Well…after doing the bike rides this morning early, I decided to grab my snow shovel and spade and see if the above freezing temps had softened more of the ice and slush in the alley…after 45 minutes of work it looked almost passable so I changed my clothes and headed out for the grocery run…got out but barely and when I got back here I screamed the car in the alley and drove it sideways up to my garage…so now I don’t have to go anywhere for the next week and with temps in the upper 30’s, lower 40’s until the 8th of Feb…it should melt the rest of it before I have to go out again…I guess calling the city a second time yesterday worked with them making a pass down it last night or this morning and clearing out the entry some…so now I can take the rest of the afternoon off with no worry anymore…now if emby would just work, things would be back to normal….

Well…running about on time today with waking up at 4:04 but staying in bed til a little after 6…feel no sense of urgency this morning since I know I can’t get out of the alley until more of the slush melts…I did put salt on the ice outside my driveway to try to get it down to the dirt and give me a launching point to try to get out of here tomorrow morning…will be shoveling more slush out of the entrance this morning so it will melt enough for me to get out…slept okay last night but feel pretty worn out and sore today…and I’ll be on the bike by 8 to make it worse….need to make some potato soup today since the potatoes are about 2 days from going bad and I need to have a second meal even though I need to lose more weight…didn’t do the weight work yesterday so I think I’ll do two today…I’ve noticed a difference and I want that to continue…didn’t get anything done yesterday but the rides and shoveling and today looks the same…but I need to ease into it…have an hour or so before I have to get on the bike and I need a lot more coffee….sure hope I can get out of here tomorrow and get the grocery run done…more later…

Well…what a disrupted day today…was going to do the grocery run but I buried the car in the alley as the packed snow turned into slush…took me an hour to dig it out and get it back in the garage…then I called the city and they sent an F-250 four wheel drive dually out to plow it and he got stuck 5 times so he gave up and left it worse than it was…so I called to get a supervisor to send out one of the road plows but of course I got voicemail and no response…just finished helping the woman across the alley dig her car out that she got just to halfway in her driveway…and I went out to the entrance to the alley and shoveled that to hope that the rain we are getting will melt some of it and I can get out of here Friday…have everything I need til next week if necessary but it’s still a pain in the ass having my life disrupted by people not doing their jobs…oh, well…

Well…another day of waking up pretty worn out and I know it’s from tossing and turning all night…thought I was done sleeping at 4:09 but I was able to get a little more sleep and got up a little after 6…it’s been raining off an on all night and that is going to make getting out of the alley this morning pretty tough…at least I only have to walk a few yards to get the shovel to dig the car out…it looks like it’s going to be near 40 for the next week or so and I hope we lose a lot of the snow…going to make some potato soup tomorrow to use up the potatoes that are going to spoil soon…still using up the leftovers I’ve had all week but I will need to plan some dishes for later and the weekend…still need to empty the freezer and that is going to take some time…not too sore this morning but the twinges of pain are still in my elbows and I’ll probably have to treat them later…don’t have a lot to do today other than the grocery run and bike rides and I really should take an afternoon off one of these days….emby is finally working after a rebuild from their end over the past few days and I’ve had to reconstruct my channel list 4 times and that is a pain since it takes an hour and a half each time…oh, well….need more coffee and to get a post out to mastodon….more later…

Well…you know, I am getting so tired of being busy all the time…started the day today with getting on the bike for the first ride around 8, the off around 9, back on it again by 9:15 and finished up the second ride around 10…did two of these and then outside to shovel the slush so it wouldn’t freeze into an ice sheet when it gets colder…then out to shovel the end of the alley again…oh, and did laundry and put it away…that was about 2:30 and then had to make dinner and do the dishes…and I still have the weight work to do here in a minute and that will take about 45 minutes…and this is almost every damn day…tomorrow will be as busy with doing the grocery run if I can get my car out and in, then back to the bike for two rides and it will be noon or so…don’t even have enough time to read the two books I got at the library…being retired was supposed to be easy…oh, well…

