Well…did a two ride day today with planning to take a recovery day tomorrow…that plan really gave me a case of the guilts so that put me back on the bike late this aft…I was still sore from the morning ride so the second one was really painful but I’m glad I did it….now I’m not sure what the new pattern is going to be…do I alternate doing two a days with one ride days? Or go all out and do two rides a day for 6 days and then take a day off on Sunday? Not sure yet but I know I won’t be doing one ride days anymore unless I hurt myself somehow….I am looking forward the Michigan playoff game tonight for the big 10 championship…if they win, they are in the playoffs for the national championship…pretty cool….

Well…up at 6:23 this morning but was able to lie back down for an hour or so and had a weird dream about starting a new job….hmmm…didn’t sleep well, though, and feel pretty crappy and my brain doesn’t feel like working too well and this is pretty hard right now…but, I’ll live through it….the wind is blowing like crazy out here and I had to pick my outdoor chair from the front of the house yesterday where it landed after blowing off the front stoop…and it is suppose to be 21 for a low tonight and only 25 for a high tomorrow and that is a set up for lake effect snow but there isn’t any in the forecast yet…don’t really want to start shoveling yet and it looks like I may be lucky for the next week or so….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I do need to clean today…the bathroom needs a once over and I could dust in here but we’ll see how motivated I am after I get some coffee in me….I’ve completed the outdoor work that I wanted to get done this year and I hope that will free me up to take some time off next year and not work so hard…I’m feeling old and just don’t want to use the rest of my days making this a nice house for the next owners…..not much to do today…just ride the bike and clean…I’ve ridden the downstairs bike over 11 hours since I started down there and went over 160 miles and it looks like I’ll have 250 miles or so down there by the end of the year….I wonder how many I’ll have on it before getting out next spring? I guess it all depends on getting into the habit of doing two rides a day….and I don’t want to do that yet….more later…

Well…you know I’ve been struggling lately with only doing one ride a day and trying to compensate by only eating one meal a day to stay under 1K calories a day so I don’t blow up into a good facsimile of the Goodyear blimp….after 3 days of that I just couldn’t do it anymore…so I had a second meal today and I do feel guilty about it…I wonder if I could ride twice a day instead? That will mean doing laundry twice a week since I come off the bike so soaked that I have to change my clothes and shower every time….hmmm…it’s a conundrum that I really don’t know how to solve right now….I really felt lousy all afternoon and had no energy so I didn’t get anything done….and I’m about ready to just give up and watch tv….so, I think I will…..and get back at it tomorrow….

Well…damn, didn’t get out of bed until 8:03 this morning and I wonder how that happened…I know I woke up when it was dark but was able to just roll over and go back to sleep and that is really unusual…but I don’t feel like I slept much and that is getting to be the new normal….I was going to run an errand this morning but have decided against it….just can’t muster the motivation to go out in the cold and wet….I did have to work on the car yesterday since I forgot to check the coolant after I flushed it in the summer….it was down about a pint and I hope it was just air bubbles that I didn’t get out of it….so I added some coolant and had to put a clamp on the siphon in the overflow tank since it fell off into the tank when I popped the top off….luckily, I had a clamp in the bag that held the kitchen drawer stuff from my apartment….yeah, two houses later and it’s still in a garbage bag downstairs…should probably start putting that stuff away….I just want to sit here for a while and do nothing and I think I will…..I did put the outside bike in the basement yesterday so it looks like it’s indoor riding until spring….unless it gets over 40….just don’t want to be cold anymore….not much to do today….just cleaning and riding downstairs but that can wait a while….still haven’t read the news yet and need to do that to clear my head…and have more coffee…cripes, it’s 9 already and I’m still on my first cup….more later…

Well…just finished up my work for the day and got a few things done…made a run out to depot for some color chips and to get some fast setting cement to fill a seam in the basement that was leaking dirt onto the floor and may have been the entry for the two mice I killed a month or so ago and wanted to get it fixed before winter….then I washed the bike and put that downstairs after it dried and rolled up and drained the hose, put up the hook for it, and put it in the garage…oh, and rode the bike before any of that so I’m pretty much done for the day…should do a once over of the bathroom and I just might after I get done here…but I want to take a break for a few minutes before Man U plays at 3:15….I did watch the new Venom movie last night and it was just okay….didn’t really see the point of it at all but it filled and hour and a half so maybe that was it’s purpose? Who knows?

Well…my damn phone woke me up this morning and I may have been able to get to 7 or so…but I guess I’ll take 6:32…that’s not bad so I can live with it….I was really hoping to ride outside today since it is already almost 50 out there but the wind is blowing  20 and that is a bit much for me….so, I wonder if I should just wash the outdoor bike and put it in the basement? Not sure yet….I guess it wouldn’t hurt to wait a bit….my hip is still sore and it has hurt my whole life so I guess I shouldn’t hope for it to get better…..same for my right shoulder…and I am getting fatigued from it…oh, well….didn’t get much done yesterday but cooking and riding the bike downstairs and I now have enough leftovers so I won’t have to cook for about a week…..it looks like we’re going to have at least half of December without any big snow storms so I am going to wait to put the snowies on the car for a while….I did try to use some stripper on the floor in the spare bedroom but it’s about 40 years old that I brought from the Valley house and didn’t work too well…even with that, most of the glue came up in two spots so I think I may just get a gallon of new stuff for 25 bucks or so and see if the floors are salvageable….will start working on the walls in there next week….I may make that one my bedroom since it is a lot bigger than the one I’m using….not much to do today….I should go out and get color chips for the interior painting but I’m not sure if I will…just don’t feel like it right now and it can wait til next week….I think I may need to cut back to a thousand calories or so with only riding once a day since I feel like I’ve gained a bunch of weight already….this is going to be a fight all winter and I’m tired of the fight already….can I take one day off and eat what I want? Nope…never have, never will….more later….

