Well…didn’t get out of bed til 7:14 this morning and that is going to make me latr for everything today and I don’t like it…so I won’t get out on the bike til 8:30…I do need to get the ride in before noon since the nascar race was postponed until today…have so much to do today with needing to cut up the branches I took down and bag them to put out for pickup tonight and cleaning to get this place ready for my daughter’s visit….my teeth still hurt from grinding them but I was able to use the electric toothbrush yesterday and I guess that’s progress…have to go back to the dentist Thursday for the after surgery check up and have to be there by 8 am and that’s pretty darn early…but I prefer getting it out of the way…have been thinking about taking a day off but I’m going to have two months off soon so I guess I can dig deep and keep going for 6 more days….man, I’m so worn out….need to lose 5 more pounds before the surgery but I also have to make room in the freezer for the food my daughter is going to make….so I’ll be eating a lot…took the last of the Italian sausage out of the freezer along with the last container of ham soup so I won’t need to cook much this week….not much to do today…just need to get moving and that is looking harder than it should be…more later….

Well…as the surgery date quickly approaches, I did make the goal I had of 3,000 miles before it…might even make it to 3,200 since I’ll hit 3,100 tomorrow…and the big goal of 4,000 miles with all of the time off the bike starting next week looks doable…two months without riding is going to be hard but I’m going to try to get on the bike before the UK trip since they said I could get on it after 4-6 weeks…but I don’t want to re-injure myself so I think it will be a short trial on the indoor bike to start…it would be nice to start getting my fitness back before we go…we’ll see…

Well…had a pretty good birthday yesterday with hearing from a lot of my Mastodon friends and lots IRL, too…woke up this morning with back pain that is all across my lower back and I wonder if it’s just from cleaning up the bike room? Whatever the cause is, it’s stiff and I can barely move…but I will be getting on the bike soon…didn’t get out of bed til around 7 today after waking up before 6 but that is about normal…I was going to take the day off yesterday but after starting to put the tools away from changing the shifter on the bike, I decided to clean the bike room since it really needed it and I had lots of equipment to put back in the boxes and stack with some organization…got rid of the spiders and webs and need to to that for the rest of the basement this week…not sure how much I’m going to do today but I do need to clean the bathroom…don’t really have to cook other than breakfast for lunch since I have leftover chicken for the second meal…my damn teeth still hurt and I’m doing it to myself by grinding them overnight and I need to work on that along with getting my muscles fit for the surgery…going to spend an hour on it today after I get done with the rides…not much to do today…just need to get the bike rides in and then I can wing it for the rest of the day…more later…

Well…happy birthday to me…had a sucky day yesterday with the renters throwing a loud party with lots of yelling and screaming and noise that went from noon until 9 last night…going to start videoing them today and going to find out who owns the house and send an e-mail to them telling them what is going on…probably going to threaten them with a lawsuit if they don’t control their renters and I will continue to call the police on them every time until they get the hint that they can’t pull that bullshit…I can’t believe how terrible the people are who live up here…they are like animals who don’t care about anything but their partying…happy birthday to me, huh? I am so damn tired of this shit that I am thinking of selling this place again…I think it will be after the UK trip that I will list it….only owe 46 K on it and I will list it for 140K so I’ll have 90 grand or so to put down on the next place…and it will be away from people….okay…what to do for my birthday? It rained a bit overnight but that looks like that is over…my teeth hurt like crazy today and I’ve already taken an ibuprofen for it…so I’ll be out on the bike soon but I should take one day off….but with being forced off the bike for two months I’ll have lots of time off after the surgery….I’m feeling pretty depressed today and I shouldn’t have to feel that way on my birthday…god, I hate those assholes…more later…

Well…damn, woke up this morning with my back hurting and thought I was going to take it easy but no such luck…got the bike rides in and then mowed the lawn and did the weed walk with the sprayer…then whacked the neighbors brush that was overgrown so much that it was blocking the sun from my garden and then trimmed all the tree branches that were hanging low and I had to dodge when mowing…now I need to get some chicken cooking for dinner and decided I’m just going to cook it in the air fryer instead of the grill since I really don’t want to do that much work and the chicken needs to be cooked before it spoils….so I’d better get to it…more later…

