Well…up a little after 7 this morning and that’s not too bad after having a few days of waking up at 5….man, I’m still worn out but I think I did it to myself with not eating enough…again…I mean a bowl of chili and a dog? Under 1K calories again and that’s not sustainable…but I have lots of food in the fridge that I am waiting to thaw and once that happens, I’ll have ham for a week…maybe tomorrow….then I can have a couple of omelets with ham, onion, and cheese…..didn’t get much done yesterday and it was supposed to rain today but it looks like it may miss to the north so I can get out and ride after I do the grocery run….and it’s 56 out there right now so I may be able to ride in shorts for the last time today….but, there is supposed to be a huge storm coming in from the west that may bring snow early next week so I need to plan for that and get all of my groceries in before that…and it looks like a set up for lake effect snow after that so I need to put the snowies on the car over the weekend…but I am going to try to not drive int he snow this year to keep the car from completely rusting out…not much to do today…just the grocery run and bike rides and if it doesn’t rain, I may start picking up the leaves with the mower…more later…

Well…after all of the work putting the opener up yesterday and taking an outdoor ride, I decided to take it easy today and not really do any work on the yard…I did get out to run a couple of errands and it was so cool using the remote for the door opener like a normal house…and got a big spiral sliced ham for 8 bucks to start with, then I decided to hit depot for an indoor ladder since they had a 5 footer on sale for 29 bucks but when I got there they only had one but it was even cheaper at 24 bucks so that was cool….and I even put the top down to transport it back here and that was fun with the nice sunshine there was this morning…and I got an 8 mile ride in downstairs since it was only 29 this morning and I just wasn’t going to get cold again….oh, I guess I did get some work done…I did laundry and I am waiting for the dryer to finish since I don’t have any extra lounging clothes and everything is in the dryer….so now I have the tools I need to get started on the inside of the house when and if I get some motivation….but, not right now….

Well….another 6:23 morning today and I still feel pretty worn out but I don’t hurt as much as yesterday so I’ll take that…I just hate it that every damn thing I do puts me into pain and that never used to happen when I was younger….I mean just hanging a garage door opener? That was just normal work and I never ended up with my whole body in pain like I did yesterday….and my shoulder is stiff today for some reason, too…think I slept on it and that is disappointing, too….just getting old and decrepit…oh, well….I did get a few things done yesterday but I may take the day off today….installing the opener finished off the outside work that I had to do other than pick up the leaves so I think I may have earned a day off….I do have to make a run to DD to pick up a spiral sliced ham for 88 cents a pound and that is cheap with how pork prices have gone up…I did take some ham soup out of the freezer yesterday and that leaves one 2 quart container in there that I will have to use up if I want to have room for the turkey carcass….I do want to make turkey soup after t-day since I tossed last years carcass out with the turkey tasting off from the start…not much to do today…I think I’ll ride downstairs this morning since it is 29 out there and I don’t want to get cold again outside….can’t wait to take the car out without having to lift the door and get out of the car to close it….this is a normal house now and it feels good….more later…

Well…just got the first birds on the feeder and they are not what I expected…I thought I’d get sparrows since there are so many of them around but the first ones were Tufted Titmouses and I had a few of them here in just the past few minutes…and they feed really quickly…just hit the feeder, grab a couple of seeds and they they are gone….I did have one other bird…a big one with an orange breast and a red patch on the back of it’s head…can’t remember ever seeing a bird like that….oh, the chickens were back today just hanging around on my sidewalk and they just stood there when I walked by…I may put some of the 40 pounds of seed I have out for them in a pile in the yard and see if they will eat it….up close, the black one is just huge and must go 10 pounds or so….I did get an outdoor bike ride in today and it was just no fun…to damn cold and windy and I am sore from it….it was nice to get out but I guess I’m getting old and just want to be warm…

Well….this is pretty damn cool…started working on installing the new garage door opener around 9 and just finished it up now around noon….was a pretty easy installation but the track on this one is about 6 inches shorter so I had to build a new hanger setup for it and that took a little time to figure out how to do that…but, I had everything I needed to do it on hand with just a little figuring so that was cool…once I got the up and down limits set, I turned off the power to see if it would stay in the memory and it did so I can take a couple of days to rewire it so the power will be on to it all the time…this is a pretty nice unit and you can barely hear it when it’s working and that is cool, too but it only came with one remote so I think I’m going to look to see what another one would cost…it just dawned on me that I don’t have to get out of the car to open and close the door anymore! That is just too cool for 78 bucks and a few hours of work….

