Well…that was a little better…didn’t get out of bed til 5:30 and slept some so I feel okay today…not even as much pain as I expected but I treated it all last night and I think that helped…damn, it’s going to be a day of figuring out how to get everything done starting with the indoor ride, then the grocery run, and fitting in either outdoor or indoor rides to get to three…and in between that, I need to get the first layer of leaves picked up before the rain that is coming in tonight…but, the wind is already howling even more than yesterday blowing from 20-30 and gusts to over 40 with a gale warning on til 4 and the a high wind advisory taking over after that…so it could be a light ride day today with only 2 indoors but I’m on schedule for getting to 10K…sitting at 8,763 as of this morning and that will leave me about 1,200 miles to do in the last two months of the year…the veggie experiment is going okay and I’m picking up lots more of them at aldis today…eliminating salt from my diet is helping with my swollen right foot as I hoped it would but I still have a couple of weeks until it’s back to normal….not much to do today…ha,ha…I’m going to be running starting here at 6:30 and won’t be done til probably 3 or so but tomorrow will be an easier day…more later…

Well…don’t know if I planned to cut the two stumps put of the fence today but I did and got them down to ground level…left a big hole in it that I covered up with some leftover square hole chicken wire that was here when I bought the house…so I’m going to pay for that tomorrow…my right thumb is howling in pain right now from taking a beating with the reciprocating saw and it didn’t help my neck either…need to treat that as soon I’m done with this…got three rides in today and even though the wind was blowing 20+, they were still fun since the wind was out of the south and that made it a cross wind all the way except for the first 300 yards or so…that was brutal…so it’s 1:45 and I am done for the day other than the weight work and making the grocery list…so I better get after it….

Well…darn, another night of up and down but that gave me the chance to see a little thunderstorm roll through at 3 am…mostly to the north but we did get a little rain…need to haul butt today to get the indoor ride in by 8 so I can get outdoors before the gale warning kicks in…but I can already hear the wind howling out there so I’ll probably get hurt on the outdoor bike today…steady 17 mph wind with gusts to 25 and it’s a shame that is happening with the temp already over 60 right now…but the wind is coming out of the south and I can usually cope with that…didn’t get anything done yesterday since the leaves still haven’t fallen much but it looks like 31 degree low Thursday night will get them dropping…still have leftovers for today but there is no protein on sale this week so I’m not sure what I’m going to plan for the rest of the week…have two pork chops in the freezer along with some pork fillets but I can’t eat any red meat until after I get my blood drawn on the 12 of November to get my cholesterol down…so lots of veggies til then…not much to do today…might do some raking to get the leaves out of the fences and take my angle grinder to the stump with a cut off wheel to try to free up the fence from it…and I do have to make up the grocery list that is almost all veggies this week…going to have to get used to that….more later….

Well…over the past week or so, the bike chain started slipping when I hit bumps while pedaling so that means that the driveline is wearing out so I spent some money today to get all of the replacement parts I need…93 bucks with tax for the front crankset, chain, rear cassette, a bottom bracket tool, and a new set of handgrips…but, I had cashback to spend with Capital One so everything was free…I was going to buy some heated gloves to ride in the winter but even the 40 dollar ones were crap and I’m not going to spend 50-60 bucks for a pair…so I’ll look another direction for that..didn’t get anything else done today but take the left rear tire back off the car since I forgot to lube the suspension bushings when I had the wheel off to clean it…I decided to try a nickle plated rear cassette to see if it will last longer than the anodized ones I’ve been using…and it looks like chrome so that is cool…decided to cut back on my salt intake that I’ve been getting from snacking on pretzels so I won’t be buying any more of those…going to replace them with carrots, celery and cauliflower and see how that works out…it won’t be the same but I only have 3 weeks to get my blood pressure down before the checkup…and an article I read the other day said that extra salt intake is the most common cause of high blood pressure…and cocktails are another bad one so I’ve stopped those, too…and the calories from both have made my weight plateau so I’m hoping to now get down to 160 pounds and stay there…but I am going to have cocktails after the checkup…have to remember to get my blood work done next week and then I can have red meat again, too…okay, time to read….

