Well…up at 4:14 and out of bed by 5:40 and I’m on the first cup of coffee that needs to work right now…we did get 5 inches of snow overnight so I’ll be out shoveling after I get the weight work and rides in…had an okay day yesterday and finally finished the 641 page Robert Ludlum book that took days and days to read and now I’m back into a Dean Koontz that should be a faster read…pretty damn worn out today and it would be nice to have a day off but that’s just not me…not sure what I’m going to do today but Man U plays at 7 and that is going to make me late for getting my work done…I did make whole bean coffee this morning and I can even taste it a little so I’ll take it…I wonder what would happen if I just sat here for a bit? Probably die but I’m not ready for that yet….okay, time to get the weight work started…more later…

Well…in the time that I’ve been gone from here, I finally got my partial dentures 3 weeks ago and I’m finally getting used to them…still can’t talk for crap but I just need practice for that and I don’t get any being alone all the time…think I’ll go back to reading aloud since the only way to train my mouth is by talking and I read all the time so that does help…over the past couple of days I’ve even been able to chew hard stuff like pretzels with no pain…they replaced the molars that were lost to infection and it is nice to have molars again and to not have to chew so carefully…still can’t taste anything so that is the next thing I’ll address at my yearly checkup in the spring…

Well…since it really hasn’t started to snow yet, I decided to run an errand to get the egg noodles I need to make turkey soup in a couple of days…and with the snow coming in, I won’t be able to get out of here until mid week next week…the computer on the car has gradually started to reset itself after I took the battery cable off Wed…it didn’t stall but the idle is still pretty rough but that should get better as I drive it more…already have the weight work and one ride done and I will get back on the bike after the F1 sprint race that comes on at 9…not sure if I’m going to do anything the rest of the day but the kitchen does need some work…I guess we’ll see…more later…

Well…it’s been 2 months since I had to do one of these as soon as I got up and I didn’t remember how hard it is to get my brain working this early…had a good day yesterday but didn’t get anything done but some reading and shoveling the snow off the walks…and that will probably be the only work I get done today with the 6-10 inches of snow that is in the forecast…it’s not even December and the winter crap starts…and I’m nowhere near the acceptance that I get as the winter drags on…oh, well…up and out of bed at 5:26 today and that is a bit too early for me…but it’s been the pattern for quite a while so I guess I have to get used to it…need to get on the weight work in a few minutes to get my day started and I don’t want to…my bp was through the roof this morning so I’m going to take it again before I start on the coffee…just reading, riding the bike, and cleaning on the agenda today…and that seems like too much work right now…more later…

Well…while I was doing the second ride downstairs this morning, it dawned on me that I was close to my yearly record in miles for the indoor bike…and I actually went past it yesterday…the record was 3,151 miles and the total for the year is 3,180 and I still have a month to ride…so that means I’ll get maybe another 3-400 miles in and that will get me to about 8,500 miles for the year…not too bad for an old guy…I know I’ve been pretty lucky with my health after the cancer and I really may be able to get to 80 riding my bike…

Well…it’s been almost two months to the day that my site went down and it’s going to take a while to get back in the swing of things…going to have to start reading about politics again and I’m not sure if I like that a whole lot…it really has been quite pleasant to not have to think about deadlines or topics but I sure did miss it…when I get an idea, there was no place to go with it…so now there is again and I’ll need to turn that part of my brain back on…it looks like we are under a winter storm warning for tomorrow with 5 inches of snow forecast…it looks like I won’t be able to not drive the car in the salt but they never put any on the roads up here anyway…just like they never plow them…I forgot to shovel the driveway when I went out and did the walks today…and I know I’ll be shoveling the alley if I want to get out for groceries next Wed and I can use the exercise…and it’s not getting out of the 30’s for highs for all of Dec so I guess I’ll have to get used to the cold a little faster….

Well…I did mention that I had a tree fall on my power line and ripped it off the side of the house starting a small fire and melting some of the vinyl siding…I was downstairs on the bike and it went black so I came running up the stairs to hear the loud crackling from the resulting electrical short…the power line was on the ground smoking so I called 911 and all kinds of police, fire, and Consumers energy trucks showed up…and of course it was a cold, raining Sunday when this happened so getting anyone to come out and fix it was going to wait at least a day…but all of the electrical folks who I called Monday said they were all busy and it would be two weeks before they could come out…but then I discovered an unlikely company..Service Professor…who came right out and started working on it but after he was done, consumers had to come back and do the last connection and there were trips to the city hall for permits and all kinds of other bullshit…cost 2,700 bucks that insurance covered 2,450 when I have a 1,000 dollar deductible…still can’t figure that out…oh, well

As you know, I bought a new Miata back on May 2nd and it hasn’t been as reliable as the old one…first the cd changer stopped working and couldn’t be fixed…then the driver’s side front brake caliper froze up and I had to replace it…only paid 70 bucks and it took about an hour to replace…then, last week the passenger side did the same thing so I had to replace that one that was only 63 bucks from Amazon…and it only took me 45 minutes start to finish…then Wed, while I was cooking the turkey on the grill, I decided to check out the slow starting and found that the positive battery cable was completely loose…and I’m hoping that the small amount of contact it was making was not charging the battery enough…so I tightened that up…the car was idling pretty rough so I had to figure out how to change the spark plugs which ended up being pretty easy and it made a huge difference…so after I tightened the battery cable I started the car and it immediately stalled but then fired right up like normal after that…I think the computer now has to learn everything again but I guess we’ll see after I drive it next but that won’t be till next week with the 5 inches of snow we’re getting tomorrow…back for a political one in a minute…

Well…it’s been a couple of months but my son finally got my site up and running again…and I’ve got to reset the way the site looks since the theme I was using is no longer there…so I’ll be fooling around with that for the next couple of weeks…it has been way too long since I’ve3 been able to talk about my life and things that have and are happening…a branch took out my power line and set the side of my house on fire…okay want to go out and see what the site looks like after I post…okay, resetting the themes is going to take a while…I did get my partial dentures a few weeks back and I’m still learning how to talk with them in but I don’t talk much so that is going to be a long process…think I’ll have to start reading out loud or I’ll never be understandable…one thing that came with hearing myself speak with these things in, I can pick out all the people on tv who are also wearing them…okay…need to do a car one…more later…

Well…it feels a little weird to be able to come here and do this again but I relish getting my day started the right way again…slept okay last night but feel a little worn out today and I think it’s from not eating enough…again…and I don’t think I’ll fix that even though I’ve got a freezer full of food…have some thighs left to just heat but I’m not sure what the 2nd meal will be…might make some stir fry chicken or Meijers has some pasta salad kits on sale for a buck so I may take a look at those today…it’s only 55 out there right now so it’s going to be a cool one on the bike today but I’m not sure if that means long pants on the bike today…I do need to clean the glass on the car again since the windshield is still streaky and I don’t think I used enough ammonia the last time…it’s a new coffee day today and I think I’m going to start using the 6+ pounds of whole beans I have for a while to make the next pot…not much to do today…just going to ease into it this morning and read some news since I do need a topic for later….more later….