Well…got all the way through til 7:04 this morning and I think I slept pretty well…but still feel quite slow and the coffee needs to work soon or I’ll still be sitting here at 10….and that can’t happen since I need to finish up installing the new garage door opener here in a few minutes…still have a couple of hours of work to do but it looks pretty easy so I’ll have it done this morning….I do have to rewire the power feed since they have it routed through a switch and I want it to be powered all the time without having the flood lights on…but that will get done later in the week…didn’t get anything else done yesterday and the opener will be the only job for today so the leaves are going to wait a couple of days until they dry out some….but it looks like rain showers almost all week so that may take some doing…might be able to get an outdoor ride in today but I’m not going to push that…it’s only 36 out there and it is just so easy to walk downstairs to ride that I fear I’m going to get a little lazy about riding outside….I’ve already gotten to 4500 miles this year and that was the only goal I had…but I’m hoping to get to 5,000 before the end of the year…I guess that’s a new goal and that will get me to 15K miles over the last three years….not much to do today…just going to finish up the opener and then see where the day goes…not too motivated right now and I hope the coffee will help that….more later…

Well…as you know, I’ve been looking for a garage door opener since I bought this house but I winced at paying 160 bucks for one….but today, while I was looking at the ads that came with the paper, I saw a bargain that I really couldn’t believe from depot….they had a Genie belt drive, wifi enabled, 3/4 horse one for only 78 bucks….normally, this one is 178 bucks so less than half price…so, I jumped in the car and ran out to get one and it is now sitting in my dining room waiting for me to install it this week….I still can’t believe that I got one that cheap and it is going to be so cool to just pull up to the door and push a button to put the car in….and ride up to it and hit a button to put the bike away or get my tools out to work on the lawn…I’m pretty sure that my wifi won’t reach that far but I think I’ll take the phone out there and try it…it would be cool to get the door alert on my phone and be able to open and close it from here….yee ha….

Well…running about on time for a Sunday with getting out of bed at 7:10 and going out to get the paper…slept okay but I still think it’s weird that my nose plugs up if I sleep on my left side but it is clear if I sleep on my right….but I flip and flop all night so I can’t really control being able to breathe…and that sucks…at least it didn’t snow last night but it did rain and it is raining right now so it will be a downstairs ride again today and I am going to try to go 10 miles this morning…it is nice to not have to hurry to get out since I can go downstairs at any point with no prep….it looks like I won’t be able to pick up the leaves until Friday with rain showers forecast every day this week and that will give the rest of them a chance to fall…next week will be the first t-day in my house and my stress levels are so low knowing I have a place to live that it is going to be a good day….I may start doing some walking training around here with the England trip coming up in two years…and bike riding is not enough to be in shape for that….I do want a weight machine to start firming up but the prices are more than I want to pay…the last one I had only cost 180 bucks but the cheapest one now is over 400 bucks so I’ll have to think about that…..not much to do today….don’t have to cook with leftover chili and some eggs to use up and I really don’t need to clean much…I do need to get the dining room table cleared off for t-day so I’ll have a place to put the food when I’m done with it but I have more than a week to get that done so it will be easy…I need more coffee….more later….

Well…as you know, I put up a bird feeder on one of my living room windows and am no waiting for the birds to show up…today will mark 6 days it’s been up and still no birds…I even put some seed on the windowsill and on the sidewalk just to get some more surface area of seed and increase the chance that some bird will stumble on it…if they don’t show up, I don’t know what I’m going to do with the 40 lbs of seed I bought…maybe just put some piles out for the squirrels? I did get an indoor ride in this morning and finally got the bike adjusted on the trainer so it’s a little less noisy and that is cool…getting used to it and it is kind of a luxury to just be able to ignore the weather and walk downstairs to ride….I think I may up the mileage to 10 every day since I can do the 8 in about 45 minutes and I can spare an hour easily….my hair was getting a little shaggy so I did a quick cut on it and I appear to be getting better at it after I decided to use my beard trimmer to do the detail work…..so now, it’s football time until the F1 qualifying race comes on in an hour or so….