Well….running a little late today after waking up at 6 or so and not having any motivation to get started…but, I’m here now so let’s go….crap…my damn heel has split up the side of my foot now and that restarts the healing clock…I was really hoping that the week it normally takes to heal would be over this weekend but, with this new crack, it looks like I’ve got another week of limping around….it appears I slept okay because I woke up with my shoulder hurting and that means I slept on my right one all night with little tossing and turning…but I still feel pretty slow right now and will need boatloads of coffee to fix that….I did get an 8 mile ride in yesterday but the trails are still snow covered so it was all on the street and that’s where I’ll be today when I get out…but, that won’t come til later today since it is in the 20’s out there and that’s too damn cold…I do need to remember to put the trash bin and recycle bin out this morning since they are both full and I think I’ll do that right after I finish this one…didn’t get anything done yesterday…geez…that’s starting to sound like a broken record so I guess I won’t share any plans to do anything today…if I get to cleaning, I’ll report that tomorrow….more later….

Well…feel a little down today with not having any luck on finding a house but I didn’t get out of bed until after 6 so I guess that’s something…I don’t know when I’ve had a heel crack last this long but I’m still hobbling around in pain this morning and it doesn’t seem to be getting much better…will have to make sure to treat it twice today after the bike ride…and just hope that it will follow the normal pattern and I’ll just wake up with no pain soon….didn’t get a damn thing done yesterday but look at the house and I don’t feel like doing much right now but I’m hoping I’ll get some motivation later on and get started packing my stuff up and cleaning…I do have to do one later on about the right wing attack on the capital yesterday and the apparent collusion with the capital police that made it happen but that’s for later…I think today is going to be a day to take it easy and just get a bike ride in when it gets light since it is 33 and is just going to get colder all day…and I need to get my miles in with a double after not riding yesterday…but not until lots more coffee and reading more news….more later…

Well…just got back from running out to look at the house in Ionia and it doesn’t look good…the whole house is trashed and looks like it hasn’t been taken care of in 20 years…and the garage is full of trash along with the house…just loads and loads of work to be done and boatloads of money to be put into it…and unless I can get it for around 80k, I don’t think the financials will work…it is on a huge lot on a hill in a quiet neighborhood but with the asking at 109K, I don’t think there is any way I can get there…oh, well…

Well…didn’t sleep at all last night with all of the happenings…a new grandchild, maybe a new house, and the dems took back the senate with wins in two seats in Georgia…so I woke up at 4:22 and didn’t get back to sleep but this time it’s okay….I sure hope this house is going to be the one…and there is another house in Ionia that is for sale at 96K that doesn’t need any work at all but it’s right in town and I’m not sure I’d want to live there…going to have my brother do a drive by when we are out there just to take a look at it…of course I didn’t get anything done yesterday and today will be the same with all of the traveling and with Man U playing City in the semi finals of the league cup this afternoon…I am going to try to get a bike ride in today after I get back from looking at houses…it hasn’t been bad riding in the streets but I think I’ll go out and take a look at the trails to see what condition they are in….I am pretty excited that today could be the day all of the stress of house hunting and moving is gone…the we go into the stress of applying for a loan and getting the closing done but I should have enough time to make it and only move once…that would be cool….more later…

Well…just got a text from my middle son that my granddaughter was born tonight….and he sent me the coolest video that he took….my son said “hello Lily” and she answered him with a little baby noise….I have tears in my eyes tonight….I’ve been damn lucky to have such great kids that are such nice people….life is okay….can’t wait to meet her….

Well…what a whipsaw of a day…I was going to run out and look at a house but when I pulled it up to get the address, it was already sold so I was pretty depressed all day until another listing came up that I might just want…okay, update…just talked to my brother and we are going out to take a tour of it tomorrow morning…this could be the one…it’s an old house but 1600 sq ft….needs work but at 110k asking, I think it’s a pretty good deal and my brother thinks I may be able to get it for 100…even has a two stall garage which I wanted and city water and sewer along with cable so I can get internet…and it’s empty so I could move in at close…oh, and it’s on double lot that is combined .6 of an acre and is close enough to bike trails that I can ride to them….and I can move in and work on it from there since it is essentially livable….it’s been empty for a year so that might affect the price some….so, I’m a little excited but will probably be disappointed when I see it…now I need to think what is acceptable to me and will probably just buy it no matter what…oh, and it has a front porch and a sun room on the back of the house….and, it’s only 20 miles from Ada so I can shoot pool when the pandemic is over….oh, and it’s on a side street so it should be pretty quiet….damn…I sure hope this works out….

