Well…up at 5:00 am again today and the exhaustion I was feeling yesterday is still here and the only way I know how to help that is to pour a lot of coffee down me…so that’s what I’m doing…I guess we’ll see how it works…I did make another pot this morning to go with the leftovers from yesterday that I’m starting out with…and that will leave me with enough to fill the contego for the 2nd ride…slept the same crappy sleep I have been for years so I’m not going to talk about that…have a lot of work to do today after the rides but that seems like too much with how I’m feeling…I think I may have to lighten the riding up to see if that helps…after all, I’ve been doing 26 miles a day since April and my body could use a light day…but then I’ll feel guilty and it will ruin the rest of the day…still no rain here for weeks so I’ll only have to mow the front today…but the rest of the lawn is looking shaggy in spots so I guess we’ll see…I do need to cement over the hornet holes today, too but that will only take about 5 minutes to add to the painting…still should be done by 11 or so but resting doesn’t help so I’m not sure what I’ll do…I do know that I used up all the leftovers yesterday and need to cook some chicken so I’ll have sandwich material to have with the pasta salad…I’ll need to thaw some pork loin fillets to have later so I need to get those out of the freezer before I head out on the bike….more later…

Well…spent another day exhausted and I am starting to wonder is exhaustion normal for someone as old as me? Have had no energy all day and even lying on the couch reading seemed to be a lot of work…took a short nap this afternoon of about 15 minutes and that didn’t help at all…I ate a ton of food today starting with a toasted bagel with cream cheese for breakfast…2 dogs and a good sized helping of the pasta salad I made this morning, and then a pork chop with mashed potatoes and corn for dinner…that has to be 1,500 calories or so and that should be more than enough to not feel so damn tired…and I’m even going to have a snack later of ham, swiss and triscuits so that should put me well over what I need…oh, well…didn’t do any work today but I’ll get back to it tomorrow with edging the front lawn and mowing it but won’t do the rest of it since it doesn’t need it…so that will give me time to prep and paint the garage door trim and finish up the outdoor work for the summer….I was out on the bike before 6am this morning and it was really, really dark…I may have to buy a light for the bike if I keep that up…and I really need to to have the rides done before 8:30 so I can get on with the rest of the work…okay, done for the day and need to find something to watch….

Well…up at about the normal time of 5:15 today and I didn’t really sleep too well but that’s pretty normal, too…ned to get on the bike in a half hour or so and need to make sure I eat something before I go…legs have been going flat about halfway through the 2nd ride and I’m pretty sure it’s from not eating before I go out..but who knows? It could just be from getting old and that will suck it it’s true…stayed above 70 overnight but there doesn’t look like any beach weather this week with highs in the 70’s and cloudy for most of the week…but I’m going to try to get out there a few times to end my summer…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I’m not holding out hope that I’ll do better today…need to prep to garage door trim so I can paint it this week and then the outdoor painting will be done for the year…have some black mold on the west side windows on the house and I just need to spray them with some bleach solution to fix that and I’ll do that today…but I really don’t have any motivation to do more…going to make some pasta salad this afternoon so I’ll have a side to go with whatever else I’ll be cooking starting tomorrow after I use up the leftovers today…I salvaged the celery I need for the pasta by cutting off the bottom of the stalk and putting it in water which firmed it up to usable…time to get moving…more later…

Well…after getting woken up last night by a phone call from T, I am worried about her and her mental state…won’t go into that because it’s personal and I won’t betray her confidence…so let’s get onto something else…yeah, it was a wasted day today and all I did after the rides was read and watch some races and there is another one on at 7 that will last all night but I’m not sure if I’ll watch the whole thing or not…have a back up of new shows on plex that I’d like to see but noting is grabbing me right now so maybe I won’t…who knows? So, tomorrow is going to have to be better than today and I will need to accomplish something…what that is, I don’t know right now…still have one leftover pork chop to have but I do need to plan for early week meals…maybe some pasta for a change? Have 3 pounds of that I need to use…maybe some pasta salad? But what would go with that? Could thaw the last of the chicken and have sandwiches or maybe even some chicken salad…okay, need to start the last book and read for a half hour before the race at 7…

Well…that was a weird night and let’s leave it at my friend T is still alive but not doing well and I know that from an hour phone call after I went to bed last night…so, I’m running late today and I just poured the first cup of coffee at a little after 6 and need to pour it down fast to get on the bike by 6:30…no bagel or weight work today but I’ll force that later in the day…we didn’t get the rain we were supposed to so I’ll be out here in a minute but it might rain this morning so I need to get going…as expected, I didn’t sleep well last night but didn’t drag my butt out of bed to 5:44 and that is not an accomplishment so I’m not going to count it…still pretty damn sore from the house washing and my right thumb is feeling the abuse so I’ll have to treat it before I head out in a minute…I should still be able to get two rides in before 9 and it’s forecast to rain around 10 so that works for me…not going to do much today but cook and plan meals for the weekend but that will be it….more later…

