Well…it was a pretty easy day after getting the rides in this morning…didn’t even have to cook with using up the rest of the leftovers…and tomorrow is going to be egg day with making egg salad for sandwiches and then an omelet to use up the onions and green pepper…and I took out a chicken breast to bake that for a meal with a baked potato and some corn…and I’m going to continue to use the breaded chicken patties that I need to get out of the freezer so I may eat those until they’re gone later in the week…and that will open up room for other stuff if there is anything ever on sale again…I do need to make some more pickled onions and pickles tomorrow so I’ll have stuff for sandwiches…I even have 4 burgers left in the freezer from quite a while back that are still good so this week is all going to be freezer food…I did another day of eating more today as I did yesterday but I still ran out of steam around 2 again and have been struggling with being tired since…oh, well…now I want to read more and I think I will../.

Well…how the hell can I wake up and have my hands be numb? And my thumbs hurt? This getting old is just bullshit and I’m tired of it…at least the US won it’s first match in the world cup 4-1 and looked pretty good doing it but tests are coming…crap just got a high wind warning for 11am today so I need to get off my butt and get the rides in before 6:30 am…at least get them started before then so I need to drink coffee fast to get going in 18 minutes…there is rain coming in for this afternoon and it looks like it could be sooner than that so I need to get off my butt…it is going to be a good race day today with F1 qualifying on at 9:25 and the LeMans starting at 10…and there is a channel that is going to run all 24 hours of it so that will be good background noise for the day…going to have to cook tomorrow but I have no clue what that is going to be…have lots of chicken in the freezer so I’ll need to take some out later this morning so it will thaw by tomorrow…I can do omelets to use up the eggs and green pepper and even hard boil some eggs for egg salad so I guess that’s good enough…more later…

Well…you know I’ve talking about the prices for everything going to soar in the next month and that has already started with the price of coffee…the Hills Bros whole beans I bought last week for 11 bucks for 2 lbs are now 27 dollars and it has nowhere to go but up from there…so, it looks like I’ll be back to the cheapest ground coffee I can find locally since the ground I bought on amazon went from 11 bucks for 35 ozs to 21 dollars for the same…and everything is going up with them…thanks maga assholes…

Well…it’s been a better day today and I’m pretty sure it’s from eating more yesterday and I’m trying to do that again today…it is so nice to have the bike zeroed in and working almost like new and getting the miles in…I don’t want to jinx it but the assholes in the rental have been absent for more than a week after I called on them last Thursday but I think it may be the new neighbors weighing in on them, too…but whatever it is, this is how this neighborhood should be all the time without me having to call all the time…I did get out to the library today for more books but finding a road open to it was a pain with the event going on all weekend downtown…had to walk a block and a half carrying my bag of books but it was nice and sunny and I don’t mind walking at all…and then I went to Meijers just to drive my car with the top down since it is really getting to be fun…I did get my new driver’s license today and since I’m over 70, I have to go in to renew it every 4 years…and I think that’s age discrimination when there are so many younger bad drivers that don’t have to…and I haven’t even been pulled over since 1980…that should count for something…oh, well…not going to bitch too much…I have other things to bitch about…okay, world cup time…

Well…that was a little better…was up and down all night but didn’t get up til 5:30am and that has been a goal for a while so I’ll take it…feel a little better this morning after eating a lot yesterday so that may be why I’ve been so worn out lately…at least I hope so since that’s a thing I can fix…need to go out and hit the library this morning but I’m going to go lighter on the books since the World Cup started yesterday and I would really like to watch some of the matches and not just use them as background noise…and the US plays tonight at 9 so I’ll at least get to watch the 1st half before I collapse from boredom…I had to fix one of the 85 year old light switches in the stairwell down to the basement yesterday…it had started to arc with wear on the contacts so I had to take a screwdriver and bend them so they’d make better contact and it’s working great now…still think these old ceramic switches are a work of art and don’t want to replace them if I can keep them working…it rained again last night and it was a nice little thunderstorm that lasted a couple of hours…nothing big but some cool lightning and thunder and it may even rain again this weekend…still not fixing my lawn but better than drought….not much to do today…need to get on the bike by 7am and that gives me and hour to have coffee, do the weight work, and toast a bagel so no rush today…more later…

