Well…damn, it’s warm enough to get out on the bike when it gets light but the wind is shaking the house so it looks like an indoor ride to start the day…feel pretty crappy this morning and I know it’s from not eating enough after all of the turmoil from yesterday…and I need to cook today with doing a chicken stir fry and then ham soup tomorrow so I I’ll have food for a few days…and I’m going to eat out of the freezer until it’s clear enough to clean it since it’s been months since I’ve done that…I need to get everything done before 10am when Man U plays so that means I need to get off my butt and get going soon…but I need coffee first…had way too much of that yesterday with still drinking it at 2pm and that might be part of why I feel like crap…didn’t get much done yesterday and the coffee is going to have to carry me if I’m going to get much done today…going to toast a bagel before I get on the weight work and I do need to have an orange at some point since I still have 4 pounds of them and I don’t want to waste food…not much to do today…just need to get started and that looks like a hard task right now…more later…

Well…today started out really sucky when discount Tire refused to balance my tires since they were 10 years old and they have a rule that they don’t touch tires that are that old…it doesn’t matter that there is no weather cracking or any other problem with the tires…I mean they still have 2/3rds of the tread left and there is no way I’m throwing away tires that are still fine…so I found an independent tire shop a couple of miles from me owned by a guy named Chuck who looked at the tires and laughed since they are in such good shape…his shop is old school with no lift but just floor jacks on the apron in front of the place…and that took me back to hanging out in those kinds of places when I was a kid…an old converted gas station that the smell took me back to when I was a teenager…and he did only the two that didn’t have weights on them but said they were pretty bad and took a lot of weight…and two tires only cost me 30 bucks when discount wanted 30 bucks each…and the car was smooth on the way home…so if I need to have the other two balanced Check said to just give him a call and he’ll get it done…that is how business should be run…no overhead or scheduling, just good value for service…thanks, Chuck…

Well…that kind of sucked…woke up at 4:03 this morning but was able to get a little more sleep and out of bed a little before 5am…so, I’m going to be dragging later but still want to get out for and outdoor ride since it’s going to be in the 50’s and I may even be able to wear shorts…it’s only 35 here right now and that is just frickin wrong for May…I may have to make some extra coffee this morning to have some to take with me to get the tires balanced on the car…haven’t made any pour over coffee in a while and I think that’s going to happen today…need to hit the grocery store after the car work since I forgot carrots and want to make ham soup this weekend…so I need to take the bones out of the freezer this morning…have chicken in the fridge to do another stir fry and that may be today…but I have 4 lbs of pasta that I got last week for a buck a box and that would make an easy meal today…and I still have lots of breaded chicken patties to make sandwiches and I need to use up the free head of lettuce I got last week before it spoils…don’t have anything do to on the yard after getting the weed killer down yesterday but we do need some rain that is not going to happen til Tuesday…oh, well….more later…

Well…after skipping the weight work today, my well developed sense of guilt wouldn’t let me skip two parts of my workout so I dragged the long johns out, suited up, and got 13 miles in…it was cold but I had my insulated work gloves on instead of the riding ones so my hands were okay…I’m hoping that this was the last ride in the 40’s until next fall but with how cold it’s been this spring, I’m not holding my breath…I did see some turkeys and deer today and that was fun…I did get some yard work done and got the weed killer on to keep them at bay for at least a couple of weeks…it’s supposed to rain a bit over the next couple of days and it’s even getting to almost 60 tomorrow so I can get a ride in wearing shorts…I do have to be at discount at 9:15 tomorrow morning to get the tired balance and I hope that the last time until I wear these out…just want some time to enjoy the car…time to read…

Well…it now appears that 5:23 is the new wake up time and I wonder if I should just accept that or keep trying to reach the goal of 6am to get out of bed? Probably not since all that does is cause me stress…I did sleep kinda okay last night and it does feel good to get things done around here…today is going to be a little easier with just the normal stuff and hitting the yard with weed killer again since the damn things are all over again…oh, well…I’m really sore from the string trimmer and mowing yesterday and I can’t remember the last time my forearms hurt from yard work…and that pain includes my hands that are not used to that abuse…I did get an outdoor ride in yesterday and I’m going to try to do that again today but the high is only going to be 51 and that is the lower limit of what my hands will take in the riding gloves…I did buy some chicken yesterday and am thinking of making another stir fry with the added mushrooms and green pepper that I got yesterday…I do have one last pizza in the freezer that take those same ingredients so that might be an option for the weekend instead of the ham soup I was planning…but I bought celery for that so I guess I’ll do lots of cooking this weekend…not much to do today…just the normal stuff I need to get on right now since it’s 6am and I don’t want to get behind for the day…more alter…

Well…when I go my new car, it really felt like a car that had been sitting for a long while…it didn’t run right and the clutch was so hard to get a smooth take off and it made the shifter very notchy…but lately, all that has changed after I worked on bleeding the clutch, putting a new set of spark plugs in it and hitting it with injector cleaner…all of that has come together to make the car a lot of fun…have been tearing around just behaving like a nut…now I can just drive it and enjoy it without having to think about what needs to be done to fix it…pretty cool…it’s been a busy day today with getting the indoor stuff done, doing the grocery run, mowing the lawn, and getting an outdoor ride in that was cold but fun…I did get some chicken at aldis that I’m going to use to make another batch of stir fry using some mushrooms and green pepper I got at aldis, too…only spent about 30 bucks this week even with the 12 bucks worth of chicken and I am still amazed how cheap it is when you’re not having cocktails…so now it’s time to go back to reading and to start thinking about meals starting tomorrow…probably some ham soup to go with the stir fry…but then I’d better take the ham bones out of the freezer..