Well…damn, I’m sore this morning and I could barely pour coffee my right elbow hurts so much…I should be on the indoor bike right now but I think I’m going to skip it today…I’ll still hit the goal this week but need some healing time by only doing two rides today….I need to do the grocery run this morning but only two stores since DD doesn’t have any bargains I want…it’s only 50 degrees out there so I wonder if I’ll put the top down on the car? Of course…don’t have a lot to do today but I want to make pasta salad again so I’ll have a side for whatever I cook…I think I’m going to make tacos with the pound of burger I have in the freezer and use up the tortillas I have in the fridge…don’t have a lot of stuff to do today after getting the lawn mowed yesterday but I really should clean the bathroom and kitchen and I just might…it’s going to be weird to just sit here and have coffee until I need to do the grocery run but I’m so damn tired that I need it….and that’s even with sleeping okay…oh, well…more later…

Well…damn, having a hard time getting started this morning even with not getting up til around 7…have been sleeping okay lately and even still had the covers on me and that says I didn’t toss and turn like normal or they would have been on the floor…I am happy that life is getting back to normal after the holiday and I can get back to my routine….it will be nice to know what day it is again…going to have to do an indoor ride again today with the temp only 50 again this morning…I left the front door open last night and that makes it a little cool in here right now but I can live with it after the heat and humidity….I do need to figure out what to eat this week since I only have enough leftovers for today and I do want to change it up a bit after chicken, chicken, chicken for weeks now…and there is no protein on sale again this week and the freezer hasn’t been so empty in weeks….have lots of canned goods so I’ll probably use some of those…not much to do today…need to get on the bike in 12 minutes as I wait for the temp to come up enough to ride outdoors…more later….

Well…made it to 7,000 miles on the bike for the year today and now only have 78 left to the goal…and that should be early Thursday…I did go out to the mall today to look at the car show and it was a big one…over 1,000 cars and there had to be 5,000 people there while I was…it took me over an hour just to walk down all of the isles and see all the cars…lots of Mustangs and every other kind of car you could think of…there was a 56 Pontiac Chieftan wagon restomod that was just gorgeous and you normally see the 56 Chevys that sit on the same frame instead…not many of the Pontiacs made…I even got to park right next to the show in a parking spot that was just Miata sized and that was cool since the next spot was 200 yards away…I guess it’s an annual thing…pretty cool…

Well…it’s only 49 degrees out there so that is going to force me downstairs for the first ride today but that’s okay…I can use a later start to my day for a change…only have 10 miles to do to get to 7,000 miles for the year and I’m in the countdown to 7,100…just so damn worn out this morning that all I want do to is sit here and have coffee…but, I’ll get going before 8 as I always do…had a good day yesterday but didn’t accomplish much and I’m not sure what I’ll do today…I do want to head over to the mall to see the car show but I’m not really geeked about it…I’ve seen so may of them in my lifetime that there is nothing new to see…but it’s going to be a nice day so wandering around in a parking lot might be fun….we’ll see…I really do need to cook something today and it may be another batch of pasta salad…don’t really have any protein in the freezer so maybe some pasta and garlic bread? Haven’t made that in a long time and some spaghetti sounds good…not much to do today…going to get on the bike downstairs in 25 minutes and that gives me enough time to have another cup of coffee…more later…

Well…sitting here waiting for the Man U match to start and just sitting here is hard and I really don’t know how to take it easy anymore…have the first ride in and the weight work done and now I’ll settle in for a couple of hours to watch the match then right back out for two more rides before the indycar race starts at 3…saw some really cool clouds at the beach this morning that looked like they were in 2D and painted on the sky…strange…I did see 4 more houses with Harris/Walz signs in the yards and still only 1 for the idiot trump and this is a quite conservative area…it looks like we have a major weather change here today with the low getting down to 50 tonight and down in the 40’s by Friday…a little too cool for me this early in September but we all know what’s coming and there is nothing to be done about it…just hope the heat doesn’t start coming on til the end of the month…okay, the match is starting…

Well…damn, it looks like the schedule of races and soccer matches is going to be a problem with getting the rides in today…need to get on the bike by 7:30 to get a ride in before the F1 race at 9…and that will take me to the Man U match at 11 that will go for two hours so the next time I’ll be on the bike is 1 and then I need two rides before 3…crap…I hate busy days like this…slept okay last night but feel like I didn’t and I need the coffee to work right now…I forgot to do the weight work yesterday and I feel like a slug from it so I’ll do it while I’m watching the race at 9…another month starts and the weather is changing to a low of 50 tonight from the 67 that it is right now…as long as the heat doesn’t come on, I’m okay with that….there is a big car show starting this afternoon to raise money for cancer survivors but I’m going to wait to go til tomorrow afternoon…supposed to be 1,000 cars there and it might be fun to see…have to remember the 100 sunscreen when I go…don’t know what I’m going to eat today but I do know I need to eat more…my ribs are showing and I haven’t seen that in a long time…more later….