Well…damn, don’t you just hate it when you are having a nice dream and then you just wake up for no reason and can’t get back to sleep? That just happened and it is annoying to be on the way to a good night’s sleep and then 5:24 comes and it ends…oh, well…my internet tv works again so I guess that’s something….and the Mega is up to 410 mil for tonight’s drawing so I think I’ll blow a few bucks to have at least one day of hope….my heel still hurts like crazy but it may have the signs of getting better…at least I hope it does since the rest of my foot now hurts from favoring it and just walking on the ball of my foot….man, I’m feeling pretty decrepit right now…I did get out for another 6 mile ride yesterday and I think I may double it today to see how it works…but that will come after going out to see a house that is for sale over on west river drive….need to go see at least one a day if I’m ever going to get out of here….the listings have slowed to a trickle and I’m sure I’m going to have to settle for anything just to get out of here…not much to do today…just the grocery run and riding…and maybe some cleaning but I’m not sure of that right now….more later…

Well…crap…my damn heel is worse this morning and now has started to bleed like crazy and that makes this bout with cracks the worst one I’ve ever had…I am so tired of limping around trying to get stuff done…didn’t sleep for crap, either, so this is going to be a wasted day it appears…I did get out for a short 6 mile ride on the streets yesterday and I think I’ll be able to do that again today if it’s warm enough…but I can’t go as hard so it feels colder and I’m not sure I can work up to the full 15 miles…had a few weird dreams last night that centered on trying to find the parts to repair my glasses that I rolled on when I was sleeping…yeah, that in itself is a little weird…I mean how many times do you sleep in your dreams when you’re sleeping? I did get my internet tv back last night but I haven’t checked to see if it’s still up…it was a pain not being able to watch sports over the weekend since I use that to make up for not sleeping at night….there’s nothing like a soccer match to nap to if there is no napcar on….didn’t get much done yesterday but cook and today looks the same with my heel so bad….it now hurts to just sit here but I am going to do that for a while to have more coffee and read the news….more later….

Well…maybe this is a good sign…I remembered to come here this morning and part of it may be that my internet tv has been down since yesterday morning and I don’t have anything else to do….slept okay last night but feel a little fatigued today but I’m not as sore as I should be after beating on my body doing the snow yesterday….more stiff than anything and it looks like I won’t need any ibuprofen this morning…while I was sitting here yesterday, I noticed that I haven’t been coughing hardly at all since I shut down the downstairs project 6 weeks ago and that feels good…it was such a pain coughing constantly and having my head and lungs clogged up all the time…and it’s nice to know that I could fix that and there is no long term damage….didn’t get on the bike yesterday but I am going to try to get a short ride in today even though the roads are snow covered again…I just need to get out of here for a while and breathe some fresh air…reset the computer on the bike yesterday so I can get started on a new year and more miles…I can’t believe how much better the worn out snow tires are than my new all weather ones….went out to get the paper and never spun them once when I would have been all over the place with the other ones…I guess I can get one more winter out of them…not much to do today….just going to ease into it and have some more coffee right now and read the rest of the news….then look for houses…yay?  More later….

Well….I must be getting old…for the first time that I can remember I had to stop and rest only 2/3rds the way through doing the snow….just ran out of energy and couldn’t go…I know I had just finished putting the snow tires on the car, too, but that’s not a lot of work and now I’m sore everywhere and just can’t do anything else but sit here on the couch and do this…and I hooked the shovel on a crack in the driveway and damn near tore my bad thumb off and that is really going to hurt later today…and I put lots of jarring pressure on my right shoulder, too, so that is going to hurt later as it does right now…that dull, throbbing ache that is always there until the ibuprofen kicks in….that reminds me, I need to take some ibuprofen soon…geez…I’m getting old….