Well…that was a mistake…have been trying to not use to much allergy stuff since it screws with my blood pressure but not using the spray last night kept my nose plugged up so I couldn’t breathe all night….I should have known better with how bad my allergies are getting already but I was pretty clear all evening so I thought I’d take the chance…so, that leaves me exhausted this morning and sore from all of the tossing and turning…oh, well….I did get my huge turkey cooked yesterday and it came out great…I’ll have turkey to eat for the next 5 days or so and still have a bag to put in the freezer…along with the two for the carcass for soup that I’ll make later that pretty much fills my freezer…still have some ham bones to use, too, and I’ll probably have to use those first…I did get out on the bike yesterday but it looks like rain for the next week or so and I am thinking about putting the bike back on the trainer for a while so I can get to 1,000 miles by the end of the month…but, it’s just not the same so, if it’s warm enough, I’ll go out and get wet….not much to do today…I do need to get my hair cut and run a couple of errands this morning and Man U plays this afternoon so it appears my day is pretty much set…I do need to clean my living room and vacuum but I can do that while the match is on…or not…the coffee needs to work much, much better before I’ll be motivated to do much….more later….

Well…we’re half way through April and I have 4 inches of snow on my car this morning…and that is just damn depressing….at least I didn’t get up until 6:03 so I guess that’s something…had to flip the turkey over this morning so the bottom half of it could get brined for the next three hours and spilled the brine everywhere and that was damn annoying for first thing in the morning…even before coffee and that is way too damn early to be cleaning anything…had a pretty nice day yesterday even though I didn’t get anything  done…didn’t even ride the bike and might not be able to ride again today since the snow is still on the pavement and will probably still be on the trails most of the day….but, it is supposed to be almost 60 tomorrow so I may even be able to get out in shorts…I think I may be able to substitute aspirin for ibuprofen for the overall pain that I have been feeling…tried it yesterday and it seems to have helped some so I think I’ll try it again today…my shoulder was okay most of the afternoon but it hurts some right now…I just realized how much it has improved with taking the turkey out of the fridge…the last time I did one was just after the crash and I could barely lift it then and my shoulder was howling in pain…not much to do today…just cooking and cleaning…am looking forward to having turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy today…but not until much more coffee and some news….more later…

Well…running a little late today with not crawling out of bed until 6:30 and had some weird, weird dreams that had boats, meat and losing my ear buds in it…yep, as I said weird….slept pretty crappy, as normal, but don’t feel that bad today…still sore everywhere but feel okay…I may need to take something for it since I am getting the yearly tendonitis that has settled in both shoulders and both Achilles tendons and need to get the swelling down…at least I’ll get the chance to rest everything today since I won’t be getting on the bike with 3-6 inches of snow predicted for the day…so, I’m settled in here on the couch and am trying to figure out my day…don’t think I’ll be doing much but getting the turkey in the brine so I can cook it tomorrow and watching some soccer and races later…I missed the F1 race since it was on at 4 am and I was not getting up that early…so I guess I’ll have to check later to see if there is a repeat….more later….

Well…haven’t done one of these in a while and I’m really not motivated to do anything in politics right now…there is one topic but not right now…just noticed on the bike this morning that I have gone over 800 miles for the year and we are not even halfway through April so maybe my goal of 1,000 miles before the first of May is doable? I thing the whole thing is going to depend on the weather and looking out the next two weeks, it doesn’t look good with rain nearly every day…but, I’ll try…one last thing, yesterday when I was riding the diagonal trail up through Kentwood by 60th street, I saw the biggest flock of turkeys I have ever seen…or rasher of turkeys, you can call it either…there were at least 23 turkeys that just strolled across the trail as I was riding up it and only the last two males seemed to be in any way concerned that I was there…I never remember seeing even one turkey when I was a kid and I was out in the woods all day, every day….so, that was pretty cool to see…now if the damn weather would warm up and the wind would quiet down, riding may be fun again…my legs are really sore form bucking the wind today…think I’ll probably have to take something for them…

Well…it didn’t work this morning….tried to go back to sleep after getting up before 5 but it was all tossing and turning and shoulder pain so I just gave up…and now I have a sinus headache that I am going to have to take something for pretty soon…I finally get to have some different food today with getting through all the leftovers I’ve had for a week…got really tired of bean and chicken burritos and am looking forward to some chicken thighs for lunch and then some turkey soup that I thawed for later…I do have that huge turkey that is thawing in the fridge that will need to go in the brine Monday and then will do the whole turkey dinner thing on Tuesday and I am looking for ward to that…hope I have enough room in the freezer for the carcass after I break it down…so I can make more turkey soup in the near future….I did get out on the bike in the wind yesterday and it was pretty brutal and left me sore this morning…but it is too darn cold to get out today until the afternoon and I’ll have to go back into light thermasuit again…or should I say still? I can’t wait for the weather to break and get a little of that spring smell….not much to do today…just a little light cleaning and soccer…and probably lots of vegging…more later…

