Well…damn, don’t you just hate it when you are having a nice dream and then you just wake up for no reason and can’t get back to sleep? That just happened and it is annoying to be on the way to a good night’s sleep and then 5:24 comes and it ends…oh, well…my internet tv works again so I guess that’s something….and the Mega is up to 410 mil for tonight’s drawing so I think I’ll blow a few bucks to have at least one day of hope….my heel still hurts like crazy but it may have the signs of getting better…at least I hope it does since the rest of my foot now hurts from favoring it and just walking on the ball of my foot….man, I’m feeling pretty decrepit right now…I did get out for another 6 mile ride yesterday and I think I may double it today to see how it works…but that will come after going out to see a house that is for sale over on west river drive….need to go see at least one a day if I’m ever going to get out of here….the listings have slowed to a trickle and I’m sure I’m going to have to settle for anything just to get out of here…not much to do today…just the grocery run and riding…and maybe some cleaning but I’m not sure of that right now….more later…

Well…crap…my damn heel is worse this morning and now has started to bleed like crazy and that makes this bout with cracks the worst one I’ve ever had…I am so tired of limping around trying to get stuff done…didn’t sleep for crap, either, so this is going to be a wasted day it appears…I did get out for a short 6 mile ride on the streets yesterday and I think I’ll be able to do that again today if it’s warm enough…but I can’t go as hard so it feels colder and I’m not sure I can work up to the full 15 miles…had a few weird dreams last night that centered on trying to find the parts to repair my glasses that I rolled on when I was sleeping…yeah, that in itself is a little weird…I mean how many times do you sleep in your dreams when you’re sleeping? I did get my internet tv back last night but I haven’t checked to see if it’s still up…it was a pain not being able to watch sports over the weekend since I use that to make up for not sleeping at night….there’s nothing like a soccer match to nap to if there is no napcar on….didn’t get much done yesterday but cook and today looks the same with my heel so bad….it now hurts to just sit here but I am going to do that for a while to have more coffee and read the news….more later….

Well…maybe this is a good sign…I remembered to come here this morning and part of it may be that my internet tv has been down since yesterday morning and I don’t have anything else to do….slept okay last night but feel a little fatigued today but I’m not as sore as I should be after beating on my body doing the snow yesterday….more stiff than anything and it looks like I won’t need any ibuprofen this morning…while I was sitting here yesterday, I noticed that I haven’t been coughing hardly at all since I shut down the downstairs project 6 weeks ago and that feels good…it was such a pain coughing constantly and having my head and lungs clogged up all the time…and it’s nice to know that I could fix that and there is no long term damage….didn’t get on the bike yesterday but I am going to try to get a short ride in today even though the roads are snow covered again…I just need to get out of here for a while and breathe some fresh air…reset the computer on the bike yesterday so I can get started on a new year and more miles…I can’t believe how much better the worn out snow tires are than my new all weather ones….went out to get the paper and never spun them once when I would have been all over the place with the other ones…I guess I can get one more winter out of them…not much to do today….just going to ease into it and have some more coffee right now and read the rest of the news….then look for houses…yay?  More later….

Well….I must be getting old…for the first time that I can remember I had to stop and rest only 2/3rds the way through doing the snow….just ran out of energy and couldn’t go…I know I had just finished putting the snow tires on the car, too, but that’s not a lot of work and now I’m sore everywhere and just can’t do anything else but sit here on the couch and do this…and I hooked the shovel on a crack in the driveway and damn near tore my bad thumb off and that is really going to hurt later today…and I put lots of jarring pressure on my right shoulder, too, so that is going to hurt later as it does right now…that dull, throbbing ache that is always there until the ibuprofen kicks in….that reminds me, I need to take some ibuprofen soon…geez…I’m getting old….

Well…slept all the way through to 6:03 this morning and didn’t want to get out of bed but knew there was no more sleep to be had so I gave up…my damn heel still hurts and now it is getting really annoying…and this is a weird one since it runs all the way across my heel and that has never happened before….so another few days of limping around here is going to happen and I am not happy about that…still waitng to put the snow tires on the car but I think I’ll try it today…and I need to try to clear the sidewalks after the freezing rain last night but I’m not sure what I can do about it without some salt that I don’t have…doesn’t look like I am going to get on the bike again today but I am going to dig out the instructions and reset the computer so I can go when the roads melt off some….just don’t have any motivation right now but maybe that will change later…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I do need to cook today and I should clean some but that would take walking and I don’t want to do that with the damn pain…so I think I’ll just sit here and have some more coffee and read the news first….more later…

