Well…if you’ve read this thing before, you know that there are times that my attention wanders around like a dog…heading one place then the next, sometimes settling on things that are interesting…at least to me anyway….and that happened this morning heading out on the bike ride. By the time I had gotten to the outer drive to the complex here, I had already seen 15 squirrels and thought to myself that it was kind of unusual so I decided to count them for the entire 13 miles today…just like I do with caterpillars, snakes, bunnies, and other things I have seen…and, that leads us to the title…on the ride today I counted 322 squirrels and some of them were even of the suicide variety…running out in front of me like they were trying to get run over…not sure if this is interesting…it is strange, though….

Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool….slept okay last night but no dreams again and I am a little irritated about that….feel a little run down today so far but I need to do a short grocery run in a few minutes so I’ll have to gather it up and get going….tooth hurts a little this morning, too, just as I expected it to and that is a little disappointing but it still much better than it has been…..not much to do today…going to do the grocery run and get the bike ride in then maybe do the bathroom….and come back here for another one…more later…

Well…I do have to stay current here….or not fall further behind anyway so I thought I’d come back for just some more easy stuff…don’t really have anything earth shattering to say but it has been a nice day. Had the top down on the car both out and back to pool today and that is just how the Miata should be driven….but, I do kind of wish it was next thurs so I could get my January top down ride in…oh, well….and with my tooth not hurting for two days now, I seem to have much more energy and that is a good thing….but it can flare up at any time and that is always in the back of my head and I can’t shake it…need to stop anticipating the pain and just live in the moment and appreciate that it doesn’t hurt….okay…I know I’m not doing my job and I promise I’ll find a worthwhile topic tomorrow….

Well…it was an okay day yesterday and so relaxing…didn’t do anything but what I wanted to do and watched a lot of Doctor Who…this day used to be my favorite day of the year…when everything gets back to normal after the holiday and there is time to decompress…but, without doing the holiday this year it is a little anticlimactic….slept okay last night and had dreams with Patrick Stewart in them but I don’t remember what they were about…I’ll bet they would have been good….not much to do today…it’s pool day but that is about it…and Man U plays at 10 this morning so I need to get out on the bike by 9 and get the ride done…more later…

Well…have been thinking about this for the past couple of days…ever since the “Alone at Christmas” post and thought I’d come back and revisit that for a few minutes. That was probably the most commented on post that I’ve done of the almost 3,500 since I started this thing a few years back and opened my eyes a bit…some of the comments were so heartfelt, personal, and full of pain that I have decided to not post them…I think the subject of the holidays and being alone, while relatively easy for someone like me who, as you know, is skewed about 45 degrees off from normal, is tough for many, many people and I didn’t mean to make light of it…if that is how you felt, I truly am sorry….and, I hope you can all keep putting one foot in front of the other and carry on….I will try to think a little more in the future…but, if you’ve been here before, you know that might and might not happen….

Well…it was a long day yesterday but I woke up with no pain in the teeth so I am a little confused about that…even slept okay and was surprised to see that the snow they predicted didn’t happen…that means that I can get out on the bike as soon as I finish my coffee since it is 37 degrees already and dry…I did get some cleaning done yesterday and if my teeth continue to cooperate, I will get the bathroom done today…and maybe even some of the kitchen…who knows? Not much to do today…going to just veg out the day mostly after I get the bike ride done…and, I’m going to make some venison tacos for dinner that I have been looking forward to all week….more later…

Well….it has been a pretty crappy day with the teeth going off the edge in pain all day and it looks like I’ll have to spend a bunch of money to get them repaired…but I haven’t been to my dentist in a long time so they probably don’t even have my records anymore so maybe I’ll have to find a new one…what a pain in the ass and jaw…other than that, I did get a few things done today but not enough…okay…still too much pain to keep writing right now so I’m going to quit here…and I’ve taken all the painkillers I can today so this is going to be a long night….

Well…it was an okay day yesterday but a little too busy for my taste…got the grocery run done and then the exercise, then out to have lunch with T and then out to have a couple with G….too much for one day but I lived through it so that was cool…getting a head start on the night leaves me a little slow today, though, so there will be much coffee today…slept okay last night but had no dreams again so what’s the point? Got through the night with no pain in the tooth and that is a big plus and it looks like that is continuing today…there is still a little pain but nothing like it was so I’ll take it….not much to do today…going to get the workout in and a bike ride and then basically nothing for the rest of the day…I do want to do the bathroom so I can do the kitchen tomorrow but we’ll see if that happens…more later…

Well…have been thinking about something to write today and just came up with an idea to talk about being alone at Christmas…now, most people have the idea that to be alone at Christmas is a lonely, bad thing and something needs to be done to make sure no one is alone on this supposed “special” day. Let me tell you this….I am spending my 8th or 10th one alone and could not be happier…since I’m not a religious person…the whole idea of celebrating something tied to religion is anethema to me…it seems like doing it would be an acceptance of the religious underpinnings that are clearly fake…if there even was a Jesus, he certainly wasn’t born in December…but, that wouldn’t matter anyway….all of this stuff is just fairy tales concocted by ignorant goatherders whose superstitions are being treated as fact by many of the people in this country…okay…that’s the end of my screed on religion…all I want to say is that I get to lie on my couch and read the paper, while I’m having a relaxing coffee and then get a nice bike ride in on Thursday…and, then make venison tacos for my dinner with the possibility of a nap thrown in there…I’ll bet my Christmas would be the one that many people would have if they could…I’m going to be relaxing…how about you?

Well…running early today with the crappy sleep and getting up early so I thought I’d get this one done before I have to get going….it looks like a kind of busy day with doing the final grocery run before thursday and getting the workout and bike ride in early this morning before I may have lunch with T….I do need to get some degreaser today to try to clean up the shifter on the bike and get it to shift again…the dirt and sand that got in it last week has made it a pain and just lubing it has not worked so far…but, I won’t get to that today…I think I’ll save that for tomorrow or do it after lunch….the tooth hurt again last night and I’m not sure what it happening with that….I must be sleeping on it or something since it doesn’t hurt at all during the day….not much to do today…well…that’s not really true…but, I’ve already talked about that so I won’t do it again…more later….