Well…slept all the way in til 6:03 this morning…okay, I did wake up at 5:23 but didn’t get out of bed until after 6 so that counts, right? I did sleep okay but have been feeling worn out a little lately and I’m not sure why…oh, well…I did have my lowest blood pressure reading since I got my machine a few minutes ago with a 110/74 and that makes the next goal to get it back into single digits where it always was before I got old…didn’t get much done yesterday but wash the bike and clean a little around here but I do need to get over to Meijers this morning to get the prep stuff for the procedure Monday…went over yesterday but they had to re-order the prescription stuff since they didn’t have it…so that will be after the bike ride that I think I may be able to do in shorts one last time since it is already almost 50…just need to wait for the rain to stop…then I need to start to clean this place up…but much later…on the first cup of coffee and need it to work first…more later…

Well…the new normal reared it’s ugly head again this morning with getting up at 5:30 but it took almost an hour to get here after needing a glass of water and to read the news some…the tendonitis that I normally have just showed up for the first time this year in my right elbow and it hurts like crazy this morning…I wonder if it’s related to having to pull on the brake lever so hard on the bike…and, I’ve had cramps in my right calf the past couple of days, too, but I think that’s from not eating enough so I can try to fix that today…I did have a nice drive back from pool yesterday, which I think I won, with the top down but it was raining on the way out and I didn’t mind it being warm in the car with the top up….the new plugs have made the car run so good I wonder why I didn’t put them in earlier…hmmm….didn’t get anything else done yesterday so I’ll have to do better today…the fridge still needs to be done so I am going to try, for the 5th time, to clean it today…more later….

Well…as I said yesterday, I’m not going to bitch about how I sleep anymore…so I won’t…okay, one last bitch…was up at 6:01 this morning…is that a bitch? Not sure…I do know that I have been sore as hell the past few days and I am wondering if taking the day off the bike yesterday will help that…I know I could just take some ibuprofen and that takes care of most of it but then what would I have to report here? That everything is sunny and happy and there are rainbows with kittens dancing around them? As you know, that won’t happen…even though I’m pretty happy most of the time…I wonder how people my age get along when they aren’t? Hmmmm….have been draining the battery on my computer to see how long it will last under normal use the past day and, after a day, it still has 74% of the battery left…what that means I’m not sure but I was curious and bored so that gave me something to do…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but watch sports and Man U finally won a game so that was cool…and I probably won’t get much done today with pool this aft…it will be nice to get out of here for a while…more later…

Well…have a half hour before I get to have my one and only cocktail so I thought I’d come here and do one of these while I wait…it was a typical Sunday today but I did clean my oven after I spilled in it cooking lunch…found out the gloves I bought to use for cleaning it are about worthless….they didn’t rip or leak but they must have let the caustic through by osmosis or something because my hands feel like they are burned again just like the last time I cleaned the oven…I think I’ll have to splurge and buy a pair that are much thicker….don’t want to keep peeling the skin off my hands…and it may help to go back to the regular strength cleaner since I never peeled my skin off using it…other than that, it was just the normal sports all day and mostly just vegging and I’m not too guilty about that…a little, but not too much….no more later….

Well…forced myself to stay in bed until after 6 this morning just trying to get a little more sleep…if didn’t work but I had to try something…don’t feel too bad this morning even with the crappy sleep so I guess I shouldn’t bitch too much…didn’t get much done yesterday other than cleaning the shower…had to try some new cleaning stuff I got Thursday…yep, that’s my life now…being excited about new, foaming cleaner for my shower…oh, well…I am going to clean my fridge today and maybe even the oven but I might not….it looks like I won’t be on the bike today with rain starting in a few minutes and going most of the day but I may be able to carve out an hour to do a short one…just have to keep watching the radar…there are lots of sports on today that could provide a distraction from the boredom but I’m not sure about watching Man U at noon…they have been really terrible and hard to watch so I may watch the Lions lose instead….more later…

Well…out on the bike today and noticed something a little strange that I have never seen in my long life…there are no nuts this year. Usually, there are many spots along the trail where I have to dodge walnuts about this time of the year but this year, not one….and that goes for the two spots where I picked up bags of hickory nuts last year…no nuts at all on the ground or on the trees…I wonder what the cause is? This is just too weird….

Well…damn, stayed in bed until 6:12 this morning…some kind of a new record for how I’ve been sleeping lately…but, I did wake up at 5:14 so I guess maybe it isn’t a record….had an okay day yesterday but only got the cobweb patrol done so I’ll have to do more today…had a problem with the shifter on the bike but got that figured out and had a nice ride…I did remember to take some ibuprofen before I went out and that made a huge difference with the pain in my neck so I guess I’ll do that again today…but, that will have to wait for a little while since there is some rain out there and I don’t want to get wet with it only 40 degrees out…I do have to clean today and just need a little jump start to make that happen…and I will be distracted with some sports…but, Michigan has a bye week so that makes it a little easier….more later….

Well…ugh…up at 5:30 again today and I feel so damn worn out that it’s like I haven’t slept at all…would love to sleep in til 7 at least one day…and this getting up early just gives me way too much time to be bored before the sun comes up and I can get on the bike…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but the grocery run and a little cooking…and, I don’t know how much motivation I’ll have to get things done today…but I’m not going to think about that right now….I do need the coffee to work for a while before I even contemplate that…at least my neck was better yesterday and just feels a little stiff today…still trying to figure out how I hurt it and that seems to be a theme lately…trying to figure out why I’m sore all the time everywhere…damn, I feel old lately…more later….

Well…sitting here waiting to make the grocery run and thought I’d come here and do this one and not wait until later…after all, getting up at 5:44 and not doing the grocery run until 7 leaves me quite a bit of time to kill…and I don’t want to start with coffee until I get back and have a newspaper to read…I did sleep okay with getting to bed by 10:30 but the tossing and turning is back…one good thing is my neck is not hurting right now and that is a relief after the pain I’ve had for the past few weeks….I did get a few things done yesterday and finally got the new spark plugs in the car and it runs great again…I do have to replace the valve cover gasket in the spring since it is seeping down into the plug wells…used a pair of the disposable gloves I bought last week and it was nice to not have to get the grease out from under my fingernails…even cleaned a little in the kitchen mostly from boredom and I will continue that today…not much to do today…just the normal stuff and a bike ride…oh, and cooking some chicken for lunch….more later…

Well…I wonder what happens when the time changes? Will I then be waking up at my normal time again? All I know is I was up at 5:34 this morning and I don’t like it much…that gives me way too much time between wake up and waiting for the temp to come up to get on the bike…looks the boredom is going to start early today…I did sleep okay last night but after having some spicy guac last night, I can feel that my intestines are not going to like me much today…not sure when my sensitivity to jalapenos started but even small amounts now hurt…got a few things done yesterday but that means I don’t have much to do today…and I am depressed that someone won the Mega last night and there is no fantasy left…oh, well….I did get my hair cut yesterday and ran some errands and that leaves me with just a little work to do on the bike before I get on it later….I guess I could clean some but it’s 6 am and I have no motivation at all yet…just need more coffee and some news…more later….