Well…as you can see, I didn’t come back for another one since my day has been taken up working on the car…on the way to shoot pool out in Ada, I blew a heater hose and dumped all of the coolant out on the ground 10 miles outside of Muskegon…luckily, I had put a gallon of premix in the trunk so I was able to get it back here with just one stop at a car dealership to get some water…then I spent the afternoon trying to find a special hose and found the only one in Muskegon that cost me 23 bucks and lots of work to put the new one in and replace the temporary fix that I needed to do to be able to drive to get the new hose…and the one that split had a two inch long one in it and dumped all of the coolant on the exhaust, causing huge clouds of white smoke that I can still smell….it’s been that kind of day…but I think it’s fixed…after putting the new hose in, I took it out for a drive where I ran it over 70 for a couple of miles…and just went out to check it to make sure it’s not leaking and it appears I have it installed right…but I did burn my right thumb working on the car when it was still hot…okay, I’ll stop complaining now…it appears the car survived the overheating and I may have been quick enough to shut it off when it got hot…this is the second time I’ve replaced this hose…the last time it just started to seep so I could change it before it failed…

Well…damn, I feel worn out today and it’s a lot of work just to do this right now…the good news I got yesterday led to a bit of celebrating last night and I’m feeling it….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but the bike ride but I don’t think I’m riding today with the pain that came with it…might try to ride downstairs but I can still feel the damage from yesterday and that makes me a little hesitant….I was really hoping that it would rain this morning and it would clean the salt out of the car but it looks like it is moving out and dry…not quite warm enough to put the top down for the run out to Ada today but I’ll get it down next week with the warm up that is coming…going out to shoot pool today and I’m looking forward to that…not sure when the last time was and I have to remember to take the quarters I have in the bowl in my bedroom…it’s a 100 mile round trip and the car can use some mileage on it…I’m not dying! That was the the takeaway from talking to the urologist yesterday and I don’t think I thought I ever was…just had a feeling that things were going to be okay and it’s nice to be right…not much to do today…just the run out to shoot pool and then back here to just veg out the day….it’s mug shot day for the idiot boy but I’ll be on the road while that happen…darn…more later…

Well…the results are in from my biopsy I had Friday…the urologist called me this afternoon and told me that while they did find some cancer cells in one sample, it’s as low an amount that you can have and still consider it cancer…so no aggressive stuff and I have the lowest Gleason score you can get…that’s how they measure cancer of the prostate…but she does want to see what the hard spot is so she is scheduling an MRI in a couple of months to take a look at it and then we’ll see if it needs treatment or if I’m at the watch and wait stage….I think that rates a cocktail for tonight….

Well…just can’t get my head into political mode today but I will keep trying as the day goes on…made the mistake of leaving my glasses on when I walked into the bathroom today, and that resulted in me cleaning the whole thing including the shower…and today is the second day off the bike and I don’t mind…I will be back on it to do an outside ride tomorrow or two since it’s supposed to be in the mid 50’s so I’ll be out in shorts, too, but not til later in the day…I did switch back to the electric toothbrush today with no pain from it and I really like how clean my teeth are…I was pretty apprehensive when I started it but now it’s okay…going to stay with only one meal a day from now on and that might get me to my goal of 160 pounds by the end of summer….and I really don’t miss the extra food…more later….

Well…what a waste of a night…watched, or tried to watch the new “Avatar” movie and just got bored with it before the end…no movie should be three hours long…had an okay day yesterday but took it easy and didn’t do much but plant some tomato seeds that had sprouted in the wet paper towels and need to plant the few green pepper seeds that are ready…put a bunch of new Jalapeno and green pepper seeds in since I didn’t have any survive last year….looks like I’m going to have enough beans this year with already having 4 up and planting a bunch that have sprouted a few days ago…I may put some of the yellow ones in paper towel today to ensure I have a few of those, too…I really do need to clean the bathroom today but I’m not feeling it right now…woke up this morning at around 6:15 but I couldn’t get out of bed til a little after 7 and I’m feeling pretty worn out…and my right elbow is hurting for some reason…damn I’m old…I sure wish I could get on the bike today since it’s going to  be warm enough to ride outdoors today and the sun is shining…damn, I may try to go out since I don’t hurt from the biopsy…my daughter sent me a 76 page document on prostate cancer and I’m more concerned now that I’ve read it…there doesn’t appear to be any good outcomes from treatment and my life is going to suck after it….oh, well…not much to do today…still on the one meal strategy that I think will be permanent until I get down to 160 pounds and I think I’ll need to lose 10 more to get there…and that will be 40 pounds down from a year ago and I guess that should be something to celebrate but I don’t feel like that right now…more later…

