Well…running quite late today with not getting up til almost 6:30 and having to take a look at the news before I came here…slept okay last night and don’t feel bad this morning with being good again last night…still have that low grade soreness everywhere but that’s pretty normal now so I shouldn’t bitch about that….didn’t get on the bike yesterday with it being so damn cold and I think that may have helped my back a little since it doesn’t hurt much this morning….and it looks like a long wait to get out today but it needs to happen before the rain starts…it’s supposed to rain about an inch over the next few days so I will be dodging raindrops for the next few days…and that will keep the trail from draining so I guess I’ll just have to get used it being flooded until spring…I can ride on the street if it gets bad I guess….I did get out to shoot pool yesterday and that was fun and it was nice to get out of here for a while…I do have to try to find things to do that will get me out of here for a while at least once a week just to make sure I don’t get too comfortable with just hanging out here….I know it’s winter and I do normally hibernate quite a bit but not talking to anyone for a week is kind of isolating and I’m sure it’s not good for me….not much to do today…I do have an errand to run this morning and the bike ride but I really do need to get back to work around here, too….have shades to hang in the last room and it need to be repaired and painted so I can start using it…not sure what for but I know it’s not going to be storage….more later….

Well…woke up coughing like crazy this morning and I really hope it’s this damn low level cold finally breaking…was so exhausted yesterday that all I wanted to do was veg on the couch and that is just not right….really tried to eat more to make sure that was not it so we’ll see today….feel okay this morning with being good again and I think I’ll continue that all week…it can’t be bad for me to rest the liver for a while and it’ll save me a hundred bucks a month so that’s a bonus….I did get out for a bike ride yesterday but I’m not going out today with the temp forecast to not get out of the 20’s and the light dusting of snow won’t melt til tomorrow…that will leave the ice covered and hidden and one thing I know is I don’t want another crash…feel old enough as it is and hurt enough without it…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today will be the same other than I have the grocery run to do this morning… and it is pool day! Can’t wait to get out of here for a while…might have almost a new record for driving the car of only 3 1/2 miles in the past week and that is not good for the car or for me…so I guess I’ll have to work tomorrow…need to do the wood floors again but that is going to be much more work with having furniture in here…but I do like the way they look shiny and moving everything will be worth it….more later….

Well….that was a weird night of sleep…went to bed early last night but was up for the first time at 2:23 and then for good at 5:27 and with the tossing and turning I think that makes about a 5 hour night…or maybe a little more…but, I feel okay this morning with being good for a while now and I am going to keep that up for the foreseeable future….it will save me lots of money and I really don’t need the calories…I did get out for a bike ride yesterday but the damn thing started to skip in 7th on the rear cassette and the last time that happened it had started to come loose so I’ll need to take it apart and check it out before I go out this morning…but that doesn’t take long so no big deal…the trail was really flooded on the back side of the swamp yesterday and Sunday so having to backtrack added a couple of miles to the ride…and it looks like the water is going to take quite a while to recede even after the river goes down….it’s going to rain/snow the rest of the week so that won’t help any…oh, well….I did get a few things done yesterday and have a couple of errands to run this morning but really do need to work more around here…will probably skip the bike ride tomorrow with it snowing and being in the 20’s so that will give me time to get things done….it was nice to finally have a sunny day yesterday and I went around this place opening the shades to let it in…couldn’t believe how much the sunlight affected my mood but we’re back into the gloom that is going to last most of the winter so it’s time to hunker down and endure it….more later…

Well…feel pretty lousy this morning and with the hot and cold flashes yesterday, I think it may still be the cold I’ve had hanging on for a couple of weeks now…and I am still coughing, too…even have been thinking about taking the day off the bike but I really can’t ignore this run of good riding weather we’ve been having…and that looks like it’s going to continue for the next week at least…so, I’ll suck it up and keep going to try to burn out the bug by going harder on the bike…slept okay last night and even had some dreams again but they were about butterflies that could change shape and that is just a little too weird for me….woke up before I could find out if they were dangerous or not and I didn’t mind that much…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to try to start to get back to a schedule today by restarting the prep work for the last room I need to paint….I was going to run errands today but have decided to wait until my normal day on Wed…have plenty of food here and really don’t need anything else and that will help with not spending any money that I need to do this month….so this week looks kind of boring to start but who knows what will happen? More later….

Well….at least I remembered to put January in the title of this one…the past few days I was locked into December for some reason and had to come back and change a few of these…and no, it’s not from getting old…it’s from getting started before coffee and the jump start it gives my brain…at least that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it…slept okay last night and just feel sore this morning and I know what that is from, too…the river finally flooded the trail yesterday and I had to turn around and run the trail backwards to get my miles in…and that added about 4 miles to the ride so I got 16 in yesterday and went pretty hard, too so I guess I’ve earned the pain…and there were multiple other place along the trail that were just inches from flooding so I am curious what it’s going to look like this morning when I get out…I did get dome work done around here yesterday…spent some time working on the furnace to get the noise out of the blower and was somewhat successful…had to re align the motor and tighten the hold down bolts along with tightening the set screw that holds the pulley since that was loose…then, I had to tighten the belt with some shims and that helped get rid of some of the slapping from the belt but not all of it so I need to work on that some more today…but it is quite a bit better so I may just let it run for a while before I work on it again….it does look like the dog poop idiots that were living next door have moved out since I haven’t seen a car there in over three weeks and the mailbox is overflowing with junk mail…the weird thing is I’m here all the time and never saw a truck or anyone move anything…and there were at least 6 people living there….we’ll see…just hope whoever rents it again doesn’t have dog and takes care of it better….okay, I need to check to see if there is any soccer on and read the rest of the news…more later….

