Well…about on time this morning and have been up a while….slept okay last night…for me, that is and I would like to sleep like a teenager again….but, that’s not going to happen so I guess I won’t think about it…my shoulder seems to have plateaued with some pain still there and it is not better today like it has been for the past week…might have to rest it more and stay off the bike for a couple of days…but, I don’t want to do that…need to take advantage of the lack of snow while it lasts so I’ll just take some ibuprofen here in a minute and gut it out…it was a pretty mush wasted day yesterday with all of the soccer and bowl games on so I didn’t get anything done but lay around here like a veg…will start to edge into normalcy again today with an errand to start but I still have Man U to watch this afternoon which will be a good reward if I get some things done….but, right now I just want coffee and to get to some news for cobweb removal…my brain needs it…more later…
3,486.8 miles….
Well…after resetting the computer on the bike and getting 12.2 miles in this morning, just wanted to recap the year on the bike…almost got to my 3,500 mile goal for the year and the cool thing was that all of those miles were on the new bike and it has performed almost flawlessly other than the normal Shimano shifter adjustment problems…but, I even have that fixed so the ride today was a good one other than having to be careful with a slight glaze of ice on the trail. 2018 was one of the better years on the bike if I discount the crash and I am healing up from that quite well…still have some shoulder and hip pain but it is down to being annoying now instead of the screaming hot pain that it was….still some swelling in my shoulder but that is gradually going away and I should be back on the weight machine by the end of the week. All in all, a good year on the bike…the miles didn’t quite get me to #3 in for the year but it was #4 so that was cool….I wonder if I can ever get to the 4,314 record? I am going to try….
January 1st
Well…here we go again…another new year starts and I really don’t know what to think about it…it is nice that I have another one to look forward to and that there are still possibilities so I guess I’ll leave it at that…I was really close to declaring my shoulder pain free this morning but it’s not quite there yet…maybe tomorrow or the next day but it didn’t keep my up at all last night and I am looking forward to being able to sleep on my right side again….it was an okay day yesterday and I got a bike ride in before the rain started and it looks like I’ll be able to start the year with another ride today…I do have to reset the computer on the bike and record the mileage for last year before I go out today and that is a little bit of a pain since I need to clear everything to do it and that means entering the wheel size etc…will have to dig through the junk drawer to try to find the instructions….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and I probably won’t today either…soccer starts in about a half hour and there are three games in a row along with bowl games so I’ll be watching sports all day and I am still going to rest the shoulder one more day and not clean….more later….
Last one for the year…
Well…normally, I don’t dwell on the past or do a summary one for the end of the year but I’m bored and thought I’d just talk a little bit and see what happens…it really has been an okay year other than crashing the bike….it was a little disappointing to not be able to find a house but I’ll get that done by summer of next year…am basically ready for that with the down payment in the bank and my credit almost repaired….so that was a little progress…and I did get my health checked out and found that I’m just old and have the normal stuff that happens when you age…but no colon cancer or any problems that need to be treated so, for being an old guy, that is pretty cool. I did get one thing checked off my bucket list with the trip to NYC and I am now thinking about what I want to do for next year…maybe a return to NYC or a new city? I can afford to do one trip next year but I’m not sure if I’ll need to use that money to fix the house when I get it…we’ll see when I finally find one…it has been okay living on SS for the past 18 months and I have been able to pay all of my bills and put some cash in the bank so that is cool…and I’m getting a 60 buck a month bump next month that will pay for the increase in Medicare that I signed up for and still leave 52 a month of it that will buy a week’s groceries…I guess what I’m saying is that life could be much worse and it’s time for football…so I’m going to get a pillow and lounge it out on the couch while I veg away the afternoon…no more later….
December 31st
Well…having a hard time getting going this morning and I think it’s from a lack of motivation more than anything else…my shoulder is hurting again and my plan to stop taking ibuprofen for it is going to have to wait until the swelling goes down more…slept okay and almost had dreams last night…I think…and I figured out how to prop my right arm up to keep the pain from keeping me awake so that helped…I did get out for a bike ride yesterday but it looks like it is going to rain all day today so I will take the day off and leave the mileage under 3,500 for the year… only missed it by about 20 miles so that is okay…might have a more aggressive goal for next year but we’ll see…had another day of not getting anything done yesterday but I may try to clean a little today if my shoulder will take it…but, right now it hurts too much to do much more than this so I’ll think about that later…not much to do today…don’t have any errands to run or anything so it looks like another hunker down day where I’ll just hang out and watch more sports…more later…
Doesn’t anything matter anymore?
