Well…it was a busy day yesterday and I made some cash so that was cool…I think I have enough cash in the drawer now to get through December and that takes a load off…I now know that my morning back pain must be caused by how I’m sleeping…the pain was gone yesterday and now it’s back this morning…and I skipped the bike ride yesterday so it can’t be that…and it looks like I’m going to skip again today with it being cold and really windy and I’m just not ready for that yet…I will try to find the entire thermasuit today, though, so I can get out tomorrow…..was in the car for three hours yesterday and that is tiring but today looks like just sports and vegging…I do need to clean the kitchen to get ready for thurs and that sounds like all I’ll do today….more later…
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November 19th
Well…sitting here watching the Man U game and I am hoping they do better today against Arsenal…they have just stunk up the place to start the season and that is disappointing….I did win at pool yesterday but only put one 8 in on my own…drove the car a bit yesterday and there is no coolant leak so that is cool…and I’m not too concerned about the steering leak…so that is off my mind for a while…,made some cash yesterday and am going to make more today so it looks like I’m good for another month or so…and I am going to win the power ball tonight so I’ll be good forever…I can dream, can’t I? Just looked outside and it is snowing which really disappoints me…and that will mean I’m taking the day off the bike today….just too wet and windy to go out and I do need a break anyway….not going to do a lot today but clean the counters in the kitchen and watch some football…..more later…
November 18th
Well…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I did go over the car for winter and found some problems…I think the steering rack is leaking a little and there may be a coolant leak…added an eighth of a pint to the PS and a little under a pint to the coolant but I hadn’t checked either in a year so maybe it’s normal….don’t have the cash to have any problems right now….it is pretty nice outside right now and I think I’ll be able to get out in a t-shirt for the last time this year….it is 57 right now and I want to beat the wind that is coming….my back is better today and I hope that continues..it was getting to be draining with it hurting all the time…I am going to make a little cash over the weekend so the car has to not fail me…it is pool day today and it will be nice to get out of here for a while…more later….
The scavengers are getting lazy…
Well…there is a part of my trail that runs along 60th street between Wing and Hanna lake that seems to be a deer killing zone….over the course of the summer, there have been 4 deer hit by cars and thrown up on the sidewalk that I could tell were there even without seeing them…nothing like the stench of 200 pounds of rotting venison….but, in the first three instances, some scavenger dragged the carcasses down the bank and into the swamp and gradually ate them over a week or so…but, I think they are either full or lazy since there has been a huge doe lying at the side of the road for 5 days now without being disturbed…..I was really looking forward to watching nature take it’s course and maybe catch a glimpse of the animals that did the cleanup on the first three…yeah, I know, I am so bored right now that even waiting for scavengers to do their job is entertainment to me…oh, well….but I don’t want the damn thing to stink..so scavengers…get on the ball and do your job….
Lee Michaels….
Well…no, Lee is not dead…let’s get that out of the way right off the bat….but, there was good news that I read yesterday that I wanted to relay….after the wreckage of the election, music has been the one thing saving my sanity. Yesterday, while just looking for some videos of Lee on youtube…I came across an article that said that Lee has regained the rights to all of his catalog from his record company in settlement of a lawsuit… and the even better news is that he is remastering them and is going to release them on cd and in digital for the first time…..now, you’ve heard me talk about Lee and how important he was to me and many others when he was hot in the 70′s…but that didn’t translate into the present since none of his stuff was on Pandora or Spotify or any of the other streaming services….if you want to know why I still like the guy, just go out to youtube and search for “Stormy Monday” and listen to it….and, when you are doing that, just remember that there are only two guys playing on the track…Lee on the Hammond B-3 and playing bass with his feet, and Frosty on drums…I still get chills when I hear him scream in the break….
November 17th
Well…got up this morning to no fog…finally…while I like fog quite a bit, it was just too damn dreary for me…I did get a nice ride in it and it was so thick that I couldn’t even see M-6 from the top of the hill…it was cool in the woods, too…even took photos….made me think of Lord of the Rings….not as sore this morning but my back muscles still hurt some….not sure what I did but I am really tired of it….it is a little boring in the morning without the papers…coffee and tv aren’t the same as reading….oh, well….it looks like a nice day today with the temps getting close to 70…and I spent 70 bucks on groceries today…yow…but I did get all the stuff for turkey day and stocked up on a bunch of staples so that is okay…should make some cash next week so I can get by until then….more later….
I still have opinions…
Well…it has been a week of staying away from the news but the little tidbits that I have seen by accident are exactly as I predicted…the 30 million people that got health insurance under Obamacare are shit out of luck…this is the first thing that Ryan has on his agenda for the end of January is to repeal it and let insurance companies do what they want….see, I still have opinions…but I need a couple of weeks to recover from the idiocy of the American people….okay, that’s enough of that stuff for now….I did break the handle on the glove box on the Miata today….damn…but I got a new latch assembly brand new from Moss Miata for only $12.90 so that was cool….I’ll have to find a video out on youtube to see how my lock tumbler goes in but it doesn’t look like too big of a job…I can still get it open with the broken latch so I can get to the fasteners that hold it in…it’s always something with a 22 year old car….
November 16th
Well…my damn back still hurts and it must be how I’m sleeping…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday in the fog but was wet and cold when I got back here and it took me most of the day to warm up….and I have the thermostat set at 75 and it still feel cold in here…hope it’s not another bug….it’s foggy again today and colder than yesterday so I may just wait to go out until this afternoon….it was so wet yesterday that my bike computer stopped working when the contacts got soaked…and I really never thought it would be that bad just with fog….not artwork yesterday but a tree filled with shoes but I think that is from the cross country runners on EK’s trail…have a few things to do today but it looks like an easy one so that is cool….it hurts to move so I think I’ll go back to the couch and finish my coffee….more later….
A little sports…
Well…I can’t remember a time when all the teams I follow have been so bad…okay…except Michigan, but they lost this past weekend so maybe I should add them to the list. Normally, there is at least one that I can watch and depend on to do well…let’s do a count…how many teams do I follow? Man U, the Lions, the Red Wings, the Tigers…USA mens soccer, Michigan State, Michigan, Notre Dame,….hmmm…I would add some other BPL teams, too, but they are more just fillers when I’m bored…so…9 teams…and they all are pretty terrible right now…but what do you do? I should be used to terrible teams by now after following the Lions for so long but Man U sucking for the third year in a row? And the Red Wings playing no better than .500? I guess it just goes with everything else that is happening in the world right now….I did find headlight bulbs at Rock Auto for 5 bucks a pair including shipping so I guess everything isn’t terrible…just almost everything….
November 15th
Well….not too much to say about yesterday…I did get out to have a couple with G last night and had the top down out and back…and it wasn’t cold at all….didn’t get much done yesterday and I am not sure what is going to happen today…have a bunch of stuff to do and I’m not sure if I’ll do it…can’t figure out why the muscles in my back still hurt unless it is the wind on the bike…it wasn’t really too bad yesterday so I can’t figure it out….have been under on calories for quite a few days now and maybe that has something to do with the back pain? It has been really hard to eat lately with nothing having any appeal to me…maybe some pasta today may help….still not feeling 100% and maybe that has something to do with it, too…not really sure about anything right now…more later…