Well…after the rides this morning and having more coffee, I decided to try to get one more swim in this summer and the beach and water were really nice so I got a swim in for the first time in weeks…going to try to go out there every day next week after I paint the trim on the garage door…got a call from my bank that the euros were in that I ordered Wed so I drove over there in my beach clothes that were still wet and I hope my seat will dry by the next time I drive the car…talked to my daughter and she is not getting any euros since she told me she already paid for everything we’re going to do so we’re not going to need much…I got 350 euros so I can cover the tips and taxi rides and then take the leftovers back to the bank..and found I had 30 euros left in the drawer so we’ll have plenty….I did see an eagle sitting in a tree along Muskegon Lake today and that was pretty cool along with 22 deer and that included the ones that stand on the trail and just watch me as I ride by and still think that’s pretty cool…I really had hoped that it was going to rain tonight and tomorrow but that has come out of the forecast so we’re going to stay really dry for the next week to go with the one rain in the last three weeks…ick…back to reading…

Well…damn, running late this morning with not getting out of bed til 5:31 and now it’s almost 6 and I’ve just poured the first cup of coffee…so I need to get hauling butt and have a bagel before I ride today to keep the legs from going flat…it feels good that I accomplished something yesterday but that means I can take the day off today…might even go out to the beach if it’s sunny this morning…think I’m going to have to make more coffee today before I get on the bike…just another task that I need to do to get my butt moving and ensure that I have enough to fill the contego cup for the 2nd ride…pretty darn sore today and my back and neck are howling at me from reaching over my head with the scrub brush for 2 hours… but I’ll get through it…finally got the hornets taken care of yesterday and I think I used enough bug spray to kill everything downstairs and won’t have to spray again this year…the house looks really white after cleaning it and I still marvel at how dirty it got after just 2 years…so, I think that will be moved up to a yearly thing…makes it much easier to stay on top of it than to let it get ugly…not much to do today…just need to get the rides in and then I can just wing it for the day….more later….

Well…after getting the rides in this morning, I decided to clean the remaining half house of siding and that only took about 2 hours even though I wasn’t working that hard at it since I’m getting old…it does look pretty good so maybe I’ll do that every year…the first time I did it it seemed like a lot more work than this time…and it’s been warm enough that it didn’t matter that I got soaked while I was doing it…I did get the laundry done today since I ran out of clothes to wear and I washed the new t-shirts for the first time and they look like they came through the laundry okay…I did find and buy a new pair of shoes for the Italy trip and only spent 29 bucks on them…very lightweight and they have memory foam insoles that felt pretty good when I put them on and walked around the house…and they are pretty stylish…black with brown accents and white soles that they call casual dress shoes…why, I don’t know but for the price they can call them whatever they want…and they have actual laces that you can tighten or loosen…not like a lot of the shoes I looked at where they are slip ins and the laces are just for show…that doesn’t work when you have two different size feet…I did kill off the hornet nest but had about 50 of them in the basement that were all dying with the poison I hit the nest with…going to fill the holes they were using with cement in a couple of days to make sure they don’t come back…okay…going to read a bit before I make a pork chop for dinner…

Well…running late this morning for some reason so this one is going to be short…didn’t sleep much again and I’m having a hell of a time getting moving…should be on the bike right now but I just poured the first cup of coffee and I need to have at least one in me before I head out…going to work on the siding again today since it’s going to be cloudy out there so the beach is out…I did get the new shoes I ordered for the Italy trip and I like them…very light and with memory foam insoles so I guess we’ll see how they are as I use them to break them in before we go…and they are a little stylish…black with brown leather trim…just couldn’t see spending 60-70 bucks for skechers…pretty damn stiff and sore after the third day in a row of working on the siding and I may just as well keep the pain going today…okay, it’s 6 am and I need to get on the bike right now…more later…

Well…another day and more work done..got the east side of the house cleaned and found some hornets trying to make a nest in my siding…filled it with bug spray and plugged the hole and it looks like that was taken care of…there were lots of the hornets around while I was cleaning the siding but none of them got near me so no stings which I’m happy about…it was a really busy morning with the rides, grocery run, and hitting the bank to order some checks and put the order in for the euros I need for the Italy trip…told my daughter I’d supply the cash for the things we need cash for and I’m still going to offer her a check for my end of the trip but we’ll see what she says…so now I only have the back and west side of the house to wash and I’m thinking I could do all that in one day but I really don’t need to push myself…the east side really does look pretty good washed as the front did the other day…I’m glad I decided to do it instead of waiting another year and letting the crud build up…so now it’s 6pm and I am done for the day…even finished the book I started yesterday and made a pork chop, mashed potatoes, and corn for dinner since I know I haven’t been eating enough with my legs going flat on the bike this morning…was out before 6am and man, was it dark…had to ride through town to the post office which was okay with the street lights but once on the trail I couldn’t see anything until the sun started to come up about 45 minutes later…I’m done…