Well….after feeling halfway to death yesterday, I am so damn confused abut how I feel today….have had energy, got the car washed, worked out, got the bike ride in, and ran some errands and I feel okay…still coughing some but how many times does a cold or virus last only 3 days? The bike ride was even a good one without the brutal overtones of Sunday where it was pure torture with my lungs on fire….and, I made some cash today so that was cool…..the infection in my eyelid is even better but I have been treating that so maybe that is not such a big surprise….still have no desire to look outside and see the ruin that has started for this country but I am getting a little bit of curiosity when I talk to T and she asks me with incredulity if I have seen who the idiot Trump has picked for his government….maybe in another month or so after 30 million people lose their health insurance…..

Well…still feeling pretty crappy today with lots of coughing and fever….and I just can’t get warm so that will be a problem when I wash the car and ride the bike later….but, the car needs to be done before it gets cold tomorrow and later in the week and this will be the last day to ride for a week or so….had the damn phone dream again last night where it wouldn’t work to get vital information and then it just fell apart in my hands….at least I had a dream that I remember for the first time in a long tome….just laid low all day yesterday trying to get better but I think I’m on that plateau where you just feel crappy for a couple of days and then you go into the swings of feeling better and then worse for a couple of days…have been having a hard time eating since nothing appeals to me but I do need some fuel today so I need to figure something out….more later…

Well….another wasted day feeling like crap….have no energy and I am coughing like crazy…and I don’t think it’s done getting worse yet, either….not a lot of pain right now but I do have an infection in my lower right eyelid….right where I have a scar from the last one I had some 30 years ago…needless to say…just a crappy day….

Well…feeling pretty crappy today and my lungs are filled with stuff so I know it’s a bug….just can’t get warm and that started after I got off the bike yesterday…so, I didn’t get much done yesterday and didn’t eat much since nothing sounds good to me right now….the day was really bad for Michigan teams with both the Wings and Lions losing but I didn’t make it to the end of the Lions game…will have to look to see how back it was for the Lions…I’m waiting for the soreness from the bike ride to hit and it may be quite bad since I was sore before the ride….oh, well….today is going to be an all sports day with soccer and then football on all day and I think that will be my only accomplishment feeling the way I do…more later…

Well…sitting here waiting for the Wings game to start and thought I’d get an update done on the bike since I reset the odometer today…as I always do on January 1st. I did almost make it to the 3K goal for last year…falling only 30 miles short but I still feel good about it since I didn’t do any double rides last year…I normally do 20 or 30 of them but just didn’t have the motivation…with that 2,970 miles, I only have 1,030 more to do to have 30,000 miles on this bike…and the bike shows it with just about everything worn out…and I got a start on the 1,030 today with a good 12 mile run since the ice is almost gone from the trail and should be for the next two days…then it get down into the teens for highs and I won’t be able to ride again until the weekend…I just can’t believe how quickly my fitness goes away when I don’t ride….it was brutal on the bike today with everything hurting and my lungs on fire after only about a mile….tomorrow should be better….

Well…another year starts and I can say I’m not too enthused about it….but, what can you do?  I did get some stuff done yesterday and that was a good thing…it is nice to have a clean bathroom and today is kitchen duty…don’t have to cook but I do have to clean…the floor is is need of some attention and the sink is getting pretty bad so that will be done today….it may even be warm enough to get out on the bike today and that would be a welcome change….not too sore this morning and that is a good thing…my back seems to be better and I am still not sure how I hurt it….I did drag the old coffee maker out and it is nice to have coffee that doesn’t taste like an electrical fire….need to return the new one tomorrow but I don’t think I’ll get another one since the old one still works…I’ll wait until I can afford a nice one….more later…

Well…in a strange set of coincidences, this one is the last one for the month, the last one for the year, and the 5,000th one of these that I’ve done…normally, I would do a little recap of the year and my thoughts of it…but, after one of the worst years I can remember for this country and for me personally, I just have nothing to say about it….it is kind of cool to have stayed with this for all of the years that it took to get to 5,000 and it did take some amount of discipline to come here and average two of these for every day since I started…and I think the average of 2,500 days of doing this is quite a good milestone, too…almost 8 years of two a days…yow….so, I’ll end this one with just a happy new year and try to continue next year….

Well…it was a long day yesterday and Michigan lost so I am a little ornery today….and there was no pool since Tom wasn’t feeling too hot so I didn’t win or lose…but that made for a lazy day that today will mirror…I should clean some today and I just might but Man U is playing at 10 and then there is football all day so I could waste another one….not too sore this morning but my allergies are quite bad and I have a headache that I will have to do something about….I have been binging on Star Trek for the past couple of days but I really do need to look at something else….it is still a good show, though, and I have enjoyed it……not much to do today…going to just have coffee and wait for Man U to start…more later….

Well….getting close to the goal and I just realized that if I do the last two tomorrow….I will be at 5,000 of these before the start of the new year…kind of a weird coincidence but a little cool….I think I’m going to have to take some ibuprofen before pool today since my mid back hurts like crazy for some reason…just made some chicken pot pie filling and it came out great…a nice change from all of the pork from the roasts from last week…and there is enough in one batch to make meals for the next 4 days so I really won’t have to cook….I do need to make tacos when I get home from pool since I thawed a pound of venison and need to use it…okay, that’s enough for now…I’m getting pretty geeked up about the Michigan game tonight…perfect to watch with cocktails….

Well….just got a little work done around here yesterday but didn’t do much else…should have cleaned but didn’t feel like it….still can’t figure out why I hurt everywhere yesterday…not as bad today but still have the pain in my neck/shoulder that has been bugging me for a few days now…geez…I sound old….and feel old…but that’s to be expected….I may have to take the coffee maker back and get another one….it smells like an electric fire every time I use it and that’s not a good thing….and it doesn’t really heat the coffee as much as I want….I do have a couple of errands to run this morning but those should take about 5 minutes or so…not a big deal but they have to be done….more later….