Blackout effects….

Well…I may have to reconsider my total news blackout with the latest surprise that has blindsided me today….Carl Edwards announced he is retiring from NASCAR at the age of 37 to make sure he can be healthy the rest of his life….he is leaving one of the best rides on the circuit in the #19 Joe Gibbs car where he almost won the championship this past year. One of the things that Carl said with the announcement was that he has accomplished enough in his career…similar to what Nico Rosberg said after he won the F1 championship last fall….nevertheless, it is still a huge surprise that Carl is retiring….thanks for the memories, Carl…enjoy the rest of your life….

January 11th

Well…it appears that the world has survived the winds from yesterday but I think my car will be a block of ice when I go out to check it later….the lot looks okay so maybe the big melt from yesterday and today will get the trails open again and I can get on the bike….slept okay last night and had weird dreams again but I slept on my right side and irritated the tendons in my shoulder and they hurt like crazy…..but, nothing else hurts so that is a win I guess…..and, Man U won yesterday for 9 in a row so that brightened the day up some which was darkened with the Wings losing last night, again,…and it looks like the playoff run is over at 25…oh, well….I re-MacGivered my coffee maker so I can use the newest carafe and I think that will do for now…need to take the waiting electrical fire one back today and get my 10 bucks back but that is about all I have to do today….more later….

Forgot a few things…

Well…it seems to be funny that there are things that are striking to me when I see them but my short term memory doesn’t retain…on the last day of riding before this last bout of snow happened, just after christmas, I saw over a hundred christmas tree ornaments scattered along the same stretch of trail where the stuffed animals appeared earlier in the year…pretty cool looking at the time and I’m not sure what would have forced it out of my memory but it just came back to me today and I thought I’d talk about it for just a minute….it has been an okay day but I am exhausted…I did get to the errands today but at Harbor Freight, their computers were down and it was so funny watching them try to go back to a manual system to take care of their customers….I did get my new compressor for 7 bucks and need to put that in the car….but, Man U is playing right now so I am going to go watch that first….

January 10th

Well….I am already grinding my teeth this morning with the damn dish not resetting the program guide…in my 5th try to get the damn thing to work and it is really irritating…but, I do feel better today and I have a few things to get done so that will help….was good last night so I feel okay this morning and I hope that continues all day…just have a few errands to run this morning…need to get a new compressor for the bike since Harbor Freight has them on sale for 7 bucks and then a couple more stops to get supplies that I need….and it is going to be 44 degrees today so maybe some of the damn snow will melt….and I could possibly get back on the bike later in the week if the rains come as they say over the next two days…..but then back to cold for a while…I guess it is January in Michigan and that’s to be expected…more later…

RIP Carrie Fisher…

Well….one drawback of my total news blackout is that there are times that news I want to hear isn’t heard….that happened this week when I found out that Carrie Fisher had died two days after Christmas from a heart attack…and then her mother, Debbie Reynolds, died a day after….now we all remember Carrie from her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars but she was an author, too, with bestselling books about her life….it is hard when people younger than you start to die off….RIP Carrie Fisher…

January 9th

Well…it was a long, boring day yesterday and I think I barely survived it….and that boredom continues today….and I feel crappy to go along with it so it’s the perfect storm of crappiness….oh, well…at least my back doesn’t hurt this morning so that is something….I think I may have slept okay last night but there were no dreams to make me know it….didn’t get anything done yesterday and I don’t feel like doing anything today but I may cook some just to do something…..but, maybe not…who knows? I should run errands today but I think I’ll wait until tomorrow when it is warmer…..more later….

Drone racing leagues?

Well….if you were here last week, you read about my incredulity of the existence of professional fishing leagues and I couldn’t understand why anyone would watch them….but today, I read of an even weirder type of league…a drone racing league…yep, you heard it…grown men standing around racing drones and the winner is awarded a championship in drones I guess…now I do have a new most ridiculous thing I have ever seen on tv…I wonder what’s next…a pro house painting league? Or how about a pro vacuuming league that you can play in your own house? Man, I need to find something else to do….