Well…they just delivered the new beach chair and it is really nice but a little too big for the 30 gallon bags I used to put the old one in to contain the sand…so I’m going to have to buy some contractor sized bags…okay, just looked on amazon and I can get 10- 3 mil thick 55 gallon bags for 12 bucks so I’ll order them when I order the coffee and new bike pedals tomorrow…the new chair’s frame is crackle coated grey and it is very sturdy…set it up and laid on it and it is really comfortable…will probably never have to buy another one…it has built in strap handles and came with a shoulder strap…can’t wait to try it at the beach…maybe next week…and it will be easy to carry it to the water’s edge since the beach is less than half as deep as it was when they dredged the sand…and it came with a cup holder and pockets to store stuff in…I think it’s really worth the 70 bucks since I tried one from walmart a couple of years ago for 40 bucks and it fell apart after the first use…and it has three legs that it stands on instead of the two that most of them have…might be overkill but I just want to be comfortable…ooo…the pocket is big enough to hold a book so I can read on the beach…have to be careful about sunburn…very cool…

Well…I get to have coffee this morning! That is a little thing but after having to skip it to keep my bp down yesterday made the bike rides a bit of a struggle…need to get on the bike in 20 minutes to get my day started and it will be a busy one again…need to get two rides in, then go out to get the prescription and then come back here and cook since I finished off the leftovers yesterday but I may leave the stir fry til tomorrow since I bought a cheap pizza at DD yesterday and I haven’t had one of those in more than a year…the potato salad I made with mayo yesterday came out good after it got cold in the fridge…before that it had a bitter taste that I thought was going to  force me to dump it…but again, that could be my distorted taste that I hope the prescription will fix…think I’m going to hit the library for more books this morning since I only have two left and I’ll be through those before the weekend…my new beach lounger should be here today and I am a little excited to see if it will work for me…I know the water will never be warm enough to go swimming but I might just go and hang out on the beach for some color…more later…

Well…when I get a day like today, I really need to make sure I smile and realize how good it was..I mean getting such a good checkup and having my doctor prescribing 4 pills that have the potential to give me my sense of taste back and I am really excited about that… and then making sourdough bread that I’m going to bake tomorrow…and driving over to DD and getting some bargains…and just driving the new car around made me smile…and I am going to celebrate with a cocktail or two after not having any for 3 days prepping for the checkup to get my BP down…and I got to see my regular doctor today and he seemed happy to see me as I was to see him…and I should sleep better tonight after having 3 nights of tossing and turning and sweating…I did do laundry and bedding so I’ll have a clean bed to sleep in…so, I’m going to enjoy tonight…I’m still smiling from today and I hope that continues tomorrow…time to dit on my butt for a while and do nothing….oh, and my laptop froze up completely and a nice man from India did a hard reset of it to get me going again…and sent me instructions so I can do it myself next time…

Well…just got back from my checkup and the news is good…BP is down to 122/72 and the doctors says that’s just where it needs to be…I am going to have a huge freckle on my forehead removed later in the month give that my brother is on his 7th melanoma removal and we have the same skin tone…so white we’re almost transparent… and when I showed the doctor my white tongue, he thinks it’s a yeast infection and it is what is causing me to lose my sense of taste…so I pick up a prescription that I take for only 4 days and he thinks that will clear it up…damn, it would great to be able to taste food and coffee again….I miss potato chips….so, it could not have gone better and I guess all of the hard work I do to take care of myself is paying off…and that was the joke I made to the doctor when I said it would be a shame to have a freckle kill me after all the work I do to stay in shape…I can be funny at times…more later….

Well…darn, up at 4:23 this morning but I went to bed before 10 so I guess 6 hours is not too bad…feel okay this morning but it’s only 50 degrees here right now so getting on the bike is going to be iffy to get the rides in before the checkup this morning…but the temp is supposed to rise pretty fast and it will be 56 or so by 7 so I’ll get it done…no coffee until I get back from the appointment to try to keep my BP in acceptable range and I am going to take both BP meds this morning to see if that helps…going to be almost 70 before I head out at 10:15 so I can put the top down on the car…might even run over to DD since they have 12 oz packages of thin sliced ham or turkey for 1.29 and that’s pretty cheap…going to assemble the potato salad this morning before I go out on the bike since it just a little after 5 and I won’t be going out til 7 or so…not sure what is going on but I was freezing again last night that turned into sweating again with my winter sleep clothes on…I do need to make the sourdough dough for the bread I want to bake tomorrow but I can’t start that until I have a few hours that I can dedicate to it…so I’ll do that this aft…not much to do today…might wash the car this aft since it’s pretty dirty from driving in the rain the other day and I want to try out my new soap and wash mitt….more later…

Well…as you know, I have been feeling lots of pain on the bike and I had to try to figure out what the heck was going on…so, I decided to cut back to only two rides and 25 miles a day starting last Saturday…that made me feel like a slug but the fruits of that decision showed themselves today when I rode both rides without pain for the first time since I started to ride outdoors this year…no thigh or knee pain or any tricep pain either and that has been killing me for better than a month…the only bad thing about that is it makes me feel like my body has just given up some of it’s capability that I’ll never get back…but I am going to try to start alternating 25 and 38 mile days just to see what happens…and I do need to train for the “ride my age” day that has to happen before my birthday in July…I did go crazy at Menards today and bought car wash soap and a new bottle of Meguiar’s wax along with a new wash mitt since the old one is 15 years old an getting pretty raggety…so I spent a hundred bucks today that I shouldn’t have…oh, well…I can always not buy anything next week…

Well…have been waffling about buying a new beach lounger for weeks no but today I bit the bullet an ordered a really nice one…it was 70 bucks but it looks so nice and it sturdy, not like all the rest of them I looked at…and it will never fit in the trunk even folded up so it will have to fit in a garbage bag to contain the salt…the seat surfaces are cloth and look pretty damn comfortable and it sit higher and more stable that my old jelly chair….again, this could be my last chair to go with my last car and last house…it is pretty heavy at 15 pounds but the beach is only half as wide as it was after they dredged and I can manage that with the shoulder strap that comes with it…I shouldn’t be spending any money right now but it’s heading to July and I’m going to need it…and guess what color it is? Gray, of course and it has a hanging bag that has room for a cupholder and my phone etc…so I guess we’ll see if it a good purchase or not by the end of the week…time for weight work…