Well…when I was watching the women skating the other day at the Olympics, one of them had “Stairway to Heaven” for their music and I immediately flashed to the perfect music…the combo of “Time” and “The Great Gig in the “Sky” by Pink Floyd came to mind…and they have been running around in it ever since…yeah, you don’t want to be in there…

Well…with the heavy rain we got this morning, I think about 50% of the snow is gone off my lawn and it’s not too soon for me…just got back from another outdoor ride and I extended this one to about 10 miles I was having so much fun…can’t wait to get out on the trails in a month or so…and I’ll get back to 25 mile days and then I can eat two meals a day again…my hands and arms are still pretty sore and I’m going to have to treat my thumb with voltaren again but that should get better after I break the adhesion scars in it…but right now I’m going to start a new book and watch the USA men’s hockey game…

Well…running late with not getting out of bed until almost 6am today but that was by design after not sleeping much for the past couple of weeks…and it’s raining pretty had so I don’t think I’ll be getting an outdoor ride in today…damn, it’s almost 6:30 and I’m just getting to this and that means I won’t be on the bike downstairs until almost 7:30…I did sleep okay with only getting up once at 4am so I guess I’ll take it…just want the coffee to start to work so I can get going and be done with everything by 10 or so…I am curious about how much snow will melt today with all of the rain and the 42 degrees out there right now…and we have one more day of warm weather before it gets back to the 30’s for at least a week…but there is no big snow in the forecast and March is coming…not much to do today…I really should clean the bathroom and I just might substitute that for te outdoor ride…but the rain is supposed to stop this morning so I could get an outdoor ride in this aft…more later…

Well…it got up to 45 degrees again today so I went out and did an hour riding around my little city…it is a great way to see all of the new restaurants…we even have a brand new upscale Mexican place that I may even have to try it out…my hands are hurting pretty badly with all the shifting and using the brakes and that won’t go away until I start getting on the trail around the 3rd week of April…it looks like we have a couple more days of 40’s here and I’m glad the big storm is staying way to the north on the UP where it is dumping close to 3 feet of snow…we’re just going to get rain here tomorrow and that should get rid of some of the snow pack…at least I hope it does…back to reading…

Well…up a little after 5 again today and I am really tired of it…I remember times when getting up this early never happened and I could sleep in til 10am and I am quickly coming to the idea that I need to take something for at least one night of sleep…it’s almost 6 and I need to get going so I can be done with the indoor ride by 8 or so…going to get an outdoor ride in today but then the temps drop again into the 30’s but we are getting towards March and I sure hope some warmer temps…need to figure out some meals after the pizza leftovers are gone tomorrow but nothing grabs me…maybe some pasta? Have a whole loaf of garlic bread that’s been on the freezer for quite a while and two jars of sauce so that may be the easy thing…not much to do today…need to clean the bathroom at some point but I’m not sure if it will be today…more later…

Well…heard a hell of a noise a little while ago and went out to investigate…a 300 pound block of ice took down a 12 foot section of my gutter along with the drip flashing…so, I straightened out the flashing as best I could and nailed that back up and it will have to do until spring when I’ll get new pieces to put back up…not sure if I’ll replace the gutter…too small of a job to get anyone to come out and replace it…oh, well…

Well…I guess it doesn’t matter when I get out of bed since I always feel like I’ve never slept at all…that said, I was out of bed a little before 6 today but woke up around 4am and just laid there trying to get back to sleep…it’s already over 30 out there so I will be doing the 2nd ride outdoors today and I’m looking forward to that…my skin has started to peel from the chemical I’ve been putting on it and I only have 5 more days until I can start to heal the ugly red blotches with cortisone…it looks like I’ll have leftover cream to use if I have any more keratosis that shows up as I get exposed to the sun…put spray on sunscreen when I rode outdoors the other day and that hurt like I put acid on my face so I’ll have to look for some lotion sunscreen when I go out today…didn’t get anything done yesterday and probably won’t again since I am so late getting going today…more later…

Well…up a little after 5 again today and I really do need to figure out why I can’t sleep anymore…I did eat more yesterday but I can’t feel the effects of that yet and I wonder if I will at all…I was going to take an easy day yesterday with one ride indoors but I did take advantage of the nice weather to get a 10 mile ride in outdoors and I am going to try to do that again today…but the forecast says it’s only getting to 40 today so I guess we’ll see…I do need to clean the bathroom today but that is going to wait til later…the lesions on my face hurt like crazy when I put sunscreen on to go out or the outdoor ride so I won’t be able to use the 100 spray on until they heal up some…only 6 more days and I can start using the cortisone cream to get some relief…my skin looks really bad and red and I hope all of the lesions will be gone after I’m done…not much to do today…just need to pour coffee down and get it to work right now…damn it’s almost 6 and Ineed to get going…more later…

Well…I was reading a little news and noticed the temp outdoors was 48 degrees and you know that means I’m going to try to get an outdoor ride in…so I suited up, aired up the tires and went out…went down the hill to the park to see how much ice is on Muskegon Lake and the whole thing is frozen over and thick enough that there were ice fishers and people riding quads on the ice…but the end of the trail where I start out is still under 2 feet of snow and it looks like it will be mid to late April before I get out on them…but, if it’s this warm tomorrow, I’ll be back out there to get another 10 miles in…streets are okay but still have lots of ice on them…going to be sore tomorrow…

Well…damn, I’m just exhausted this morning and I think the lack of sleep has caught up to me…have been up before 5am for ages now and that makes for about 5 hours of sleep a night and that’s not enough…and I’ve had 5 days in a row of only one meal a day and that needs to change today…so I’ve already had a bagel and will have a burrito for lunch and then a chicken wrap again for dinner… and that will still be around 1K calories for the day…and I have so little energy that I only did one ride this morning and I’ll take it easy the rest of the day…got good news yesterday when my brother called to tell me that he has hired a couple of guys to exchange the appliances in the SIL’s house so I don’t have to do it and that is a relief…just can’t move fridges anymore…body just won’t take it…I do have the laundry started and that will be the work for the day…more later…