Well…running a bit late today with just pouring my first cup of coffee at 7:24…up and down all night but I did get 4 hours in before that started so I guess I have to live with it…it’s supposed to rain/snow all day today with high winds and we have another winter weather advisory on and I think we’ve only had a couple of days without some kind of weather alert this month…treated a lot of pain last night and the treatment seems to be holding this morning…at least my elbows don’t hurt like they did yesterday….they plowed the streets here…kinda…and pushed a two foot high snow pile across the entrance to my alley that no one could get through…so I suited up and went out there to shovel it so I can get out for the grocery run tomorrow…couldn’t depend on the city doing the alley…need to get on the bike here in a minute to get this day started on time…didn’t get going until almost 9:30 yesterday and that is way too late….have a few potatoes that need to be used so I may make a batch of potato soup today or tomorrow…not much to do today…it should be an easy one after the rides since I still have leftovers for today…should clean a bit and probably will but right now I have no motivation….maybe later….

Well…woke up this morning to emby being screwed up again and it took me an hour+ to kind of get it working again…and that puts me behind for the whole day…should be on the bike by now but I still need coffee to work and I just started the first cup…didn’t get much done but scrape some paint downstairs and I need to get work done today but I sure don’t feel like it right now…the wind has been howling and there is snow coming down but I’m not sure how much since it’s not light yet…will probably have to shovel later but at least it’s not in the teens….my neck is pretty sore this morning and I’m not sure what the heck I did to hurt it…probably just getting old…ate way too much yesterday so today will be a light day with only lunch for meals…still have lots of the chicken masala leftovers and some bean burrito ingredients that I bought sour cream for and now I wonder why? Don’t have a lot of plans for the day but I should go to the library later…I can hear the doves on the feeder already and they are eating a lot of food…have gone through a hundred pounds this winter and will probably do a hundred more before spring…more later…

Well…took it easy today and only did the rides and the weight work…again…I’ll get back to working around here tomorrow with cleaning the living room and doing the floors…oh, I did give myself a haircut today, too since I was looking a little shaggy and needed that cleaned up….the weight work is putting some strain on my elbows and they have started to hurt some along with my back but I think it will go away after I get used to doing it every day…I want to get the second coat of paint on the downstairs wall and I have some more paint that needs to come off the stairway since it is peeling and then I’ll paint that, too…will probably need to start picking out a color to paint the entire basement sine I really don’t like the blue it is right now…have to get working on this place…

Well…my eyes are so full of crap from allergies this morning that I can barely see…and my head is plugged up and I am miserable…so tired of allergies that I have have to start taking medicine for them today…didn’t sleep well last night and if there was a day to take one off it would be today….but I won’t…I’ll be down on the bike in around an hour but that seems like a lot of work….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and I need to get everything done today before 3 when the Lions play…haven’t looked outside yet but it looks like it snowed last night…probably just enough to shovel it and maybe put some salt on the walks…ate way too much yesterday so I should just starve today to make up for it…had a small bean burrito and half a bowl of soup yesterday and I know that’s under 1K calories but that seems like a lot these days…just feel so fat and I’m not shedding weight like I need to…so that will make me get on the bike today…man, I’m tired…need more coffee…you know, I am tired of having so much discipline…when do I get to just live? Not much to do today…I am going to take the next hour to have coffee and relax and then get moving….more later…

Well…yeah, the title says it all…didn’t do a damn thing today but the two bike rides and weight work and I feel guilty about that…should have cleaned the living room at least but that will have to wait til tomorrow since I just didn’t feel like doing it…it’s been three days since I’ve had to shovel snow and the pain from shoveling is almost gone….and it looks like no snow until Monday but then back to 3-6 inches again before the warm up comes Tuesday…can finally start taking some food out of the freezer tomorrow and I think I’ll make popcorn chicken and fries for a change…have pounds of those left in there and they need to be used….the tv show “Slow Horses” with Gary Oldman in it showed up on plex and I am going to make that the show for tonight along with svengoolie maybe….