Well…when I go my new car, it really felt like a car that had been sitting for a long while…it didn’t run right and the clutch was so hard to get a smooth take off and it made the shifter very notchy…but lately, all that has changed after I worked on bleeding the clutch, putting a new set of spark plugs in it and hitting it with injector cleaner…all of that has come together to make the car a lot of fun…have been tearing around just behaving like a nut…now I can just drive it and enjoy it without having to think about what needs to be done to fix it…pretty cool…it’s been a busy day today with getting the indoor stuff done, doing the grocery run, mowing the lawn, and getting an outdoor ride in that was cold but fun…I did get some chicken at aldis that I’m going to use to make another batch of stir fry using some mushrooms and green pepper I got at aldis, too…only spent about 30 bucks this week even with the 12 bucks worth of chicken and I am still amazed how cheap it is when you’re not having cocktails…so now it’s time to go back to reading and to start thinking about meals starting tomorrow…probably some ham soup to go with the stir fry…but then I’d better take the ham bones out of the freezer..

Well…I’m really not proud of the fact that I had to take something to sleep last night to try to relieve the exhaustion I’ve been feeling lately…not sure if the trade off of feeling like crap is worth it, though, but I guess I’ll see as the day wears on…it’s damn cold here at 36 and the high is not getting over 50 so I won’t get an outdoor ride in today or tomorrow…but I am going to mow the lawn after the grocery run so at least I won’t feel guilty about not doing enough…need to get some weed killer at menards today since I’m out and there are still damn weeds all though the lawn…will probably treat it tomorrow…I did get a few things done yesterday and will again today but I’m not sure what that would be after doing the lawn…don’t have much to get for groceries today with no protein on sale but I may buy some boneless/skinless chicken to use in recipes that I’m not sure about yet…the ham bones in the freezer are calling out to me to make another batch of ham soup while I still have celery to use and I may do that over the weekend…and I have 4 pounds of pasta to use and I am going to make some pasta salad this weekend, too…not much to do today…just the grocery run and the lawn and I’ll use up the leftovers so I don’t have to cook…but I am going to have a bagel to get some fuel in me before I start the weight work…more later…

Well…getting up so early really does help get my day done early…got the normal stuff in and was done with that by 7:03am and then read the news and put the laundry in…then I suited up and went out to run the string trimmer all over the fencelines and the front of the yard…it’s not easy getting a 2 stroke running when it’s 45 degrees but after what seemed like a hundred pulls, it fired up and I got the work done…the I used the grass killer to do the sidewalks and the growth in the back corner of the yard and then put poison on the ant nests in the sidewalks…then I put the laundry away and now I’m going to read a bit before lunch…I did get the wheel balancing scheduled for Friday morning…on two of the wheels the adhesive for the stick on weights is all that is left so it has to get better after I have it done…and I think they have special weights for cast aluminum wheels like are on my car and I hope I don’t have to ever have that done again….

Well…at least I got out of bed after 5am this morning and that is a lot better than the 4:30 from yesterday…I did get a 21 mile ride in yesterday with getting outdoors for the first time in over a week with how damn cold it’s been here…and we return to the cold today with highs just barely getting to 50 so I have a decision to make…do I drag out the winter clothes again and ride outdoors with full thermasuit or do I just give up and accept that I’ll never get out again? That’s what it feels like anyway and there is no damn way 50 in May is any kind of normal…I did get out to run an errand yesterday after I pulled the rattling heat shield off the cat and it is so nice that at least that is fixed…I did notice that two tires on the car have thrown their weights leaving only the tape behind so I need to get at least those two balanced this week and I’m going to take it back to discount to get that done…need to get on their website to schedule it after I’m done with this…didn’t get much done yesterday and today will be the same after I get the normal morning stuff done…need to do some meal planning and will be eating out of the freezer with nothing on sale this week and I guess I’ll have to get used to not being able to afford protein…and that sucks…more later…

Well…I think I’ve figured out the vibration with the car…two wheels don’t have any balancing weights on them…there is the remains of the adhesive from the stick on weights but no weights…and I’ve never seen a tire that didn’t needs weights to balance it… so, I’ll make an appointment some time to have them done…another hundred bucks going out but if it will stop the vibration, it will be worth it…and there is still more than half tread on these tires so I’ll be using them for a while…and I found the rattling from under the car and it was the cat heat shield that had corroded…so I tore it off just like I did with the 94 and there will be no problem with that…after all it’s just the one that protects grass from starting on fire if I park on it and I can’t think of any time I’d be doing that…so, so far, a productive day and I’m going to get out on the outdoor bike before the wind comes up at 11am…more later…

