Well…damn, this has been one of the busiest days I’ve had in  along time…started on the bike at around 7 and got three rides in…then I mad the stir fry with Kung Pao sauce and it came out great…added lots more veggies so I think I’ve got enough of that for 4 days…so that means I’ll make the pork shoulder Friday…oh, back to today…after lunch, I vacuumed the kitchen and mopped it…then vacuumed the hardwood floors and mopped them, then waxed them all…cleaned up the table beside the fridge and washed the fridge along with the dining room table and couch side table…and now it’s 3pm and I am done for the day…but that gives me a leg up on having this place clean for my son’s visit Sunday…I may push the grocery run back to Thursday this week since I really don’t need anything right now…time to read…

Well…running late again this morning and I must have slept on my eye since my vision is quite blurry today and that is just damn annoying…the good news with my BP takes one thing away that I don’t have to worry about any more but I’m sure I’ll replace it with something else…I do need to cook today with no leftovers in the fridge and lunch will be a chicken stir fry that I am going to try some Kung Pao sauce in that my daughter left me a year ago when she was here…and I’m going to add bunches of veggies that I’ll steam ahead of time…going to put some cauliflower in again with celery, carrots, and onion to make enough for a few days…then probably pasta for dinner to use up the open jar of sauce in the fridge…the huge pork shoulder will probably be Friday and I have chicken thighs to use, too…I am a little excited that my son is bringing me a sourdough starter that they made from the one they’ve had going for 6 years and I’ll be making bread next week…I really do need to learn how to knead bread to get it rise…only 20 minutes before I need to get on the bike and I need one more cup of coffee first…I do need to start cleaning today and I’ll probably do the living room to get the full whole house cleaning started…more later…

Well…as you know, I had an appointment with the office pharmacist this morning in the ongoing saga of getting my BP under control and it is finally…it was only 132/63 down from 160 two weeks ago…and with it being down to 117 this morning, he thinks we can leave the medicine dosage where it is…it’s already at the lowest dosage that you can get so I feel good about that…and when you took a look at my test results, he saw that my bad cholesterol is a little high but he’s never seen a higher reading on good cholesterol so he sees no problem with that…and the kicker was that commented that he has never seen a healthier 70+ person and that made all the work I do staying in good shape worth it…so, no ticking time bomb or stroke risk at all…so now I can read this afternoon and relax a bit…I did pick up a big pork shoulder today and that will feed me for a week starting Friday…more later…

Well…up at 5:27 this morning and it’s a no coffee morning since I have to go in to have my BP checked at 9 but I am going to get two rides in before I head out…did take both of my BP meds just to see if they will work to get it down…I am so damn tired of all this crap that I may just let it stay high so I don’t have to keep screwing around and going to the doctor all the time…I’m old and tired and can accept that this is going to kill me at some point…I do need to get cleaning this place up today and all week but if I take one room a day I’ll get it done…I do need to figure out meals for the week and I may get a pork shoulder to do in the instant pot and Meijers has chicken thighs on sale for 1.49 so all I need to do is get to Wed when I do the grocery run…have leftovers for today so I really only need food for Tuesday…and that may be the Alfredo I’ve been thinking about…and I have one more serving of pasta so that should do it…it’s raining out here right now and that may make it a little sloppy getting out of here and the alley is still solid ice but I should be able to get out with no problem…it’s going back to cold after today but still no big storms and I’ll take that…3 more weeks til March…more later…

Well…had been really trying to get the three books that I got from the library last Monday read and today I finished them up..1,096 pages in a week and I can return them and get three more tomorrow…yay…I did get some cleaning done today and organized some paperwork and threw out a bunch that I didn’t need anymore…and shredded a bunch of stuff and will be doing more of that soon…I did get three rides today along with the weight work but not a lot more than that…one of my sons, his wife, and their dog Art are coming over next Sunday to bring me a sourdough starter and hang out for a while and I think Art will like watching the doves on the feeder…no cocktails tonight and no coffee in the morning to see if I can get my BP down…it was good this morning at 117/72 but this aft it was back to 150/77 and I am just getting tired of the whole thing…I hope tomorrow will be the last time I have to go to the doctor until my yearly checkup…I missed the qualifying for the nascar race tonight but was able to see it this afternoon…the LC race is on at 6 tonight and the Clash is on at 8 on fox…so that will give me something to watch…the heat races were fun with lots of beating and banging on the 1/4 mile track they are racing on…imagine 35 cars on that at once…

