Well….after spending the day yesterday…really the past few days feeling like crap…I think I’m starting to feel better…at least I got past noon without being exhausted so that is a marked improvement over yesterday…and I got a good bike ride in even though it was only 33 when I went out but with no wind, I can deal with that…my toes were cold when I got back here but the hot shower fixed that pretty quickly….now I just hope that the exhaustion doesn’t come back as the day goes on….I wonder if I ate enough Friday or yesterday? Still haven’t gotten the proper adjustment for only riding once a day yet I think….so, we’ll see…

Well….that was a little more normal with getting up at 5 or so but being able to get back to sleep until 6….and I think I feel better this morning and I’m not sure why that would be…of course, I’ve only been up for an hour or so and my energy can leave at any time so I think I’ll enjoy it while it lasts….at least I’m not coughing as much today and I think I’ll enjoy that, too….didn’t get out on the bike with all of the rain yesterday but I am going to try to get out today but that won’t be til later since it is too damn cold right now…but no wind so I’ll take that when the F1 race is over and I suit up to go…I did get a few things done yesterday but just small things and I do need to clean more…with how much I talk about cleaning, you would think this place is slathered in dirt but that’s not it…it is a very dusty house and I haven’t done any dusting in a month and that annoys me…along with the little things like junk mail and newspapers that seem to accumulate little by little until there is a pile there that needs to be dealt with…and the kitchen sink needs to be scrubbed along with the dish rack so I do have things to do…if I feel like it and that is not at all certain right now….not much to do today…just more coffee and some soccer until F1 comes on and then just wing it the rest of the day….more later…

Well…you know, I’m tired of feeling crappy..it’s been days now but I really don’t have any symptoms other than I’m exhausted…okay, it does feel like a cold but again, how the hell do I get a cold when I wear my mask out and my hands are drunk all the time from soaking them in so much alcohol? I’ve had another day today where my stomach felt lousy, too, along with some coughing and wheezing….oh, well…I guess I’ll stop bitching now…it’s time to watch some tv and have a cocktail or seven….oh, and I figured out how to make Pluto work on my roku again…and that was by accident…so it was a Doctor Who marathon this afternoon….

Well….that was weird…slept all the way through til 6:35….and it’s raining outside! It’s raining outside! Does it sound like I’m happy it’s raining? Yep, that makes it so much easier to take the day off the bike that I need and it opens up the day to be a relaxing “choose your own adventure” day…and I finally got the leak under the sink in the bathroom fixed yesterday so I don’t really have anything to do today other than cleaning…and I got started on that yesterday so I don’t even have a lot of that to do today….I did have a pretty good day yesterday even though I didn’t feel too hot most of the day after doing some work cleaning up downstairs….but, I feel better this morning and can breathe again so I hope there is improvement coming…but, I am coughing like crazy again and that is still damn annoying….coffee, coffee, coffee….I sure hope it starts to work soon…not much to do today…F1 qualifying is on in a few for the last race of the year and then Man U plays in the Manchester Derby against City later this morning so I think I’m going to veg it out and just take it easy…I have two big bags of veggie egg rolls in the freezer downstairs that I think I’m going to try today and with the leftover ham, I don’t have to cook at all today, either….lazy day…more later….

Well…I don’t know what changed but I’ve never been able to go back to sleep after waking up early…but, I have been able to for weeks now and it is starting to concern me a little….I wonder if there is some hidden health problem that is allowing me to do it? Or, maybe I had one for 30 years and now it’s gone? Who knows? All I do know is that it’s making me late getting here in the morning and I’m not sure I like that…I did sleep okay but no dreams to speak of and the pain from working on the bathroom is subsiding some so that is a good thing…I did finally get my hair clippers figured out yesterday and gave myself a short, short haircut that looks pretty good on what hair I have left…and I paid for them twice over with not paying to get my hair cut since March….it only took about 5 minutes this time so I can keep it short anytime I want…yeah, I know, I’m probably the only person in the world who gets geeked out about cutting his own hair…didn’t get much done yesterday but laundry and the bike ride but I need to get started cleaning the downstairs today and probably will…unless I decide to take the day off and just veg it out…it can go either way the with the coffee not working yet…more later….

