Well…today kind of sucked…I had no energy from the time I got up and still don’t have any at 5pm…not sure what this is about but I’m going to try to eat a big snack of popcorn later with real butter on it to try to do something to fix this…I feel like I’ve had lots of drinks last night and that is just wrong…I did have the energy to get an outdoor ride in but it’s been a slog to get anything else done today…I did try to eat more today and did have a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast and an orange for a snack before I had a bowl of soup for lunch and then another plate of stir fry for dinner…and the calories for all that has to be over 1k…I’m at a loss for what’s happening…oh, well…maybe I’ll feel better tomorrow…I did get laundry done today and needed it since I had run out of clothes to wear…it never got over 54 today and there is another freeze warning on for tonight and it’s going to be even colder with rain tomorrow…but we have a warm up coming for the weekend and we’ll be in the 70’s…finally…time to read…

Well…got up this morning and feel like I’ve been on a 3 day bender and that is just wrong…I mean 5 weeks of no booze and I shouldn’t feel like this…it’s probably from not eating enough but shouldn’t an orange, a bowl of soup, and a plate of chicken stir fry be enough for me? Woke up at 3:04 this morning and just said “hell no” and was able to get back to sleep…kinda..until a little after 5 and even had some dreams in those two hours that I have no clue what they were about…but I’ll take them after not dreaming for years…one good thing yesterday was that I was able to taste peanut butter for the first time in years and I can’t let myself have hope that my sense of taste is going to improve…after all, it’s been years since that sense has been more than a memory to me and I don’t want to be disappointed…have been so sore the past few days that I had to take an ibuprofen yesterday and it looks like today, too…I sure hope this is not where I’m going to be with this old body as I get older…I did want to know what it feels like to be my age and I’m not sure if I like it too much if it’s going to feel like this…not much to do today…just the normal stuff that I need to get on right now…then read a bit til it gets warm enough to go outside for a ride…no cooking for the next few days but lots of reading to finish the last book before the grocery run Wed…more later…

Well…had a pretty good day today but got up way too damn early at 5am…but that got e started on the normal stuff early and had that done by 7:15am which gave me time to read before i got started on the ham soup I made today…have been making this recipe, one that I figured out, over the years and have been doing it for at least 8 years now…it tasted so good I could even taste it and now I have 4 two quart containers in the freezer along with one 2qt in the fridge that I’ll have all week…once the soup was done and I cleaned up, it had gotten to 52 out there so I got on the bike and had a nice ride where I pushed it a lot on the way back and hope I’m not sore tomorrow…the rest of the afternoon was filled with reading with a race on in the background and that made for a nice day…tv time…

Well…we’re coming into the 2nd week of May and it’s 36 degrees out there and that sucks…up just a bit before 5am this morning so it appears it’s the new normal rearing it’s ugly head again but I feel okay so I can live with it…for some reason, I am sore everywhere today and I think I’ll take something for it…haven’t taken an ibuprofen in a few weeks so I guess my liver can take it especially with 5 weeks of no cocktails…it’s going to be a busy one today with all of the normal stuff and making ham soup this morning…watching the moto3 race from LeMans and they are riding in the wet with bikes flying off the track everywhere…fun to watch…it looks like I’ll get an outdoor ride in this afternoon and that will continue my streak of 21 mile days but I’m still over 1K miles behind where I was last year at the same time with all of this cold weather…and it’s only going to be in the 40’s for a high Wed so I won’t be outdoors…oh, well…we may get a warm up later in the week after the 1 inch of rain for Tues and we really need it…has been dry almost to a drought here and I’m going to lose the lawn again if this keeps up..more later…

Well…yeah, I know you’ve read me saying this before but it really was an easy day today…I had kind of resigned myself to not getting an outdoor ride in with how the wind was howling this morning…so I started the day with an indoor ride and then reading until I made the chicken stir fry around 11am…but after I had lunch and cleaned up, the wind just stopped around 1pm so I suited up and got a nice outdoor ride in..it was a little cold and I had to wear gloves but it was fun and the sun even came out on the way back that made me a little overdressed…much rather that than be cold…and the adjustments I made to the spokes have started to work and the rear wheel is getting straighter and that is cool, too…so then, the day turned into an easy one after I got back from the outdoor ride and all I did was read and watch races lying on the couch…a nice afternoon when I think about it…and I’m feeling better after starting the day out a little worn out…so I’ll take it…