Well…running a little late for me this morning and it’s just from going back to bed for an hour after getting up a little after 5…I decided to start trying that instead of just getting up at all hours of the morning and I am surprised that it has been working some….almost got back to sleep before I gave up…I did get some things done around here yesterday and that felt good…my bathroom is finally cleaned and I got some bike stains out of the carpet that have been annoying me for a while…but, I skipped the bike ride yesterday with the wind blowing over 20 for most of the day and it is raining like crazy right now so it looks like I won’t be going out until this afternoon…I do have an errand to run this morning before I get to the workout…GOT starts it’s final season Sunday night and I am going to treat myself to some cheese and crackers…but, I forgot the crackers when I did the grocery run earlier and I need my Mega tickets for tonight…so, out in the rain in a bit…at least it’s not snow….more later…

Well…have reached another milestone here at my site when I noticed this morning that I have done 7,000 of these…7,000…by any measure that is one hell of a lot of posts and I wonder why I keep doing it…okay,, not really…part of it is habit but part of it is to preserve my sanity and give me an outlet for my semi lucid moments…and I am constantly gratified that quite a few people come here every day to read what I have to say…and I do feel an obligation to you to make the effort to stay relevant in these weird, weird times we live in….so, I’m going to keep it up for as long as I can and I hope you keep coming back…I may stumble onto something cool…and you won’t know unless you do….thanks….

Well…it appears like I have an entire day on my hands and I am already trying to find something to do…so, of course, I come here to try to get some thoughts down before the coffee wears off and I lose my motivation…with everything going on in politics these days, it is pretty easy to be overwhelmed and to long for the days of “no drama Obama” when there was not a new scandal every damn day…and it can get wearing just living in this toxic swamp even without paying a lot of attention to the news…and I used to be a news junkie who had tv news on all the time and read 3-5 newspapers a day…but, as the costs of newspapers kept rising, I had to look at the cost and realized I was spending close to 100 dollars a month just for the papers that I read so I cut that out and now limit myself to one per week…what does that have to do with anything? Not much…just a thought…I am little excited to see the Falcon heavy launch this evening…it was supposed to happen last night but high level winds were too strong for safety so tonight looks like the night…and they are going to try to land all three boosters, two back at the launch pad, and one on a drone ship off the Florida coast…the first launch of heavy they landed two of three and it was synchronized and so cool to see…oh, okay….I was going to talk about trump’s sister but I think I’ll do another one for that…

Well…damn…I’m sore this morning and I’m really not sure why that would be…didn’t do a lot but work out and ride the bike yesterday and that would not be the reason I hurt everywhere…but, I do…and my allergies hit like a hammer last night…so bad that I had to take a red dot for it…I was just damn miserable all night and I may have to take another one this morning since the symptoms are still here and I feel like crap from them…man, I feel worn out today and I am glad I did the grocery run yesterday and have nothing to do today…not even going to ride the bike since the wind is already blowing over 20 and it is only going to get worse as the day goes on…I’m hoping that will help with the pain, too, but I may take something for that just to get the swelling down in my shoulder….everything is covered in snow this morning with the storm that came through last night but it should melt off later this morning and then we have thunderstorms possible for later this aft…sound like a good day to hibernate here and just veg all day…not much to do today…if I can get motivated, I may clean some but I can’t promise anything with how I feel right now…need the coffee to work first and to read some news….more later….

Well…now that I’ve started to really pay attention to the quantity of salt in food that I buy, that generated a question to me…why so much damn salt? Went out yesterday to my daily deals store to get some turkey breast they had on sale for 77 cents a pound and made the point to look at the label…in every 2 oz serving, it had almost 400 milligrams of salt in it…or 25% of the amount of salt limit you can have every day…and even to make a sandwich, you would probably have 4-5 ozs and that would put you at the limit for the day…I mean almost 2 grams of salt just in one sandwich? Needless to say, I didn’t buy it and instead bought a whole turkey this morning at 49 cents a pound that has no added salt…but the smallest one I could find was 16 pounds and I think it was a deal for under 8 bucks…and it is the biggest turkey I have ever bought…hope it fits in my roaster….