Well…feel pretty lousy this morning and it is just the same as I felt yesterday and I’m not sure what the heck is going on…everything hurts so I will be taking an ibuprofen later…have no damn energy and I’m sure it’s from being under 1K calories for the day the past few…have even skipped my morning bagel for 3 days now and I’ll have to change that today if I’m going to have the energy to do anything…it does feel good to have figured out the bike computer problems and I’ll be using the new one today…not sure what I’m going to do with the spare old one but I’ll figure it out…it’s after 6am and I am running late today since I should have the weight work done already and at least one cup of coffee down but I just can’t get moving…we had a weird little storm come through yesterday with winds of 60mph that lasted about 5 minutes and then it just turned into a rainstorm and we can use that…but it’s not helping my lawn at all…oh, well…need to make some food today and I think it will be one of the 4 cheese pizzas in the freezer so I can use up the green pepper and red onion I have in the fridge…and I need to make another batch of pickled red onions and pickles and that will get done this afternoon…not much to do today…just need to get something done and force myself to get going right now but I think I’ll have another cup of coffee and the bagel first…more later…

Well…after fiddling with the new bike computer with little success, I got an e-mail from the manufacturer clarifying how things have changed from my old one to this one and now it’s ready to go…and I’m pretty geeked…it was really nice for them to get back to me this quickly to support a 25 buck computer…I really like my new 10 buck power pack that I bought to charge things when traveling or during power outages…I’ve had it hooked up to my mp3 player for 3 weeks without charging it and it’s barely come off 100% charged…and that’s almost 53 hours of running and my other aux battery would last two days before it needed to be charged…I wonder how long this thing will go before recharging…100 hours? 200 hours? For 10 bucks that’s a screaming deal…I did take coffee out on the bike for the 2nd ride again and I am starting to like the boost it gives me for the 6.5 miles coming home…and I do like the Hills Bros coffee beans I tried so I’ll be getting more of them and figuring out how to store them to keep them fresh…and 11 bucks for 32ozs is not a big investment to try them…who knows…you might like them…

Well…did the 2 rides without a computer this morning so I’ll have to remember to add that 25 miles to the total…still having some problems setting the new one up but it will work for what I want and that is just speed and mileage…and, after I removed the old one and could get a close look at it, I found the problem in the wire to the sensor so I can repair that and have a spare computer…but it does look pretty shabby (like me) so having a nice new one without splices is cool…and the odometer works on the new one so it will keep track of mileage up to 10K miles instead of using the trip function to record them…it was okay to ride without a computer this morning but I kept looking down to a blank display and that was a little weird…not sure why having the computer die caused me so much stress but that gives me something to work on…

Well…up and running at 5:31 this morning and slept okay I guess but I stayed up late trying to tire myself out and that didn’t help…oh, well…the new coffee beans I bought are growing on me so I just might buy a couple more bags before the price goes nuts…I wonder how long you can store sealed coffee bags before the beans go stale? Have 2 full and 3 opened bags right now so I may need to look for some containers to put them in…got the new tires for the bike yesterday and I like them…they actually have tread on them and I got tubes with them and two sets of the bands that go around the rims to cover the ends of the spokes that normally cost about 10 bucks each and two tubes that are 8.99 locally…and all of this cost 34 bucks when the tires I’ve used for years cost around 30 bucks for one tire…so it looks like a bargain but I’m going to use up the tires on it first before I put the new ones on and try them…and that won’t be til late summer…down to the last book that I should finish up today so I can take 8 books back…not going to get that many this time and I am going to try some new authors to broaden my available books so I don’t run out…not much to do today…skipping the grocery run this week since I really don’t need anything and the freezer is full anyway…going to make a pizza tomorrow and with the stir fry I made the other day, I’ll have meals to last til Sunday..okay, need to get on the weight work…more later…

Well…darn, my bike computer died after the first ride today and for the first time, I can’t fix it…so I ordered the exact same one but instead of 18 bucks, it is now 25 bucks but I guess it should have gone up after tariffs and inflation..I looked at others but came back to the Cat Eye 7 since I already know how to program it and I know the battery lasts a couple of years…all of the others I looked at use GPS to measure speed instead of a sensor on the wheels and they all said that trees, buildings, and fog can make it stop reading and that describes my rides every day…and I don’t want to have a cloud account where they have all of my information about my rides and you need to download a smartphone app to be able to program the damn things…so, I guess I’ll stay old school as I have the past 7 years…and that is pretty damn good for an 18 buck computer…and the new one will be here today between 5 and 10pm so I can install it for tomorrow’s rides…might even go down and do an indoor ride so I only lose 5 miles today…

