Well…I think I have “retiree’s disease” since I have a real problem with knowing what day of the week it is…I know I don’t have to know since I don’t have anywhere to be but still…I’ve lived my life with the weekly passage of time being important but I guess I’ll have to get used to it…it’s a little after 2pm and I finally have everything done that I planned..got three rides in and then built a homemade pizza and put that on the grill…then shoveled the snow while it was baking, cleaned everything up, oh, and ate two pieces of pizza so it will be another one meal day today… and put a load of laundry in…the Robert Ludlum book I’m reading is pretty good so I’ll need to go to the library and get more of after I get through the used ones I bought…just had some sparrows find the feeder for the first time this year but the pig doves just pushed them off…oh, well…okay, time to read a bit…

Well…man, I’m worn out today and it’s probably from only having a bowl of soup and one of Masala to eat for the whole day…that will change today with making a pizza for lunch after I get three rides in first…and that means I’ll have to get going in 45 minutes or so and that is the last thing I want to do right now….one good thing is my BP is down to 123/70 this morning but I really do need to stop checking it since checking it stresses me out…I did go out and work on the walks yesterday…there wasn’t enough snow to shovel it so I just salted them and that cleared them up completely…but I’ll need to get more salt this week when I do the grocery run since I’m running out…it’s snowing now and we have a winter storm watch on for the day and might get 4 inches  before it’s over…I know I’m weird but I’m looking forward to getting outdoors to shovel today…will probably do that while the pizza is on the grill…the lake effect snow is setting up and we could get heavy stuff and that is Muskegon in winter…it’s going to be cold through January and not over the mid 20’s and I can take that…over 70 winters here in Michigan and I’m used to it….I do have to clean the bathroom today and should vacuum the rug in the living room along with couch…but I guess we’ll see…more later…

Well…for my entire life, I’ve always multi tasked and done more than on thing at once…and I was doing pretty good until today when I fell back into the old habits and did something internally to riding the bike rides…while I was on the first ride, having some fresh baked bread sounded really good so I mixed up some bread dough in the 15 minutes between rides, and put it in the toaster over to proof for the next two rides and then it was ready to bake when I finished the third ride…I could have waited and done the loaf after I was done but thought never even occurred to me and I wanted to have the bread with the last of the turkey soup…still planning way too much but that’s just me…oh, well…I did get three rides in for 24 miles and did the weight work right after lunch to get it out of the way…after that I haven’t really done much else other than clean the shower floor with some new cleaner I bought…will do the rest of the bathroom tomorrow…but right now I’m going to watch ND play Georgia at 4…

Well…up at a little after 4 this morning but was able to stay in bed and get a little more sleep until 6:09…had a dream that my laptop was falling apart…or wearing out already and I have no clue where that came from…only did two rides yesterday and that makes me feel like such a slug that I will be getting on the bike before 7 and get three rides in…don’t have to cook today with with doing the Masala yesterday and one more bowl of leftover soup so that means I’ll make a pizza on the grill tomorrow…one of these days I’m going to eat fast food and take it easy but then I’d break my record of almost 7 years of making my own food…might try to make bread again today if I get some energy but it’s not looking like that is going to happen with how I feel right now…we’re heading in a stretch of weather with highs in the 20’s for at least two weeks and that means no outdoor rides for quite a while and that gives me time to install the new fenders on the bike and reset the computer….man, I’m worn out today…not much to do today…just grinding through the rides and then figuring out what cleaning to do…more later…

Well…when I started to collect my earned SS benefits, I never thought I could live well on it…and I just got the latest statement and with the raise that starts this month, I’ll get over 30 grand this year and even with that little money, I’m putting away over 1K a month and if I don’t buy a new car, I’ll have well over 50 grand in cash in the bank by the end of the year…there has never been a time in my life when I’ve been this comfortable with money and not worried about affording even health problems or having to buy a new car…but, I am done with spending money after cancelling prime yesterday…not really anything else that I need…I guess it paid off that I was frugal my entire life…and still am…

