Well…with the nice sunshine today, I have been watching the back yard to see if the plot I was going to use got enough sun all day and it doesn’t…so, it looks like I’m going to have to put it in the back of the yard since that is in sun from about 10 o’clock until now as I write this at 5…and it will probably be in light until 8 or so and that is plenty to support the veggies I have planned…and I just noticed a little area right next to the garage that could support something…maybe some cukes or something…or maybe I’ll put my beans there and put the cukes in the big garden…I may run it almost all the way across the back of the yard but there is some garage shadow there right now that I hope will go away when the sun gets higher in the sky….I did get the summer wheels back on the car today getting ready to buy the new tires next week if Discount is still going to be open….car shops are supposed to be “essential” so I think they will be…and it’s not a bad price at 200 bucks out the door…will probably not need another set of tires before I die…and that is something that has been creeping into my thoughts lately…but, not a lot…after all, I did get a hard 20 mile ride in today but there are idiots on the trails still with groups of people out again…I’m pretty sure the three women with 8 kids don’t all live in the same house…but, I’m not going to dwell on that…I was out in a t-shirt and shorts today and that will be the dress for tomorrow, too…might just do a double and get 25 miles in tomorrow…

Well…running a bit late this morning with not getting up until after 6…but, that was expected after getting only 3 hours or so yesterday…and I feel crappy and warm again today and I just can’t figure that out….and I forgot to turn the coffee maker on last night and I never do that…hmmm…so my day is not getting off to the best start but it doesn’t need to…don’t have anything to do today so I am going to just let it happen without any schedule or urgency…it’s not like any day has urgency….anymore…there was some good news that came out yesterday that trump and his asshole cronies bowed to pressure from everyone and are going to issue the 1200 buck stimulus payments to SS recipients who don’t file taxes without having to file fake tax returns…the system already exists to do that and I couldn’t figure out why they couldn’t just use it to add additional money to our accounts…but with the incompetents running this country, they always figure out how to screw things up…just like the coronavirus response that Rachel eviscerated on her show last night…I haven’t been watching her lately since I know how bad trump is at everything and I don’t want to be more depressed with the prospect of a million people dying because of him….not much to do today…I am going to cook the big ham I got yesterday and try to get two rides in but that is about it…feel pretty crappy right now and just want to have more coffee…I should run out to HF but I think that will wait til tomorrow…or next week…no urgency there, either….more later…

Well…I’m pretty sure that getting 3 1/2 hours of sleep is not a good thing…I am so damn beat right now that it’s tough to just sit here and do this…but the weird thing is that I tried to take a nap and got about 15 minutes before I woke up and I can tell that any more is just not going to happen….so, I decided to to defrost the upstairs freezer…well…not really defrost it so much as just scraping the frost buildup out of it….and I found that my car ice scraper works perfectly for it and makes short work of it…so that was cool…I did get out for a grocery run this morning and the car started right up after the dead battery Sunday and just running it for 15 minutes or so then….so it was good to drive it a little…it doesn’t like sitting and is not idling right but getting some injector cleaner should help that….I do need to put the summer wheels back on this week so I can order the new tires for it next week after I pay off my Capital One card…and I got everything I needed at the grocery store…really just wanted to get a Cooks ham for 89 cents a pound and got that so I’ll be eating off that thing for a week…and I got my green bean seeds to plant so I think I have everything for the garden….but, I’m so damn tired…not sure if I should try to do more or just give up and veg…probably just veg and start over tomorrow….I do want to get out to HF to get my new little compressor this week and they have micro fiber towels on sale for 4 of them for 69 cents and they are really hand for dusting around here so I need some of those, too…will probably spend 60 bucks or so there but then I shut everything down and no more spending for quite a while….especially since they are going to stiff people who are getting SS and don’t have to file taxes…no 1200 buck stimulus check and it’s trump’s fault since he told the IRS not to pay anyone who is so poor they don’t owe taxes…what a prick…

Well…damn…it was a 4:01 morning today with getting up at 2 for the first time….so that makes it a 3 1/2 hour night and that takes me back to my college days when I had those kinds of nights for 4 years…but, I was in my 20s then and pretty invincible…not the old guy I am now…was a little worried yesterday that I was getting a fever and it was going to progress into something bad…but, I almost stopped coughing and the fever stayed low so I think it will be okay…I do have a bug of some kind but it feels more like a cold than anything else since I’m not sore or tired…and I should be with not sleeping much…it’s a little weird to get up so early to have to wait for 2 hours for the coffee to brew but I don’t want to start too early so I’ll be out by 7….didn’t get much done yesterday and today is probably going to be the same with not sleeping….I know my energy is going to run out really early and will probably only last until the bike ride later this morning…I am going to head out for groceries this morning to try to get a cheap ham at Meijers and a few other things that I need before they start restricting who can get what and there are long lines out the door while they limit the number of people in the store at any one time…with the ham, I don’t have to go out again for 6 weeks or so…I will miss having milk with meals but I guess I’d better get used to it since I am not going to stand in line for hours for food…booze maybe…but not food….more later…

