Well…for only the second or third time since I’ve been out here, I’ve taken the day off the bike today…other than the 6 miles I did in the rain this morning…it has been raining off and on all day today and I have been waiting for an hour dry slot but with these pop up showers, they don’t register on the radar and every time I look outside the pavement is wet as if a shower just came through…and after getting wet this morning, I don’t want that to happen again so I’m done for the day…I did get some cleaning done and gave myself a haircut and just realized that I’ve been doing that since January of 2020 so I guess I got my money’s worth out of the 25 bucks I paid for the Wahl clipper set I bought….and I’m getting pretty good at it and it only takes a few minutes so I have to remember that I can keep it looking neat and don’t have to let it get shaggy…It just dawned on me that I have had the same set of earbuds for almost 18 months now…I knew the Betron set looked pretty heavy duty when I got them but I’ve never gotten more than a few months out of the skull candy ones I used for a couple of years and really expected that out of these…and they were only 16 bucks on amazon so that’s a bargain, too…oh, and they sound good, too….I am going to have two meals today even with not riding and see if that helps how worn out I’ve been feeling lately…still only had a chicken thigh, baked potato, and some corn for lunch…with a glass of milk, that’s about 600 calories and I need to use up the burger that I have left for dinner so that will be another 600 or so and I hope to see some improvement in how I feel tomorrow…no more later…

Well….after a short, sharp shower, there was nothing on the radar so I decided to get on the bike for at least one ride…but, about three miles out, it started to pour and I got soaked even with turning around and coming back here…and it was borderline on temps, too, so it was pretty darn miserable even just doing 6 miles…and the rain is the weird pop up showers that don’t show up on the radar hardly at all….so it looks like I’ll be taking the day off today after all…I do have some work to do around here but not that much so I really don’t have to plan it at all…and my legs are still so damn flat that it was brutal coming back into the wind…I do need to start to take better care of myself…I guess I’m not young anymore….more later…

Well…up at 6:41 this morning and that feels a bit more normal for me…feel pretty worn out but it looks like I’m not getting the day off that I hoped for….the rain is not here yet and it appears that it is falling apart before it gets here so I will get a ride in as soon as it gets light…and I’m not sure I should do that…my legs still hurt from yesterday and they really should get a day off…but, I feel compelled to ride or not eat…not sure how the weather forecasters still have a job with how wrong they have been all summer and now into the fall…I know weather is complex but they could be right 50% of the time just flipping a coin…and they haven’t been right even close to that…..I’m finally getting my freezer cleared out with not buying any protein the past couple of weeks other than the ribs I got yesterday….still have a couple of weeks worth of food in there but there was room for the pizza I got yesterday and that wasn’t true for the entire time I’ve been here….need to cook some thighs I thawed over the past couple of days with a baked potato and some veggies for lunch and use the last of the burger I have been eating all week…..not much to do today….going to ride here in 45 mins or so and then just kind of wing it the rest of the day….if it doesn’t rain I’ll probably get two rides in but I am going to throttle back the pace a bit to let my legs heal…I’m not young anymore and I need to take better care of myself….more later….

Well….damn, I felt crappy this afternoon after the bike rides but, after eating something, I’m starting to get back to normal…or normal for me anyway….I am taking a day off tomorrow…my legs were so flat and hurting on both rides today that I think the only thing that is going to help is rest….as you know, I got started late today and didn’t get out to get groceries until after 8:30 and then Meijers was a mess from them rebuilding the store so I am going to avoid it until they finish and go over to Stermberg road instead…only takes an extra 5 minutes of traveling time and I’ll be able to find what I need and don’t have to spend a half hour looking for things…didn’t get back here until almost 10 and then on the bike for the first ride…I will say that the bike is working better than it has since it was new and it is a joy to ride even in the brutal wind…after I got back here, I made a little lunch and then right back on the bike by 12:15….after I finished that, I seeded quite a bit of the bare spots in the lawn until I ran out of seed…again, and that makes 20 pounds of seed on the lawn so far and I am going to get more Friday to finish off the rest of the spots…then I had to do laundry since I was out of clothes to wear and just finished putting them away so today, I went from 8:30 this morning to 5:30 and I am done finally…had the same lunch and dinner as I did yesterday and if feeling crappy was the result, I’ll probably feel that way again tomorrow….but I just can’t eat more…I did splurge today on some texas style ribs and even a rising crust pizza from Aldis…2.75 for a rising crust supreme pizza? Was getting bored with chicken, chicken, chicken and thought I’d change it up a bit…but I still have some chicken thighs to make tomorrow that I thawed and need to be cooked…but, after that, no more chicken for a while….

