Well….it was kind of a productive day yesterday with errands and the kitchen cleaning…and today I’ve already gotten the grocery run completed and it’s not even 8 yet….slept good again last night but tossed and turned all night and my bed looks like it…..not sore anywhere today and that is weird considering how I’ve felt lately….it looks like the bike is done until spring with the forecast I see for the next ten days or so…the snow will make the trails impassible for me so I guess I’ll just settle in for the winter…got up so late today that I didn’t even get my morning water in or the couch transition that I normally get…so, I am pouring the coffee in right now and think I still need to wake up…I did kind of sleep walk through the grocery run and I hope I got everything I had on the list…more later….

Oh, and Chelsea lost yesterday so that will make me smile today…

Well…have been sitting here waiting for both my dish and the internet to come back on since they have been upgrading both of them all day….now, I can’t tell if they’ve done anything for the dish going out all the time but trying the internet, I have been able to run at 2 meg 720P which I haven’t been able to do regularly in many months…so, maybe that has helped…and, with both of them off, I have almost gotten my entire kitchen cleaned including taking a scrub brush to the floor and cleaning the stovetop and the cupboard doors….so, the place is looking better and tomorrow will be cleaning the washer and dryer to get them shiny again….I have had lots of energy today and I’m not sure why but I am not going to complain….hope it keeps up tomorrow….

Well…woke up feeling pretty good today with much less coughing…right now…and hope that it is done….feel okay but had a damn spider in my bed last night that woke me up and I lost a good hour of sleep from it…oh, well….might even feel good enough today to get the kitchen floor cleaned and the rest of the stuff I have been putting off since Saturday….but, I won’t be running any errands today…well…maybe..since it is cold out there with wind gusts of 40 but I do want to get some cheap chicken from Aldi’s so maybe I will later…can’t ride the bike today but I can work out so that will be first on the agenda for the day…after coffee, that is…and I just poured the first cup so that will be a while….for some reason my hands hurt today and I think it may be from the double gloves on the bike…they hurt like crazy while I was riding and I had huge cramps the entire ride….more later….

Well….after feeling halfway to death yesterday, I am so damn confused abut how I feel today….have had energy, got the car washed, worked out, got the bike ride in, and ran some errands and I feel okay…still coughing some but how many times does a cold or virus last only 3 days? The bike ride was even a good one without the brutal overtones of Sunday where it was pure torture with my lungs on fire….and, I made some cash today so that was cool…..the infection in my eyelid is even better but I have been treating that so maybe that is not such a big surprise….still have no desire to look outside and see the ruin that has started for this country but I am getting a little bit of curiosity when I talk to T and she asks me with incredulity if I have seen who the idiot Trump has picked for his government….maybe in another month or so after 30 million people lose their health insurance…..

Well…still feeling pretty crappy today with lots of coughing and fever….and I just can’t get warm so that will be a problem when I wash the car and ride the bike later….but, the car needs to be done before it gets cold tomorrow and later in the week and this will be the last day to ride for a week or so….had the damn phone dream again last night where it wouldn’t work to get vital information and then it just fell apart in my hands….at least I had a dream that I remember for the first time in a long tome….just laid low all day yesterday trying to get better but I think I’m on that plateau where you just feel crappy for a couple of days and then you go into the swings of feeling better and then worse for a couple of days…have been having a hard time eating since nothing appeals to me but I do need some fuel today so I need to figure something out….more later…

Well….another wasted day feeling like crap….have no energy and I am coughing like crazy…and I don’t think it’s done getting worse yet, either….not a lot of pain right now but I do have an infection in my lower right eyelid….right where I have a scar from the last one I had some 30 years ago…needless to say…just a crappy day….

Well…feeling pretty crappy today and my lungs are filled with stuff so I know it’s a bug….just can’t get warm and that started after I got off the bike yesterday…so, I didn’t get much done yesterday and didn’t eat much since nothing sounds good to me right now….the day was really bad for Michigan teams with both the Wings and Lions losing but I didn’t make it to the end of the Lions game…will have to look to see how back it was for the Lions…I’m waiting for the soreness from the bike ride to hit and it may be quite bad since I was sore before the ride….oh, well….today is going to be an all sports day with soccer and then football on all day and I think that will be my only accomplishment feeling the way I do…more later…

Well…sitting here waiting for the Wings game to start and thought I’d get an update done on the bike since I reset the odometer today…as I always do on January 1st. I did almost make it to the 3K goal for last year…falling only 30 miles short but I still feel good about it since I didn’t do any double rides last year…I normally do 20 or 30 of them but just didn’t have the motivation…with that 2,970 miles, I only have 1,030 more to do to have 30,000 miles on this bike…and the bike shows it with just about everything worn out…and I got a start on the 1,030 today with a good 12 mile run since the ice is almost gone from the trail and should be for the next two days…then it get down into the teens for highs and I won’t be able to ride again until the weekend…I just can’t believe how quickly my fitness goes away when I don’t ride….it was brutal on the bike today with everything hurting and my lungs on fire after only about a mile….tomorrow should be better….

Well…another year starts and I can say I’m not too enthused about it….but, what can you do?  I did get some stuff done yesterday and that was a good thing…it is nice to have a clean bathroom and today is kitchen duty…don’t have to cook but I do have to clean…the floor is is need of some attention and the sink is getting pretty bad so that will be done today….it may even be warm enough to get out on the bike today and that would be a welcome change….not too sore this morning and that is a good thing…my back seems to be better and I am still not sure how I hurt it….I did drag the old coffee maker out and it is nice to have coffee that doesn’t taste like an electrical fire….need to return the new one tomorrow but I don’t think I’ll get another one since the old one still works…I’ll wait until I can afford a nice one….more later…

Well…in a strange set of coincidences, this one is the last one for the month, the last one for the year, and the 5,000th one of these that I’ve done…normally, I would do a little recap of the year and my thoughts of it…but, after one of the worst years I can remember for this country and for me personally, I just have nothing to say about it….it is kind of cool to have stayed with this for all of the years that it took to get to 5,000 and it did take some amount of discipline to come here and average two of these for every day since I started…and I think the average of 2,500 days of doing this is quite a good milestone, too…almost 8 years of two a days…yow….so, I’ll end this one with just a happy new year and try to continue next year….