Well…after looking out to the curb last night at about 7 and seeing my leaves still out there, I just assumed they weren’t going to pick them up on the last day of leaf pickup….and I didn’t know what the heck I was going to do with 100 pounds of shredded leaves in two big bags…but, to my surprise, they were gone this morning when I went out to do the grocery run today…so, yay! And that completes my outdoor work for the winter other than putting up a hook and draining the hose and putting that away….so, I guess that means I need to get my butt in gear on the inside of the house….will probably go out and get paint chips tomorrow so I can plan the inside colors…especially the kitchen that is going to be the most work…and I need to get a new range hood to replace the gross one they painted white…that will be stainless but I may wait til I paint to replace it….so it will surely be next year…I really hope to have the inside complete next year but we’ll see….still not too motivated…but, the pork shoulder came out great so I guess that’s something….

Well…running a little late today with not getting out of bed til 7:30 or so but I woke up around 5 and that  is not enough sleep….and that has been the pattern lately…not sure why….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t accomplish much but I’ll need to change that today with all of the things I have to do….they didn’t pick up the last of my leaves yesterday so they will go into the trash next week…will have to put them in trash bags, though, and I hope that I can just put them in 30 gallon bags without taking them out of the paper bags…a little bit of a pain in the butt….I may not be able to get out on the bike today since it was spitting some rain when I put the food out for the chickens a few minutes ago and I don’t want to get wet…or cold…my right hip has been really painful the past week or so and I’m not sure why that would be…haven’t really done anything that would hurt it so that’s a little confusing…not much to do today….okay, that’s not true…going to be on the run most of the day starting with the grocery run here in a minute….and then on to cooking when I get back here….going to have a big meal for lunch today and I’ll have leftovers that will last me most of a week…pulled pork sandwiches that I want to try some new sauces with….more later….

Well….damn, where the heck did November go? It seems to have passed so quickly that I almost missed it….but, it is nice that the first wed of December is the first so I get more cash in my account in only two weeks…..I’ve gotten a few things done this month and am making slow progress on this place but that pace needs to pick up if I want to get the interior painted over the winter…but that’s about 3 months so it should be enough time…and then I can take the summer off next summer and just fool around and go to the beach a lot….and if the damn virus will just go away, I will be able to go out sometimes and have a beer or two and get to know more of Muskegon….and maybe make some friends out here….I did get laundry done today along with fixing part of the cold air return for the furnace so it will pull air from up here instead of just the basement….and four of these if that counts for anything….I did do a bike ride, too, and I think it was the hardest ride yet….came away with my t-shirt totally soaked when it normally is only half soaked…I may be outside for the ride tomorrow but I just noticed that the black bike has a flat on the front tire and I must have damaged it putting the knobby tires on it last week…darn….I will have to wash the grey bike tomorrow and get it downstairs since it is going to be warm enough and I will then need to put a hook up for the hose after I drain it and hang that in the garage…and I may have to replace the valve I put on the outside faucet with the cap for the winter since the valve is plastic and probably won’t survive sub zero temperatures….so, it looks like a full day tomorrow with  doing the grocery run, cooking the 7 pound pork shoulder, riding the bike, and then cleaning it up….trying a new recipe for the pork that has a sauce made of onions, bay leaves, garlic, chicken stock and butter…and, since I used rosemary for the turkey, I am going to substitute Italian seasonings for that….and it all cooks in the instant pot while the pork is cooking…and then you thicken it with some cornstarch when the pork is done…not sure if 12 cloves of garlic is too much so I think I’ll cut that back to 6….oh, and some roasted carrots and mashed potatoes to go with it….so, I only had one meal today with the big one coming tomorrow….happy December…

Well…damn, how did this happen? Woke up at 6:23 but was able to go back to sleep until after 8…I haven’t slept in til after 8 in years and I really don’t know why it happened today….don’t feel refreshed, though, so I don’t think it did any good….and I slept on my right shoulder again and it hurts like crazy this morning…oh, well…I did get a few things done yesterday but probably won’t do much but clean today…if I even do that…just not too motivated right now but that could be that I’m on my first cup of coffee and it hasn’t had time to work yet….I may be able to get out on the bike tomorrow and Thurs since it’s supposed to be in the mid 40’s but it it’s just so easy to  go downstairs to ride that getting cold has lost it’s attraction to me….and I’m pretty sure the trails are getting some ice on them…and being careful is just too much work…..the chickens have been here a lot since I started to put some food out for them and that is pretty cool….they just stand there and wait for me to put out a couple of cups…and they have already been here this morning to completely clean up the leftovers from yesterday…need to get out there with more here in a minute….not much to do today…just going to ease into it and have more coffee for a while and then see about getting on the bike downstairs…again, no motivation….and I’m not sure if that is going to change….more later…