, I could not even see where the road was and less than 20 feet off the front of the car…getting groceries was just not worth all that work. There has been so much damn snow over the past few days that I have a 30 feet high snow mountain where the plowers have pushed the snow…yow! This has got to stop soon….and 8 degrees below tonight and 0 for a high tomorrow is going to be brutal….hibernating seems like a good idea…

Well…damn, back to waking up at 4 and trying to go back to sleep didn’t work today so I was up for good at 5:20 and that leaves me pretty exhausted again…and I didn’t sleep well at all and I’m almost tempted to take one of the OTC sleeping pills I have in the cabinet but I haven’t taken one of them since September and don’t want to start that up again…I did get a workout in yesterday and it didn’t hurt too much after so I can try it again today…but, that will wait for a while since I am moving up the weekly grocery run to today to avoid having to go out in the really cold air that comes in tonight and lasts until Sat….don’t want to put the strain on the battery that starting it at 7 below would do…and, I have a bunch of other errands to run this morning  that will charge the battery up…haven’t taken the car out for any distance since last Friday so it really needs to get completely warm…I do need to clean around here today after I get the rest of my stuff done and need to have it done before Man U plays this aft but I am not motivated again…and I still don’t feel that hot today…think I have a bug that is leaving me more tired than usual….more later…

Well…with all of the snow today, I decided to stay home and not shoot pool…couldn’t even get out of the lot here until they just did the snow a few minutes ago…and there is another reason that it was a good idea to stay home…I feel pretty crappy and warm right now and my intestines are giving me fits…lots of pain and I just figured out what the cause of it is…the whole thing started with my stomach getting really queasy after I had a couple of bowls of my homemade broccoli/cheddar soup and I wonder if it can have gone bad after just 3 days? Have been taking antacids since lunch and that hasn’t really helped so it must be the soup…oh, the intestines…just figured out what that is from just a couple of minutes ago…I had peanut butter on toast for breakfast yesterday and my recent sensitivity to peanuts is what is twisting my intestines into knots…damn…and I like peanut butter, too…oh, well…one more food to completely avoid…

Well…running a little late this morning with not getting up until almost 7…and that is quite strange for me…slept okay but feel worn out again today and I hope the coffee will help with that…I should go out and clean off my car to start the long day of snow but I just can’t take the cold yet…my car is going to get 0 mpg the next few days as I need to warm it up with the below zero temps that are coming but the roads are going to be too bad to take it anywhere…at least today, that is…supposed to be the coldest air in almost 20 years wed…during the day, that is…I remember a few years back that it was -16 and I couldn’t get the Miata to start even with running it overnight….that was before I had the battery box to help and Brian had to get his truck to jump it…brrr…I may need to make some more coffee this morning since I didn’t have much left over this morning and I want more than two cups…have never done that before….not much to do today…just going to hunker down here and try to work out without damaging my shoulder…and a long ride on the bike since I took the day off yesterday…my legs hurt like crazy and needed a day off….more later…

Well….stayed in bed until almost 6 this morning and that seems like a win to me after being up around 5 for the past week…but, it’s not…I do feel better this morning…not as exhausted as I have been but that usually kicks in a little bit later so we’ll see….the car started this morning with no problem but it is a  balmy 13 degrees out there so it should….I had to break down and take something for my shoulder and neck last night and that is really helping right now, too, with very little pain this morning…and I hope that continues….I know it’s winter in Michigan but I am a little depressed about the snow that is coming today and tomorrow….and the cold doesn’t help, either….I mean -2 for a high Wed? But it should be back up to around 30 by the weekend…I hope…so I guess I’ll just hunker down and deal with it…didn’t get much done yesterday but make soup and it looks like I’ll have to force myself to get anything done since I am not motivated at all right now…at least there is a race on in the background but it is raining in Daytona so it yellow and boring and that seems to describe me right now…more later….

Well…have been doing a lot of cooking lately and much of it has been without recipes…just using techniques that have worked for other things that I have transferred over to a new soup that I made for the first time today….looking in the fridge this week, I noticed I had some fresh broccoli and leftover cheese from some tacos I made a couple of weeks ago and it struck me that I could use them to make broccoli cheese soup…one that I have never made before and something that would go really well with the cold weather we are stuck in. So, for lunch I made soup that came out really well but a small batch since I only had enough leftovers for a small batch…as with the other soup that I make, this first batch is a baseline and has given me some ideas on how to make it better the next time I make it…and this one is kind of healthy since it doesn’t have any heavy cream in it but it does have 3 tablespoons of butter and 4 ounces of cheese in it…there just isn’t any way to substitute the cheese or the butter to get any flavor…so, now I have another soup to make that won’t end up in the freezer since that would ruin it…darn…I’ll have to eat it all….

Well…it looks like getting up at 5:15 is now a thing and I am sure that I’m not too happy about it…even tried to go back to sleep and after 20 minutes I decided to just give up and get up…I guess that will just mean that there will be a nap later when Daytona is on…had a good day yesterday with getting out to have a nice lunch with T and getting my soap that she beings back from the Bahamas…and that little waft of scent makes me smile…a bonus was that the car didn’t leak any coolant at all with warming it up and then out and back to lunch…and that is a good thing with the brutal weather that is coming for the next week…it looks like I’ll be hunkering down here and hibernating for the next week or so and, with the foot of snow were supposed to get Monday, pool probably won’t happen….and Wed’s high is supposed to be below zero so there will be much warming the car up…almost 10 below wed night so I may do the grocery run wed since I won’t want to wait for the day to warm up thurs to start the car…not much to do today…just going to ride the bike after injuring my shoulder again working out with full weight yesterday and do a little cooking…but right now I’m going to have more coffee and read a little news….more later…