Well…no, I’m not going to do a groan inducing April fool’s joke but I didn’t just want to do another one with “got some work done” title…it’s been an okay day today and haven’t had any pain from the biopsy yesterday so I’ll take that…I may try to get on the bike Monday since it’s going to be 54 and I need to get outside…we’ll see…it’s a weird coincidence that I was running out of shavers and got three coupons in the little paper for 3 bucks off the ones I use so that will be half price and I’ll fill my stock back up that will last me a year or so…and I have a 3 buck coupon for Bounty that Meijers has on sale so I can get 6 mega rolls for 8 bucks and that’s not a bad deal…I did have a bunch of tomato seeds sprout in the wet paper towel I had them in so I may have enough if they all come up..already have a couple that came up in the dirt so I should have a dozen or so to plant…had to open a new pack of green pepper seeds since the old ones weren’t sprouting and I want to have at least 6 plants this year…it looks like I’ll have enough beans this year since I have 6 plants up and have a few more that I planted yesterday…I could use a dozen plants since I love fresh green beans…and I have a new type of beans that I planted 8 of…might have to extend the garden to take all the new stuff I am just going to plant and not start them ahead of time…another 4 feet should do it…okay, I’m done for the day…going to watch the three and a half hour “Avatar” movie and that should cover the whole night…

Well…darn, running late today with not getting out of bed til 7 or so but that means I slept all night and I’ll take it…but, with having cocktails for the first time this week last night, I feel a little slow this morning but I can have coffee and that will help…it’s a little strange to not be able to get on the bike today but it is freeing too….it opens up my day and I can do whatever I want at whatever pace I want but I don’t want to get used to that…I need the discipline that riding gives me and I like that I’ve lost a lot of weight from it, too….even with the biopsy yesterday, I had a good day but damn, it was really weird and I hope I don’t have to go through that again…I’ve been lucky to get to my age with no health problems and I’d like that to continue…but I know there is treatment of some sort in my future and I wonder what that will be….hmmmm….man, I’m hungry this morning and I never feel that way…for as long as I can remember, food has been fuel to me and nothing more…I do have asparagus to steam for today’s meal and I am looking forward to that…I know I’m going to have to make a noise call today on the drug dealers house today and that is a pain in the butt…ha, that’s funny after the biopsy yesterday….not much to do today….going to just take it easy today and watch some soccer and F1 qualifying….more later…

Well…that was a little unpleasant but the biopsy is done and now I wait to find out if it’s going to kill me or not…should be on mychart next week some time…I do like my doctor and the rest of the people at UM…we even had some laughs during the procedure…yeah, I’m weird…they had music playing during it and when “Maggie May” by Rod Stewart came on the nurse assisting started to since along to it…pretty damn surreal….but nice

Well…it’s a 4:56 morning this morning and I knew there was no point in even trying to sleep again so here I am….pretty worn out this morning and I’m not having coffee since that raises my blood pressure and I can’t have that for the biopsy this afternoon…but I have half a pot for when I get back here but it will be weird to drink it in the afternoon….and I’ve been without cocktails all week to try to help the bp, too, and that will be ended today when I get the news on the UM mychart page later today that I have cancer….had a good day yesterday with doing 24 miles on the indoor bike on the way to 1,000 miles today…I did look up when I got to 1k last year and it wasn’t until April 30th and I was able to go on to the record of 6,109 miles for a year….not going to get anywhere near that with all the time off the bike this year but I may be able to get to 4K…and I can’t get on the bike for a week after the biopsy but we’ll see about that…the pain will dictate that….so, I need 12 miles this morning but will do 16 or two rides….it may storm this afternoon and that will be cool to see but then it’s cold again and I am getting damn tired of that….not much to do today…just going to watch F1 practice and then on the bike by 7…and then head out for the biopsy at 12:40 or so since I have to be there by 1….more later…

well..yeah, don’t have a political one right now but I wanted to get another one done before I get back on the bike for the third indoor ride of the day….only have 20 miles left to go to get to 1,000 before April 1st so that will leave me 12 to do tomorrow morning but I’ll do 16…was going to go outdoors for the third ride today but it is not going to be warm enough to get out before the Tigers play on opening day and I always try to see at least opening day…I used to be a huge baseball fan but the Tigers have been so bad for so long that they have cured me of it…I still want to see it so I need to have everything done by 3….have already gotten lunch cooked and cleaned up and the ham was a really good one…I like the cheap Meijers hams…they are so tender and tasty and I made mashed potatoes and gravy and I used chicken broth for extra liquid for that….it gave the gravy a unique flavor that I really like…even ran an errand out to Ollies to get a new beach towel and got a huge, 100% cotton one for 6.99 so that was a deal…now I can retire the one I’ve been using for 25 years….I’ll try to come back for a political one later but need to get on the bike first…