Well…running normally for a Thursday and it was good to get out and get some groceries…no good deals but when you’t down to nothing in the fridge, you have to buy something…slept really crappy last night but I don’t feel it today…I actually feel okay and that is just weird….and my back doesn’t hurt right now so I’ll take that….but, the car was covered in ice this morning and I had to run it to melt since I have no clue where my scraper is….the new battery spun the car over like crazy this morning and I am happy to have that fixed…but, I do need to grease the pins on the front brakes today but that is an easy job….and then the car should be ready for winter….other than putting the snow tires back on…but that won’t happen until Dec 1st or so…..not much to do today…I should clean and probably will do a little…more later…

Well…with two days of steady rain, I expected there would be some flooding on the trail when I went out on the bike…but, I didn’t expect what I saw…in the second retention pond next to M-6, the water level was almost up to the trail when it is normally 15 feet or so below it…and over at the park at 60th and Hanna Lake, the water was all the way out to 60th street…so high that there was no way I was even going to attempt to ford it to get into the park….I will be interested to see what it looks like tomorrow…

Well…running on time today and I shouldn’t be….feeling a little under the weather….slept okay last night but still no dreams to speak of…it was a pretty strange day yesterday but I got a few things done so that was cool….haven’t been on the bike in two days with the rain and it is going to be cold enough today that I’ll have to dig out the gloves when I ride….I am not ready for that but I should be with it getting to the end of October…..I do need to grease the pins on the car tomorrow and it should be warm enough to do that….not much to do today….just have no motivation right now but I hope to have some later…..need to clean and I have been thinking about going out to get a new coffee maker…or I can just buy more filters for the old one….more later…

Well…have been surveying the political landscape this morning and haven’t found anything that I really want to talk about so I guess I’ll just rummage around in my head and see what’s there…yeah, I know, kinda scary but I’m going in…it has been quite a busy morning with having to go up to the office to sign a new lease for one more year here…and that thing is 20 pages or so….not sure why but it is…and then the car barely started again today so I went over to the parts store and got my free replacement battery…but that turned into a major project since I had some rust under the battery that I needed to treat with the rust preventer…and then had to take the brackets out and do the same…and taking the battery out of the car causes the radio to lose all of my settings so I had to spend 20 minutes resetting all of the audio settings and the clock….and all of this in the frickin rain so I am still cold and wet….and I had to wash all of the clothes I was wearing since, if there is rust under the battery, there must have been a leak in the battery or the vent tubes that vent to the outside and I probably got acid on my clothes…luckily, the battery came with a new set of tubes so I installed them….and now I’m done….so, it’s veg time until Man U plays this aft….

Well…kind of on time this morning…but, I’m still bored after being stuck in here all day yesterday with the rain…and it’s still raining so it looks like it may be a second day off the bike….almost 3 inches of rain yesterday…and now it’s going to be cold and in the 40′s so I guess I’ll have to start looking for the thermasuit to wear….slept okay last night and feel okay today if a little slow…have been feeling like I have a bug but I’m not sure how it could last 3 weeks…think I may try some allergy stuff today to see if that helps….I am going to talk about my back today since it started to hurt again yesterday but feels okay right now…just can’t get it to crack and that is annoying…okay…need some coffee and to read some news…more later….

Well…running early today and I think I’m just bored….slept okay last night and don’t feel too bad this morning…my back is okay right now but I’m worried that it will hurt again in a while…that seems to be the pattern lately….I did get the last ride in a t-shirt in yesterday…probably won’t get out today with the rain….and it’s going to get cold starting tomorrow with highs in the 40′s for the rest of the week so I guess I’ll start looking for the warm weather clothes….still going to wear shorts for the next month so I’ll have to get ready for that…not much to do today….going to clean a little but that is about it…..and come back here for a couple if I can find some topics….more later….

Well…running early today and my back is hurting again…crap….had been hoping it would continue to be okay but no such luck….slept okay last night but feel a little slow this morning…I know I didn’t eat enough yesterday but it is becoming harder to eat when I never feel hungry….I did have fun yesterday getting my fall drive in and I’m glad I did it….today will start the rain and it’s supposed to rain all day tomorrow, too…so it looks like a day off the bike….I am going to get out today as soon as the sun comes up but it is already really windy out there….at least I have brakes on the bike again….not much to do today…I have been saying I’m going to clean and today I might….or I might not…who knows?

Well….as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one and part of it is I just forgot…had some stuff in my head when I was on the bike but got distracted….I did get a two park color tour in today…60 miles just screwing around since it looks like today was going to be the last warm day this year that it won’t be raining…and it is supposed to rain the next 4 days or so….the new brakes on the bike are working pretty good if I use both of them….I do miss the disc brakes on the mountain bike…only ever had to use the back brake and it just stopped….but, I think I am going to wait until next year to buy a new one….okay, the Michigan game is starting so I think I’ll watch that….

Well…running a little early today…have been up for 45 minutes and I am bored already…so that’s why I’m here this early….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get a lot done but putting the new brakes on the bike….not sure if I’ll do better today since I want to take a color tour drive today after the Man U game at 10….it is kind of weird to sit here waiting for the sun to come up to get on the bike…it is warm enough but just dark….slept okay last night and I feel better than I should but I still have a little cough that is annoying….and I feel a little slow to go with it but I’m not sure what the reason is…okay, I do…but I’m not going to talk about that….more later….

Well….the new brakes for the bike came today and I just installed them….I can use the center pull brake levers again and it even stops just using them….so that worked out pretty cool…I was feeling a little concerned how the brakes were working…or not working on the fast downhills and the pads were leaving black crap on everything…. and vibrating so badly that the front wheel would go into a death wobble….I guess 40 years is the limit for the pads, huh? I’ll give the new ones a good test tomorrow when I get out early…and the new pads even came with new, metal valve caps that have rubber seals inside of them to keep the air from leaking out…pretty cool for 10 bucks total…and no shipping charge…