Well…damn, it’s after 7 and I’ve just poured my first cup of coffee and that puts me behind for the day already…need to get two rides in before F1 qualifying at 10 so I need to get going by 7:30…got a lot of miles in yesterday so I can only do two rides today and not feel too guilty about it…Michigan plays tonight so I’ll be glued to that at 7pm so another night of no Svengoolie and there are lots of races on, too, so today might be fun…going to slather my neck with voltaren before I go out in 8 minutes….and my right elbow that has been hurting so badly that it hurts to pick up my coffee cup…damn, I’m getting old…the humidity has finally dropped out here and it’s pretty comfortable here right now…it was just so wearing to have everything so damp for so long…I may even clean the bathroom today since it will dry after I wash everything…I do need to cook today with no leftovers to eat and I haven’t planned anything yet other than taking some thighs out of the freezer…should make another batch of pasta salad but that may wait til tomorrow…damn, I need to get going…more later…

Well…when I got up this morning and it was raining, I knew the rides were going to start indoors and it really did look like I wasn’t getting outdoors for any miles…and I even entertained the thought of only doing one ride indoors and calling it good…but the one ride turned into two inside and by the time I finished indoors, the rain had stopped and it was drying up quite quickly so I jumped on the outdoor bike to get a ride in…that ride turned into two for a total of 42 miles and my easy day turned into more…and now I only have 186 more miles to go to get to the goal of 7,100 and I should get there next week since there is no more rain in the forecast until next Friday…not sure how I feel about that…I know it’s what I have been working towards all year and have thought about for years and I know I haven’t thought past it…not sure if I need a goal to be motivated to ride but I know staying active is the greatest anti aging thing you can do and I like the way I look weighing less so I know I’ll keep it up…not sure if it will be at this pace, though, since I do feel like I’m wearing out…haven’t had a rest day this year but that is another goal to be met this year…riding every day for the year…time for weight work…

Well…up at about the same time as always this morning…okay, that’s not true…I wake up at weird times all the time but today it was around 6 or so…there is a nice breeze blowing through here right now and it looks like it’s not going to be light before the rain comes in so I’ll be doing the first ride downstairs today….we might even get a little storm and that would be cool…had the feeling that it was Saturday when I got up and that has been going on all week…with no routine the days just run together…I forgot to take food out of the freezer so I’m not sure what I’ll be eating today…maybe some pasta? Or a hot ham and cheese sandwich? Should probably look right now and get something thawing…man, it would be easy to just hit BK for a burger and fries but that would break my string of 4 years of no fast food…I just want to sit here and watch for rain to quote Pink Floyd….the sky here is golden as the sun comes up but my camera won’t capture it…oh, well…not much to do today…I am so tired of being damp with the humidity and I hope the rain will change that soon…I am going to sit here for a half hour and have more coffee and watch F1 practice…more later…

Well…when I got up this morning, I found that my bathroom sink drain was completely blocked and drain cleaner wouldn’t touch it…so after the second ride, I went out to depot to pick up a small drain auger and found a nice one for 30 bucks…to get at the pipes I had to remove the trap under the bathroom sink and found that the clog was right there so I didn’t need the auger…15 minutes later I had it cleaned and put back together with the stopper adjusted right so it opens as it’s supposed to…have had problems with that drain since I bought this place but now I think it’s solved permanently and I saved the 30 bucks I spent on the auger so I can return it next week…I did get the last of the lawn food applied to take advantage of the rain that is supposed to come tomorrow morning…okay, need to do the weight work…Oh, when I was at my water stop on the last ride, an old gentleman sat down to ask where the “beach loop” was that he saw on the signs so I showed him since I ride it every day…he was looking for a place to do rehab walks for some knee problems he is having…we had a nice chat and it was cool to talk to anyone with my self imposed covid isolation going on…