Well…happy Star Wars day to those who celebrate…up and out of bed before 4:30am today and that is just way too damn early…and I’m going to continue to bitch about that as long as it continues…I mean, give me a frickin break…I knew it was going to be ugly when I went to bed at 10 and tossed and turned as soon as I hit the pillow and don’t think I fell asleep until 11:30 or so…ick…so now I’m going to depend on the coffee to make me human and get the day started…I do have stuff to do today and may even get an outdoor ride in today…but that will be after I do the weight work and get the indoor ride in…then I need to rotate the tires on the car to see if I can get rid of the vibration at 80 or so…I only have to go front to back as the tread is directional and only goes one side of the car…and I think I’ve got a heat shield rattling so I need to look for that, too…I think working on the car and getting an outdoor ride in will be enough for the day…I still have 6 books to read by the end of the week but I don’t think I’ll get there with other stuff to do around here…going to have to argue with menards since the expensive grass seed I bought did not come up…not one blade after putting pounds of it in…so I’m expecting a fight there…oh, well…think I need to eat more since the lounge pants I have been wearing are falling off me and I may have to tie them for the first time…a good problem to have…I think…more later…

Well…today was an easy day with not doing anything but the weight work and the indoor ride…not sure if I needed it but just wasn’t feeling it today so I did what retired people do and took the day off to watch races and read…I finally have emby kinda fixed so I could watch the races…my eyes have been better today and I could see the tv clearly all day and read the data panels during the races and it’s been months since I’ve been able to do that…I wonder if it’s the ointment I’ve had to put on to relieve the itchyness in them? Whatever it is, it’s welcome and I’ll take it…didn’t have to cook today and won’t have to for 3-4 more days but I do need to figure out what to take out of the freezer…or just make pasta and pasta salad but that is more like a side dish than a meal…I still have a lot of the breaded chicken patties in there along with 4 burgers or so and that is enough for me to get by for a couple of weeks…and that might get me down enough to clean out the freezer…I guess I’ll have to check…back to reading…

Well…you know how I love my routines and how they feel so comfortable when I know what’s going to happen in my day…that went out the window this morning when emby did a reset and none of my channels were there anymore…and that means hours and hours of resetting them to get back to the channels I watch…ick…slept okay last night but I still feel exhausted and I hope that goes away at some point…all of this channel resetting has made me late for getting my day started as you can see…cripes, it’s 7:23 and I haven’t gotten anything done…still have the weight work and bike ride to do and won’t be done with that til almost 9am and that sucks…oh, well…I did get the bathroom cleaned yesterday and should work on the kitchen today but I may not with being so late getting started…it’s going to be too cold to get outdoors on the bike today and I am trying to not be depressed that we’re not going to see 60’s at all this month…have never seen a May so cold in my lifetime and I’m not sure how to deal with it…don’t have to cook today and I really need to use the potato soup so I may just do two bowls of that today and let the chicken go a day…so, I need to get moving or the guilts are going to overwhelm me…more later…

Well…not sure what the heck is going on but I have been exhausted all afternoon…it can’t be that I made chicken stir fry and cleaned the bathroom…if I’m at the point that those small exertions take everything out of me, then just kill me and get it over with…there is no way that I can live with not being able to do anything without feeling like this…okay, on to something else…I do love my new pan…not having to pick the shedded black coating out of my food is a good thing…and the teriyaki stir fry sauce is really good…what I could taste of it anyway…and it’s so easy to just pour it out of the bottle into the pan…and it thickened up nicely as it heated… so I’ll use that again since I have another half bottle to use…but no more chicken so I’ll have to get some of that this week along with another bag of stir fry veggies…will have to look to see if I have veggies in the back of the freezer…but I won’t need to cook anything for 4-5 days so I don’t have to think of that now…I did buy 4 boxes of pasta for a buck each last week so I can do that with sauce and garlic bread…and I can do a pasta salad that I have been thinking about for a while…okay, back to reading…

Well…up a little before 5am this morning…again…but I’m not going to bitch about that…I am going to bitch about the weather since it’s only 33 out there and we have a freeze warning on…I wonder if this is going to be the first year in history that the high never gets to 60 in May? That’s in the forecast for the next two weeks and it is so damn depressing for someone who loves it hot…looks like I’ll have plenty of time to get the bathroom cleaned today since the F1 sprint race doesn’t come on til 11…this may be a day that I’ll take off from the weights since you’re supposed to give yourself at least one rest day every week to allow your muscles to recover…okay, that’s some weird third person phrasing that I shouldn’t do…I am going to use my new semi wok to make some stir fry teriaki chicken for lunch today and that will keep me fed til next week…going to make rice with it so it should be pretty filling…still eating lots of fruit but I’m going to toast a bagel for breakfast this morning instead of an apple but I will have both an apple and an orange at some point today since I have lots of them…tomorrow will be 30 days with no cocktails and I feel pretty good so that will continue…maybe permanently…we’ll see…not much to do today…just going to drink coffee and get my body jump started right now and then on the indoor bike for a ride and that will still give me time to clean…more later…