Well….Tuesday was Thursday yesterday and it was pool day…I did win but Tom did a lot to help me so I’m not that happy about it….okay, a win is a win so I’ll take it. The brakes on the wreck need to be replaced and I’m going to see if I can get it apart here in the lot….they’re not grinding yet so If I need to take it out to Tom’s to do it Monday I can….it will give me something to do today and with the grocery shopping this morning, it is going to be a busy day….other than that, not much to do today….I am going to take it easy once I get everything done with a Neflix movie coming today and cocktails tonight….I did have some dreams last night…yay…but they were kind of disturbing with T in them….well…not disturbing just strange with 28th street and Indiana Jones in it…told you it was weird….I will have topics for later and a brake update once I get into it..hope it doesn’t rain….

Well…a kind of fun night last night…went out with G for a few and to watch the Wings…they had me a little concerned after the first perlod with the lack of work from the whole team but once the second started, the real Wings showed up and we scored the next 4 goals. Even Hudler got one….crap, this is supposed to be a sports post later…so no more Wings now….must have sent and gotten 50 texts…it is kind of weird to watch the game with the group by text. I didn’t sleep all that well last night but there were vestiges of dreams that I can remember so maybe they are coming back….that would be great. Just took a look at the radar and it looks like there is rain coming so maybe no bike ride today…just when I am getting over the hump with pain and my lungs are getting better..oh, well…I’m already 130 miles ahead of last year so I guess I can take the day off. Not much to do today..don’t think I’m meeting up with K today so I might write Tom and see if today could be pool day….who knows? I will have at least two more later…the Wings one, of course, then I’m sure I’ll have comments on the Obama speech…more later…

Well..another day of being good an I am almost used to it…but that will end tonight with the first Wings playoff game…feel okay this morning and slept pretty well but I’m still wondering where the dreams went…I kind of miss them…love to be entertained when I’m sleeping….watched ‘Unstoppable” yesterday and I think it was one of the first times I was bored with a Tony Scott movie….it was nice to get my workout and the bike ride in before lunch yesterday but is still pretty damn cold….where is the April warmup that is longer than one day? There may even be frost and snow later in the week and that is really depressing…..oh, well….not much to do today…I am going to meet up with G later for a couple and the Wings, of course…can’t wait to see which team comes out tonight….have to get the gear out and show the winged wheel for at least the first one….more later…

Well…home for another night…it seems my schedule is undergoing a bit of an upheaval and major changes are in store for the near future…I knew this was coming at some point but it doesn’t make it any easier…I’ll share more about this later but I don’t really have it straight in my head yet so I don’t want to comment. Pretty much a bore of a day yesterday since the wind was blowing so hard I didn’t want to take the bike out and with G canceling, my Monday could not pass too quickly. I did sleep okay, which I didn’t expect, and with being good, I feel okay today and hope to continue the cleaning process here; catching up on things that I have been avoiding for a while…could this be spring cleaning? Kind of a cliche, I know, and my life is turning into one so maybe it’s a good fit. Not much to do today….might be having Monday on Tuesday if I meet up with G tonight…no pool today since Tom has some work to do and we are moving that back to thurs or fri…..hoping to have some topics for later if I can keep the dogs of doubt at bay for a little while longer….

Well…it was kind of fun day yesterday with a nice SF with K and the Wings winning their last game…I really thought we had put Chicago out of the playoffs but Dallas couldn’t win their last game so that put Chicago in…oh, well…I was a little disappointed that I watched the radar all day yesterday waiting for the big storms but they kept forming to the north and south of us…I don’t think we even got a drop of rain and now the front has moved on to the east with nothing left behind it….at least I should be able to get a ride in later in the dry but if the wind id blowing like it did yesterday, I think I’ll skip it since it is really no fun to go out into a 40 mph blast. Not much to do today….resumes, of course, and I have to put the golf clubs back in the car for the summer….probably won’t go out and hit some until later in the week but I need to soon just to see where the pain will be this year…my elbow is starting to hurt again and I hope it’s not all summer like last year….maybe some of those padded bike gloves will help…who knows? More later…

Well…I had forgotten how wonderful it is out on the bike on a Sunday morning unencumbered by either sweatshirts or biting cold…just a t-shirt this morning and it feels good to sweat….I think the caffeine helped, too, since I had much more energy today than yesterday. I am going to cheat a little today and put out a second one of these instead of, or maybe in addition to, a political one since I have some stuff to share about the ride today….the swans were back in the pond this morning and I am in awe of how they get their huge bodies out of the water with just a couple of beats…almost stopped to watch but they were gone too fast…I do have to remember to look up when I’m out and riding, sometimes I get too focused on the tiny little world of the bike and and keeping the pace up that I forget that there are other reasons to be out and about….

