Well…was out on the bike before 7am this morning and that meant I was done with two rides before 9am and got 26 miles in today…and the rides were fun even though at 56 degrees my right ring finger had turned white from the Raynaud’s that just sucks…the trail is open up the hill to the beach after they finished the rebuild of both the road and the trail…it was so cool to be back to the old routine of dropping into the tunnel of trees from the right direction…and they even had the trail by the beach completely clear of sand…I know they did it for the obstacle course run but it was still nice to go clockwise again and get back to the old routine…with the huge increase in coffee prices that is coming, I bought myself some ground and beans today…Chock full o’nuts ground at 11 bucks for a 35 oz can and Lavazza whole beans for 21 bucks for 2 1/2 pounds…and that was 15% off on sale on amazon…and I bought a bucket of 60 pairs of foam earplugs for 7 bucks since I’m out of the ones I was using…the silicone ones I use for the lawnmower are no good for sleeping in that they hurt my ear canals before the night is over…so I spent some money today but I saved that in one week of not drinking so I don’t feel bad about it…back to reading…

Well…damn, it’s 6am and I feel like this day is already getting away from me and I need to get off my butt and get going or the day will be a total loss…have decisions to make right now about what rides I’m going to do…looking at the radar, it looks like I have a window to get an outdoor ride in as soon as it gets light but then another batch of rain is coming in that will push me back downstairs unless I want to miss some of qualifying day at Indy…it is warm enough to go out in shorts if I go this morning but I really don’t like having my day disrupted like this…or am I moving on into spring/summer mode on the bike? Whatever it is, I need to have everything done before 11 am when qualifying starts…I wonder why I feel like such a slug with only getting 21 miles on the bike yesterday…that should be enough to feel good about it but my brain won’t let me do that when there was a possibility of 34 miles…yeah, I know, that’s sick but that’s me, too…so today looks like Indy qualifying and reading for the day after getting cleaning done yesterday…really need to do the kitchen floor and do the baseboards but I’m not sure if I’ll do that or not…I am going to treat my left elbow and right thumb with lidocaine since they hurt like crazy this morning and I need my thumb to shift….more later….

Well…I cut the riding back to only 21 miles today so I could get some work done around here…and I did get the living room cleaned from top to bottom including getting the couch cleaned and the cushions rotated along with getting the cover washed…it is nice to have a little firmness back into the cushions so I’m not sinking into them…I even dusted the tv and stand along with my stereo…and the rug really needed a vacuum so that’s done, too…didn’t get out on the bike in shorts today since it was only 49 when I went out and that is just too darn cold…but it was still a good ride…still pretty sore from yesterday’s ride and it’s weird that nothing hurt on the bike but my thumb and that always hurts so no big deal…made an omelet for dinner today to use up some of the mushrooms and green pepper that I bought to go on the last pizza in the freezer so that will have to be used in a few days…okay, the truck race is starting and I have reading to do…

Well…still in the pattern of getting up at 5am but last night was the worst sleep I’ve had in a while and I even tried to go back to bed after I got up and that didn’t work…oh, well…I am really sore after the first 34 mile day yesterday and I’m not doing that again today…maybe…but you know that I’m almost compelled to do it and I need to get going right now to get the indoor stuff done before it warms up enough to go outside…I do have lots of coffee for this morning after making extra yesterday and drinking it all day…and it appears that helped keep me not lose as much energy and crash around noon…but I’m not sure if it’s the coffee or eating more and I really should have only changed one variable so I could tell what works…going to clean the living room and rotate the couch cushions today since the dust is getting pretty bad…my eyes are still pretty good and I was able to watch tv all day yesterday without glasses on and that is a major reason why I’m staying off cocktails for the foreseeable future…and I do feel better so that’s a bonus…I did make a pork chop for dinner yesterday but could barely taste it so the rest of them will probably end up in the freezer…not much to do today…just cleaning and the normal stuff…it may be warm enough to open this place up but that will mean my allergies are going to go nuts just like they did on the outdoor rides yesterday from the mowing along the trail…more later…

Well…as I talked about this morning, I was trying out something new today with making extra coffee to see if I could avoid the noon slump that has been happening for a while now…and it did work until now…about 2:30 in the afternoon but I can feel the deflation of the coffee buzz happening and it’s not going to be pretty…oh, well…going to try that again tomorrow with having 9 cups for tomorrow left over….I did get a lot done today with the normal stuff…mowing the front lawn, and doing 34 miles for the day…and I had all that stuff done before noon since I got an early start at 5:15 or so…and I was able to get out in shorts for the 2nd ride and I look forward to doing that again tomorrow…and I may be able to get two rides in outdoors starting early and not doing an indoor ride…so, I’ll be back to 26 miles tomorrow probably…I do have some pork chops marinating for dinner and I’m not sure how my body is going to react to that…and I need to change up my eating since I got a dozen eggs at aldis for 1.46 yesterday and I couldn’t pass that up and I need to make the last pizza in the freezer to use up the green pepper and mushrooms that I guess I can use for an omelet, too…okay, need to get back to reading…

