Well….with this being another day of boredom….I just thought I’d noodle here a bit to get me into the night…I may have fixed the handbrake on the car…almost at least…it releases some of the time the first time and if not, I just give it a little tug and it releases fine….I do need to get back into the driver’s side with the penetrating oil but I think I may have to do the bushings again since the car squeaked when I sat in it going to wash it today….had to do that when I first got it with the front so I guess I should do the back bushings now…had a great bike ride today and I’m not really sore…it was so much fun just blasting around with it…made me feel like I did when I was a kid….and lots of people waved at me on the trail today…that always lifts my spirits some….I was going to do some political stuff today but didn’t out of respect for memorial day….but, I will be back tomorrow with all of the crap the freak in the WH did today…..

Well…no rant this time…was on the bike and heard the perfect song for Memorial Day…”Find the Cost of Freedom” done by CSNY on their album “Four Way Street” and written by
Stephen Stills….a very simple, two line song but still very powerful…go out on you tube and take a look…it goes like this:

“Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground…Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down…”

Well….running a little early today since I didn’t sleep much last night…that’s turning into a thing and I know I don’t like it….didn’t do much yesterday but watch races and use the grill for the last time…smoked a bunch of salmon and then re froze it but that will be it…need to give the tank back to Brian this week but that will be in a couple of days…my back was sore again yesterday and it is starting the day with a little twinge that I hope doesn’t get worse…not going to do much today, either, should clean and I may do the bathroom and vacuum…but I need more coffee first and to just ease into the day….more later….

Well….running a little early today with wanting to get this one done before the F1 race starts….feel okay this morning and not too sore….my back cracked again clearing the dishwasher yesterday and I really do need to figure out what motion it is that does it…that may come in handy….didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today will be a complete washout with it being the biggest race day of the year…I do need to wedge a bike ride in after Monaco and before Indy so it will be a short one today…only have about 85 miles left to do to get to 30K….okay….going to get more coffee and watch the race…more later….

Well…have been thinking about the changes to the wildlife that I have noticed and that others have commented on…when I was out with K last weekend, she mentioned that she had not seen any chipmunks around her deck and pool this spring and she usually has lots of them…and I mentioned that I had not seen any tiny bunnies this spring either…that changed int he past two days and I have finally seen about a half dozen of them…not the amount I saw last year when there was one day that I saw 54 on one ride…but, at least there are some finally….oh, the other stuff, at my water stop in Kentwood, just west of Kalamazoo near 52nd street, a crow came hauling out of the tree line with a small hawk attacking it from behind….the two of them then landed in a tree about 6 feet from each other with the hawk screeching so loud that I could hear it over the music in my ears…not sure what that was about but it was pretty cool to see…..

Well….have to get this done early today with F1 qualifying coming on in a couple of minutes…didn’t do much yesterday and didn’t win or lose at pool since we didn’t go…it was a good thing that I met T for a couple thurs or I would have been in all week….feel okay this morning and don’t really hurt too much…I did get my back to pop yesterday just loading the dishwasher so my back doesn’t even hurt too much….it’s already almost 60 outside so I can get out as soon as qualifying is over….I thought it was Sunday when I got up and was planning my race day out…weird….okay…my back now hurts but it is up higher than before so I think I may have hurt it on the bike….I do need to clean some today and I think I will to get ready for the total veg day tomorrow….more later….

Well….running a little early today with getting up quite early….and I feel okay this morning…the new handgrips on the bike have me using new muscles and I have pain in my forearms today…but, I do like the way they make the bike feel so I guess I’ll live with it….I did get out to have a couple with T yesterday and it was good to see her….had some laughs and caught up on everything….didn’t do much else and today looks the same with pool later today…I did get lots of food yesterday so I should be able to get caught up on my calories…have had cramps in my calves lately and I hope the bananas with fix that….the hand brake on the car is still hanging a little but it is much better….I think I’ll hit the drivers side with penetrating oil to try to fix that…not sure when…not today…more later….

Well…running a little late today with doing the grocery run and having to put gas in the car….the parking brake on the car hung up again this morning but just a little bit so I think I’ll just leave it alone for a few days and see how it works…not too sore this morning so I think I’ll dot he bike ride without ibuprofen and see how that feels….I do like the new handgrips that I put on it the other day…they keep my wrists straighter and they don’t cramp as much so that is cool….didn’t get much done yesterday and today looks the same with maybe having lunch with T later….but, I will get the bike ride in here in a minute…not until I have more coffee….more later…..

Well…..now I’m a little confused about the car…went out to work on it this morning; to replace the anti rattle spring and then work on the hand brake…I had it all worked out in my head to use the scientific method of controlling for variables to find out where the problem was…but after I put the spring back on and pulled the brake on to see where it was sticking, it wasn’t on either side…and now I’ve used it a few more times and it seems to be fixed….now, I’m not sure if it was the penetrating oil that I put on the linkages or that I greased the pins when I was putting the new pads on…both of those things are problem areas that I read about on Miata net but I guess it really doesn’t matter as long as it works….feels good to know that I can still fix the car when I need to….

Well….sore as heck from using a bunch of new muscles working on the car yesterday…my back is tight and painful so I guess there will be ibuprofen this morning…and I do need to work on it some more today to try to sort out why the parking brake is sticking…..didn’t do a whole lot else yesterday but I think I did enough with being busy into the afternoon…the brakes on the car are better with having useful pads on the back….they were down to the thickness of two sheets of paper….other than the car…not much to do today….I am going to clean some today but that is about it….more later….