Well…is there a better way to wake up to the new year than to have “Monterrey Pop” on the tv and Janis doing “Ball and Chain”? Cripes, I’m back in 1968 again…I sure need the coffee to work soon and I will be making more in the pour over after the first ride..slept okay last night and didn’t get out of bed til about 6:30 and I sure needed that…haven’t been sleeping well lately…ha, lately? I don’t remember ever sleeping well…just saw the little weather widget at the bottom of the screen and it says 3 inches of snow today and it feels good that I don’t have to go anywhere for a week or so….going to make chicken Masala today and it will be good to not have ham and salt anymore…my BP is still over 130 this morning but that should change…I hope….not sure how I feel about starting over on the bike after doing the big year last year…is a new beginning or is it the bottom of a big hill again? I would really like to take a day off but that would break the string and I can’t do that….not much to do today…just cooking, football, and making more coffee but not yet…I can sit here for 20 minutes or so and have one more cup before I need to get moving…it’s a little daunting to have a new year facing me…but the last one was okay so I guess I can survive it…more later…

Well…I know I didn’t do a political one here today but I just wasn’t feeling it at all…I’ll try to do one before I get to relaxing tonight…I did cancel my prime subscription trial today before they charged my credit card 150 bucks…and I got the two last packages I ordered that had my new dish drainer and the bike fenders…I really like the drainer…it’s black and very modern standing on legs and having a swivel telescoping drain on it…not the old type that just had a wire basket on top of a drain board…it is a little smaller than the old one but I can live with it if I empty it ever morning and put the dishes away…just looks cool…and I have the fenders for the bike put together and will install them at my leisure since I won’t be riding it for weeks…I did reset the indoor bike computer after doing the mileage report since it starts all over tomorrow…still haven’t figured out the goals for the year but I’ll probably get right back to 24 miles a day indoors and just see where that leads…happy new year!

Well…I’ve decided to give myself an easy day on the bike today so I’ll leave it at the 16 miles I’ve done indoors already…no outdoor rides today since it is cold and raining off and on out here…and I’ve already cleaned up the outdoor bike sine it will be in storage for a couple of months…so now the numbers…total for the year 10,448 miles…3,758 indoors and 6,690 miles outdoors…and that is 4,339 miles more than I’ve ever ridden in a year and three times more than I’ve ridden indoors in a year….and all of that riding burned 417,909 calories, keeping 139 pounds off…and I made the goal of riding every day for the calendar year but I actually hit that on October 19th…so what the heck are the goals for next year? Not sure yet…haven’t really thought about it but I’m sure this year will be the last really huge year…I am old after all and can’t keep this up forever…not bad for an old guy…

Well…that was a short night of sleep with waking up at around 4 and then out of bed by 5:30 but that’s okay with going to bed early…another one meal day yesterday so I’m going to be worn out today so I may take it easy for a 16 or 20 mile day…need to get everything done before Michigan plays at noon and that includes washing the bike since it goes back in storage with the temps dropping back into the 20’s for highs and that is too cold for me to ride outdoors…but we only have two months of winter left so I can hunker down and survive that….I really do need to stop buying food for about a month since I have no room in the freezer and have pizza, soup, and Masala I want to make…but need to use up the last BAH today…need to make Masala tomorrow and ham soup probably Thursday but then I’ll only be eating one meal a day so everything will last forever…my new dish drainer and fenders for the bike are coming today and then I’ll cancel prime since I’m not paying 150 bucks for it…I’ll do a yearly recap later and the same for riding this year but right now I just want to have coffee and sit here for a bit since it’s only 6:05 and I don’t need to get on the bike til 7 or so…just cleaning to do today and I may just ignore it like I did yesterday…more later

Well…darn…just started to get that broken glass effect in my vision so now I’ll have to live with for a half hour until it goes away…the first time it happened it freaked me out until I looked it up and it’s common in people with migraines…so I may misspell some words in this one…and yep, it happens so little out here that I had to put the sun shining in the title…haven’t seen the sun in almost 3 weeks and I couldn’t believe how frickin bright the sun was…nearly blinded me when I was riding into it this morning but it’s going to be cloudy probably for all of January after one more day tomorrow…I did get out to do the grocery run today and got boneless/skinless chicken at 5 pounds for 8 bucks and if I had room in the freezer, I’d go out and get more tomorrow…oh, well…and put another 33 miles on the tally…and the Lions play tonight so cocktails and football tonight…skipping the second meal again today and that could be the new normal…we’ll see…