Well…have been up for a while but just can’t get started…have the first cup of coffee going but that isn’t working yet….slept okay last night but still feel a little crappy today with coughing but it’s not too bad…glad it’s not the flu…but I am sore everywhere and that must be from using new muscles to work on the car the other day….and my back is stuck again…cripes, that is annoying….but I guess I’ll live through it….still waiting for some dreams to come that I will remember and I wonder why they have gone away….oh, well…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I am going to do better today…need to vacuum and start prepping food for tomorrow….have so much stuff in my freezer that I won’t have to buy food for a while…I did get some avocados wed but they are not really ripening….even have them in a paper bag like you’re supposed to but that’s not helping…okay….need coffee and to put soccer on….more later….

Well…haven’t had many car problems this winter and part of that is I just don’t drive it much anymore….had a week a couple back that I drove less than 5 miles and that is setting me up for another year that I ride my bike more miles than I drive the car. But yesterday, the driver’s side rear brake froze up when I used the parking brake and  dragged all the way over to Meijers and back, making it hard to even get the car up to 30. So, after it got light, I suited up and want out to try to fix it, glad that it was still 35 and not snowing…after I lubed both sides, the driver’s side was still sticking so I jacked the car up and took the tire off to get a better look at it…didn’t find anything wrong that I could see so I soaked it with about a half can of penetrating oil and even took off the adjuster cover and soaked what I could of the mechanism inside of it. Even after all that, it was still sticking  and I couldn’t think of anything else to do so I just put it back together and decided to just not use the brake..thinking that I would have to replace the caliper in the spring…but, after 20 years of driving cars with sticks, it is such a habit to pull on the brake that I continue to do it. To my surprise, when I went up to the office to pay my rent in the afternoon, the brake released just like normal…and it did it again today so maybe it’s fixed? Hope so…everything still works on the car and I want to keep it that way…oh, other than the battery going dead but I can fix that in the spring…

Well…running really late today…I guess I needed the sleep…I woke up to having some sort of bug today with coughing and feeling a little crappy….took some vitamin C already and I hope that helps….had to work on the car in the cold yesterday but I know that isn’t the cause….oh, well….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but work on the car and today looks the same…I did brine some chicken to cook today and I need to roast some potatoes and carrots to go with it…need to try to get the calorie level up some….the pickled onions I made the other day go pretty well with the brats but I need to save some to have with tacos next week….they do look a little strange since the vinegar turns the red onions pink but I can live with that….not much to do today…going to just take it easy today….yeah, I laughed at that, too…that is the plan for almost every day now that I think of it….more later….

Well…crap….the hand brake on the car wouldn’t release this morning until I got all the way to Meijers so that means I need to get under it this morning and soak the linkage with oil…I wonder why it couldn’t have done this when it was over 50 last week? Oh, well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but run out to aldi’s…and that made this morning a little cheaper than it normally is…but I have enough food now to last three weeks or so….next week should be really cheap…my elbows are hurting like crazy today so there will be ibuprofen later…but, my back started to crack again so that helps….I do need to clean today and I am going to try to make some homemade wrinkle releaser  so I don’t have to keep putting my shirts back in the dryer all the time….more later…..

Well….have had a little bit of a busy morning so far and the disappointing thing is that it is 10 am and I am already done for the day…I did get out and make a run to aldi’s this morning and got a ton of food for only 14 bucks…I mean, a self-rising crust pizza for 2.69 and avocados for 49 cents each? Got some chicken legs and two packs of brats, too…so the freezer is well stocked again….but, I know I shouldn’t be eating brats a lot since they are not good for you…especially not being able to gt on the bike. I did make some pickled red onions after I got back here…oh, the red onions were 69 cents for a two pound bag…I have been seeing pickled red onions on almost every cooking show for the past week so I thought I’d try to make some….I think they’ll go good with brats and I am going to give them a try with lunch…and, if they are good, I’ll probably make a double batch this afternoon since they keep for almost a month in the fridge….want to try some with tacos, too….okay, that’s about it for now but I may be back for another one later if I get bored or I can’t get the Man U game…the streaming on the server has been down for a while and I hope my son gets it fixed soon….more later…

Well…another month gone…another month closer to spring and I can’t wait for it to come….slept okay last night but went to bed early with being so bored last night…so that means I’m up and moving early today and that is okay…time really doesn’t matter much anymore….my back had stuck for the past couple of days but it started to crack this morning and the pain is gone so that is cool…but, the tendonitus really flared in both elbows yesterday so I think I’ll take something for it today…I am going to try to get back on the bike today and take a short ride…there will probably be ice out there so it will be a little dicey….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I do have some errands to run today…need to go to aldi’s again for some cheap food….more later….

Well…running a little early after an early wake up and that is getting to be the norm again…and that’s okay…I kind of like this time of the day with the first coffee poured and the tv on in the background…it was a nice day yesterday with getting out of here to shoot pool…oh, I think I may have won…for the first time in a while I forgot to keep score….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I probably won’t today but I should…the fridge needs to be cleaned from top to bottom so that could be a project for today after working out and reading some news…might go out later to meet up with G for a couple since she couldn’t last night….but that is about it for today…more later….

Well…woke up this morning to more snow on the ground and that is a little depressing…but it is Michigan in winter so I guess I’ll have to live with it….slept okay last night but just have no energy so far so I’ll have to wait for the coffee to work….it seems like that is the mantra for every morning lately….hmmm….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but the bike ride and I should feel bad about that but I don’t…and it looks like no ride today with the cold and snow coming back…I am going to work out in a bit, though, so I guess that is something…I do have pool today and then out to have a couple with G later so it will be a little busy today….and that will be good…..need to get out of here for a while…more later…

Well….kind of on time today and there is no reason for it other than I got up before 7….slept okay last night but still feel a little slow today…still coughing and have that cold I’ve been fighting for days now but it’s not that bad….I did get a nice ride in yesterday in shorts but I think today will be full thermasuit but the wind is not blowing so that will be okay….it looks like I won’t get on the bike the rest of the week with it being in the 20’s….just don’t want to be that cold….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and I’m not sure how much I’ll get done today….just not feeling it right now and I’m not sure if that will change as the day goes on…I should clean some and I might but I’m not going to worry about it….more later….

Well…as you know, I’ve been fighting a little bit of a bug the past few days and, when I got up this morning, I felt pretty darn crappy and it appeared that I would spend the day hunkered down on the couch trying to stay warm and not get any worse. But then I picked up my phone and the number 48 appeared on my home screen…48 degrees, in January, in Michigan…how could I pass that up? So, I decided to suit up and get out on the bike even though the wind was blowing over 20 mph….and, of course, since it was that warm, I had to go out in shorts with no gloves….yeah, I know, that makes me kind of an idiot when I’ve got the bug I have but I just had to go since it would probably be the last time in shorts until spring. I am glad that I put gloves in the bag, though, since the temp started to fall as soon as I got out and I needed them about halfway through…and it was down to 43 by the time I got back here. Not sure if I did any damage since I feel okay right now but we’ll see later….