Well…up at around 6 this morning and I am pretty surprised that the pain from the ride outdoors yesterday is mostly gone…still a little echo of it in my back but I’ll be outdoors as soon as it gets warm enough around 10…only 40 degrees out here right now and it’s the middle of May…there is something wrong with that…by now we should have some 80 degree days where I can open the windows but we’ve only had two days of that this year so far…have 31 minutes before I need to get on the indoor bike for the first ride but the coffee hasn’t started to work yet and it needs to…need to get all of the rides done before Man U plays at 11:30 but I wonder why I’m still watching them…this is the worst season for them since the Premier League started in the early 90’s and it looks like every player on the team is for sale this summer so a rebuilding process is going to start…and it needs to start with the manager and the rest of the management team…oh, well…it may be interesting…not much to do today…still have leftovers so no cooking today but I do need to get the recipes out and find something different to make this week…have lots of ingredients on the shelf and need to use some of them…more later…

Well…damn, I may be getting stupid in my old age…after sitting here waiting for the temp to come up enough to get on the outdoor bike, I finally got out after noon but I shouldn’t have…the wind was blowing 25mph with gusts to 35 and I was going straight into it all the way out to the beach and was stopped a few times by the gusts…during the first one, something popped in my left thigh and then it hurt the rest of the way out and back…and I pulled something in my back and hurt my right hip from the high exertion so I am not going out again…could barely get off the bike when I got back and had to just stand there to let the pain in my hip lessen enough to take a step…getting old is enough of a pain without doing stupid stuff to make it worse…cripes…I did get an indoor ride before mowing the lawn so I guess that’s enough for the day…this day took a lot out of me…so I’m going to just sit here and watch some races..

Well…damn, I’m disappointed…after seeing all of the photos of the aurora from last night, I’m depressed that I couldn’t see any here and I stayed up til 11 to try…oh, well…just poured the first cup of coffee and it appears that I won’t be riding outdoors until later with the wind blowing like crazy…so I guess I’ll need to adjust my schedule for the day and mow the lawn after the indoor ride…it’s only 50 here right now so it’s too damn cold to go out on the bike anyway…the heat has been on all night and that is just not right for the middle of May…at least the garden is doing better than last year and I’m thinking of using liquid food in the water this year to not burn the plants like I did last year…still have leftovers from growing other plants that I can start with and see how it works….still pretty sore today and I think part of it is bending over to weed the garden for over an hour yesterday…but that is done for a while and I can take it a bit easier today…don’t even have to cook today with soup and fish leftovers to have but I will need to plan for meals starting tomorrow…I sure hope today is not another day that gets away from me…it’s just damn tiring being so busy all the time but today looks like it’s going to be a chore with all that I have to do…and I need to start it right now so I’ll gulp the coffee and get to it….man, I’m tired…more later…

Well…I’m sitting here laughing about the absurdity that my life has devolved into…like a broken record, I had another busy day today with the indoor ride, then a run out to aldis, then two outdoor rides that I finished up around noon…put a load of laundry in and then went out to plant the chili pepper seeds that had sprouted in the paper towel…and planted the last cup of tiny tomato plants that I really don’t need but I sure wasn’t going to just dump them…should have about 10 chili pepper plants if they live and not is not certain at all…I did do the first weeding in the garden and it appears that everything has come up including the leeks that I have no clue what I am going to use them in…the lettuce and broccoli are doing well so far as are the beans that I have 20 plants up and growing…and planted 8 more today just for the heck of it…the cukes and carrots are iffy and it may be the second year in a row of no home made pickles and that sucks…so, another busy day…it’s been raining quite a bit out here so my lawn needs to be mowed almost twice a week and that will be done tomorrow…it’s still clear out here right now so I have my fingers crossed for the aurora tonight…the line of possibility is all the way down to the Indiana border so at least there’s a chance…going to look anyway…oh, and I made potato soup and just finished that up at around 4 or so…so running from 7 until 4 today…not supposed to be working 9 hours a day…I’m retired after all…

Well…out of bed about 6:30 this morning an that leaves me running late to get on the indoor bike by 7:30…but it is only 45 outdoors right now so I will need to wait to ride out there today….still pretty sore right now but there is no reason for it other than riding the bike…I am really hoping that it stays clear tonight to see the northern lights that are supposed to be visible all the way south to Alabama tonight…there were 6 CME’s in a row yesterday from a sunspot complex that never happens so I’ll be out looking up tonight…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I will be making potato soup with bacon today and doing some cleaning and laundry…not sure why I just can’t take a day off to enjoy but I’m not going to agonize about it…I do need to plant the chili pepper seeds that have sprouted in the paper towel and I really hope some of them survive…I need to replenish my pepper supply in the freezer…crap, it looks like it’s going to be cloudy tonight so no northern lights for me…oh, well…not much to do today…it’s sunny right now but the temp is not coming up til around 10 so that is going to make me late for getting the outdoor rides in but the wind is going to be almost calm and I am looking forward to that….damn, 15 minutes til the indoor bike…need more coffee…more later…

