Well…up and down all night and a good part of it is that I couldn’t get comfortable with all the pain in my neck and back…an it is getting old that everything I do causes enough pain to be uncomfortable…oh, well…didn’t sleep well but I was expecting that with being good last night since I have a dentist appointment at 8:30…I do want to get a ride in before that so I’ll need to be out of here by 6:45…that does give me enough time to pour down two cups of coffee if I get on it right now…it felt good to finally get the door frame on the garage painted and now I have the one on the back of the house to do…not sure if it will be today, though, with the possibility of rain…the radar has the rain over in Wisconsin but I’m sure it will fall apart before it gets here…got down into the 50’s last night and it’s still there so the ride will be cool to start the day but that’s okay…maybe it will wake me up…going to try to treat my back with biofreeze before I go out…one weird thing…after I spaded the front walks last week,I haven’t had any pain in my right thumb and I can move it better…I wonder if I broke some adhesions and scar tissue in it…I’ve had constant pain in it since I hurt it 15 years ago so this is welcome…not much to do today…just the rides and dentist and then I’ll wing the rest of the day…at least two more rides and maybe I’ll do the prep work of the back door…we’ll see…more later…

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Well…when I was out on the third ride today, my neck and left shoulder started howling pain at me and I could barely move my neck to look for cars…it seems be a little better now but it’s the same spot I hurt 6 weeks ago and it’s just not healing…darn…started out the day by getting on the bike for the first ride at 7am and then straight into ride two…home for a shower and then over to the library to return and pick up three more books…the back here and got on the bike for the third ride…then a quick lunch and out to work on the door frame of the walk in door that had started to crack and peel…so after I scraped an sanded it, I decided to paint it,too and finished that up around 2:30…after that I still had the weight work to do and got that done before dinner…so now it’s almost 7 and I think I’ll stop now and watch a little tv…I did race a cruise ship back to the docks and beat him by a mile…the ferry is much faster…

Well…up at 4:44 this morning but laid there in bed until around 6 and now I need to get going to get the rides started before 7…for the fist time since I injured it 15 years ago, my right thumb didn’t hurt at all last night and I can’t figure that out…have been slathering it with voltaren every night for a year but today it’s just a little stiff…weird…it looks like no rain for another week so the lawn is gone for another year and that sucks since it was really coming in…oh, well…I do need to hit the library after the rides this morning to get a few more books…don’t have to cook today after grilling the chicken legs and pork loin fillets yesterday but I do have to do some meal planning to figure out what has to come out of the freezer…I do have some pork chops in there and I may take them out and try the second marinade I got a few weeks back…I did get some yard work done while I was grilling yesterday but I won’t have to mow this week with no rain…not much to do today…no cocktails for me tonight with a dentist appointment tomorrow and that will be good for me and I am looking forward to a day off…just what I need…the banner at the bottom of the screen says “very high pollen” and my allergies will be killer today…more later…

Well…damn, I need to get on the bike in 15 minutes and I’m not sure if I can…trying to pour the coffee down to get a jumpstart but that’s not working yet…need to get two rides in before the F1 race at 9am and I am so tired of rushing all the time…and my back hurts like crazy but luckily it doesn’t get worse when I get on the bike…going to have to cook today and I have chicken legs in a marinade along with some 7 oz bacon wrapped pork loins I’m putting on the grill today that will feed me for 3 or 4 days…need something to go with them and I think that will be baked beans and potato salad but need to have the last bowl of potato soup for lunch…I am just so tired today but I need to get going and do my teeth before I ride…it’s only 62 out there so I hope the cool weather will wake me up…not much to do today…just focused on getting the first two rides in and surviving that…and that is no joke with how I feel right now…more later…

Well…after the three rides this morning…I really haven’t done much but my weight work and picking a cuke from my garden to make pickles that I now have in the fridge…and the cuke I picked was just the right size to fill up a quart jar after I sliced it…can’t wait to try them since it really the only way I like cukes…and I have a huge jar of pickling spices that I should use up since they are a year old…I really don’t plan on doing much else today other than watch races that start right now…Indy car qualifying and then the Indy xfinity race from the big oval at Indianapolis so that will take up the day…dang, my back and right side were getting better until I spaded the walks the other day and now it hurts again almost as bad as it did initially…but no ibuprofen…I’ll just live with it as I always do…I had potato salad for breakfast…had to eat something…