Well…another crappy night of sleep and I was tempted to get up at 4:03 when I woke up with having so much trouble getting back to sleep…and now I feel tired and slow that I hope won’t go on all day…I did just notice that my thumb is quite a bit better today and really doesn’t hurt much and that is a welcome change from the pain I’ve had for the past few months….it still spikes a little but I can live with that…I did get out for a nice bike ride yesterday and took the chance that the trails would be clear and they were passable so I didn’t have to ride into town on the streets…but the river is only a foot below the trails so I am curious if it got over the river portion of the trail overnight….will have to wait a while for that since it is cold out there and I don’t want to be cold just yet….I think the idiots next door that had the dogs that crapped all over my lawn moved out and I can’t be happier….haven’t seen any of them since before christmas but I’m not going to get my hopes up just yet….maybe the owner of the house will have to do the clean up I had to do here and get rid of the trash, old grills, and fire pit that is in the back yard…I can hope…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks the same but my internet tv is not working again so I won’t be able to watch sports until I can text my son to take a look at it…but that won’t be until later…most people don’t get up when I do….so, I may have to clean some until he can get it fixed…more later….

Well…running a little late today and I’m not sure why….I did stay in bed til 6:30 so that may be part of it…I did sleep okay and had some weird dreams that were welcome after not having any for so long…I do need to ease into the day, though since I’m feeling a little slow and unmotivated right now…and I’m still getting used to the fact that they changed all of the shows I ran in the background on tv in the morning on the first of the month….I had gotten so used to the Lone Ranger that I never really thought about it or watched it as I did the first one of these and then got to catching up on the news…but now, the new shows actually get my attention which interrupts me and I’m sure I don’t like it…okay, just a little crabby this morning with the big orange idiot trying to start another war in the middle east that I will talk about later…..didn’t get a lot done yesterday after working on the bike and getting a ride in after the flat but I do need to do better today and get some cleaning done…the dust is turning from bunnies into wolves and need to be dealt with before they turn into raptors….but that is going to wait until more coffee and some news…and maybe another one of these before the ride…who knows?  More later…..

Well…so, I was hoping for a nice easy day and a bike ride this morning…and when I rode over to JBP to take a look at the trails, it started out that way….the trails were snow an ice covered, as I expected, so I turned around and headed back here but got a flat just leaving the park entrance…luckily, it was a front tire and I didn’t feel like walking a mile and a half back here so I just started to ride it back here at about 3mph and waited for the tire to come off the rim as it usually does but it made it all the way back here so that was cool. So, I got back here and then headed to Meijers to get another tube and this Meijers had the Slime tubes that I like that are much thicker than the cheap Schwinn ones that I bought last time…and only 8 bucks so that made me smile a bit….so I replaced the tube, put the bike back together, and decided to scout out bike lanes on the streets around here and was able to find enough to get 10 miles in today…so, until the trails thaw, it looks like I can still ride every day…and I think I’m going to ride into the city tomorrow to just look around and see if they have any bike lanes there that may be usable after it gets warmer in the spring….I may just be able to ride outside all winter if this bike lane thing works out…pretty cool….

Well…that ends that…I’m glad the holidays are over and things can get back to normal…even though I didn’t have a lot to do this year, it is still nice that it’s over….so, let’s get back to it…going to start getting healthier by gradually changing my diet over the next month or so…have been lazy and eating some junk food that I know I shouldn’t and that is going to end this month…okay, no these are not resolutions just realization that apples are better for me than chips so that’s where I’ll start…and no cocktails for a while, either….just don’t enjoy them like I used to so what’s the point? Slept okay last night but I think only eating a chicken leg quarter yesterday and skipping dinner is going to catch up with me later this morning…my stomach is bitching at me already so I may have to take something for it soon…yesterday was such a sports bust with all of my teams losing that I really don’t want to talk about that…oh, I already did yesterday so I don’t need to today…still sucks….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I will start to clean up some of the tools I have been using around here since the kitchen is a mess and I really don’t need all of them out…but that is going to wait for a while since I do need to have coffee first….I think I’m going to take the bike out today to look at the trails and see how bad they are after the snow Monday…they will probably be a mess but I need to get out with it already over 40…and then look for road lanes that are clear to at least get a few miles in today…more later….

Well…another year starts and the good thing is that I don’t have to be depressed about paying over 800 bucks in rent….I did sleep okay last night but feel a little slow this morning with having an extra half cocktail but I haven’t had any coffee yet so that may be part of it…and I didn’t get up til after 6 so that may be a win…not sure yet…I wonder when I got too old to go out to celebrate NYE? Last night was just another night for me and I didn’t hear from anyone…is that a little lame or is it the normal progression that comes with getting older? Who knows? I do know that all of the tv shows that I have been watching in the morning for background noise have changed today and I’m not sure what I think about that…I mean it was comforting to have the Lone Ranger on every morning and now I need to find a new routine…just found out the News Radio is one of the the new shows so I guess that will be okay….I did take a look at the stats for my site as a kind of NY thing yesterday and found that, in December, I had over 3,500 distinct visitors to my site with over 12,000 visits so thanks to everyone for coming here and reading my stuff…I know that’s not a lot when you measure it against other sites but it’s pretty cool to me and keeps me motivated to continue to try to have something to say every day….and I did the math and found that I did 811 of these last year….that seems to be a lot to me….not much to do today…soccer starts in about 20 minutes and then there will be football, too with Michigan playing at 1 and Man U at 3 so I’m going to settle in and just veg it out for the day…more later….