Well…just poured the first cup of the cheap bean coffee and I really think it tastes like coffee…yeah, I really can’t say much more than that with how little I can taste…and I am reluctant to recommend anything anymore because of it….but 11 bucks for 32 ozs of coffee is cheap in this environment…I mean the last ground coffee I bought was 11 bucks for 35 ozs but that is now 21 dollars…and, from what I can tell, this doesn’t taste worse so I’ll probably buy at least one more bag…damn, it appears I’m not meant to sleep at all anymore since I took a benadryl before bed last night and was still up before 4am…I was able to get back to sleep for a while after that so I guess that’s something…it rained really hard this morning and it just started again so the rides are going to wait a bit but it’s the only thing I have to do today…and overnight it was raining so hard that it woke me up even though I had earplugs in…it stayed 70 overnight so I could leave the windows open for the first time this year…I am glad that I got the lawn mowed yesterday since there is going to be rain on and off for the next couple of days and it was getting pretty ugly…it’s still ugly and will be unless it rains every couple of days and that is not going to happen…don’t have to cook today other than making some more pickled red onions and maybe some pickles…okay, I do think this coffee is good and it has a good jolt of caffeine so I’ll take it…more later…

Well…got the new HiIls Bros beans today and just ground enough to set them up in the coffee maker for tomorrow morning…first impression is that they are good looking beans but might not smell as strongly as the other beans I’ve used…normally after I grind beans and put them in the coffee maker, I can smell them whenever I walk into the kitchen but these only have a whiff of scent…but they are a dark roast Arabica bean and should be okay…and at 1/3rd the price of the 8 0’clock beans, I sure can live with them…after I drink some tomorrow, we’ll see if I order more of them to make sure I’m insulated from the price increases that are on the way…I’ll bet they’ll be up to 20+ bucks later in the week…

Well…got a notification that both the Hills Bros coffee beans and the tires I ordered yesterday are going to be here today…and I am really curious how the beans will taste when I grind some to make tomorrow’s coffee…how bad can it be? 64 ounces of beans for 22 bucks is a screaming deal after the price increases on everything else…but I’ll still use them if they are terrible…what else could I do? I really think that Hills Bros didn’t get to a be a hundred year old company by making crap…maybe making stuff to a budget but again, CDS is all I need since I can’t taste anything…so I’ll have coffee for the rest of the summer easily…and I’ll have new tires to replace the set that is on the bike now when they wear out…need to make lunch with the last of the chicken taco ingredients so I can do a stir fry later today…man it’s been busy today with the rides, paying the water bill, mowing the lawn and making a run for two reasons, I wanted to get two more English cukes to make pickles and a red onion to make more pickled onions…and I love driving my car with the top down and just tearing around in it…every day the shifter gets better and the clutch takeup, too…just fun…

Well…I don’t know how much worse my seep has to get before I resort to taking something for it…stayed up til 11 last night but out of bed at 4:30 and that gives me a baseline of 5 1/2 hours but with all the tossing and turning and waking up, it was more like 3 hours and I’m not young enough to take that anymore…ick…it’s going to be a busy morning today with getting two rides in, paying the water bill, and then mowing the lawn before the rain comes in later…ha,ha..yeah, every rain forecast makes me laugh since I know it’s not going to rain…after having a tire fail yesterday and seeing that a new one that I use costs at least 26 bucks online, I changed how I’m looking at tires and wanted to get some that had some tread on them and would last the rest of the year…and I found a deal on amazon for 2 tires, 2 tubes, tube protectors and changing tools for 34 bucks…and buying just the tires and tubes locally would cost 70 bucks so I thought I’d give them a try…and I just got a notice that the Hills Bros coffee beans I ordered have shipped so I’ll be able to try those in a few days to see if I need to order more…it’s warm enough to go out in a t-shirt and shorts as soon as the sun come up so I need to get moving…yeah, I know…that sucks at 5:20 in the morning…one of these days I’m not going to “get moving” and just take a day off…yeah, that made me laugh, too…more later…