Well…damn, didn’t get out of be til 7:28 and my back is hurting so bad that I have the heating pad on it and I have no clue how I hurt it…I did carry the big ladder to the front steps and climbed up to clear the downspout but if that is enough to hurt my back, I’m getting too damn old….it was a good day yesterday with the good health news but I have bruises on my arms from people fishing around trying to draw blood but part of that is on me from having such small veins to work on…I did get some stuff done yesterday and got the metal box spring put together and it was really pretty easy…going to unbox the mattress today so it will have time to expand before my daughter gets here….it’s pretty sunny out there right now and there is some wind blowing the branches around so the rides may be a chore today…and it’s after 8 and I can’t get started…it was supposed to storm today but there’s nothing on the radar right now so maybe later….okay, just looked at the weather and it looks like the rain won’t come til tomorrow and might make it easy to take the day off for my birthday….not much to do today…going to grill some chicken later after I make breakfast for lunch but I still need to watch the calories….I should have bought a steak or something for my birthday but I have too much stuff in the freezer that I need to use…man, I’m worn out…I think the medical stuff has caught up with me it is so much work and stress…and it’s only going to get worse….more later…

Well…I am getting really tired of all of the medical stuff I’m going through…and today I had to go in for my pre-op physical and they were much more thorough than I expected…first off, my BP was good at 127/73 and that surprised the heck out of me when I was expecting it to be much higher…I guess skipping coffee and cocktails really does work…then they did an EKG on me and it came back “perfect” to quote the PA and that made me smile a bit…but then after two people and 5 tries to draw blood, they gave up and sent me to the lab in the north end where the nurse hit it first try and I didn’t even feel it…and I got to drive out to the north end in sunshine with the top down on the car so it’s all good…and I got the downspout unplugged already and I am having coffee right now and I’m going to read some news….more later…

Well…finally, it rained like crazy yesterday but that showed me I need to get the big ladder out and clear the gutter downspout since it was overflowing onto the front steps…just leaves over it and won’t take long to fix it….this is going to be a tough morning with no coffee to jumpstart my brain…trying to see how it effects my blood pressure at the pre-op physical this morning at 11…at least it just over at my GP’s office and that’s only a mile and a half from here…and I’ll have time to get the rides in before that if I get a move on and get on the bike by 7:30…my daughter is still sending me lots of stuff to prep for the surgery/recovery and two things showed up yesterday…a rack for the dumbbells she is bringing to work out during recovery and the metal box spring for her bed that I need to put together this afternoon after I get the gutter cleaned and have lunch…was up at 4:40 this morning but was able to get back to sleep til almost 6:30 so that is a win for me…was good for another day last night and I hope that helps the blood pressure, too….not much to do today…my teeth hurt from grinding them last night so I had to take an ibuprofen since they are still really pressure sensitive….that’s different from the last time and I hope it heals like the last time….more later

Well…darn, running a little late this morning and I need to get on the bike by 7 to get the first ride done before the grocery run…my teeth do hurt a bit this morning but I think it’s from grinding them overnight and not the surgery….have been doing that a lot lately and I need to catch myself and stop doing it….slept okay last night but I feel  a little worn out and it may be from all of the stuff going on…had to work on the bike yesterday since the rear shifter had run out of adjustment…so, I took the adjuster off the old shifter and adjusted it…it seemed to be working better on the short ride I took but I’ll find out this morning in 20 minutes when I get out for the first ride…it looks like rain this afternoon and we can sure use it…and it won’t start til after noon so I can get the second ride in before that…don’t need to cook today with still having leftovers and that will last into Sat when I’m going to grill some chicken for my birthday…and I still have eggs so I wont have to buy any protein this week…not much to do today…will probably clean the bathroom this afternoon and that will leave only the living room to clean before my daughter comes next Sat….I do hope to get out to the beach next week since I won’t be able to go once I have the surgery……more later…