Well…damn, running late again today and I need to get two rides in before Man U plays at 9…so that means I need to get on the bike in 10 minutes to get that done…and I’ve just started my first cup of coffee so that is going to be a struggle…it snowed overnight and will be snowing this morning but it’s going to be over freezing later so it should all melt…I did check my BP this morning and it was 117/72 so that is encouraging but it will be back over 170 later today…I have to pay my water bill, property taxes, and house insurance this month and that means 1,700 bucks extra going out so I won’t be putting any money in the bank  and that sucks…but I am still making money on this house…for now…so I guess I can live with it….didn’t get a damn thing done yesterday but read and I need to finish a book and I’m not sure if I can carve out the time for it…yeah…that sounded weird to me, too…I mean all I have to do is decide to do and do it but the struggle between my guilt and taking it easy is pretty strong and I wonder if I’ll ever be able to take it easy again? Probably not…not much to do today…10 minutes to pour down more coffee and get on the bike…need to get moving…more later…oh, I did have a dream last night where I couldn’t find a pair of socks that matched…weird…

Well…damn after the second day in a row to doing nothing, I declare myself officially a slug…I did get three rides in and did the weight work but that was it for the day since I had leftovers and didn’t even have to cook….but I will clean some tomorrow to keep up prepping the dining room for sanding and painting…and I have to take all the scotch tape off the walls that is everywhere from the previous owners….we did lose a lot more snow here with it being over freezing today but my yard has no bare spots yet…still over 6 inches of snow out there and it is going to get cold again so we’ll probably have snow here until spring…I’m finally healing up from the shoveling from two weeks ago but most of the pain is gone…it’s supposed to snow a little bit tomorrow and maybe some freezing rain but that will end before I have to get out Monday morning…it doesn’t look like I’ll get the books done before Monday so I’ll have to go Tuesday…okay, need to get ready for the night…

Well…up at damn 5:09 this morning and I am so worn out…again…I did grind some beans for my coffee today but ran it through my drip coffee maker instead of my pour over and it is just as good so I’ll remember that for the future…slept okay last night but I was lazy yesterday so I need to get on the bike here in a few minutes to get three rides in before 10…going to get to 1,000 miles in Feb and that has never happened before…man, I just want to melt into the couch and watch old movies but I won’t…I remember the days when I used to do that and one of these days I’m going to do that again…but today will be 470 days straight of riding bikes and I need to keep that going….it is pretty cool that the warm weather has melted a lot of the snow so when it starts up again I won’t have to throw it it over shoulder high snow piles…and it will snow more since it February in Michigan…but as every day goes by we get closer to spring and that will keep me going…and grinding through life….not much to do today…don’t have to cook for the next few days but I do have the dr appointment Monday so today will be the last day of coffee before then….and I want to keep cleaning this place up and I’m going to try to finish the third book before Monday so that will give me something to do….more later….

Well…after I got to 708 miles for the month this morning, I decided to take the day off after that…really the only thing I got done was cleaning up the dining room and putting away my really heavy winter clothes that were covering every chair…so I decided to read all afternoon and finished the second book…will try to get the third one done by Monday so I can get more at the library…going to have to figure out something to cook after tomorrow and I’ll probably do the Alfredo I’ve been thinking about…that’s really easy and the batch should last at least two, maybe three days…and then I have a stir fry to make and I died take a container of ham soup out of the freezer so maybe the Alfredo will wait until next week…who knows? Okay…going to pour myself a cocktail and watch some tv…

Well…I’m contemplating not getting going this morning and the prospect of that is kind of liberating…but you know me, I’ll drag my butt down and get on the bike in 20 minutes to be going by 7…maybe a 2 ride day today? I will make the 700 mile goal for the month after the first ride and I really should give my body a rest at some point…I did sleep okay last night and that is getting to be normal for me…haven’t had a toss and turn night in quite a while and I wonder what the heck I did to change it? Going to make pour over coffee tomorrow since I am skipping coffee Sunday and Monday with having a BP appointment Monday morning and I do need to do everything to get it lower….it’s just such a pain thinking about it all the time…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I do need to clean a bit today…it has been so nice to not have to shovel any damn snow for a week  and it looks like no big storms  for the next 10 days or so and that gets me 10 days closer to spring…and there is no really cold weather in that time, too…need to do the online check in for Monday’s doctor appointment today and pay the 5 buck copay this aft…but need more coffee and bike rides first…more later…