Well…I did get two outdoor rides in today and the turkey was being exceptionally weird on the road up to the beach…when I got there, Stupid the turkey was chasing cars at full speed down the road gobbling loud enough that I could hear it over my music..so, of course, I gobbled right back at him and he stopped dead, turned around, and started to follow me up the trail…weird as heck…man the wind has been blowing like crazy out here all day today and I’m glad I went out early but it was still blowing almost 20 when I was out there but now it’s blowing 25-30 and gusting to 40…I really shouldn’t be surprised at that after living out here for 4 years…I did get the dough for another loaf of sourdough bread mixed up using the new batch of starter I made yesterday and it is now in the fridge doing it’s cold fermentation so I can bake it tomorrow morning and have some with the soup I’m having for lunch and dinner tomorrow…probably need to do some meal planning tomorrow, too and get some stuff out of the freezer…the temp is going to start crashing here in a couple of hours and tomorrow’s high is only going to be 35 so I’ll be indoors for the rides…but it will be warm enough to outdoors for most of the week but I’ll have to be in part thermasuit…okay, need to do some reading…

Well…damn, feel like crap this morning and I wonder it I ate enough yesterday with a bowl of soup and one chicken thigh? Sure doesn’t feel like it but we’ll see after I get a cup of coffee down…with the rain and high winds out there, I won’t be outside on the bike today…and I may only do two rides indoors today with the way I feel….don’t even want to do one so I’ll wait a bit to go down…I did get the sourdough starter ready for making a loaf of bread today but that seems like too much work right now…it was nice to get rides in outdoors yesterday but March in Michigan weather is coming in tomorrow with the high only 35 degrees with high winds so I’m not sure when I’ll get back outside…was really hoping to get 2K miles in before the end of March but that looks out of reach…need to stop with the goals this year…they are wearing me out…I may go out at 8am since it’s going to be over 50 and shorts weather and the wind is not going to be howling until a little later…we’ll see…not much to do today…just going to do the rides and get the bread dough ready to bake tomorrow…have already gotten through the last Harlan Coben book I picked up yesterday and that is a little sad…have read everything the library has so I need to find a new author to fill my time…more later…

Well…slept okay last night and I got through the whole day with no pain in my eyes so I’ll take that…have already washed my eyelids and put the heated compress on them and that really cleared the crap out of them…it’s going to be warm this aft so I’ll wait to do the outdoor rides until then and then I’ll be able to go out in a t-shirt and shorts but that means I’ll have a big hole in my day from 9 after I go to the library so I think I’ll make the potato soup I have planned this morning…so I need to get an indoor ride in at 7, shower, head for the library at 9, make soup, add to the sourdough starter so I can make the dough tomorrow, then lunch and wait for the temp to come up…I seem to always need to plan my days even this long retired but that makes it easier and then I get things done…it is supposed to storm tonight and the we have winds tomorrow with steady 25-35 and gust to 50 so I won’t be outside on the bike…and the high Sunday is only 35 so I’ll be back indoors again for a while…and there is snow in the forecast for next Thursday as the cold settles in til April…ick…not much to do today…just need to get started on the plan here in a half hour or so but want more coffee first…not going to hit the goal of 2K miles before the end of March but that’s okay…the only goal I have left is to ride everyday and keep my string going….more later…

Well…I was able to to get outside for a ride this afternoon in shorts! It is so freeing to get out of the thermasuit for the first time this year…and the strange thing was going out this morning, I was in full thermasuit and I can’t remember doing that and then going out in the afternoon in shorts…and tomorrow looks like three outdoor rides and I hope all of them will be in shorts…and I got the car washed after the first ride today and it sure needed it…but it won’t make another winter so I need to get off my butt and find a new car…I did finish the 4 books I got last week so I can go to the library tomorrow and pick up 4 more…and that will be a top down run…haven’t seen the stupid turkey the past couple of days and I wonder if he got run over by a car…that would be a shame since he was providing me with a lot of entertainment…I get to watch all of the good shows tonight since I’ve been saving them all week…so I should make the ice I need for cocktails…

Well…man, I’m sore from riding in the wind yesterday but I slept okay so I’ll take that…didn’t get up once over night but climbed out of bed before 6am and, as I’ve bitched about before, I would like to sleep in just one more time before I die…it is going to be warm enough to go out in shorts this afternoon and I’m wondering if I should delay the third ride to take advantage of that? I probably will but I do need to find some time to read today so I can hit the library tomorrow…not going to make potato soup today since I still have leftovers for another two days so I’ll probably put that back til Sat and that means I’ll have to figure out two new meals and get the ingredients out of the freezer…have already gotten one treatment of the eyes done and they feel pretty good…or they don’t hurt so that’s cool…going to do the first ride indoors and the 2nd one will still be in full thermasuit since it’s only in the 20’s right now and still in the 30’s around 9am when I hope to get out for the first ride…the wind is down to about 7 today and I hope that holds all day…not much to do today…just the rides since I did laundry earlier in the week and don’t have a lot of cleaning to do…need to feed the sourdough starters so I can make bread in a few days…more later….