There was one phenomenon that I wanted to share from today, I had the weirdest thing happen at about the 9 1/2 mile mark…it was like my brain was flying above the pavement and I reached this zen-like state that I couldn’t feel my body at all….geez, I hope it’s not a stroke….hey, you know I’m kind of weird….

Well…an okay night last night but a little disappointing with Michigan losing the hockey championship in OT…great game, though. There was a race on, too and it was good to see Matt Kenseth win one finally but 500 miles is a long time to watch and I got bored…that seems to be a theme lately and I really need to do something today to cut through it…might have a SF with K today but it looks like not much else…it is warm out already, almost 60 at 7:30 and it looks like some storms are coming so I’m not sure if I’ll get the bike out today…the coffee is sputtering and calling my name so I need to get a cup and read the paper…there will be topics later since I am falling behind for the month….more later…

Well…I have to call a spider alert for today….I have killed at least a dozen of the big black ones in here today and it is starting to creep me out a little….I just hope that they don’t crawl on me when I’m sleeping…one did last spring and it was weirder than heck…I just realized how light I sleep if a spider crawling on me wakes me up. Oh, well….it was a nice ride today but I think they’re dreaming if they think it’s getting up to 65 today….it is still COLD out there and my hands are still a little numb…one cool thing did happen, though…riding on the part of the trail that runs by a little pond, the frogs were so loud that I could hear them over “Dark Side of the Moon” that I had playing on the walkman….I am glad I’m back here…the wind was just cruel out of the East and the last uphill into the 20 mph blast was a gut killer….and I am sore so I’m going to retire to the couch for a few minutes…Oh, I did watch “The Social Network” this morning and I do not know why it was nominated for an Oscar….maybe because Facebook is so popular?….

Well…late again this morning…just got out of bed and can’t remember getting up so late…didn’t sleep well but had to keep at it to see if maybe I could….but, now I’m up and trying to clear my head and get the day started….need to get the coffee started and go out for the papers so I’ll be back in a few minutes…okay, it will be longer than a few minutes but I promise I’ll be back…

I’m back….took longer than I expected…had some work that needed to be done and thought I’d get it out of the way before I got back to this…it was an okay day yesterday but the Wings look so bad I don’t know if I can watch them in the playoffs….I did get a long bike ride in but it was still so damn cold…today should be better and I think I’m going to wait until it gets warm enough for no sweatshirt to ride….it has been kind of a chore to get out on the bike and I don’t want it to get to be a task instead of fun but I’m not sure how to do that yet….maybe today’s leisure ride will help…I’ll put Dark Side of the Moon on and take it easy, trying to smile a little might help, too, but life as it is has not given me much to smile about lately….not much to do today…Michigan is playing in the NCAA hockey championship and there is a race on so that is something to look forward to…along with cooking a pork loin for lunch…and I know I have to clean this place up some and get the summer clothes out….I did switch into shorts yesterday but I’m not sure I can sustain it…might be a false start this year…but I’m going to try to make until December….I should have a topic or two for later…I did find that Keith has a website and he is doing little videos of the worst people of the day so that made me smile a little….

Well…a really fun night last night…out with T for happy hour and had so many laughs and a great conversation….just what I needed to get out of the funk I’ve been in lately…and I don’t know why I’ve been in it…I guess it just is and I’ll have to just ride it out and try to smile a little while the process happens….I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday and remembered to take the ibuprofen before I went which helped my wrists..or it could have been that it was not mind numbingly cold for the first time this year. Looks like we are getting a huge break in the weather over the weekend with it being almost 80 Sunday and some huge thunderstorms coming with it…going to be out in just shorts and a t-shirt for the first time this year….might even get into shorts permanently but I’ll have to look at the long-term forecast first…not much to do today…have to go out for groceries this morning but I am having problems getting the menu together so I’m just going to get staples and use my imagination…what little of it there is left…more later…