Well…things are getting pretty dire around here when I’m three weeks past the time to get a haircut and all of the places I use are closed to stop the virus spread…so, I decided to do my own hair this morning using my beard trimmer since it was annoying the hell out of me…just finished it and it doesn’t look too bad…it’s the same way I have it cut when I go out for a haircut…a number 3 clipper over the whole thing with a number 2 on top….I think if my clippers weren’t 20 years old it would have looked a little smoother and I have to figure out how to trim over the ears and around the back but I have lots of time on my hands so I think I can….after all, it’s just hair and it will grow back…but I just bought myself another month so that’s cool….and I saved 13 bucks….woo hoo…

Well…up at 5:24 this morning and that pretty much puts things back to normal after the late morning yesterday…and yep, I have some kind of bug….woke up kind of sweaty this morning and have been coughing up lots of stuff and I don’t think that is all caused by allergies….but, I don’t feel too bad so I will be back on the bike this morning to get the miles in and may even be up to doubles starting thurs with a little warmer temps coming in…I am almost to 700 miles for the year and that puts me ahead of where I was last year at this time…but getting to 5K is still pretty daunting….haven’t been too motivated lately and I’m not sure why that would be….I know I haven’t been feeling too hot but that’s normally not the problem….maybe it’s that there is so much to do outside and the weather hasn’t been cooperating…and I know that the abuse my hands are going to get is going to be quite painful when I start chopping out the stumps in the front of the house….I know that all I need to do is just get started and take it piece by piece but I need paint and other supplies that I can’t get right now…not much to do today….I am going to ease into the day until I get on the bike around 10 or so and that will still be in full thermasuit for the next couple of days….I really should clean but I’m still not too motivated…more later….

Well…okay, have had really bad allergies for months now but this feels different…I have started to feel warm this afternoon and just weird…still coughing but that has been going on for months so that’s not a new one…I’m not sure if I’m eating enough and that always makes me feel warm the following day…I mean I had two eggs, two pieces of bacon and two slices of toast along with two pieces of pizza yesterday…and I figure that is over 1500 calories and that should be enough…although the day before that I only had half a chicken breast and couple of bowls of soup…and so far today I’ve had half a chicken breast and a handful of fries and that is only about 400 calories so I could be behind for today…and I am trying my hand at baking bread right now I am so bored…so I’ll have a couple of slices of that in a few minutes….all I know is this feels different than normal…like I have a bad cold coming on…do colds still exist? No one is talking about that right now…crap, I don’t need this right now…or ever…I guess I’ll keep you posted if this gets worse….

Well…running really late this morning with a miracle happening and not getting out of bed until 7:18….I did wake up at 3:30 but was able to roll over and go back to sleep for the first time in what seems like a year…don’t think that helped in feeling better though, since I still feel worn out and crappy and just can’t get started…I wonder if you can get too much sleep? If this is going be what my allergies are going to be like this spring, I’m going to be miserable and I’m not sure how long I can take it…have felt like crap for months now and it is getting to be a bit much…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday in shorts but it looks like I’ll be back to full thermasuit for a couple of days…but I just looked at the weather and some 60 degree days are coming…it’s about damn time to be able to get out in a t-shirt and get started on the lawn and outside of the house….need to get the hatchet sharpened so I can try to get the stumps out of the front of the house and get ready to plant flowers…not sure if I’ll be able to get flowers this year and I won’t be here next year so maybe I’ll just fill the spaces in with dirt….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to try to do something today…not sure what but something…cleaning? Man, it’s weird to be on my first cup of coffee and it’s after 8….and I think it’s going to put me behind for the whole day…behind for what I don’t know but behind….more later….

Well…cripes…let’s add something else to worry about with the damn virus going around…have felt pretty crappy all day today and when that happens these days, the first thing you think of is that damn virus…but, I’m sure it’s not that but my allergies going into overdrive…some of which is my fault but some of it is that trees have started to bloom along the trail along with weeds and grass….I know a big part of it is the downstairs project that is going quite well but doing that makes my allergies much worse….but, I am nearing the goal that I set when I started the project so I may be able to shut it down when I get through a few more months….it would be so damn nice to not have the stuffed up head, itchy eyes, and coughing that has been with me since I moved in here….and none of those are coronavirus symptoms so I guess I’ll live another day…and I know the soreness I feel is from being an idiot on the bike the past few days…hey, I just noticed something…I think this is going to be the most posts I have done in a month since I have been doing this! I’ll have to go back and check but I’m over 80 and I still have two days to go…maybe 90 for the month? That would be cool…crap, just checked and in February of 2017 I did 105 of these so no new record…but 90 would still be cool…

Well….when I was out filling the feeders yesterday, I noticed that there must be 20 pounds of seed under the feeders on the ground where the birds have thrown it while digging through to get their preferred stuff…so today, I decided to not fill the feeders and let them just eat through the stuff on the ground for a change…and those little shits were perched on the empty sill looking in the window with some of them even pecking at it…but, nope…no food for a couple of days until they at least try to eat some of leftovers…I wonder what the hell they ate before I started filling the feeders in November? They sure weren’t dying from hunger there are so many of them….and not one of them has said thanks…that’s the least they could do….