Well…damn, what a sucky day yesterday…and I am so mad at myself for bowing to the depression it caused and having a cocktail last night….had a house to the northeast of me thump their damn music all day yesterday and had to call in a noise complaint twice since they played the asshole game of stopping after the first time until the officers left and started right back up again so I had to call again…and I am pissed about that and I am going to make it my mission to get these idiots fined if they keep it up….and that is just so depressing considering it’s not even warm enough to have the windows open and it was so damn annoying already….and that’s the problem with having so many rentals up here…people moving in and out and every time someone new moves in they start this crap…and they don’t give a damn about this neighborhood at all….okay, that’s enough bitching for the day…I did find that I can replace the bottom corners of my front gate with bolt on ones so I can replace the rusted out bottom frame piece and it will only cost about 20 bucks to fix instead of 100 bucks to replace the gate…but that will wait until I have the bedroom done…and I’m running out of time and will need to start on the lawn here soon with the grass starting to grow….it’s the last big dust day today as I sand all of the repairs in the bedroom and I’ve already taken an ibuprofen to get ahead of the pain that I know is going to start as soon as I do…but I am not getting on the indoor bike today since I am going to be able to get outside to ride after I finish the bedroom….it’s hard to make the transition to riding outdoors without guilt that I’m not getting on the indoor bike but I need to remember that it has only been a substitute for real riding and I don’t have to ride it if I can get out…damn, my brain is working too hard today already…and I think I’m going to run out of fuel with only having one meal of a chicken leg quarter and a potato yesterday…and 600 calories is just not going to cut it….I need a reset…more later….

Well…damn, Sunday is supposed to be my day off and it sure doesn’t feel like it…after having coffee this morning, I got right after the work I needed to do in the bedroom…got the window painting finished, patched the spots that I missed on the wall, and re-hung the door so it will help control the dust I’m going to make tomorrow…and hanging the door made me think about the stupid hinges that I bought the other day that have a special tool you need to use to hammer the pins out so you can remove the door without taking the hinges off…it was so easy hanging the door with the old hinges…just lift it into place an put the pins in…no vice grips, no hammer, no special punch, no nothing and it only took about a minute….still shaking my head at that….but it only took about 10 minutes total for everything so I declare that it doesn’t count as work…and I did get out on the bike for 13 miles today and it was nice to get out for one…I am still amazed how different it is to ride outdoors than inside and how the work done inside really doesn’t transfer to outside…I mean, I’ve done almost 700 miles inside and it feels like I’ve done nothing when I get outside…oh, well..it was just nice to get the bike out again…rain the next two days…ick…

Well…I finally have birds coming to my feeder and it is pretty cool but very loud as they peck at the food I’ve put in my windowsill and bang on the feeder….have the biggest darn bluejay I’ve ever seen that has been coming for the past few days and that thing is so big it barely fits on the feeder and it scares the other birds away when it comes in…but, even that huge bird was chased off by a Redwing Blackbird the other day and I know they are pretty aggressive birds having been attacked by them when riding by their nests in the spring…well…not attacked but they fly down and peck at my hat for some reason and I find it funny after I got used to it…the Grackles have even found the feeder and they eat in packs…when I have 6 of them on the sill and feeder it is pretty loud but fun to see….had a red bellied woodpecker on the feeder last week that I thought was a Northern Flicker and I’m not sure why I thought that…but, I thought the Grackles were Starlings so I guess it’s pretty easy to make mistakes…even had a Chickadee on the feeder but still no sparrows and I think that is still weird….but it may be the Grackles are scaring them away there are so many of them and they are pretty big birds…need to figure out where to hang the hummingbird feeder this summer to try to lure some of them in and give me something to watch…will probably put the hanger outside the same window so I can see it when I’m doing this….not sure if I’ll keep the window feeder up all summer but it doesn’t cost much and I’m sure the birds can use an easy food source even with all of the natural food out here…for a long time, I didn’t think I’d get one bird on the feeder so it is cool to have them finally find it…

Well…that was okay…slept through until almost 6 and feel okay this morning other than I hurt everywhere but I guess that comes with working hard and getting old….but today is my day off! Not really…still have some work to do on the window and a couple of spots of the plaster to fill to get ready for sanding day tomorrow…and I need to re-hang the door to help contain the dust but all of that is at most 45 minutes of work so that’s cool….I do want to get out on the bike if it every warms up enough but that looks like it won’t happen until this afternoon and it will still only be in the high 40’s so that will mean thermasuit and gloves and it’s almost halfway through April…and we’re getting a few days of 50’s this week and then back into the 40’s again and I suppose I shouldn’t bitch too much since it is keeping the lawn from growing as I try to finish the interior before I have to spend hours on the yard…need to start planning what I want in the garden this year and I think it will be more beans and less tomatoes…and more green peppers since I’d like to make some stuffed green peppers this year….and I still need to make the border around it and that needs to be done before I start prepping the soil…week after next? Not much to do today…just the little bit of work in the bedroom and then some time off and need to start thinking of food for the week but that will be kinda solved with a big spiral sliced ham that I’m buying wed that should feed me for a week or so….and it looks like the leftovers will time out perfectly but that means I’ll need to cook wed and need to plan for that…but right now, I need more coffee and to read some news to come up with a bunch of topics since I am behind for the month….more later….

Well..crap…woke up this morning with the blotchy rash I had when I was working on the kitchen all over me again…and I’m pretty sure that it is from all of the dust I have been exposed to working on the bedroom and I still have two days more of dust eating to do to get it ready to paint….I am a little reluctant to take the flonase I’ve been using to control the allergies since I wonder if that has something to do with it? This is just what I need with already beating the hell out of my body just trying to get the work done and I don’t want to take any time off for the rash to go away especially when I’m not sure that the dust is the cause…it makes sense but until I have a doctor out here, I won’t be able to know for sure and that isn’t going to happen until I have my work done…and I put in almost 7 hours today with sanding the two door frames, the window, and the rest of the baseboards and then putting two coats of paint on the window and frames…I am so beat up that I am glad I have tomorrow off other than hanging the door…I did attach the shop vac to the sander to try to control the dust but that meant I had to shake out the filter bag a dozen times with it plugging up in about 5 minutes of usage…but better to have that dust outdoors than in for sure…but now, I’m taking the rest of the day off…just beat and sore and I’ve done enough….might be more later if I can find a topic….

Well…this is going to be an ugly morning with not sleeping at all last night and I have about 12 minutes to get on the bike with Man U playing at 7:30 that I want to see…yesterday was a little bit of a disappointing day with only getting the door frames sanded and filled and then waiting for the filler to dry and waiting, and waiting until I was just done working for the day and it was still not dry….so that leaves me with all of the trim to sand today and eating a lot of dust….don’t know why I’m rushing so much to get the sanding done since I’ll have a couple of weeks after I paint the trim to paint the rest of the room….so I guess I’ll finish up the bathroom next week…don’t seem to be as sore today but that will change after I work and I do need to take something for it before I get to working…it looks like it may be warm enough to ride outside tomorrow so it looks like it won’t be a day off like I really need and I do need to hang the door, too, but that should only take a few minutes….not much to do today…just need to get started right now and then power through the day but I sure don’t feel like it right now…don’t even have time to have coffee before the bike and that is going to suck…..more later….