Well…up and moving at 5:15 this morning but feel okay so I guess I can live with it…trying to dose myself with more coffee this morning so I saved the leftovers from the new pot I made yesterday and then set up a new pot that I’m brewing now…have to do something so I don’t crash at noon again…I guess we’ll see…it’s only 42 out there right now so there will be an indoor ride to start the day but I may be able to get out in shorts today if I wait til noon or so…I wonder if it’s worth it to wait? I do need to cook today and, for the first time in months, I’m going to make a pork chop and some roasted potatoes and I wonder how my system is going to fare with that? Now I’m just weighing if I should marinate it or just have it with just salt and pepper…who knows? I think I’m going to mow just the front today sine the rest of the yard is looking pretty bad with not getting any rain out here for weeks so it looks like I lose the lawn for another year…crap…I did get some work done around here yesterday with cleaning the kitchen and washing my bedding…didn’t get outdoors for a ride with the high only getting to 46 here and that sucks for the 13th of May…we do have a little warm up coming and may see temps almost normal for this time of the year this weekend…I’d like to get the windows open for a bit to air this place out…and then have my allergies flare and be miserable…yay…more later….

Well…another day of feeling just damn worn out and I am getting a little concerned about it…I mean I had more energy when I was hungover and drinking and that just sucks since I started this out feeling great…and I felt great to start the day but then around noon the bottom fell out again and I felt exhausted all afternoon…I know I did do the weight work and an indoor ride and then stripped the bed and did laundry, cleaned the microwave and the stove but that’s not enough to use all my energy…oh, and the grocery run…maybe it had something to do with getting out of bed at 5am…or the old thing I always blame of not eating enough but today what I had was an orange for breakfast, then a bowl of soup for lunch, and then some rice stir fry for dinner…and that is close to 1K calories and I’ve been surviving on that for years now…and I didn’t even do an outdoor ride today since it never got to 50 out here…so, I’m going to stop bitching about the lack of energy and just shift into survival mode and try to figure out what is going on…reading time…

Well…back to getting up early after not taking anything to sleep last night but I sure like how I feel better than yesterday or the day before…so I can live with it…it’s grocery run day today and I can test out the old school tire balancing I had done last Friday that has to be better than the no weights on two tires…I can live with a little vibration but not with the car shaking so bad I couldn’t see out of the mirrors…it’s 45 here so I won’t have to warm the car up this morning before I head out…I still may have the trans and diff oil changed out to synthetic this summer to help the shifting when cold…don’t think we got enough rain for my lawn to survive since it’s turning yellow already after the drought we’ve had here and that sucks…oh, well…I do need to clean the kitchen today and have to start thinking about doing the windows for spring…the weather is going to break a bit over the weekend and we may see 70’s for only the 2nd time this year…is spring here? Ha, ha…yeah, that made me laugh…how can it be spring when it was 33 degrees yesterday morning? Not much to do today…just the normal stuff that I need to start here in a minute and then I’ll just let the day flow…more later…

Well…still feeling pretty darn worn out today but better than yesterday and I still don’t know what the heck is going on…have been trying to eat more but there is just so much I can stand…went to the library today and it kinda sucks that two of the Lee Child Reacher novels were the source for two of the seasons of “Reacher” that I watched on the indoor bike the past couple of weeks…so I may go back to the library tomorrow to replace them with ones I haven’t seen because that only leaves me with 5 books to get me through the week and that is not enough…I did get an outdoor ride in today even though it was pretty cold and I had to laugh at the stupid turkeys I saw…one of them was on the curved bridge over Ruddiman creek trying to get through the mesh on the railings that keep people from falling in and a pair of them trying to figure out the fence around the old paper plant…just running back and forth 6 feet and banging their heads into the fence…then I saw one walking on the beach that then took off running across the beach road and took off and flew over the boardwalk to the dunes behind my water stop bench…never saw one on the beach before…weird, weird birds…time for reading…

Well…this is new…it’s only 33 degrees here right now and there is a possibility of snow…in frickin May and in my long lifetime, I’ve never seen snow in May here in Michigan…ick…I did sleep a little better last night and not out of bed til after 5:30…dreams are still coming and if that’s all that comes from not drinking, I’ll take it… haven’t even started the coffee yet and I do feel a little better today and I hope that continues after the exhausting day I had yesterday…not sure what is going on but I don’t want another day like that today…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I need to clean some in the kitchen and do the microwave this morning along with the stove top that I haven’t cleaned and should with all of the cooking I’ve been doing lately…not sure if I’ll get out for an outdoor ride today with the rain/snow that is coming in but that will be okay…my thighs hurt pretty badly after abusing them the past few days…I do have about 1/4 of the last book to read today so I can get more tomorrow after the grocery run…it looks like we may be having a warm up later in the week with temps forecast to be around 70 but I’ll believe that when I see it…more later…