Well…do you remember when Obama wore a tan suit and the right and fox news went on and on about how that was degrading the presidency and how maybe he should be impeached for it? That was the worst thing that happened during those years…not conspiring with Russians, no selling the government to the highest bidder, no putting children in cages, no nothing…but with the idiot trump and all his lawbreaking, doesn’t anything matter anymore? The latest felony that is attributed to trump and his businesses is a doozy, especially after they rail and scream about undocumented immigrants…just the other day, it was disclosed that trump’s golf club in New Jersey has been accused of providing fake green cards to undocumented workers that they hire along with fake social security cards to keep their workers from being deported and there is an ongoing investigation that involves the AG of NJ and even Mueller’s office. One thing you have to remember, if you talk to anyone who has worked with or for trump, he is involved in every decision in his businesses, and you can be sure if this is going on in NJ, it is going on in every golf course that the idiot owns…but, do the repubs care? Not one bit, as I’ve always said, the law only applies to people who aren’t repubs and it is perfectly fine for trump to do whatever the hell he wants. But, in 4 days that is going to change…if I was the idiot boy, I sure wouldn’t be worried about any damn wall…I’d be worried about how to stay out of jail…impeach…
December 30th
Well…that was a pretty sucky day in sports for my teams and Michigan was embarrassed again in another bowl game…the same thing happened to ND so now all I have to look forward to is Man U this morning and Michigan State tomorrow…and the Lions need to lose today to get a better draft pick but I still may watch it…slept okay last night and the pain from my shoulder was tolerable but it seems to be worse right now…I may have aggravated it cleaning the snow off the car so I could get the newspaper this morning…and it looks like no bike ride today since the roads around here are a skating rink and there is no way I’m going to chance going down again…I think I may have hurt my hip in the crash, too, since it hurts and is making it a little hard to get into the car but at least I can can put it in reverse without howling in pain so I guess that’s something…didn’t get much done yesterday and I am going to veg it out again today since the tendon in my shoulder will only heal with rest and any sort of cleaning will aggravate it…darn…that’s too bad….more later…
December 29th
Well…didn’t sleep too well with the pain starting up in my shoulder again…tried lying on it and that was a huge mistake…but it’s more of a dull pain so I guess I can live with it….it’s been a week now…almost…and I had hoped that it would heal faster…oh, well…still really can’t put pressure on it so I haven’t been able to clean…darn…and today looks like I’ll have to take it easy again…and there is so much sports on that I won’t be too bored…soccer to start the day and then Michigan plays at noon followed by the national championship playoffs that will take me to the end of the night….and I may be able to get on the bike again but it is pretty cold out there so that will have to wait a while…not going to chance the ice again…still working on leftovers from the big ham I made Tuesday and the chicken I made yesterday so there will be no cooking today…it looks like I really am going to have a total veg day today and that is not a bad thing…I seem to have been able to shut off the guilt with being injured…but I hope I don’t have to be injured to continue it…more later…
No politics right now…
Well…I feel like I’m in shock with everything going on with the idiot trump so I need a day without thinking about how he is trashing this country…so, I won’t…at least here…I did get out for a bike ride today in shorts and without gloves this morning since it was 51 degrees but the temp immediately started to fall and it was down to about 46 when I got back here and I was kicking myself for not putting a pair of gloves in the bag just in case….my shoulder was okay most of the way but started to hurt about 3 miles away and that continued after I got back here….but, I don’t think I did any permanent damage with the pain quickly going away…well…not going away but it got better but I need to stay ahead of the pain with some more ibuprofen right now…it sure was nice to be out with just a fleece and in shorts…you can feel the bike better and it just seems right…and, this time, I wasn’t the only one out in shorts…a couple of runners were brave, too…or crazy, however you want to look at it…that ends today, though, with it getting colder now and staying that way for the next week or so…still not a bad winter so far and I’ll take it…any day I can ride is a good one…but, it looks like I won’t get to 3,500 miles this year…going to miss it by about 25 miles but that still makes it a good year…oh, I did ride 161 miles on the old bike so I guess I’m over 3,500 with the two combined…not bad for an old guy….
December 28th
Well…running late today with not getting up until 6:24 and just pouring my first cup of coffee…slept okay last night and didn’t hurt my shoulder nearly as much as yesterday so I think I’m ahead of the game…and I have been able to pick up my coffee cup so that is a good sign…maybe there is progress today instead of regression…I can feel the tendons catching in there now so the swelling is going down gradually…didn’t get anything done yesterday but running some errands and washing the car and today will be much the same with trying to not put any strain on my shoulder..but, I am going out on the bike today…in shorts since it is over 50 out there right now and it will be a nice way to end the year…didn’t get to go out yesterday with all of the rain but I think that helped my shoulder feel better…that and ibuprofen and I have already started that…and I do have some chicken to cook today and that will a welcome change…more later…