Well…damn, I’m feeling old this morning…and I don’t remember being in this much pain in a long, long time…so, do I take an ibuprofen before I get on the bike or not? It’s only 59 degrees out there right now and the only thing I want to do is sit here…but I won’t and that is a little crazy with how I feel….I am going to try to get three rides in before F1 qualifying at 10 but that means I can’t wait much longer to start…didn’t get a lot done yesterday so I need to do some cleaning today and some meal planning and it will all come out of the freezer…took some chicken legs out yesterday and I have a new marinade to try that I got a couple of weeks ago…and that will pair up with the potato salad I made yesterday…and I have baked beans in the pantry that would go with that, too…it hasn’t been too bad up here with the bike event and I’m happy about that…but I am looking forward to it being over…I wonder if I should make this a repair day and only do two rides? I could sure use it but the guilts will prevent that…not much to do today…just damn tired and I need a break…more later…

Well…after all of the work earlier in the week and being so sore from it, I took it easy today and really didn’t do anything but the rides and a trip out to the beach…and I didn’t even swim much since the water was damn cold again and I couldn’t muster the energy to swim in the cold…I did make potato salad and this batch tastes good even though the potatoes were a little oxidized and dark…I did run out to get some more tortillas since I ran out and need to finish up the chicken tacos…have been eating lots of jalapeno in them…probably more spicy food than I’ve eaten in the last year…it was only 51 degrees when I got up so I did the first ride indoors but tomorrow I’ll be able to get right out as soon as I get up with the low only getting down to 62 overnight….okay, I need to reset the tire size on my bike computer since it’s not reading right…will probably adjust the pickup, too just to make sure…

Well…damn, it’s only 52 degrees out there right now and I really don’t want to be that cold so that disrupts my whole day…was planning to get on the bike and get two rides in before I have to run the errand but that is not going to happen…and my back is so sore from the spading that I can barely move…okay, the weather widgit at the bottom of my screen says it’s 51 degrees and there is no way I’m going out when it’s that cold…so I’ll have to re-shuffle my entire day and sit here for a while…so maybe only tow rides today? I could sure use the rest and to just relax my way into the day…just do damn tired..I guess I could go downstairs and get a ride in and I might do that….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks the same but I do need to do some meal planning and get food out of the freezer…not sure what that will be until I look but don’t want to right now…only have about 700 more miles to do to beat my all time record of 6,109 miles and then just another thousand on top of that to get to my goal for the year and I’ll make that easily unless I fall off the bike or have a heart attack…I wonder that the total will be for the year? I may be able to get to 9,000 miles but I think I’ll shift back to only 25 miles a day once I get there…too damn old to keep up this pace…more later…

Well…after all of the work on the yard yesterday, my energy levels were so low this morning that I barely made it through the first two rides and was planning on only doing two to try to start to recover…but after setting the sod around the garage, I felt better and got back on the bike for the third ride…but was finished working by 11:40..and I am so sore from the spading yesterday, I wonder how bad it’s going to be with the second day rule? I guess we’ll see…all of the joints I abused yesterday are just aching right now and I will have to treat them with topicals before I settle in for the night…lots of voltaren on my shoulders and elbows and some biofreeze on my back and neck…need to run an errand in the morning since I ran out of tortillas and still have chicken tacos to make tomorrow…along with the potato salad that I cooked the ingredients for today…I hope this one lasts to the end and doesn’t spoil like the last batch…okay, need to get settling in to watch some good shows tonight…

Well…there comes a time when you need to realize that you can’t do the things you used to be able to do…I am so damn sore from spading the walks yesterday that my hands even hurt enough that I can barely move them…haven’t been this sore in quite a while and I have more work to do today with placing all the sod I cut out at the front of the garage on the bare spots…I guess that’s recycling and I’ve done that before two years ago when I did the first pass at cleaning up the walks…so that means I’m going to be sore again tomorrow and I still need to get 38 miles in on the bike this morning…so that means I have 28 minutes to pour coffee down to jump start this old body…I did go downtown last evening but didn’t stay long…had earplugs in when they started the concert and it was still too loud…I guess I’m getting old…now I just need to hunker down for the next four days and wait for the peace to return…oh, well…not much to do today…just the sod work and filling in a hole by the garage with the dirt that came out of the front…I need a day off…I got sunburned even with 50 sunscreen on yesterday so I’ll skip the beach until next week….more later…