Well…sitting here freezing after getting out for a bike ride, one of the most brutal I’ve had in a while going out into a 15 to 20mph wind and it only being 31 degreess when I left here…oh, the sparrows just found the feeder and it only took them 6 days this time…have a flock of them out there right now…oh, back to the work….I got really tired of the laundry room looking so shabby so I got after that this morning, cleaning the lint and dirt up and vacuuming the paneling that was coated with it…then I replaced the rotting 2×4 that was used to level the dryer with a new piece of pressure treated stuff that was left over from the fence….I cleaned both the washer and dryer, too along with vacuuming off and washing the top of the fridge…getting rid of some spilled goo that had run down the side of it and then cleaning part of the floor and the laundry sink…and that was enough for the day…I still have a couple of hours more work to finish it but it does look a lot better than it did…and now I’m going to watch some soccer and take a nap….

Well…it was another engine size wake up time this morning…woke up at 4:13 and that is the size of a Chrysler engine from the late 50’s to early 60’s…I wonder how many of these will come up? I do know I had some dreams after I got back to sleep that involved schools, partying on a river and topless women…yep, it was a weird as that sounds…but I slept okay and feel okay this morning so I’ll take it…didn’t get out for a bike ride yesterday with how cold and windy it was all day and today is looking the same with the wind blowing almost 20 right now and the temp is only 31 and not warming up until the afternoon….and the wind is still going to be over 15 and that is normally my cutoff for getting out…didn’t get much done yesterday but I didn’t need to so I guess I shouldn’t feel guilty at all…I do need to start cleaning this place up to prep for the move but I’m not really motivated for that yet…I kind of like that my legs don’t hurt at all this morning even going up and down the stairs into the basement but that will change if I go out in the wind….I haven’t even been outside in two days and that makes my world seem pretty small….not much to do today….again, pretty true but I will need to figure something out to keep the guilts at bay…probably dust patrol would be in order since I haven’t done that in quite a while…..more later….

Well…when I was looking to see what my record is for posts in a single month (it’s 105) I just noticed that I’ve been doing this since April of 2010…10 years of doing two of these a day…and that means almost 9,000 of them over the years and that is a lot of writing…and this month will be the second most in one month since I started…and yep, I am cheating some by doing this one but there’s not a placeholder in the bunch and I used to do that a lot when I found a topic but didn’t want to write about it just yet….so this ends out the month on a day when I have really done nothing but look for houses…skipped the bike ride today with the cold and wind gusting to over 30 at times…it does look like I’m going to have to change the way I look at houses since they are selling so fast…will have to pull the trigger as soon as I see one…going to make that my full time job this month with the goal being to have one purchased by the end of December….going to be a little nerve wracking since I probably won’t even have time to look at them and that will ratchet up my stress levels a bit…oh, well…that’s the new normal and I do need to have one bought by the end of the month….or just take my down payment money and find a cabin in Montana and live like a hermit…I am anyway here in GR….hmmmm….

Well…another 4:27 morning today and whenever that happens, the car geek in me immediately thinks of the engines that both Ford and Chevy made that were 427 cubic inches…yeah, I know…I’m weird…but, I slept okay and that isn’t…well..maybe it is the way I normally sleep….kind of sore today after going out hard and keeping it up the entire ride….it was nice to get out in a normal hat and just my riding gloves yesterday but I think that is just about over for the year…but I can get out in full thermasuit so I guess that’s no big deal…didn’t get a whole lot done yesterday with sports on…I am going to talk about a crash in the F1 race that was one of the worst I’ve ever seen but that will be later when I do a sports update…haven’t talked about that in a while and there have been things happen that I want to comment on…the birds still haven’t found the feeders yet and that is kind of strange with how many of them  that have been flocking under the awnings…it’s been three days but last year it took them 3 weeks to find them and I wonder if the ones that found and fed off them last year are all gone or if they don’t have very good memories…..I never got one hummingbird to the feeder this year and I just took it down the other day…will need to bring it in and clean it today since the sugar water will leave it sticky….not much to do today….have an easy morning with having to wait to go out on the bike and just having this to do until then…oh, and the news and lots more coffee….more later….

Well…you know, when I talked about a “care package” in the last one and still use it in conversation sometimes, I probably should explain what it is since it’s not common knowledge anymore…when I was a kid there was an organization called Care that sent out packages of food, medicine, and clothing to impoverished areas of the world…so whenever I get anything free, I call it a care package…and I got one today from Priority Health that had 2 facemasks, 2 temperature sensors, a band aid holder with band aids, and a deck of cards that have the biggest damn numbers on them I have ever seen…I wonder if they think I’m getting old? Still, it’s pretty cool anytime you get free stuff and I’ll use it….