Well…aside from getting such a late start today, it has been a pretty good day today…had a long text convo with my daughter and it was good to get caught up with her…and I found out she made me some socks and a stocking hat that are on their way to me and I can’t wait to see them…she has taken to knitting and making her own yarn so that is pretty cool…and she has been promised a promotion next year with a large pay raise…it is so cool to see your kids so successful…and I made a huge ham for lunch that I got for 8 bucks that came out great and I even made some tasty smooth gravy for the mashed potatoes…and I got a hard bike ride in with no lung problems again so that made me smile…I am a little conflicted about a house that came up in my e-mail today down in a little town called Nashville…only 80K and it has everything I want…basement, big two stall garage on a quiet street with a good sized yard…but, it’s 50 miles away from GR and doesn’t have high speed broadband, just dsl…would have to get satellite internet and that costs about 80 bucks a month…but, it doesn’t really need any work so that would be cool…will have to think about that one….the 250 bucks a month payment would be cool….oh, and it was built in 1900 so that is a little too old…I think….I only have three weeks to find a house and the stress is starting to get to me…but, I’m done for the day…going to go back and look at that house again…it may be a placeholder house that I can just buy while I look for another one…hmmm….

Well…I think I’ve discovered why I got up so early for so long…when I wake up at 4 or 5 and I do get back to sleep, it makes me late to come here…this one should have been out an hour and half ago but I went back to sleep when I woke up around 5…but, I did have weird dreams after getting back to sleep so I’m a little torn about that…man, I hurt like crazy after working on the bathroom faucet twice in a day yesterday….you know how cats like sitting in boxes that are too small for them? That’s how I felt pretzeling my body into the tiny little space under the vanity to get to the pipes and hold downs….and here’s the weird thing…after I re-installed the old faucet, it doesn’t leak now…and that was the only reason I was replacing it…probably should have let it leak for a few days to see if it would stop…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday but that contributed to the pain I felt late in the day…but, my lungs were okay after a few days when they weren’t so that was a good thing…I did get started on the cleanup downstairs yesterday but that was about it for work…and I don’t feel like doing much with how I feel right now…everything still hurts but my elbows and back are the worst and I think need some ibuprofen right now so I can get on the bike in a few minutes…going to make a big ham today since it was cheap ad I haven’t had one in quite a while….more later….

Well…it is a pain in the butt to work on old houses…as you know, I was going to replace the leaking faucet in the bathroom today…even went out and bought one this morning but it wouldn’t work with the sink so I put the old leaker back in to think about what I can do…the new one has the feed lines that come out in the center of the faucet where my sink only has a small hole that the control for the pop up goes through and there is no way it is going to fit…so now I guess I need to just cross my fingers and hope the leak doesn’t get worse until I can find a faucet that has the feed lines on the outside and that doesn’t cost a hundred bucks…what a pain in the ass….

Well…running almost on time this morning with getting up for good around 6 or so…but I feel like a car with a dead battery…the starter is grinding slow but not enough to start it….hmmm…that would make the coffee a battery charger or a set of jumper cables…yeah, that metaphor is a little tortured but it is still how I feel…I did wake up around 4 or so for the first time so that makes it a 400 which lots of companies made including Pontiac….had some really weird dreams that I can’t even understand so I’m not going to bore you with them…I did get some work done yesterday that I hope to finish this morning but I know it’s not going to be that easy…going to have to figure out how to adapt the new style flexible water feed lines to the soldered in compression fittings on the valves…it would be way too easy that they would just fit….what a pain….I am going to get out on the bike today no matter what since it is going to be above 40 and that will make for a nice ride after the numbing cold it’s been for the past week….and I do need to do the grocery run here in a bit but right now all I want to do is have more coffee….more later…

Well…if the rubber shoe debacle wasn’t enough for one day, the damn faucet in the bathroom started to leak again after I replaced the cartridge about 6 weeks ago…even with that replacement, it never worked right and it had a leak around the aerator  that sprayed all over the place…so, I decided that I wasn’t going to put another cartridge in it for 15 bucks when I can get a cheap replacement faucet for 20 bucks and it should last until my son and his wife move in here in a couple of months. The problem was that this faucet has been here for at least 40 years and has never been touched…so, of course, it was going to be a pain in the butt to get out and to get to the hold downs and the water connections, I had to bend this old body into a pretzel shape since the cabinet it is in is tiny and there is very little space between the opening and the opposite wall. Surprisingly, the fittings and the hold downs came off with just a little wrenching and it only took about a half hour to get it out and get the sink cleaned up for the new one that I’m going to get at Menards tomorrow during the grocery run….will probably have to get some kind of an adapter since the water lines that are soldered in use a nut and ferrule fitting and I’m sure the new ones use flexible lines instead of copper….but, it’s no big deal living without the bathroom sink if it takes a day or so to get it installed. Probably should have done this instead of wasting 15 bucks on the cartridge for the old one…oh, well….