Well…up at 5:27 this morning and it’s a no coffee morning since I have to go in to have my BP checked at 9 but I am going to get two rides in before I head out…did take both of my BP meds just to see if they will work to get it down…I am so damn tired of all this crap that I may just let it stay high so I don’t have to keep screwing around and going to the doctor all the time…I’m old and tired and can accept that this is going to kill me at some point…I do need to get cleaning this place up today and all week but if I take one room a day I’ll get it done…I do need to figure out meals for the week and I may get a pork shoulder to do in the instant pot and Meijers has chicken thighs on sale for 1.49 so all I need to do is get to Wed when I do the grocery run…have leftovers for today so I really only need food for Tuesday…and that may be the Alfredo I’ve been thinking about…and I have one more serving of pasta so that should do it…it’s raining out here right now and that may make it a little sloppy getting out of here and the alley is still solid ice but I should be able to get out with no problem…it’s going back to cold after today but still no big storms and I’ll take that…3 more weeks til March…more later…

Well…had been really trying to get the three books that I got from the library last Monday read and today I finished them up..1,096 pages in a week and I can return them and get three more tomorrow…yay…I did get some cleaning done today and organized some paperwork and threw out a bunch that I didn’t need anymore…and shredded a bunch of stuff and will be doing more of that soon…I did get three rides today along with the weight work but not a lot more than that…one of my sons, his wife, and their dog Art are coming over next Sunday to bring me a sourdough starter and hang out for a while and I think Art will like watching the doves on the feeder…no cocktails tonight and no coffee in the morning to see if I can get my BP down…it was good this morning at 117/72 but this aft it was back to 150/77 and I am just getting tired of the whole thing…I hope tomorrow will be the last time I have to go to the doctor until my yearly checkup…I missed the qualifying for the nascar race tonight but was able to see it this afternoon…the LC race is on at 6 tonight and the Clash is on at 8 on fox…so that will give me something to watch…the heat races were fun with lots of beating and banging on the 1/4 mile track they are racing on…imagine 35 cars on that at once…

Well…damn, running late again today and I need to get two rides in before Man U plays at 9…so that means I need to get on the bike in 10 minutes to get that done…and I’ve just started my first cup of coffee so that is going to be a struggle…it snowed overnight and will be snowing this morning but it’s going to be over freezing later so it should all melt…I did check my BP this morning and it was 117/72 so that is encouraging but it will be back over 170 later today…I have to pay my water bill, property taxes, and house insurance this month and that means 1,700 bucks extra going out so I won’t be putting any money in the bank  and that sucks…but I am still making money on this house…for now…so I guess I can live with it….didn’t get a damn thing done yesterday but read and I need to finish a book and I’m not sure if I can carve out the time for it…yeah…that sounded weird to me, too…I mean all I have to do is decide to do and do it but the struggle between my guilt and taking it easy is pretty strong and I wonder if I’ll ever be able to take it easy again? Probably not…not much to do today…10 minutes to pour down more coffee and get on the bike…need to get moving…more later…oh, I did have a dream last night where I couldn’t find a pair of socks that matched…weird…

Well…damn after the second day in a row to doing nothing, I declare myself officially a slug…I did get three rides in and did the weight work but that was it for the day since I had leftovers and didn’t even have to cook….but I will clean some tomorrow to keep up prepping the dining room for sanding and painting…and I have to take all the scotch tape off the walls that is everywhere from the previous owners….we did lose a lot more snow here with it being over freezing today but my yard has no bare spots yet…still over 6 inches of snow out there and it is going to get cold again so we’ll probably have snow here until spring…I’m finally healing up from the shoveling from two weeks ago but most of the pain is gone…it’s supposed to snow a little bit tomorrow and maybe some freezing rain but that will end before I have to get out Monday morning…it doesn’t look like I’ll get the books done before Monday so I’ll have to go Tuesday…okay, need to get ready for the night…

Well…up at damn 5:09 this morning and I am so worn out…again…I did grind some beans for my coffee today but ran it through my drip coffee maker instead of my pour over and it is just as good so I’ll remember that for the future…slept okay last night but I was lazy yesterday so I need to get on the bike here in a few minutes to get three rides in before 10…going to get to 1,000 miles in Feb and that has never happened before…man, I just want to melt into the couch and watch old movies but I won’t…I remember the days when I used to do that and one of these days I’m going to do that again…but today will be 470 days straight of riding bikes and I need to keep that going….it is pretty cool that the warm weather has melted a lot of the snow so when it starts up again I won’t have to throw it it over shoulder high snow piles…and it will snow more since it February in Michigan…but as every day goes by we get closer to spring and that will keep me going…and grinding through life….not much to do today…don’t have to cook for the next few days but I do have the dr appointment Monday so today will be the last day of coffee before then….and I want to keep cleaning this place up and I’m going to try to finish the third book before Monday so that will give me something to do….more later….