Well…”just one more morning…I had to wake up with the blues…pull myself out of bed…put on my walking shoes” just a little quote from the Allman brothers “Dreams” to get the day started…didn’t plug the laptop in overnight and it still had 54% of the battery left and that’s pretty cool that the battery lasts a whole day…the old one lasted about a half hour…and after being plugged in for 5 minutes, it’s already up to 61%…damn, I’ve been so cold for the past day that I had the heating pad on me just to sit here but I’m sure it’s just the transition to cold weather that I haven’t adjusted to just yet…it’s going to warm up over the next two days and it looks like it will be the last two days of 70 degree weather here for the rest of the year but that is still a little weird for the end of October…have to drag the thermasuit out soon to be able to ride when I want and that’s a transition that I don’t relish…haven’t bought the heated gloves yet and I am struggling with buying them on Amazon after Bezo’s betrayal of the US by killing the endorsement of Kamala in the Post last week…I think I’ll do one last order to get the parts for the bike and then delete my account and go back to the olden days of buying individually…gonna suck but I won’t support anyone who supports the orange idiot…going to start to pick up the leaves today after the rides so I’ll be working outdoors all afternoon..and I need to clean out the flower beds along the house with the string trimmer and get the flower stalks raked up and bagged…more and more work…and more later…

Well…last year about this time, I had to kick a path through all of the walnuts that fell on the trail from a tree that is right next to it..and I still have boxes full of them downstairs…but this year, there is not one walnut from that tree anywhere to be found…now, I saw the same thing a few years back when I lived in Cutlerville and rode through Kentwood where there were three walnut trees along a hundred yard section of the trail that covered it with nuts every fall…and then one year, nothing…I am a little curious about that since we had walnut trees on our property but I don’t remember them ever having a year where there were no nuts…walnut trees are weird…

Well…having a heck of a time getting going today but I still have to get on the bike by 8am…it’s only 31 out there so the outdoor rides will wait until the afternoon but that will interfere with the races so I’ll have to figure that out…or just skip them since they are pretty boring anyway…yeah, you’re right…sounds like I’m a little depressed this morning and I am….not sure if it will turn into couch melting depression but it could and that means there is going to be a lot of work to do to suppress it…crap…had a good day yesterday and got the last 5 windows cleaned and today should be a bathroom cleaning day and it might be..we’ll see…finished up the antibiotics yesterday and I am a little curious to see what the effect will be without them…have been taking them since July but I think I still have the infection on my mouth and that sucks…man, I am so tired of having a schedule to meet every day…haven’t taken a day off to do what I want for over a year and that is a little sick, isn’t it? At least I don’t have to cook today with leftovers that will last at least 3 more days but I do have to plan what is next…but who knows what that will be…have lots of canned goods that should make some meals and they need to be used…more later…

Well…damn I just realized I’ve only ridden 650 miles this month and that won’t get me to the final goal…still have 1,400 miles to do and the 28 miles I did yesterday just isn’t enough…and it’s pretty depressing that I may not meet the last goal in my life…and it gets worse…I wasn’t good last night and feel pretty crappy this morning…didn’t ever pour the first cup of coffee until 6:45 and that means I’m already late with getting the day started and that is going to follow me all day…it’s funny how much pain I’ve been in and the lidocaine experiment on my neck appears to be a failure since it still hurts and I will need to have x-rays after my yearly checkup to figure out what the heck is going on…I mean how can an injury still hurt after 4 months? Oh, well…it looks like a one indoor ride day today since it is already 47 out there but I hope the wind is a little lower than yesterday…but, it’s always windy out here so why would I think today would be any different? Okay, just poured the second cup of coffee and need to get over to Mastodon to get the first post out there…don’t have a lot to do today other than the rides but I want to get the remaining windows cleaned…and get that off my to do list..more later…

Well…not sure why I feel so darn worn out today but I think it’s a continuation of how I felt yesterday afternoon…tired, just tired and I probably should be after doing over 30 miles a day on the bike for the entire year…went over 8,600 miles yesterday and I’m not sure if I can do 1,400 more miles this year…I will try but damn, that’s a lot of miles…it rained overnight and it’s only 46 right now so that means at least one indoor ride today that I need to get to in 45 minutes or so…I do need a day off working around here and it may be today…but I still have 5 windows to do and should get that done so I don’t have to think about it anymore…I do have to cook at least one meal today since I have the Masala leftovers for one and chicken thawed for another chicken/rice/potato dish in the half dutch oven…but that still means I’ll have to cook again tomorrow and I’m not sure what that will be…need to look in the freezer I guess…not much to do today…can I just sit here for a bit and not get going? I wonder how people just do nothing for an entire day? Haven’t done that for so long I don’t remember it…and I won’t do that today….oh, well…more later…