Well…damn, it’s warm enough to get out on the bike when it gets light but the wind is shaking the house so it looks like an indoor ride to start the day…feel pretty crappy this morning and I know it’s from not eating enough after all of the turmoil from yesterday…and I need to cook today with doing a chicken stir fry and then ham soup tomorrow so I I’ll have food for a few days…and I’m going to eat out of the freezer until it’s clear enough to clean it since it’s been months since I’ve done that…I need to get everything done before 10am when Man U plays so that means I need to get off my butt and get going soon…but I need coffee first…had way too much of that yesterday with still drinking it at 2pm and that might be part of why I feel like crap…didn’t get much done yesterday and the coffee is going to have to carry me if I’m going to get much done today…going to toast a bagel before I get on the weight work and I do need to have an orange at some point since I still have 4 pounds of them and I don’t want to waste food…not much to do today…just need to get started and that looks like a hard task right now…more later…

Well…today started out really sucky when discount Tire refused to balance my tires since they were 10 years old and they have a rule that they don’t touch tires that are that old…it doesn’t matter that there is no weather cracking or any other problem with the tires…I mean they still have 2/3rds of the tread left and there is no way I’m throwing away tires that are still fine…so I found an independent tire shop a couple of miles from me owned by a guy named Chuck who looked at the tires and laughed since they are in such good shape…his shop is old school with no lift but just floor jacks on the apron in front of the place…and that took me back to hanging out in those kinds of places when I was a kid…an old converted gas station that the smell took me back to when I was a teenager…and he did only the two that didn’t have weights on them but said they were pretty bad and took a lot of weight…and two tires only cost me 30 bucks when discount wanted 30 bucks each…and the car was smooth on the way home…so if I need to have the other two balanced Check said to just give him a call and he’ll get it done…that is how business should be run…no overhead or scheduling, just good value for service…thanks, Chuck…

Well…that kind of sucked…woke up at 4:03 this morning but was able to get a little more sleep and out of bed a little before 5am…so, I’m going to be dragging later but still want to get out for and outdoor ride since it’s going to be in the 50’s and I may even be able to wear shorts…it’s only 35 here right now and that is just frickin wrong for May…I may have to make some extra coffee this morning to have some to take with me to get the tires balanced on the car…haven’t made any pour over coffee in a while and I think that’s going to happen today…need to hit the grocery store after the car work since I forgot carrots and want to make ham soup this weekend…so I need to take the bones out of the freezer this morning…have chicken in the fridge to do another stir fry and that may be today…but I have 4 lbs of pasta that I got last week for a buck a box and that would make an easy meal today…and I still have lots of breaded chicken patties to make sandwiches and I need to use up the free head of lettuce I got last week before it spoils…don’t have anything do to on the yard after getting the weed killer down yesterday but we do need some rain that is not going to happen til Tuesday…oh, well….more later…

Well…after skipping the weight work today, my well developed sense of guilt wouldn’t let me skip two parts of my workout so I dragged the long johns out, suited up, and got 13 miles in…it was cold but I had my insulated work gloves on instead of the riding ones so my hands were okay…I’m hoping that this was the last ride in the 40’s until next fall but with how cold it’s been this spring, I’m not holding my breath…I did see some turkeys and deer today and that was fun…I did get some yard work done and got the weed killer on to keep them at bay for at least a couple of weeks…it’s supposed to rain a bit over the next couple of days and it’s even getting to almost 60 tomorrow so I can get a ride in wearing shorts…I do have to be at discount at 9:15 tomorrow morning to get the tired balance and I hope that the last time until I wear these out…just want some time to enjoy the car…time to read…

Well…it now appears that 5:23 is the new wake up time and I wonder if I should just accept that or keep trying to reach the goal of 6am to get out of bed? Probably not since all that does is cause me stress…I did sleep kinda okay last night and it does feel good to get things done around here…today is going to be a little easier with just the normal stuff and hitting the yard with weed killer again since the damn things are all over again…oh, well…I’m really sore from the string trimmer and mowing yesterday and I can’t remember the last time my forearms hurt from yard work…and that pain includes my hands that are not used to that abuse…I did get an outdoor ride in yesterday and I’m going to try to do that again today but the high is only going to be 51 and that is the lower limit of what my hands will take in the riding gloves…I did buy some chicken yesterday and am thinking of making another stir fry with the added mushrooms and green pepper that I got yesterday…I do have one last pizza in the freezer that take those same ingredients so that might be an option for the weekend instead of the ham soup I was planning…but I bought celery for that so I guess I’ll do lots of cooking this weekend…not much to do today…just the normal stuff I need to get on right now since it’s 6am and I don’t want to get behind for the day…more alter…