Well…after I got to 708 miles for the month this morning, I decided to take the day off after that…really the only thing I got done was cleaning up the dining room and putting away my really heavy winter clothes that were covering every chair…so I decided to read all afternoon and finished the second book…will try to get the third one done by Monday so I can get more at the library…going to have to figure out something to cook after tomorrow and I’ll probably do the Alfredo I’ve been thinking about…that’s really easy and the batch should last at least two, maybe three days…and then I have a stir fry to make and I died take a container of ham soup out of the freezer so maybe the Alfredo will wait until next week…who knows? Okay…going to pour myself a cocktail and watch some tv…

Well…I’m contemplating not getting going this morning and the prospect of that is kind of liberating…but you know me, I’ll drag my butt down and get on the bike in 20 minutes to be going by 7…maybe a 2 ride day today? I will make the 700 mile goal for the month after the first ride and I really should give my body a rest at some point…I did sleep okay last night and that is getting to be normal for me…haven’t had a toss and turn night in quite a while and I wonder what the heck I did to change it? Going to make pour over coffee tomorrow since I am skipping coffee Sunday and Monday with having a BP appointment Monday morning and I do need to do everything to get it lower….it’s just such a pain thinking about it all the time…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I do need to clean a bit today…it has been so nice to not have to shovel any damn snow for a week  and it looks like no big storms  for the next 10 days or so and that gets me 10 days closer to spring…and there is no really cold weather in that time, too…need to do the online check in for Monday’s doctor appointment today and pay the 5 buck copay this aft…but need more coffee and bike rides first…more later…

Well..with the warmer weather and the snow melting some, I only had a few doves on the feeder and very few other birds, too…kinda strange since most of the grass is still covered by snow since we had so much of it…at least that will save me some money…I am going to get to 700 miles for the month tomorrow and I am sitting at 692 with the rides today…and that really is enough…I only took two two ride days this month so I guess I can take it a little easier…the potato soup I made last week went bad today and I had to throw a bowl of it away it smelled so bad when I opened the container…so I had to have the chili dogs for a quick meal but my sense of taste is going away again and I could barely taste them and that sucks…and I had just opened a new tube of saltines and don’t want to waste them by letting them go stale so I took a container of ham soup out of the freezer to have Sunday when it thaws…didn’t get a lot done today but didn’t need to with getting the laundry done yesterday…I could have cleaned and I am going to tart on the trim in the dining room that needs to be sanded before I can paint…once I get back in the groove of working on the house, maybe I can get the dining room painted before summer…we’ll see…more reading now…

Well…darn, only 24 minutes before I need to get on the bike and this pushing all the time is wearing me out…or it could be that life in general is wearing me out…it looks like I’ll get to 700 miles for the month tomorrow and the string of riding every day is still going…497 days in a row isn’t bad for an old guy…I wonder why I’ve stopped having dreams? It’s been months since I’ve had any but I’ve been sleeping okay so that is a puzzle…oh, well…didn’t get much done yesterday so I’ll have to get something done today…what that is I don’t know but something…it’s going to be in the 40’s for the last day today and then back in the 20’s but we’ve lost a lot of the snow over the past few days an I’ll take it…and there isn’t any big snow in the forecast for the next 10 days so I’m going to put my shoveling clothes away for a while…still don’t have to cook today but I do need to start planning what needs to come out of the freezer for the weekend…not much to do today…10 minutes until the bike rides need to start but I’ve only had one cup of coffee and I’m not sure if that’s enough…no, it’s not but I’ll drag myself down soon…more later…

Well…it’s been a nice day out here today and it’s been sunny almost all day so that means we lost a lot of snow…I did get a mini grocery run done today and won’t have to go out again for a couple of weeks and I don’t mind that at all…I did get the laundry done but not much else since the library books have been calling my name…and I’m going right back to that after I finish this…we have one more day of relatively warm weather so more of the snow will be gone but we still have inches of ice on the roads up here but I hope the next three days of freezing will help that…still won’t need to cook for a few days but then it will be alfredo and stir fry along with some chili dogs…I bought 4 cans of chili since they were less than half price…can you believe that a 16 oz can of Hormel is 3.19 regular price…but I got them for 1.39 and I thought that was a deal…and that is the no bean chili that has lots more burger in it…now I’m going to read a little and plan what cleaning I’m going to do tomorrow…