Well…man, I’m worn out….I think all the work on the house and stress from the move finally hit yesterday…and I’m still not sleeping well, too so I may need to take a day or so off completely and just veg…no bike ride either, and with the rain coming in later this morning, today could be the day…or should be the day…I’m not that young anymore and I guess it’s starting to show…but, I have a powerwasher to play with and I’d like to get to the side of the house and get the patio bricks cleaned off…I wonder if that could wait til wed? Okay, going to stop bitching about how I feel…coffee do your work…one thing you really don’t think of about this part of the state is oil wells anymore but there are still working ones along the trails I’ve been riding and that was a surprise to me…and that there were people fishing in the small lakes that are scattered through the swamp…I wonder how polluted that water is? Can you eat the fish you catch? I think that’s something I need to check out since I could strap my fishing pole on the bike and fish some….not much to do today…have to pay the final payment on the roof and windows and maybe run a couple of errands but that is about it…more later…

Well…as you know, I have been doing recon rides on the trails near here to try to establish a loop that will get me the miles I need to not feel guilty about eating…and today I found one! Not sure what the mileage is until I ride it tomorrow but it looks like about 8 miles so I can do two to get my miles in…these are some of the coolest trails I’ve seen…winding through the swamps out near Butterworth drive where there are lakes and bridges and these things are really wide, too…about as wide as a two lane road and they are in good repair, too. So it’s been a busy day today with doing the ride and then getting the power washer out and working on the awnings that I had to scrub with a scrub brush since the moss/crud on them was like cement and wouldn’t come off with just the washer…then, I decided to do the exterior of all the windows, too since I was already wet and still had enough energy to do it…so that kept me busy until almost noon but it is just nice to be living here and doing the chores instead of going across town….so now I have clean glass and it feels good to have that done before winter….more later…yeah, I’m not joking…I’ll try to come back for a political one in a while but I need to take a break first….

Well…slept through til 5:11 this morning and it was a little strange not having the stress of getting this place fixed or moving on my mind…it appears that I am going to have to re-train my brain to think about other things, though, since those thoughts keep coming through in little stabs…I do need to give myself permission to just take it easy for a few days but I have a power washer sitting in the garage that I am itching to try out on the bricks on the side of the house and the awnings…and I need to wash the exterior of the windows since they are so dirty they are grey…see…all I can do is think about the work I have to do and I really need to stop and get a little rest…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday and am expanding my knowledge of where the trails go and I hope to get out on some new ones today…but that means I need to make a decision with the rain coming in…do I power wash or do I ride? I wonder if I can do both? I did use the hose on high pressure on the shifter and it now does the 5-6 shift almost every time with no hesitation and it is so cool to have a hose to do that kind of stuff…I should get to washing the car in the next couple of days to clean it up after it being a work truck for three months….and I do need to find a winter car soon…damn, I do have a lot to do…and I need to do nothing…more later….

Well….the first night in the house went well…and I am getting used to the cooler temperatures in here…and that should only get better as I get acclimated to it and remember to dress for it…and I started the night with earplugs in just out of habit but took them out when I woke up around 4 and it is so quiet in here that I can go without them…even with the furnace running it is quiet so I’m going to try it without them at all tonight…and the new sheets were good, too, so I can think about other things…I do need a chair in my room so I think I’ll look at the inventory in the attic and clean one up today….and start to tame the bundle of snakes in the living room…I have every outlet in here filled with a plug so I think I may have to re think the layout in here…but, today is going to be a relaxing day for me…going to get a long, hot soak in the deep tub and just luxuriate a little…I think I’ll get some skin moisturizer bubble bath at Meijers this week….need to start fighting the dry skin already since my legs are starting to get the alligator skin that they do in the winter…one thing I just noticed, my coffee gets cold faster here with the cooler temperatures so I guess I’ll have to wave it more often…it appears that the internet here is much more stable that the apartment…the modem has not reset once since I started running it yesterday and that is cool…and with the 1 terabyte cap, I can watch the internet all month and never even get close…never got close at the apartment with a 500 gig limit so I don’t have to think about that anymore….more later…

Well…it was so nice out this afternoon that I went out for a bike ride to do some recon on where the trails are around here…and I found some really cool ones that run right along the river to Millennium park….got 12 miles in and didn’t cover even half of them so I will be doing some more exploring tomorrow and trying to remember the ones I’ve been on…there are some really cool bridges  and one that goes across the Grand River to the south and I think that’s the one that goes all the way to Byron Center…that will be a ride I’ll try another day after I explore the rest of the park…it is just so cool that I now can ride here, too…but I think I need to get a mirror to hang on the left side of the bike with having to ride in the street to get to the trail….but, once they get Valley finished to the south of Lake Michigan drive, it’s a straight shot to the park…and that will be cool…

Well….damn…this has been a busy day so far but I’m finally moved! sitting here in my new living room with everything working but have a bundle of snakes in wires that need to straighten out since it looks like crap with wires everywhere…it was really nice that my son and his wife helped and we had everything done by 11:30…have my bed put together with some new sheets I found in the basement and that fit perfectly but are  a really garish flower pattern but who cares? They are nice, heavy percale sheets and I think there are 3 or four more downstairs so I’ll never have to buy another one…one funny thing is I found a nice pair of jockey long john bottoms down in the basement and they fit perfectly and I will use then as my lounging pants since I am going to keep it cooler in here than my apartment…they are not the waffle weave of normal long johns and I really think they look cool in the dark gray color they are….now I need to find my long sleeve t-shirts and the outfit will be complete…okay, need to go down and put the laundry in the dryer and take it easy for a while….more later…

Well….didn’t sleep for crap last night but don’t feel too badly right now…have everything ready to go in the car and truck for the move today so this will be the last one from the apartment where I started this thing so many years ago…man, there have been a lot of things happen while I was living here but it truly is time to move on to new places and new things…or the same things but just in a different location…I think that’s more like it….even going to try to get a bike ride in this aft since it is going to be in the 60′s and I can go out in just a t-shirt…but, we’ll see…will still have a lot of work to do to put my bedroom together and get the roku and router working so I’ll have wifi and that could take a call to my son since I last did it years ago and I really don’t remember what we did…at least I know the internet works so that is something….and I have to remember to eat something today, too…and make coffee when I get over there since I took the coffee maker over yesterday….that is about it for now…this place looks weird with nothing in any room but the living room but I am ready to get going…more later…

Well…have been doing some running today on the last day in my apartment and I finally have time to come here and do one of these…but, not on politics which I will get started on tomorrow afternoon after the move…got the rest of the small stuff over to the house today and did some settling in stuff like putting up the shower curtain cleaning the kitchen some, along with cleaning an ottoman that I found in the spare bedroom…and that is something I don’t understand…it was stained and covered in dog fur but just a vacuuming and then a scrub brush in a bucket of water and laundry soap made it like new with just a little effort and I wonder why it was never done before? Whatever, it’s the perfect height for the armchair/rocker that I cleaned up yesterday and that will be a welcome addition to my comfy couch…haven’t had a chair since I moved in here and I can see myself watching a little tv in it…and, I will remember my FIL when I use it since it was his chair….I also made my first lunch at the house today and everything worked great so that is a relief…but, I am going to get a small fridge for the upstairs since it is a pain to have to work out of the downstairs fridge…and with how little I eat, I can get three days worth of food in the small one…and ice for cocktails…I did take my last ride on the trails I’ve spent so much time on  since I’ve been here…over 46,000 miles but I wasn’t really nostalgic at all…just want the move done…I think I’ve gotten much better with change as I get older….and moving into this house temporarily isn’t bothering me, either…and that’s okay, too…