Well…as always, the time change is screwing me up and I was up really early this morning…and I’m still doing the time conversion in my head which would make it 4:38 when I got up this morning and that is way too damn early…slept for crap, too so today is going to be a lot of work just doing the normal stuff…and I do need to get out and get the new cable for my weight machine and fix that….I still think I have a cold or something since I do feel pretty crappy and worn out and I hope it doesn’t get worse…this has been going on for a week now and I am getting tired of it….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I do need to get back to the fitness routine with taking yesterday off the bike…I needed it with my legs just going flat and sore but that locks me into taking 600 calories out of my intake for the day and that is part of why I feel so worn out today…but I think I’ve lost my appetite and getting to 1500 cals is going to be tough….oh, well…more later…

Well…another damn time change and it’s going to take me all day to get used to it…I think the spring change is easier for me but we’ll see as the day goes on…slept normally for me and that means I am a little worn out right now before I get at the coffee and I hope that will go away in a while…I am going to take a rest day from the bike today with riding twice a day every day last week and my legs do need a rest to stop the low grade pain I’ve had all week….and I hurt everywhere again this morning so resting should help that, too…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but watch soccer and races and today is going to be the same with Moto GP and soccer that starts at 8 and then two more soccer matches ending with Man U at 12:30, then into the indy car race and Napcar later…so, I’ll have background noise for the whole day…I really should clean some, too but I’m not sure how motivated I’m going to be…more later…

Well…don’t really feel like doing one on politics today…just feel exhausted and have just been able to get up off the couch and move around for the first time today…well…not the first time…I have been on the bike twice today and that was a lot of work…but, I did get to a kind of a milestone on the bike today when I got to 500 miles for the year…with the majority of of that being indoors on the trainer after getting in a hundred miles or so before the weather got bad and closed the trails. I do like the idea of just walking across my place and getting on the bike but I am getting antsy to get back outside…I don’t miss being cold at all, though, and I may just wait to go out until after it gets warm enough to go with light gloves and no stocking hat. So, it looks like I’ll already have 600 miles on the bike before I hit the trails and that just may get me to 4,000 miles this year…

Well…running a little late today with getting sucked into a tv show this morning and not really having any motivation to get moving…and I got up a little later than normal staying in bed until 6:41 after getting up for the first time at 5:18…and I didn’t sleep too badly with my shoulder no longer keeping me up at all…and the damage from yesterday is not too painful so it appears it was just a little muscle strain but we’ll see as I get moving around here today….I am going to try to make instant pot refried beans this weekend since, looking at the label on a can of them, they are just saturated with salt with each serving of half a cup having over 600mg of salt added and I can’t tolerate that much salt in my diet…and it will give me something to do later today or tomorrow…didn’t get a lot done yesterday since I am just idling waiting for them to come next week and fix the water pipe in my storage closet and I’ll probably not do much today…need to watch some soccer and ease into the day with coffee and a little news…more later…

Well…my fitness program was interrupted today when my weight machine finally broke…or a cable on the machine broke as I was doing pull downs with 150 pounds on it…when it broke, it released all the pressure I had on my back and legs and I ended up hyper extending my left leg, hurting my hamstring and the ligaments in the back of my knee along with my calf…I could barely walk on it when it happened but I was able to get on the bike and keep it warm so it didn’t freeze up on me…but, it still hurts and I am a little irritated that the damn machine only lasted 15 years of almost daily use…yep, that was a little joke…I have a plan to fix it by splicing in a new piece of cable Monday…have been thinking about how to fix it ever since the cable started to fray quite a few years ago and it shouldn’t cost more than 10 bucks so that will be cool….

