Well…yeah, I’ll get to a bunch of political ones tomorrow and over the weekend since the car is down for the count until Monday…had a hanger connected to the pipe just behind the cat rot out on the way home and the car is now too loud to drive so I will be carless until Monday morning when I am having the new pipe hung by the same guy that did the last one…but the hanger that rusted out isn’t even on the new one so I hope the rest of it fits…it still has 4 hangers on it and I’ll keep the one from the old pipe and weld it on if I need it…so, Tom…I may have to use your welder but I think it will be okay without it but we’ll see…so, I have an enforced 3 day weekend off the house and that’s a bit of a pain just when I was making some good progress…let the furnace do a cycle and it turned on and shut down just like it’s supposed to and I got the belt on the blower adjusted so it doesn’t make any noise anymore and I oiled the bearings in the oil caps…yep, it’s that old, and it is pretty damn quiet so maybe it was an okay day…it’s just hard for me to have to wait to have the car fixed but I’ll take some deep breaths and just ride the bike and amuse myself some other way…okay…I’m going to try to repair it…just found a clamp that is big enough to fit around the pipe but I don’t have any beer cans so I’m using six layers of folded aluminum foil that should deform into the hole and make it usable in an emergency…..and the hole is only about a half inch across…okay, closer to an inch but I’m going to try it anyway…

Well…got all the way to 5:45 this morning and that is just damn unusual…but, I’m not sure that helped much since I am just worn out right now…and I forgot to make coffee last night with putting the coffeemaker parts in the dishwasher so I am running late today…I’m not sure what my schedule is going to look like today with it only being 49 degrees out there right now and I am not going to get on the bike with it that cold…so maybe after it warms up some but that will mean no house until after lunch today…I do need to hit HF to get some more supplies since I ran out of painter’s tape yesterday and I still have the front door to paint…I did get the furnace running yesterday…after a fashion but it seems to be out of time and I think I’ll have to have someone come and look at it…I did get two rides in yesterday but my right hip is killing me for some reason and I don’t remember hurting it…must have done it at the house or maybe I’m just getting old…who knows? More later….

Well…not going to talk about waking times today…just going to say it sucked and leave it at that….but, I don’t feel too bad this morning so I guess that’s something…I just noticed that my shoulder hasn’t made any grinding sounds in a month or so even with using it a lot on the house so I guess it’s fully healed and it only took 9 months…and I haven’t felt any pain in it lately, either so yay…after the swim and the traveling yesterday, I just vegged it out here for the rest of the day and didn’t get anything done…even skipped working on the house but I will be back at that today…need to complete painting the entry door frame and start trying to figure out if the furnace still works or not and that is going to be a pain…I have replaced the blower motor a couple of times but the furnace is 60 years old and I just hope I can cripple it through one more winter…I am a little depressed with the prospect of losing a long term friend since she has stopped talking to me for some reason…I guess a 20 year run is a good one and this time I can just shrug it off with the thought that things change…and will keep changing…more later…

Well…as I told you this morning, today was going to be the day that I kept the streak of 61 years of at least one swim in LM going….and I did! Even though it looked like rain, and was raining when I left, I trooped over to GH to at least splash in the water…when I got there, the wind was blowing about 25 from the southwest and there were huge waves coming in…but the problem was that the wind was coming from the southwest…it set up a really, really strong rip current that was running parallel to the beach and made it hard to even get to water that was deep enough to swim in…but, I made it and the water was really quite nice but I didn’t stay in long with the dangerous conditions…and getting back through the rip to the beach just about wore me out with the shallows being almost 50 yards wide. I did find something out today, too…wet sand is even a bigger pain to deal with as dry…it got all over the interior, my clothes, and me and wouldn’t brush off with a towel…so, the car is going to need to be vacuumed tomorrow…on to 62 years!

Well…as you could see if you came here earlier, my site was down from when I got up this morning until just now when my son got it fixed…so, I’m running late today through no fault of my own…geez…that’s weird to say…I did sleep in until 5:50 this morning and don’t feel to bad right now since I’ve already gotten the bike ride in…did get a little wet riding today but it wasn’t bad…I think I missed the heavy rain…so far…but I am going to go out to GH here in a while to get my yearly swim in even if it’s raining…just as long as there isn’t lightning I’m fine with rain…just won’t be able to sit on the beach today but I’m going take my chair anyway just in case…this will be 61 years in a row that I’ve had a swim in LM and I wonder how long I can keep that up? I did get the bathroom done at the house yesterday but I won’t go over today…hmmm…maybe this afternoon…I do have some prep work to do before I can paint the living room and still need to do clean up from all the sanding on the cupboard doors from the bathroom…and I do need to put the bathroom door back on so maybe I will go over….more later…

