Well…not sure if I’m running late or early with the time change yesterday but I do still feel cold as heck this morning and I am going to put the heating pad on here in a minute….and that is strange with it almost 60 outside right now…slept okay and had some dreams last night but they were about the basement of my house collapsing…not this house but one I’d never seen before…strange…it’s raining here and is going to be all morning so there will be two rides indoors and maybe one outside again but the wind is going to be blowing a steady 20 with gusts again and I’m not sure if I want to face that today after freezing yesterday…it looks like I made way too much soup yesterday so I’ll be having nothing but that for a few days and I can live with that…need to avoid meat for the next week until I get blood drawn a week from tomorrow and the my yearly checkup a week later….I have a dozen burgers in the freezer that will be eaten after that…I think I’ve controlled my weight enough to get down in the 160’s but I’ll be eating light for the next two weeks to make sure…not much to do today…just the rides and putting the leaves out for pick up tomorrow but I think I’ll wait on that until Tues morning so the rain doesn’t soak the bags…or maybe even wait a week to put them out…who knows? More later….

Well…damn, when I was out at the water stop on the boardwalk, there were fire engines, police cars, an ambulance, and a boat running up and down the beach so that can only mean one thing, another drowning out at my beach…that is the third one this year and I wonder whey anyone would be in the water when it was only 45 degrees air temp…the wind was blowing hard again today so I wonder if someone fell off the pier again? Whatever it was, it’s still sad seeing the rescue boat searching and searching out there…I did get three rides in today but only one outdoors since I was cold and just out of synch…and it took me a long hot shower to warm up some but still needed to put the heating pad on to get back to normal…I did make potato soup this afternoon to use up the whole milk I bought last week for the scalloped potatoes and it came out great…made too much so I’ll be eating that for two meals a day until late in the week…okay, going to read a bit before the Lions play…

Well…damn, this is going to be a weird day with dealing with the time change and trying to get started that isn’t working right now…I should be on the bike but I just poured the first cup of coffee and I won’t go downstairs until it starts to work…I did get 41 miles in yesterday and now only have 1,100 miles to go and two months to do it…so I think I’m in good shape to make the goal….didn’t get much done yesterday and I really do need to clean today but Man U plays at 10 so that means a ride indoors before that…or maybe two since the time change gives me an extra hour…I am so tired of having to get going all the time but I guess it’s what is keeping me from feeling even older than I do…I forgot to plug the laptop in overnight and it is so cool that it still had over 50% of charge after a whole day…and it has gained to over 70% in about 10 minutes…don’t have any leftovers to eat today so I’ll have to cook something and it may be the bean burritos I’ve been thinking about for more than a week now to use up the tomatoes that are going to go bad soon…okay, this is going to be a jumbled day that I need to get started right now…but more coffee first and then downstairs in 14 minutes…more later…

Well…man, it’s only 30 degrees out here right now so that is going to make me really late getting outdoors for a ride today…it looks like it will be after noon and that kind of screws up my schedule for the day…and I wonder why I even have a schedule? Yeah, I know…discipline…and that has me getting on the indoor bike here in 26 minutes for the first of two rides this morning….slept okay last night and I feel okay this morning if a little worn out…as I always do and that is getting old as I am…getting old? Crap…I am old and feeling it…okay, that’s enough of that…there is a Saturday ahead of me and even though the weekend doesn’t mean anything anymore, it’s still a day to enjoy…don’t really need to cook today but I want to…going to make some potato soup later since I have some whole milk to use up before it spoils and I need to cut up some more veggies to replace the pretzels that were killing me…I do have two more chicken leg quarters to either cook or freeze and I’m not sure which right now…not much to do today…just need to drag my butt downstairs and get the day started in 15 minutes and then I’ll let the day flow as it will…yeah, I’m still planning as I always do but the bathroom is clean so that is not hanging over me and that’s not a bad way to start the day…more later…

Well…the easy day I had planned for yesterday but didn’t allow happened today with only two indoor rides and then cleaning and a little yard work…started out with getting the two rides in downstairs by 11 am but it was a struggle to get going for some reason…didn’t even get out of bed til 6:30 or so and if I could figure out how that happened, I’d do it every day…after lunch, I went out to put the last of the winter food on the lawn to take advantage of the rain that is coming in Sunday…the leaves are still on the trees and I only have til the end of the month to put them out so I’ sure some of them are going to just get mulched up and left on the lawn…after that, I put a load of laundry in for the second time this week and that is unusual, too…normally, I do one load a week and I’m not sure how that many clothes got used…after that, I did a full cleaning on the bathroom and finished up my day with the weight work around 3 or so…I did get to read and finished up another one of those I got at the book sale so I’ll have to start a new one tomorrow…got some of the bike parts today but I’m still waiting for the rear cassette…bike is still working fine and as of today I only have 1,155 miles left to go and two months to do it…and I can sure do 600 miles a month..after all, I did over 800 in October…time for tv…

