Well…running about on time for a Sunday and I just finished the paper so it’s time for this…I was just thinking about what my Sundays will be like when I move….I wonder if Muskegon has a newspaper or if I can get the GR press out there? Reading the Sunday paper has been a ritual for me since I was 7 or 8 years old  and I would like to continue to read a real paper…I guess I’ll have to check on that…tossed and turned a lot last night and got up around 6:30 so I do feel a little slow today and I was lazy and didn’t shovel the snow before I went out for the paper so that will make it a pain when I do go out…oh, well….I wonder how much snow Muskegon gets? Lots of lake effect stuff I bet…so there may be a snowblower in my future…didn’t get much done yesterday and all I have to do is continue packing so that will be the goal for the day…after I shovel that is….my heel is finally getting to the point that I can walk on it again with very little pain and that was a long time coming….the skin is still peeling off it so I think I’ll continue to treat it to make sure the cracks don’t come back….not much to do today…just packing and cleaning that I am going to get to after I have more coffee and watch the first race of the year, the 24 hours of Daytona that is on right now….more later….

Well…with almost getting to the end of the purchase project on the new house, I have been reflecting on the fact that this is going to be my last move before I die…and I think I want it to be more than just a move…maybe by including the few friends that I have left and making it a little bit of a party…I know my youngest son and his wife are in, and K and J have offered to help and J has a new pickup that would help…and Tom, maybe you’d like to come and hang out? Part of my thinking here is that I don’t know how much my back will take moving my big speakers and couch…the rest of it, I can handle since nothing is very heavy other than my matreses and box spring…so I think the move is going to happen on the 26th of February…and that will give me two weeks to clean up this house and get it ready for my son…then I settle in to the last house and relax for a bit…that’s going to be a long day and I can use the help….

Well…cripes, running really late this morning and I know what the reason is…had a few cocktails last night after taking the week off and I didn’t get out of bed until 7:30….I had almost forgotten how crappy I feel after a cocktail night and how much I need coffee to get over that and I’m sure I don’t like it so I’m glad I took the week off and I think I’m going down to two nights a week….just too hard on me and I don’t want to deal with that anymore….I did get out for a bike ride yesterday and I hope to get out again today since it felt good to finally get some exercise after a few days off….I do need to set the new bike up on the trainer when I move so I can ride every day and get my miles in…and I’m going to buy a weight machine so I can get back to getting toned every day, too, and that will be part of my fitness room that I am going to set up in the basement…didn’t get anything else done but run around and continue to work on getting the loan papers together so I can close in a couple of weeks….and today is going to be the same except for working on getting some packing done…lots of garbage bags for clothes and everything else….more later…

Well…that was a little better….didn’t get up til almost 5:30 and then decided to go back to bed and didn’t get up til 6:45 and that is as close to a full night’s sleep that I can ever expect…but, I still feel worn out today even with being good for a second night and I’m going to try for three tonight just to see if the effects are cumulative and will make me feel better as the days go on….I did get some stuff done yesterday and really do need to start throwing stuff away and getting packed…it looks like I’ll need to get a bigger truck this time since I filled a 10 foot box last time and I have a few more things this time since I am taking a dinette set, chair, and bookcase from here that I need and I could barely fit my stuff in a 10 foot last time….and it’s going to cost a bunch with having to go 40 miles on the move…oh, well…at least my heel is better to the point that I barely notice it…but I’ve gotten lax at treating it and need to do better to keep it from cracking again….not much to do today…need to go back to the bank to get the statement with my earnest check on it since it just posted last night and I need to get that to my mortgage guy…and I am going to try to get out on the bike today but it is still going to be cold and I am just not dealing with the cold this winter….more later….

Well…I guess sleeping only about 4 hours makes you kind of exhausted…who knew? And coffee works almost too good on the day after a no cocktail night and I was jittery all morning from it….but now I’m just worn out after re-grouting the bathroom where the grout had fallen out and it came out pretty good and cleaning some downstairs…I think part of it is the relieving of some of the stress that came from worrying about whether or not I was going to get the house or not…still have a couple of pieces of paper that the mortgage folks need but I can’t get those until they show up at my bank…I also wrote to my congressman to try to have them find out why I didn’t  get my 600 buck covid check since the website that was set up for people to check has been shut down and there is no way now to figure it out…and I don’t want to miss the next one…that two grand will buy me a lawnmower and washer for the new house and maybe even a snowblower…so I need to get that figured out….especially since they may have a couple more of the 2k checks and that would buy the new Miata almost….okay, that’s enough…I’m tired and am going to watch a little soccer….