Well…made it all the way to 6 this morning but that is not unusual given that I didn’t get to bed until almost midnight…actually, I got up at 5:03 the first time but was able to go back to bed for another hour and sleep which is unusual….I think doing only one ride yesterday is the key why I don’t hurt too much this morning but I’m not sure if I’ll do one or two today…it looks like I can get out here in a few minutes since it is almost 60 out there but I will have to put a fleece on since I am not adapting well to the cooler weather yet…don’t even want to think about the cold that is coming and having to put the full thermasuit on to ride….didn’t really get anything done around here yesterday with going over to the house and then watching races most of the day and today looks the same with putting the bathroom back together and then back here for live drag races at 1…I suppose I could clean when the races are on and I might just do that since the kitchen and bathroom both need some work….more later…

Well…I know it’s the first day of the month but you know how I really hate getting behind here so I thought I’d just do one about nothing really…don’t want to do politics today…at least not right now…I did head over to the house today just to get the 200 pounds of dirt and stuff out of the trunk…I felt bad about how the rear of the car was sagging right down to the bump stops and didn’t want to do any permanent damage that I can’t afford to fix right now…so, I filled the holes in the front yard and put some seed down along with putting some weed and feed on the yard to see if I can start to bring it back this fall…and I pulled some more tape off the bathroom and the back door that I painted Friday…that came out pretty good and getting the sill plate painted made all the difference to how the entry looks…I do need to clean the translucent dropped ceiling panels for the bathroom tomorrow since they look like they haven’t been cleaned in 20 years….going to be a pain without the water being on but it needs to be done…need to take a bucket and a scrub brush and use the tub to do that job…still lots of cleanup and detail work to do on the bathroom since you always get bleed through even with the blue painters tape…then I can start on the living room and the bedroom I’m going to use but need to do more prep work first…lots of holes need to be filled and sanded…but not Tuesday…doing my swim then so I’ll take that day off…

Well…5:04 this morning and I am getting tired of getting up so damn early…and I feel pretty crappy to go along with it so today is already shaping up to be one I’m going to want to forget…not sure what bloomed over the past few days but the goldenrod but whatever it is, I feel miserable and stuffed up today along with every other damn allergy symptom so I think I’ll have to take something here in a little while…I did get two bike rides in yesterday and that may be why I’m so exhausted today…the second ride was pure torture and I never really got comfortable at all…so I think I’ll think about riding at all today later…it’s raining right now so that gives me an excuse to just ease into the day…I was going to take the weekend off the house but I needed to get supplies to work on the lawn and now the Miata is sagging with 200 pounds of dirt, feed, and seed in the trunk…will take that over tomorrow and work on the lawn after I get the bathroom put back together…not much to do today…if I don’t ride today, I will clean some around here but I can’t get stuff ready to take to the house since I don’t have room for it other than in the passenger’s seat…so maybe I’ll take something small….more later….

Well….damn, it’s cold out there right now…only 50 degrees and that is going to force me to wait for a while to go out since I just don’t want to be that cold right now…so that may set me up for only one ride today with F1 qualifying on at 9…and it’s Spa today and I don’t want to miss that…didn’t sleep too badly last night and got up late for me at almost 6 but that didn’t help…still pretty exhausted right now and I hope the coffee helps soon…I worked at the house every day this week and that may have something to do with it…and I have to get some topsoil, lawn food, and grass seed today to take over there Monday and do some of the repairs to the lawn I have been thinking of…after I put the bathroom back together, that is….and pull some more tape off the walls and finish that up…I am going to take Tuesday off for my yearly swim in Lake Michigan since it is going to be 87 and that looks like the last warm day of the year…and I do need to be able to keep my swim streak going at 61 years….I wonder how much beach is left in GH with the high water levels? Not much to do today…just the normal weekend day with some cleaning and prepping stuff to take over to the house Monday…more later…oh, and Michigan starts their season tonight and I am looking forward to that…Go Blue!

Well…I think all the work at the house is taking it’s toll on me after being there every day this week…I am sore and tired but am going back over there today to get one of the entry doors painted since it is so ugly, dirty, and beat up…and the door sill has no paint on it at all…so, it will be a short day over there so I can start to not hurt so much over the weekend…and I haven’t gotten anything done around here all week and I do need to clean some and prep more stuff to take over…I even slept okay last night and didn’t get up until after 5:30 but didn’t have any dreams and that was disappointing since I have had a few lately…damn, I hope the coffee starts to work soon or I’m going to have a terrible ride this morning…the computer on the bike started to work after a few miles out yesterday but I am still glad I bought a new one since the old one has been so unreliable over the past month or so…I did get over 3300 miles over the past couple of days and that gets me to about 900 miles or so to do to break the all time record and tha just might be doable…more later…