Well…running really, really late today and I can’t figure that out…I did wake up at 6 or so but went back to bed until 7:34 and just can’t get started….so I think the whole day is now going to be a bit late…and I don’t like that one bit…oh, well….I think I slept okay last night but don’t feel like it…so, so worn out that I may have to take a day off soon…or eat more…I think I have to re-think this whole being on “time” when I really don’t have to be anywhere…I mean does it matter if I get to the grocery store at 8:30 or if I get there at 9? And doing two rides a day? I know I need to burn those calories but I am getting bored with riding twice a day…I did get to 3800 miles yesterday and that is cool but I wonder if I’m getting depressed again….darn….I did get back into “Justified” a couple of days ago and it is nice to have 6 seasons of a show to watch when there is nothing interesting on tv…and I think I’ve waited long enough so I don’t remember any of the episodes…..I do have lots to do today and I’m not sure I want to do it…the grocery run first, then at least one bike ride, laundry, and then I need to seed some more bald spots in the lawn since it is going to rain tomorrow and Friday and the last spots I did sprouted pretty well…I think the cooler temps have helped that and I want to take advantage of that….so, I should get going right now…but, I really just want to sit here and do nothing…but I know I can’t do that….more later….

Well…got out early for the first ride today but coming back into a 15 mph wind was pretty darn brutal so I decided I’d only do one ride today so I could run an errand and then get the lawn mowed and the leaves picked up with the mower…I did get out to Lowe’s to get the device that keeps the big paper bags open with a back splash that is like a funnel and it works really well when dumping the grass catcher into it…pretty cool thing for 10 bucks and is going to make cleaning this place up this fall a lot easier since I am going to have many, many bags of leaves….the mower works well vacuuming the leaves up and that will be my preferred method of getting them up…really hate raking and it hurts my shoulder so I’m going to avoid that as much as possible….I also got the remaining flowers pulled out of the back of the house and cleaned up and now it’s almost 3 and I am done for the day..almost went out for a second ride but I know I have to be careful as I get older…10 years ago there would be no question about going out…I would have gone in a second but I really don’t recover as fast anymore so I have to be smart….but that is disappointing…not used to having to think about what I do for the day…oh, well….

Well…running really late today with not getting out of bed until 7:24…and I feel pretty crappy today for some reason…just worn out and it’s probably from not eating enough yesterday…only had a chicken sandwich with a third of a chicken breast and a burger with a 3 ounce patty for my meals yesterday and that’s probably not enough with doing two rides and some work around here….I’ll try to change that today but I’m not sure how….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but the leaves have started to fall and I am going to have to start picking them up with the mower…going out this morning to get a little device that will hold my big lawn bags open and act like a funnel so I can dump the mower bag into it….will probably have 20 or 30 bags of leaves from my trees but they pick them up for free so that’s cool…and the bags only cost 50 cents each so I’ll have about 20 bucks into getting rid of the leaves this year…this is all going to be new to me since this is my first fall and winter here so I guess I’ll just have to figure it out as I go….my thumb appears to be healing up okay after damaging it last week but it still looks pretty bad and it’s going to have an ugly scar…but that’s normal for my hands…still have a scar from a saw on my right index finger that I got when I was about 8 years old…not much to do today…going to get on the bike soon for the first ride and try to get both in before noon and then run out to depot to get the funnel and some more bags….will need to mow the lawn tomorrow and start picking up the leaves…..more later….

Well…from what I read in the news, facebook has been down all day but I never noticed it…I guess I don’t use facebook too much…but there are people that are freaking out about the outage…not sure why that would be and getting off facebook will be good for a lot of people…I’ve never been one to use it much or think much about it…I don’t even follow the Miata clubs on there much anymore and that was my only reason for creating an account….I guess I like to live in the real world more than cyberworld….and it’s a cesspool of right wing nonsense and anti vaxxer lies that I really don’t need in my life….the idiot who owns it doesn’t need any more money…and he’s a right wing asshole, too….I do my best to not support them….

Well…didn’t get out of bed until almost 7:30 so I’m running late today…woke up an hour earlier but just couldn’t get out of bed…no motivation at all and that continues right now…I did get some good news when I checked my online banking and my house payment has been made so I don’t have to go out to the bank today…yay! So, I need to figure out what today is going to look like…do I do two rides or only one…and the Talladega race was postponed til 1 this aft so I have a napcar day that will include a nap after I get everything done…and it’s supposed to be raining but I haven’t looked outside yet to see if that is true so that may keep me off the bike until later….okay, just checked and it was raining but it looks like it has stopped and blue skies are coming so I’ll be on the bike by 9 or so…I noticed yesterday that the grass seed I planted by my new trash bin landing pad has sprouted like crazy and I wonder what is different there to the rest of the spots I seeded at the same time that didn’t sprout? Same amount of water and the same method of planting so I am a little confused but I’ll take that bare spot filling in….didn’t do much yesterday but the bike ride and today looks the same…I should start trimming some of the trees and bushes but I probably won’t…going to just ease into it and see how it goes….haven’t even read the news yet and it’s almost 8:30…darn, not sure how I’m going to catch up today…do I need to catch up? More later….

Well…it’s raining! Yeah…not something I would usually be so excited about but it hasn’t rained out here in weeks and weeks and I’m not going to spend another 50 bucks to water the lawn…and there has even been a little thunder thrown in and that was a pretty cool…it’s been going on for almost an hour now and the radar looks like it may keep up for a while yet…but the forecast of storms this afternoon? Doesn’t look like there is anything coming from the south or west after this rain goes through…so, I will be on the bike for one ride just after lunch it appears…hope this keeps up….been so dry out here like nothing I’ve ever seen….