Well…up at about the normal time for me today at a little before 6 and I’m feeling worn out today as I do every day before the coffee starts to work…moving my schedule up by a day since I want to make a new recipe today called garam masala that is an Indian vegetable dish that is like a curry and I’m really getting into the spices that are in them…and I have the longest grocery list that I have had in a long time with having two more new recipes that I’m going to make this week…slept okay last night and I didn’t wake up with any new soreness and I’m happy about that…just the normal soreness and that’s enough…still can’t figure out how the heck I bruised my earlobe but it is getting better so I guess I can just chalk it up to the fact that I’m weird…one of the writers that I follow recommended a new series of sci fi novels that I need to see if the library has them and I’ll do that this week…but not today…it’s going to be a busy day today with the grocery runs, getting the rides in and then cooking so the afternoon will be needed to rest a bit….more later…
Damn, hurt myself sleeping..
Well…you know you’re getting old when you hurt yourself sleeping…woke up this morning with my left shoulder hurting all the way over to the shoulder blade and a bruise on my left earlobe…yeah, I have no clue how that happened other than having it fold over and then sleeping on it all night with it pinched…all I know is it looks weird and I cannot remember hurting an earlobe like that…and my back hurts all the way across the lower part from riding outdoors the other day…so I feel damn creaky today and I don’t like it one bit…I think I may be getting my dehydration fixed since my right big toe is not hurting and I started to sweat like normal on the bike this morning and got off it soaked from both rides…poured down 5 quarts yesterday and I’m on number 4 for today so I’ll get to 5 easily…Michigan plays at 5 and I’m a little nervous about that…the good Michigan team has to show up or they’ll lose….oh, well…
Where’s the recession?
Well…I really like it when everybody is wrong about the economy….for the past year it seemed like all of the pundits and news media were certain that Joe Biden and his team couldn’t engineer the “soft landing” they were shooting for after cooling the economy and getting rid of the inflation that was causing problems…but they were all wrong…inflation is down to 2% and growth in the past quarter was 4%…and our economy is the best of any of the G7 countries by a large margin…but do you ever hear about this absolute miracle? Do you ever see anyone give Joe credit for how he handles anything? No you don’t because the media has chosen to both sides everything instead of printing the truth…and that is because the owners of that media are right wing assholes that don’t want their taxes raised, that don’t want anyone other than the rich to have nice things…I finally think this is starting to change as even fox news had to report how well the economy is doing…man, I’ll bet they were gritting their teeth when the reported that…geez…
January 1st
Well…here we go again…it’s another year starting and I wonder what this year is going to bring? Last year was an interesting one with having cancer and then getting to do the dream trip to the UK and Ireland and still getting over 5,000 miles on the bike…but I skipped riding yesterday but won’t do that again today…slept okay last night and got out of bed at 5:44 so I have a couple of hours before I have to get on the bike and I’ll get 16 miles in to start the year…not too sore today with taking the day off yesterday and using voltaren and heat on my back last night…today is a great football day with Michigan playing Alabama later in the afternoon…I picked out three new recipes to try this week so I’m going to move the grocery run up til tomorrow so I can get started…going to do a new recipe for three days in a row and get a lot healthier with two of them being vegetarian….and I’m going to cook with lentils and chick peas that I’ve never done before….lots of Indian influences in the new ones and I like the spices since I still can’t taste a lot…not much to do today…just going to have more coffee and on the bike in an hour and a half…might do a load of laundry today but I don’t have to….more later…
Miles for the year…
Well…decided to take the day off the bike so I can post the total miles for the year…Inside-1,726 miles…outside- 3,394 miles for a total of 5,110 for the year…not too bad when I had a goal of 4,000 and it’s only 1,000 under my record year of 6,109 miles…next year’s goal is going to be 7,000 miles and I should be able to hit that if I don’t have any health problems that kept me off the bike for 3 months this year…
December 31st