Well…another day of being frickin exhausted and from what? All I did was my normal stuff today and I know that 26 miles is a long way for an old guy, that’s not what’s doing it…I really think the lack of sleep is catching up with me after another night of up and down for abut 3 hours of actual sleep…and I’ve been eating a lot today just to see if that has something to do with it, too….have just felt off for a few days now and everything is just so damn much effort that even just sitting here doing this takes everything I have in me…maybe I just need a day off? After all, I’ve been on the bike for 966 days straight and will make it to 1,000 before that streak ends when I go to Italy in September…okay, going to stop whining now…other than the exhaustion, it’s been a nice day with great weather for the rides and there was a new cruise ship docked down the hill to look at…and the bike is working great although I did break a left pedal this morning but I had new set on the bike shelf downstairs and it only took a couple of minutes to replace it…and I even remembered that left side pedals have left handed threads so I didn’t tighten it instead of loosening it…okay, have a half book to finish today so I can go to the library tomorrow and get more…

Well…feel pretty lousy this morning and it is just the same as I felt yesterday and I’m not sure what the heck is going on…everything hurts so I will be taking an ibuprofen later…have no damn energy and I’m sure it’s from being under 1K calories for the day the past few…have even skipped my morning bagel for 3 days now and I’ll have to change that today if I’m going to have the energy to do anything…it does feel good to have figured out the bike computer problems and I’ll be using the new one today…not sure what I’m going to do with the spare old one but I’ll figure it out…it’s after 6am and I am running late today since I should have the weight work done already and at least one cup of coffee down but I just can’t get moving…we had a weird little storm come through yesterday with winds of 60mph that lasted about 5 minutes and then it just turned into a rainstorm and we can use that…but it’s not helping my lawn at all…oh, well…need to make some food today and I think it will be one of the 4 cheese pizzas in the freezer so I can use up the green pepper and red onion I have in the fridge…and I need to make another batch of pickled red onions and pickles and that will get done this afternoon…not much to do today…just need to get something done and force myself to get going right now but I think I’ll have another cup of coffee and the bagel first…more later…

Well…after fiddling with the new bike computer with little success, I got an e-mail from the manufacturer clarifying how things have changed from my old one to this one and now it’s ready to go…and I’m pretty geeked…it was really nice for them to get back to me this quickly to support a 25 buck computer…I really like my new 10 buck power pack that I bought to charge things when traveling or during power outages…I’ve had it hooked up to my mp3 player for 3 weeks without charging it and it’s barely come off 100% charged…and that’s almost 53 hours of running and my other aux battery would last two days before it needed to be charged…I wonder how long this thing will go before recharging…100 hours? 200 hours? For 10 bucks that’s a screaming deal…I did take coffee out on the bike for the 2nd ride again and I am starting to like the boost it gives me for the 6.5 miles coming home…and I do like the Hills Bros coffee beans I tried so I’ll be getting more of them and figuring out how to store them to keep them fresh…and 11 bucks for 32ozs is not a big investment to try them…who knows…you might like them…

Well…did the 2 rides without a computer this morning so I’ll have to remember to add that 25 miles to the total…still having some problems setting the new one up but it will work for what I want and that is just speed and mileage…and, after I removed the old one and could get a close look at it, I found the problem in the wire to the sensor so I can repair that and have a spare computer…but it does look pretty shabby (like me) so having a nice new one without splices is cool…and the odometer works on the new one so it will keep track of mileage up to 10K miles instead of using the trip function to record them…it was okay to ride without a computer this morning but I kept looking down to a blank display and that was a little weird…not sure why having the computer die caused me so much stress but that gives me something to work on…

Well…up and running at 5:31 this morning and slept okay I guess but I stayed up late trying to tire myself out and that didn’t help…oh, well…the new coffee beans I bought are growing on me so I just might buy a couple more bags before the price goes nuts…I wonder how long you can store sealed coffee bags before the beans go stale? Have 2 full and 3 opened bags right now so I may need to look for some containers to put them in…got the new tires for the bike yesterday and I like them…they actually have tread on them and I got tubes with them and two sets of the bands that go around the rims to cover the ends of the spokes that normally cost about 10 bucks each and two tubes that are 8.99 locally…and all of this cost 34 bucks when the tires I’ve used for years cost around 30 bucks for one tire…so it looks like a bargain but I’m going to use up the tires on it first before I put the new ones on and try them…and that won’t be til late summer…down to the last book that I should finish up today so I can take 8 books back…not going to get that many this time and I am going to try some new authors to broaden my available books so I don’t run out…not much to do today…skipping the grocery run this week since I really don’t need anything and the freezer is full anyway…going to make a pizza tomorrow and with the stir fry I made the other day, I’ll have meals to last til Sunday..okay, need to get on the weight work…more later…