Well…the eye is making progress already after only one day of the washing/warm compress treatment and I have to do it one more time today along with adding the medicine for the eyelids for a couple of weeks…so, a good result so far…man, the wind was so bad coming back from the only outdoor ride today that I couldn’t get over 10 no matter how hard I pedaled…25 mph with gusts to 35 all the way back and I tweaked my right knee I had to pedal so hard…so then I did the third ride indoors but I didn’t get that done until after one so I didn’t get much reading done…and want to get back to that soon…I am still confused on how I can gain weight on the calories I eat…I mean today I had a hot dog and a handful of chips for lunch and then one chicken thigh and cooked cabbage for dinner…and that would be about 400 calories for lunch and 300 for dinner and I should be losing like crazy with doing 3 rides a day and burning 1,800 calories doing it…I know I’ve been putting muscle on my upper body that I can see when I look in the mirror but who knows how much that would be…oh, well…need to clean my eyelashes again…

Well…just did the math and I’ve done 510 days in a row on the bike and that may be an accomplishment but I’m not sure of that…out of bed at 6:15 and need to get on the bike by 7:30 or so but there is no rush since I have to pick up a prescription today and the pharmacy doesn’t open til 9am…and I’m no good at waiting…going to try to do two rides outdoors but that is going to depend on the wind as it did yesterday…I had them cancel the March 24th doctor appointment since it was just to check my blood pressure and they did that yesterday so I don’t have another on until April 1st when we get started on the dental work…I am so damn tired of having doctor and dental appointments…only have one more book to read so I may be at the library Friday to have something to read over the weekend…the warmup is going to hit tomorrow and I’ll be out in shorts for three days but then it goes back down into the 40’s for a few…going to be a roller coaster for high temps but keeping it above freezing will be nice…not much to do today…just the grocery run and rides and will have to do some meal planning and figure out how to use the potatoes before they spoil….more later…

Well…yeah, that title is accurate…I’ve been up since 4:09, lying in bed with my emotions running wild and that happens more and more as I get older and older…had “The Southern Cross” by CSN running through my head and it is so cool that I can just talk to my phone and it will play…and I followed that up with “The Lee Shore” and”Triad” from “4 Way Street” and realized that it was 55 years ago when I first heard that album and it turned out to be a really important thing to me….as a lot of music is….yeah, I’m rambling at 4:53 and I think there is something important to say but I don’t know what it is right now….it feels like my time is getting short and I don’t know what to do about it…maybe go back to bed and try to sleep….feel just so damn worn out and I am tired of having to “get going” every damn day….but I’ll keep doing that as long as I can….what else is there to do?

Well…damn, it was a weird, weird day today and I started it out with an outdoor ride as soon as the sun came up but he wind came up to 20-30 by the time I got back so the bike went back in the garage and I rode indoors…then my eye really got bad so I called the doctor and they got me in but didn’t have the equipment to even try to diagnose what was going on so they made an appointment for an eye doctor that I had to be at at 3:10…one good thing was it was warm enough to put the top down one the car so that was cool…so after being at the eye doctor for an hour and a half, while they did a full exam and found no cataracts or glaucoma and that my vision is still pretty good, they did find some inflammation in my eyelids and eyes so they gave me a prescription for steroid eye drops to help get the inflammation down and also gave a me instructions where I have to wash my eyelids with baby shampoo twice a day to get the pores cleaned out and then put a warm compress on for five minutes on my eyes after that…again, twice a day…and that just adds to the daily maintenance this old body needs and now it’s 6:30pm and I am tired of going all day…so now I start the last book until tv starts at 7pm…

Well…up at 4:40 this morning but I was able to lie back down til a little after 6 and I guess I’ll have to take it…I really tried to eat more yesterday but I’m not sure if I was successful or not…stir fry chicken and rice for lunch and then a chicken thigh and cooked cabbage for dinner…I know dinner was only 250 calories and I know that the stir fry was not 750 calories so I was under 1,000 for the day and I can’t keep that up…so, I think I’ll make some peanut butter toast this morning….going to do three outdoor rides today for the first time this year since it is already 40 out there and that’s plenty warm to go out…but that means waiting until it gets light at around 8am and that is harder than it looks…I did get two loads of laundry done yesterday but today looks easier with only having to put the grocery list together and a little cleaning…and I’m really enjoying the David Baldacci novel I’m reading and it’s nice to add another author to the list…will probably head to the library later in the week for 4 more books…I don’t think I’ve ever read as much as I’m doing now and want to keep that up as long as I can but I’m running out of authors…these people have to get off their butts and write some more…not much to do today…I do need to figure out how to use the two bags of potatoes I still have so there may be some soup made this week….more later…