Well…darn, another 2:54 morning for the first time up and then tossed and turned until 5:53 when I gave up and just got out of bed…but I know the reason is that I did a no cocktail night to start to get back into shape for the move and that is going to continue for a while until it becomes a habit again….still feel like I have a cold and that was one of the things I was trying to find out by taking the night off….but it could still be allergies they feel about the same…didn’t get much done yesterday but the grocery run…didn’t even get out on the bike since it never got out of the 20’s…I wonder where that warmer than normal winter that was predicted went? At least it hasn’t snowed as much as normal and there is no big event in the forecast for the next couple of weeks at least…we’ll see if I get out today…would like to just for the small amount of exercise it gives now….I have started to pack my stuff back up to get ready for the move but I don’t really have too much stuff…I am taking a lounge chair and bookcase that was here in the house since my son doesn’t want them and I can use a few things other than my couch…oh, and the small dinette set that is in the kitchen and that will fit in my small dining room quite well….not much to do today…just prep and the bike ride but that’s enough for now…more later….

Well…feel pretty lousy again today and I know part of it is only taking in 500 calories yesterday…just had a pork chop for lunch and nothing else for the rest of the day and I’m going to be paying for it all day today….I think I slept okay and didn’t get up til 6:30 but I still feel like I have a cold…lungs are filled with crap and my nose is plugged up and am exhausted…and I have the grocery run to do today but that’s it…signed the papers for the loan on the house yesterday and feel pretty good that I’m only paying 2.25% and that makes for a 350 dollar a month house payment and I can swing that pretty easily….now I just have to wait til I close on the deal in three weeks or so and I can start moving….I did get the house cleaned up yesterday and I had to shovel the snow twice so I am still sore from it…looks like I won’t have to do much today and I need a day like that to relieve the stress from everything going on….was really concerned I wouldn’t qualify for a loan with only SS for income but it all worked out….not much to do today…just the grocery run and no bike ride with the ice and slush on the roads…I may be able to relax a bit and that is welcome….more later…

Well…man, I’m getting to old to shovel snow I think….just finished the driveway and sidewalks and I am damn sore from it….and it’s still snowing so I’m going to have to do it again later today…that is one good thing about the new house….no driveway…just about 6 feet to shovel in front of the garage door to get the car in and out…but that’s if they plow the alley that the garage is on…if not, I may have to buy a snowblower to keep the alley clear enough so I can get in and out…but with a two stage that should be pretty easy…but that won’t be till next year…this year will just be shoveling…and more pain…

Well…man, I feel run down this morning…but I did make it all the way til 6 with not waking up so I guess that’s something….and the shoulder that I got the vaccine in is better…yesterday I had pain all the way down my arm to my wrist which is not much different than when I get a flu shot so no big deal…and I got scheduled for the second dose on the 14th of Feb and a week after that I should have full immunity….I sure hope I do since I have to move soon after that…my stress levels have started to decline a bit with getting the news that I am approved for the loan for the house…I am meeting with the mortgage broker today to sign the papers and give him my financial information….but then I have a few weeks to pack and take it easy until the final push to get moved….I do need to clean this place up since the broker is coming here today but I have all day for that and it should only take a couple of hours…it snowed last night so it looks like no bike ride today…I was a little relieved when I rode yesterday that the lube fixed the problems I was having with the drive train but the shifter was frozen up after washing it and putting it in the garage…but that fixed itself after a couple of miles and I got a nice ride in….not much to do today…just cleaning and hanging out but that is all I really want to do right now…more later…

Have been running around all day getting the paperwork necessary to get the loan for my new house…and I am approved for the loan by the way…and when I was in the car I noticed that hmmmm…it had no gas in it after running out to Hastings and then to Muskegon and back and doing errands…so I stopped at the new gas station at the end of Valley to fill it up…to explain the yow, the gas tank on the car holds 10.9 gallons of gas and when done, I had put almost 10.6 gallons in it…so I had about a quart of gas left in the tank…probably shouldn’t run it down that far anymore with the car getting older and the tank probably has some crap in it  that I don’t want to suck up in the pump….this was by far the most gas I’ve ever put in it at one time…so again…yow…