Well…running late again today and it is an easy explanation this time…just decided to read the paper and have my coffee first..and I did so now I’m here for a while…it was just another day yesterday and really didn’t do much except watch sports…trying to not spend any money since I don’t have any right now…I did hear back from the guy in Greenville that has the winter tires and I am going up there today to pick them up…looks like I’ll have to put two of them on the top with it down to get them back here but that should be okay…I am going to bag them in garbage bags so they don’t get everything dirty…. and who can pass up free stuff…oh, I said that yesterday didn’t I? I am glad I’ve got navigation on the phone…going to see how well it works today…and I have maps, too so it should be okay…so, that’s what I’m doing today…I will try to get back later for more since I’m short for the month…

Well…running late as always…have been watching the Chelsea/Arsenal match and with shooting pool and having cocktails last night, I am really worn out today and am taking it easy until the temp comes up enough to ride the bike…slept okay but up early again and that doesn’t help…but, as I said before, not going to bitch about that anymore. I may have to make a run to Greenville later today to pick up a set of snow tires for the car that one of the guys on the Miata board is giving away…I’ll take free stuff any time…more later…

Well…another day of not much happening and it appears that that is going to be my lot for a while….just can’t seem to muster the energy to do much and I hope it is the bug I’ve been fighting over the past week or so…but, I know it’s probably not…I think it is just a down time that I have from time to time and these need to be endured….so, I’ll just grit my teeth and keep going forward until this stuff lifts and the Miata makes me smile again…..

Okay…I feel I’ve been shortchanging you guys for the past week or so so I thought I’d come back for some caffeine fueled additions to this one…have stopped the melatonin to see if there is really any difference to using it…and I’m not sure there is…slept okay lat night but it was a cocktail night so that kind of skews the results…and there were dreams about nonsense that seem too trivial to mention so I won’t….I do feel a little better and am glad that I didn’t get the worse part of the bug….ran into one of the cashiers at Meijers that I know and she was almost down for the count and went home just after she got there…it’s almost color tour time and doing the first one in the Miata should be fun…have to go up to Mt P next Friday for C’s birthday bash and then I have G’s birthday Sat that I think I may have to skip…costs too much to go out to dinner…what else? Nothing right now so I’ll end here…

Well…I still feel pretty crappy for another day and I know now that it is a bug…but that doesn’t help…maybe I’ll take the day off today and just veg to try to get over it…but it is going to be such a nice day that I may want to take a drive in the car…I did get the grocery shopping done and made a pork loin in the slow cooker so I don’t need to cook today…okay….heading back to the couch for water and a little rest…more later…

Well…as you know I’ve been really wrapped up in the election stuff over the past few months and that has dominated my postings here and I am starting to feel that toxicity in my life so today I am going to change it up and go back to one of my favorite topics, trail weirdness, since it really was weird on the trail today. I have been feeling a little under the weather for the past week and have taken it easy on the bike..but, today, I am feeling a little better so I decided to get some sprints in and a really strange thing happened…almost 30 squirrels and chipmunks must have run out in front of me like they were on a kamikaze mission, just missing the front tire as they did…but, one of the chipmunks was not so lucky…I caught him by the tail and he flipped about a foot in the air in a really cool looking back somersault….as he flipped, he kept running so when he hit the ground he just shot off into the woods and disappeared…one of the neatest things I’ve seen in a while. Then, as I was leaving my last water stop at the park, I was just crawling along enjoying the colors when a swarm of 25 or so orange and black butterflies swooped in and flew around me for about 50 feet; circling me like they were trying to figure out what the heck I was….after about 15 seconds, they just exploded away from me and into the air…looking like something you’d see in a Disney animated film….days like this really do make me smile…

Well…it was another regular, boring day yesterday and I felt like crap all day with no energy…even skipped playing pool I was so tired…I’m sure this one is a bug but the 2 hours of sleep didn’t help at all…not much better sleep last night so I guess I’ll have to live with it for a while…sitting here and feeling about the same right now and I want to go back to the couch and get ready to muster the energy to do the grocery run this morning and then the normal stuff…so, I think I’ll do that and come back later for more of this…

Well…it was a long day with the bike ride into a 25 mile an hour wind and I am sore today…didn’t sleep for crap again last night so I think I’ll stop the melatonin that I have been trying…there were dreams but no ones that I liked so I won’t relay them here…I still have that damn lung crap going on and no energy so today is going to be a rest day unless something drastic happens to make me feel better…and today the sneezing has gotten really bad which is even more tiring…I did get the oil changed in the car yesterday and I am curious to see if it helps the oil flow to the lash adjusters and makes the tapping noise go away…we’ll see…more later…

Well…it was a bad sports day yesterday with everyone that I follow losing…but, it was a no cocktail night so I feel okay this morning…even had really strange dreams that came on after I woke up at 4…I’m not sure if I’m ready to have the weather turn cold since, as you know, I wear shorts until at least Thanksgiving…but, it looks like it is going to be nice for the rest of the week starting tomorrow…I do have some things to do today starting with an oil change for the car…should be pretty easy since the Miata is rear wheel drive and has more room under the hood…and, I will get to some more political ones later in the day if the oil change goes easy…but I do need to work out and get a ride in since I skipped yesterday…

Well…didn’t get to a second one yesterday and I’m not sure why…I have been feeling a little under the weather for a couple of days and I’m not sure if it is allergies or a cold…I do know I have been coughing like crazy since yesterday and I can feel that there is congestion in my lungs…so, I may take the day of from riding today and just kind of rest…have been having this weird dream lately where I’m at a huge banquet but by the time I get ready to eat, all the food is gone…not sure what the heck that means but at least I’m dreaming again….I did get the BTN back yesterday but I kind of wish I didn’t…Michigan looked like crap last night and I’m not sure how many more of the games I will watch…I do need to clean today but I am not sure I’m going to do that, either…I may just do a total veg and see how I feel later…and I will try to get back here for one more at least but the F1 race is on right now and I need more coffee and to watch it…more later…

Well….it was another day yesterday and I find that I am becoming addicted to the news shows again…it has been a couple of years since I’ve really watched them and it might be a function of the election or that there is just not anything else on…but, today should be different with lots of sports to see and maybe one of the kids coming into town to hang out for a while. Slept okay last night without melatonin so maybe it doesn’t work for me either…couldn’t see the Michigan game last week since it was on BTN and the idiots at Dish are pulling another AMC on us…I can’t wait to find a job and buy a house so I can dump it and get back to cable…not much to do today…F1 qualifying is on in a couple of minutes and then out on the bike before it starts to rain again…no cooking today since I made shrimp fettucine yesterday and the leftovers are calling my name…I wonder if it would be good for breakfast? More later…