Well…woke up pretty depressed this morning and I’m not sure why that would be…I wonder if today is going to be that elusive day off I’ve been thinking about? It’s the last day of the year and I really don’t want to think about how bad of a year it’s been…I mean having cancer and two sons who don’t talk to me anymore? That would suck in anyone’s book…but I’m not going to wallow in it…pretty damn tired today and I know it’s going to be hard to get started but I know I will…but I’m not sure about riding today…I hurt everywhere after mixing indoor and outdoor rides yesterday and I wonder if I’m at the point where riding 30 miles a day is doing permanent damage to me? When you get old, recovering from this much work is much harder…okay…enough of that…going to just revel in the fact that I made it through another year and I should get to my 71st birthday unless the cancer comes back…should I just eat anything I want to today? That would be luxurious and I think I may have earned one day of that…I guess we’ll see…more later…
Rode outside today…
Well…after doing 16 miles downstairs this morning and then making soup, the sun shining was just too much for me to resist so I dragged the clean bike up from the basement and did 15 miles out there…a very nice, hard ride and the clicking is almost gone so I’m working on the right area of the bike…once the trails ice over, I’ll take the bike back down and pull the idlers in the rear shifter and clean them completely and that means taking them apart…the still have some sand in them but I can live with it until later…I did hurt my right thumb and I’m going to have to put some voltaren on it since it hurts to do this even and I’m not sure how I hurt it…oh, well…the soup came out good and I have three new recipes ready to go after I do the grocery run this week and can’t wait…still only going to do one meal today even with riding 31 miles today…need to lose another 8-10 pounds…
Now we know…
Well…if you’ve ever wondered why the repubs went from strongly anti Russia to doing putin’s bidding, now we know…it’s money…the new speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is being paid by 3 Russian oligarchs who are laundering the money through American companies in the wake of the Citizens United ruling that lets companies donate as much as they want to House members and Senators…I will bet that every damn repub is now on Russia’s payroll and they know they have to cut off aid to Ukraine or the money will dry up…and that’s just what they are doing…that’s how unpatriotic the modern repub party is…like Nikki Haley who has said she will pardon the idiot trump if she is elected…someone who is the biggest criminal to ever squat in the WH….and the rest of the candidates are falling in line…so, if you vote for any repub, you are voting for putin…it’s as simple as that…
December 30th
Well…running a bit late today with being up and down all night and having no energy at all today…only two sips of coffee in me so far so it’s going to take it a while to get working…my vision is really blurry this morning and part of it is my allergies are flaring again…ran the hepa filters all day yesterday and I’m going to start them again here in a minute…need to get moving soon to get two rides in downstairs before Man U plays early afternoon and I need to make some potato soup for lunch so I need to get started on that by 10:30 or so….going to be eating out of the freezer until Wed and grocery day when I’m going to pick up what I need to try three new recipes for some healthier food going forward…one that looks interesting is called chana masala and it is a vegetarian masala with no fat in it and I can use that…and I have chickpeas and lentils to use, too…need to get more variety in my diet…I did add potato soup over the past month so I guess that’s something….not much to do today…need to get on the bike by 8 to get two rides in before soup making time but I sure don’t feel like it right now….man, I’m tired…more later…
Another lazy day…
Well…this is getting to be a habit…didn’t do a darn thing again today with just doing the two rides and then watching football all afternoon…kept it to one meal again today but it was a bigger one so I probably had close to 800 calories today or maybe even a little more…did the rides indoors today since it has been raining off and on all day and just barely got to 40 and I didn’t want to have to clean the bike again…and I made the 5K goal for the year so I can go down to 16 miles a day with little guilt…going to have almost 1,700 miles indoors this year and that is almost 700 more than I’ve ever done…need to make potato soup again tomorrow since I have all the ingredients and don’t want them to spoil…it is such a cheap, filling meal that only costs me about 3.50 to make and lasts 4 days…need to start looking at other stuff to make after this ham is in the freezer…I think pasta is going to be one of them and I’ll drag the recipes out my daughter left that use ground turkey since she left me two pounds in the freezer…okay, need to start making the list for the grocery run next week….