Well…had a pretty good day today but didn’t anything done and I’m okay with that with how busy I was yesterday…the weed killer has already started to work and I think I have the settings on the sprayer figured out and the bottle of killer I bought covered the entire lawn and left me about half a gallon mixed up in the hand sprayer to kill off ones I may have missed…I do have some of the chili peppers sprouted out back and in the paper towel so I’ll need to plant those tomorrow…I think I may have my schedule figured out with doing one indoor ride as soon as I get up and then two outdoor rides right after to have them all done by 11am…and that leaves me the rest of the day to cook, clean, and read and still get 33 miles in for the day…and that gives me 100 miles every three days and that pace should be enough to hit the goals for the year…didn’t make soup today with my brother coming over to have me help with his car antenna again but the part didn’t fit…again…oh, well…I did watch the new “Ghostbusters” movie last night and it was okay…stayed interested but there was no Rick Moranis in it and there should have been….

Well…didn’t run the hepa filters last night and I am feeling it this morning with my eyes itchy and full of crap…and I just generally feel lousy and worn out like maybe I’m getting old or something….the day was okay yesterday until the assholes started up again to the south of me…I sure hope the cops clued them in this time…I was so damn sore last night that I had the heating pad on everything and I still feel it today…need to figure out how to get back into a sustainable routine where I don’t struggle to just survive the day…but that probably won’t be today since I need to get on the indoor bike here in 50 minutes or so…and that right there is a symptom of what is wrong with me…I’m retired and yet the schedule is still driving me to accomplish things when I could just sit here and enjoy the stillness…I do need to cook today since I thawed some catfish nuggets that need to go in the air fryer along with making some potato soup so I’ll need to carve out time for that…the radar says it’s raining out there but I just looked and it’s dry so I can get on the bike just as soon as I do an indoor ride…maybe that can be my routine…one indoor ride to start the day and then two outdoor rides and be done before noon? I just realized that I’m going to make fish and chips with the catfish today and I’m looking forward to that…not much else to do other than clean a bit…more later…

Well…man, it’s been busy today with getting the first ride in indoors, then doing the grocery runs, back on the bike for two outdoor rides, and the yard work that included weedkiller for the lawn and planting a few more veggie plants…and I had to repair a downspout that came loose…and the assholes were out at the rental again today and the last straw was a steady stream of them walking behind the rental to pee when I was working on the garden…so I called the cops and three of them came out to talk to me about it and then they went over to talk to the asshole who rents the house…and I hope they let him know what the heck the law is so I don’t have to keep calling…pissed me right off…and I’m still pissed…grrrrr…oh, I did get some food today from DD…12 oz package of ground chuck for 2 bucks and some roasted turkey for 99 cents a package…and a 3lb bag of yellow potatoes at Meijers for a buck along with a 3 lb bag yellow onions for a buck, too…so I really need to make more potato soup tomorrow…

Well…man, I’m having problems getting the cobwebs out of my brain this morning and that leaves me feeling old…just started the first cup of coffee and it needs to work soon or I won’t be able to get on the bike before 7…going to do an indoor ride this morning before the grocery run and then two outdoors when I get back…slept okay last night but was out of bed at 5:40 and still feel sore from the flat tire riding yesterday…trying to plan meals for the next week or so and I have lots of stuff thawing in the fridge…bacon, fish and pork loin fillets and I’m going to make potato soup today to use up some of the yellow potatoes I got for a buck for three pounds…and I’m getting another bag of those today…think I’m going to hit DD for some burgers this morning, too…and do a little searching there for bargains…might work on the vacant lot across the street again today after the rides and I need to plant the chili pepper seeds that have sprouted in the paper towel…not much to do today…need to get going soon to get the day started…have a huge grocery list for some reason and I don’t know how it got so big…even have coupons to use today that will save me a few bucks….more later…

Well…it was a day of racing to get three rides in before the rain came in and I had bike trouble happening that really slowed me down…first, I did get the shifters adjusted well enough to use them…at least better than they were with the broken front cable and the back shifter so out of adjustment that you had to shift it down two gears to get it to go down one…so I ran the stripped adjuster wheel all the way in and did the adjusting with moving the cable manually…still doesn’t upshift right but the cable will stretch and make that better but I may adjust it again…on the second ride today, the bike seemed way too hard to ride into the 15-18 mph wind that I do almost every day so I looked down and saw that my rear tire was losing air and I barely made it back here…so I put my last new tube in and put the bike back together…then on the third ride, the computer started to shut off intermittently and I was pretty sure it was the repair I did in the wire so I got the soldering iron out and re soldered it so it works again and I hope it’s the last time I have to do that…I may have to cut that section out of the wire to get some new stuff to solder…but I hope not…my entire body hurts right now from the rides and I am going to have to take something for it later…I really should repair some tubes but I want to eat something first…I think I have 4 of them downstairs with just small pinhole leaks in them that should repair okay…oh, I did hit 3,000 miles for the year yesterday and that was only 7 days past the goal of May 1st so I feel pretty good about that…and only about 500 miles to halfway when I can start counting down the miles instead of up…