Well…damn, another month starts and I’m so darn worn out that I just want to go back to bed but I won’t…just poured the first cup of coffee and it’s already 7:30 so this is going to be a day of struggle to get going…it’s not going to get to 50 out there so it looks like a short day on the bike…I am so tired of having a schedule every damn day…so I wonder if I should get the thermasuit out for the first time and get a cold outdoor ride in today? I’ll have to think about that…I really do need to put the last food on the lawn today since we have lots of rain coming in the next few days…might get up to two inches starting Sunday so I guess I could wait til tomorrow…didn’t get anything done yesterday but cook so I’ll have to get off my butt today and clean the bathroom…and I only have 9 minutes before I have to get on the bike downstairs and I sure don’t want to…but I will…going to have leftover chicken and scalloped potatoes for one meal today but I’m not sure what the second one will be…maybe the bean burritos I’ve been thinking about…who knows? More later…

Well…I had every intention of taking it easy today and only doing 2 rides downstairs for 16 miles and then making scalloped potatoes and chicken for lunch…the potatoes came out only okay with something missing from them…I think it’s too much flour for the roux so next time I’ll cut that back on that…after lunch the wind came down and the rain stopped so I suited up for a ride outdoors that wasn’t bad so when I got back here, I got right back on the bike for number two and about a mile out a squall came through with high winds and stopped me dead as it started to pour and that kept up for a couple of miles until the wind slowed and the rain stopped…and then the ride was okay again…so that was a 41 mile day that started out as an easy one…and this is the 100th post here this month…and that is a lot…no more later…

Well…it is so strange how the wind was howling one second out here and then just stopped…it is barely blowing right now and the rain has moved out so, after the scalloped potatoes are done and I have lunch, I’m going to go out for at least one ride…already have two rides in downstairs so there could be a potential for 41 miles today and that would be pretty cool…okay, you know what this one is for…trying to get to 100 of these for the month so there is going to be some filler for the next three…I still can’t believe that I bought so much fruits and veggies this week and now I need to figure out the meals that are going to come from them..and I do need some of the cauliflower, celery, and carrots raw so that is my new snack thing..veggies dipped in buttermilk ranch dressing with three or four drops of hot sauce in it…man, that is good…and it doesn’t have the salt the pretzels were killing me with…the potatoes are bubbling so I’m going to stop here and read some news…yeah, I know, the those two things have nothing to do with each other…more later…

Well…I think I need an easy day today after all the work yesterday and the 30+ miles of riding every day for the past month…and the weather is going to cooperate with rain coming in from the south soon and wind that is even more crazy than yesterday…the branches are just whipping around so I’ll just do a couple of indoor rides and let my body rest a bit….I just laughed when I opened the fridge to get milk for my coffee and saw all the veggies I bought yesterday along with the apples sitting on the table…can’t remember buying 4 kind of veggies in a week before…actually 5 if you include the onion…nope, 6 with the potatoes…have all the ingredients for potato soup, too…so that may be for tomorrow…pretty damn sore this morning but I slept okay so I guess I can live with it…just found the recipe for scalloped potatoes I was looking at the other day and it looks pretty easy so that will get made for lunch with a chicken leg quarter…don’t have room in the air fryer for both so I’ll get the chicken in first after the rides and then prep the potatoes as it cooks…not much to do today…I do need to clean the bathroom today and will get to that after lunch…I do need to remember that this is an easy day and take some time for myself…more later…

Well…for the second day in a row I had to ride outdoors in a gale warning but today was quite a bit windier than it was yesterday and it was a lot of work but I like being out in the strong elements like storms, blizzards and wind…started the day with an indoor ride…then out to groceries where I filled up on veggies but bought some chicken leg quarters at aldis for 1.19 a pound and that will keep me going a while since there is very little left in the freezer…and I’m going to make scalloped potatoes tomorrow for the first time with whole milk that I got a half gallon for the dish…after the groceries, I headed straight out to get the rides in before noon so I could get on the yard and leaves…just finished that up at 2:30 and ended up with 5 bags of leaves in the garage to be put out next week…so that leaves me with an easy day for tomorrow with the rain coming in…cooking and cleaning will be the order of the day…