Well…that was better…my stomach was okay all night and didn’t wake me up once and I slept in all the way to 6:03 when the coffee maker signaled it was time to get up….I think I slept okay but had no dreams that I can remember and that is a little annoying with how many I have been having lately….I was really expecting my right shoulder to be screaming at me after raking the leaves yesterday but it doesn’t hurt at all today even with sleeping on it last night….it was probably a good idea to take some ibuprofen last night….I did get a ride in yesterday and will probably ride again today but that will wait until the afternoon since I just can’t get motivated right now and it is still dark…and the F1 race is on at 9 along with Man U so I am going to just ease into the day and have lots more coffee….I really do need to clean this place up today and continue to work on the kitchen after getting the oven done yesterday…and it’s about time to wrangle the dust again since there is a thin coating on everything…I do need to get some new furnace filters this week and I hope that helps with the dust but with how old this house is, it probably won’t….not much to do today…and this time, that is true….just going to watch some sports and fool around here some….more later….

Well…I think my experiment for today has proven that the turkey I cooked was off….had everything that I had yesterday except for turkey for lunch and my stomach is perfectly fine….so that is all going in the trash including the carcasses so no turkey soup this year….and I got a few things done today….got the last of the leaves moved behind the garage to compost, got the bird feeders put back together, up, and filled, and then washed the shifter on the bike since the 5-6 shift is still annoying me and I wanted to clean it again before I start adjusting it…oh, and I did laundry and left a paper towel in the sink which plugged the drain up and flooded the floor…luckily it just runs over the top of the sink and then down the floor drain so no big deal….oh, another thing I almost forgot…cleaned the oven today, too, so I did get a few things done after feeling crappy and being a total veg yesterday…but now it’s time to take it easy for a while and watch some soccer….

Well…that was an ugly day….my stomach has been roiled up and I have been eating antacids like candy to keep the pain at bay and that hasn’t happened in a long time….and I’m not sure what it is that caused it…I do know that It woke me up all night and I feel pretty crappy right now….the only thing that I changed in my diet was the turkey and I have a suspicion that it may be bad since it had a smell to it when I took it out of the package and it shouldn’t smell at all…so, I’ll skip turkey today to see how that works…I did get out on the bike yesterday and got over 5,600 miles for the year but I have no goal left for the rest of the year…won’t get to 6,000 without doing doubles every day and I’m done with that….today is going to be a little later when I go out since it is in the 20’s right now and I want to see F1 qualifying at 9….I should clean some and I might take a whack at the oven since I spilled some stuff in it and I want to make sure it doesn’t bake on…and I cleaned the bird feeders yesterday and will probably put them up today…I wasn’t going to but I like watching the birds and they have been flitting around the awning like they are looking for it…and I have some leaves in the back yard I want to get in a pile so they will compost over the winter but I can work on that over the next few days….more later…

Well…that was weird….didn’t get out of bed until 7:47 this morning…thanks, Tom….and I slept right through the night which just never happens and I hope that will make me feel better later…had an okay day yesterday and the turkey came out great but it didn’t have a lot of flavor and that is also weird…going to try some of the dark meat for lunch today and see if that is better…even the gravy didn’t taste like much so I wonder if I’m losing my sense of taste….that would be a shame…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but cooking and cleaning up and taking a run out to Tom’s for a few minutes and it was nice to get out of here even for a little while….but it was the same old crap with the Lions losing and if they don’t fire the coach after this year, the people running the team are just stupid….they need to clean house from top to bottom and start over for the 40th time since I have been following them…..not much to do today…I am going to get out on the bike here in a few minutes but that will probably be all I am going to do today…still feel a little slow and just need to take it easy after I have lots and lots more coffee….more later…

Well…another 5:24 morning that turned into a 6:23 morning after I was a little successful in getting back to sleep but it doesn’t appear to have helped much since I still feel exhausted this morning…cripes, it’s starting to look like I’m always going to feel exhausted or crappy and I know I don’t like that much…it’s a pain in the butt to get old…oh, well….and I just turned the turkey in the brine and spilled it everywhere and that’s just what I needed first thing out of bed….but I am looking forward to cooking today and having a huge meal that will probably make me uncomfortable the rest of the day….but that comes with t-day and I don’t have much to do so I can just melt into the couch….I am going to get out on the bike this morning since it is already over 40 but I am going to wear my stocking cap since I damn near froze my ears off in the rain yesterday…everything looks like it has dried from yesterday but I need to shake the sand and grit off my wind pants in the tub since they are covered in dirt…and I should wash the bike before I go since the dirt was jamming up the shifter and I could barely get the 5-6 shift to work…but that will wait until it’s light out there and I get some coffee in me….just need to get the ride in and back here before 10 so I can get the bird done for lunch….didn’t get a pie this year since I’m not such a dessert person and I’d feel guilty letting it spoil….more later…