Well…this morning when I got on the bike, I looked at the computer and saw that I only had 46 miles to go to get to 4800 miles and, you know what comes next, I decided to do the 46 miles in one ride and got started…after 40 miles, my legs gave up and I hurt frickin everywhere so I cut the ride short and came home…the thing is, you would think that 40 miles would be enough and there shouldn’t be any guilt from not reaching my initial goal…but, that’s not me…I’ve been sitting here thinking if I should go back out and do another 20 to make up for it…but I’m resisting it after hobbling out to take care of the gardens and feeling the pain in my legs that is everywhere from my hips down to my feet…I guess I have to realize that I’m not young anymore..and I did do 34 miles in one ride yesterday so maybe that’s enough to make the guilt go away? It should…but who knows?

Well…hey, I remembered to come here on a Sunday morning for a change…not sure what it is about Sunday but it is always a little hard to remember to do one of these…I wonder if it is reading the physical newspaper? Slept okay last night and I’m not as sore as I expected…I guess my body doesn’t care if I have a break between my two rides or not….my thighs are sore but it just feels like normal so that frees me up to change up what I do with my rides…will probably do another long one today but who knows? I did get the inside of the windows cleaned yesterday…or the new windows, haven’t done any of the original ones yet but that seems like a good project for this afternoon…had the top down on the car for the last time on the run out to get the paper today since the weather is going to change this week and we will be in a fall pattern from now on…some lows are going to be in the 30’s this week and it feels good to know that the furnace here works since it turned on last week and ran fine…one cool thing that happened yesterday was I got an e-mail from the city clerk that my absentee ballot is on the way and I can track it online if I want…so, it should be here in a couple of days and I can fill it out and drop it off at the drop box at the library over on Leonard….not much to do today…just the ride and cleaning some and I may try my new clippers and give myself a haircut….just screwing around mostly…more later….

Well…today was really a weird ride on the bike that I never do…usually, I just do the 18 mile ride, come back here to rest a bit, then get back on it for another 14 miles. But today, after the 15 mile mark, the prospect of riding back here and doing the normal routine didn’t appeal to me at all so I just kept going…trying out new trails and new directions to ride the same trails until I got to 34 miles and was pretty sore…my thighs anyway. I’ve ridden that many miles at a time many times but I’m not sure why I did it today…it just seemed like fun to wander around on the bike and keep choosing trails that went away from here instead of back…I still went as hard as I could for the whole time and I am waiting for my legs to start howling at me…they are a little stiff but the pain is not too bad so it appears I didn’t do any permanent damage…but, that doesn’t usually show up til two days later so I guess Monday will be interesting….probably had more fun on the bike today than I’ve had in a long time…maybe I’ll make 30 in one trip the new normal? It sure freed up my afternoon and I used that to do the rest of the windows and it’s only 2…what the heck am I going to do the rest of the day?

Well…that’s 3 days in a row of waking up at 4:53 and that is starting to suck…but at least my internet is working this morning so I can do my normal routine and not feel off about that…slept crappy again too, so I am feeling pretty slow today….and I forgot to make coffee last night so I had to do that this morning…not a good way to start the day…my allergies may have something to do with not sleeping even with taking something for it since I am miserable right now and have lots of crap in my lungs….had a whistle in them last night that sounded just like a dove’s call and that was damn annoying…I did get the windows done yesterday and it didn’t take long so that was cool….but I am not going to do much today….not even going to get out on the bike until 10 or so with Man U playing at 7:30, then F1 qualifying at 9….I had to laugh when I was getting a tray of pork chops ready for the freezer and found that there was one that looked more like a pork steak…I mean that thing is like a foot long and 8 inches wide so I put that one and another one that is almost as big into a gallon bag to marinate for today…and I have another tray downstairs since I couldn’t pass them up at 99 cents a pound….but that tray will fill my freezer again so I need to not buy any more protein for a couple of weeks…not much to do today…just going to wing it and try not to have a schedule…I do need to toast a bagel here in a few minutes since I missed one yesterday….more later….

Well…yeah, running really late today and it’s all Comcast’s fault…my internet was out when I got up at 5 and just came back on a little after noon…but I’m here so let’s get to it…slept pretty crappy last night but powered through the fatigue to get on with the day…but, not having internet really screwed up my schedule for the day…I’m used to getting up and getting to this first thing and morning is pretty boring without being able to come here…then I normally have lots of coffee and a bagel with cream cheese after the first ride but it wasn’t the same without being able to read the news with it…so, I skipped that and got right to cleaning the outside of the windows which only took an hour or so…and the internet was still out so I jumped back on the bike at 11 and back here a little after noon and, finally, it was working again so I thought I get this done while lunch cooks….got a lot done yesterday…I finally have a front lawn that is coming around and looks pretty good…it looks like I’m done for the day other than coming back here for another one once I have lunch and then get to reading the news to find a topic….more later….

Well…have been doing so much doom and gloom over the past few weeks that I am getting tired of it and you probably are too so I’m going to do something a little lighter today. When I was out on the bike yesterday, I had to take a detour onto the roads since the trail was being repaved and during that detour I ran across a small snapping turtle that was trying to cross the busy road to get from the park to the river…at first, I rode by and just looked at it but then it dawned on my that there was no way that the thing would get across the street safely so I turned around, dropped the bike, and walked it to the other side….I really couldn’t figure out how that little thing had gotten to where it was….the nearest water was the Grand and that was almost a hundred yards away while the nearest water in the park was twice that far and over a hill that has to be 50 yards high….at the speed the turtle moved, it would have taken him months to get there….I wonder if he was coming from the river side? that would suck if I was the turtle….