Well….after doing one of these that looked back at the horrible year that was 2020, I thought I’d look forward today to see if the new year could be better…I sure hope it is. What do we have to look forward to? At least the idiot boy will be gone in a couple of weeks for a start and that in itself makes for a better year…I am still looking forward to finding and buying a house for my final landing place…unless I win the 400 million dollar Mega tonight, then I’d buy a 3 or 4 million dollar house with a pool, lots of cars and a huge garage…but, in reality, I don’t think that is going to happen so I still need to keep putting one foot in front of the other….the house thing is the foundation to everything that can happen this year and I can’t wait to get that done…I wonder if I can take one more day off and just enjoy today and put the stress off until tomorrow? I am looking forward to my granddaughter being born this month and that would be a good start to the year…I never thought I’d have grandkids at all and I am still adjusting to it…it would be a hell of a lot easier if I could see them without any precautions but that will come later this spring…I can’t believe that 60% of healthcare workers in Ohio have said they won’t take the vaccine…I mean that is the foundation for getting this country moving again and it’s pretty damn selfish of them…I don’t know where people’s heads are at with that…okay, this one didn’t work out as I expected but I’m going to post it anyway…just rambling thoughts…I thought I had more to say….more later…

Well…running a little late today with tossing and turning all night and not crawling out of bed until 6:30 or so…I wonder why my damn heel hurts more after not walking on it overnight? I can barely walk at all this morning and that is getting old….oh, well…I guess I’ll just keep treating it and see what happens….even with not sleeping well, I don’t feel too bad this morning with just the normal aches and pains….I am going to try to get out on the bike today before the new snow gets here since I haven’t been out in a few days…I do need to remember to get a photo of the computer on the bike before I reset it to start a new year…a little over 5,900 miles isn’t bad for an old guy….I do need to get the snowies on the car today if my heel will stand being on it for a hour or so….but, we’ll see…don’t have anywhere to go until getting the paper Sunday so I guess it could wait…not much to do today…just soccer and football and taking it easy….happy new year….more later…

Well…with everything that has happened this year, I thought I should do a recap of the lost year in my life…as I’ve talked about before, this year was to be my “living in the city” year where I’d get to do city things as I rehabbed this house…and I was really looking forward to seeing blues on the mall since it only a 10 minute bike ride to get there from here…and get to be a regular at the Triangle bar that is two blocks away and enjoy some time on the various outdoor decks that bars have set up around GR…but no, stupid trump and his cronies took all that away from me….and it even screwed up the housing market so it looks like I’ll be back in an apartment after I have to leave here in a couple of months…and all because they couldn’t be bothered to do their jobs at the start of the pandemic. One thing that was a little easier for me than for most people was all of the alone time as we have all had trying to stay healthy…I’ve always been good with being alone and I never feel lonely even with months of forced isolation…but the one thing with having to be alone is I haven’t been able to see my new grandson as much as I would want…only two times since he was born in the end of August and that is just not enough….and I have a granddaughter on the way in January that I won’t be able to see until the vaccine is available…one good thing about having to be home so much is I’m not spending much money and have been able to build up a big enough cash cushion that I can afford any emergency and put 40K down on a house when I can find one…but damn, I would have loved to be able to spend some of it having fun…I mean, how many more years do I have left for that kind of stuff? So, to waste a year out of maybe ten I have left really sucks….but, I am going to make up for some of that next year with the England trip with my daughter and son in law…and if I can find a house soon, I will be able to put down my last permanent roots and get that stress off my head…it will be nice to just live and putter around at the pace that I want….and not have to worry about dying just going out to get groceries…so yep, this year sucked but trump will be gone in 21 days and maybe we can start to get back to a sane normal again…at least we can hope…

Well…damn, my right heel cracked all the way through yesterday and now I can’t put any pressure on it at all…and now I’m having to favor it and that makes the rest of my foot and leg hurt…and that is probably going to take a week to heal…at least I don’t have anywhere to go or any work to do other than putting the snowies on the car…but, that can wait for a few days since I’m not going anywhere…I did sleep okay last night and didn’t wake up til 6 but stayed in bed for another 45 minutes trying to get that one little drop of extra sleep but that didn’t come…I’m not as sore as I should be after shoveling the heavy snow yesterday but I do notice some stiffness in my right shoulder and I think the pain may come tomorrow…normally when I beat on it as I did yesterday the tendons swell up and cause lots of pain….so we’ll see…clearing the snow was all I got done yesterday and I’ll probably have to take it easy to give my heel a chance to get better today…the sparrows came back to the feeders yesterday but they used to stay on them for a half hour in each session but now they are only here for a few minutes and then gone…so, I do think there is another feeder up somewhere around here that they are using….now it’s time to have lots more coffee and get started trying to find a topic for later today…I think I’ll do a recap of the year since it is the last day of this crappy, crappy year….more later…

Well…just came back in from shoveling the snow and all I can say is that hurt…a half hour of pounding on my shoulder and back and now they both are howling at me and screaming Ibuprofen, ibuprofen! This was the worst type of snow and conditions that you can get…4-6 inches of wet snow that had already started to compress into a solid with the temp up over freezing so it had to be lifted instead of pushed…and that is what screwed my back up…but, as I sit here, the pain is receding some and I hope it won’t get worse as the day goes on…with all that work, I won’t feel too bad about not getting on the bike today…when I came in, I was soaked in sweat…almost as much as riding 15 miles but I will still need to restrict calories to about 1,000 today…and I think I can do that…more later…