Well…another morning of single frickin digit temperatures and that is pretty damn depressing for March…I am so tired of the cold and snow and winter and we are even to the daylight savings time change this weekend and it is still 8 degrees out there…oh, well…slept okay last night and feel just a little slow today and I can deal with that…just had the first sip of coffee and need it to work right now so I can get on with the morning…not sure why I still feel the need to adhere to a schedule every day but I do need to keep my days organized and that helps some…don’t want to have everything unstructured since that would mean I would have to think more and I don’t want to do that…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I think I’ll try to clean some today but who knows? I do need to get out and run some errands this morning with the powerball getting up to almost 400 million for tomorrow and I do need something upbeat to think about…but, I’m going to get more coffee and read some news first….more later…

Well…running a little late today with doing the grocery run before this and not getting out of bed until almost 6…I did sleep okay last night and my shoulder continues to improve…slowly…and I have very little pain today so that is a welcome change even with working out yesterday…I did have to take some antihistamine last night since my head was stuffy and I had a headache that had gone on for a few days…I had forgotten how well the little red ones worked and I am still clear this morning…hadn’t taken any of those since last September since they raise your BP too much…I did take an ibuprofen to go with it and that may have something to do with my shoulder being better…need to get the swelling down in the tendons since I can feel them clicking when I move my shoulder…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I feel okay today so I think I’ll start sorting out stuff that I don’t need anymore and get rid of it…need to simplify and streamline so I’ll have less to move when I do…it’s another leftover day today so I won’t be cooking but I do need to plan for the next stuff I need to cook and get it out of the freezer…I think I have enough in there to eat for a month so…more later….

Well…I think there is a problem with me having some time on my hands lately…I have been sliding back to watching more news than is healthy for me…or for anyone for that matter…but it seems to be important with all that is going on in this country right now…but, that doesn’t make it any less overwhelming when new scandals explode every day….I think I need to try to pace myself and limit the amount of news that I watch or read daily…but, that is me…I’ve always been a news junkie and wanted to know what the heck is going on…not sure why…on a daily basis, not much of the news has any impact on my life and really never has so I can’t explain it…but, I can remember waiting for the newspaper to come when I was about 7 or so and watching the nightly national news shows with Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley from even earlier than that…so I wonder if it’s something in my DNA that makes me want to understand what is going on?  All I know is that this is an interesting time and I am being sucked back into the news that I have been avoiding since idiot boy got elected….and I’m not sure how I feel about that…we’ll see…

Well…okay, this one breaks the pattern with not getting up until 6:17 and I wonder how I did that…I seem to have slept okay but feel a little slow today so I think I’ll just go with it and work into the day…it’s a fresh coffee day so I can have a little extra and that will help with getting going….it’s another cold one outside this morning and I am getting really, really tired of that…but there may be a break by Friday and the weather folks are saying that this could be the last gasp of winter…I hope it is since it is just depressing to have it be 11 degrees in March…I did have a water leak in the ceiling over my dryer yesterday and that disrupted my day since they had to cut out most of the ceiling and I had to move all of the stuff I had stored on the shelves there…ick…and they have to come back next week to replace the water lines and the ceiling so I have stuff spread out all over the place…so, I didn’t get anything done yesterday and today will be the same with Man U playing this afternoon and with me not feeling like doing anything….just want the coffee to start working so my brain function will start….or maybe it won’t, who knows? More later….

Well….I really don’t know how I’m running this morning but I do know that I was up at 3:17 to start the morning…but, I got all the way to 5:27 before I got out of bed…I was so worn out last night that I feel asleep on the couch 3 times before I gave up and just went to bed…and I know that is from not sleeping too well so I wonder how last night’s sleep is going to effect that? Oh, well…at least I got out of here for a while to shoot pool yesterday and we tied so that was kind of appropriate after not going for a month…woke up this morning to more depressing snow on the car but I am not going out to clean it off until I have lots of coffee and read the news….trying hard to not be depressed about March starting out so cold and crappy but I am hoping that the old adage is true this year and it will go out like a lamb…it is supposed to be 44 on Saturday so that will be a welcome change…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I don’t feel a lot of motivation right now so I may not get anything done today, either…who knows? More later…