Well…up at frickin 2:42 this morning but I was able to get back to sleep until around 5:30 and I guess I’ll have to take that…had an easier day yesterday and I’m going to continue that today with just the rides and weight work to do…but I’m already running late so I’ll have to haul butt starting right now…it got cold last night and it’s only 18 out there right now and I’m happy that I don’t have to go out in it…the weather widget say rain/snow ahead and I am already tired of this damn weird weather….and winter doesn’t even start for two weeks…oh, well…going to make ham soup tomorrow and I’m not sure if I’ll use both ham bones I have in the freezer or just one…it will depend on if I can get two of them in the instant pot…still need to go over the kitchen since I skipped the microwave yesterday and I should have cleaned it…not much to do today…just need to get moving and get the weight work done…okay, Meijers has spiral sliced ham on sale for 89 cents a pound so I’ll be getting one next Tuesday…more later…

Well…up and out of bed at 5:40 this morning and I’m gradually getting my poor old body moving after all of the shoveling yesterday…not too sore right now and I really should be after all of the abuse from shoveling more than a foot of snow….haven’t been sleeping well for a while now but that doesn’t help me take a nap in the afternoon…at least it didn’t snow overnight so I can take it a little easy today…the weather widget says “light rain today” and that just fits with he weird weather we’ve been having…don’t have to go anywhere until next Tuesday when I get the winter tires for the car but I’ll probably have to shovel the alley to get out but I’m not starting that today…don’t have to cook today but I will be making ham soup Friday…just remembered that I put diced potatoes in the last batch so I’ll do that for this one…not much to do today…just going to get the normal stuff done and maybe do some cleaning in the kitchen…more later…

Well…I’m finally getting to the point where if a decision needs to be made, I just do it without agonizing over it for days…so, I bought the winter tires for the car this afternoon and will have the installed next Tuesday at 8am at Discount tire…1,100 bucks but the car is undriveable in the winter without them…and I think the battery needs replacing, too but my meter died so I couldn’t check it…but I figured out why my battery box didn’t have any effect when I hooked it up last week…forgot to hit the on switch since I hadn’t used it in a couple of years…so I’ll do that tomorrow and just see if it helps…then I’ll order a battery from the zone or Amazon…

Well…after shoveling again today and with it taking over 2 hours, I read on the local news that Muskegon got 27 inches of snow over the past two days…the largest two day snowfall total since the blizzard of 1978…and that really sucks…I am going to be really sore tomorrow and won’t be able to get out of here for at least a week…and I got a bad surprise that the steel winter wheels I was looking for are about 120 bucks each and tires are over 200 bucks each…so if I want to have them, I’ll be out 1,200 bucks or so and that is going to hurt…but I guess if you extrapolate that out to 10 years, it’s only 120 bucks a year so I guess I should bite the bullet and buy something…crap, I hate making decisions every damn day…

Well…up and moving at 5:25 this morning and that follows waking up around 4am and I sure don’t want that to be the new normal…the goal is to stay in bed til at least 6am but that seems like a goal too far these days…we got another foot of snow last night so I’ll be out there shoveling for a couple of hours after I get the weight work and rides in and that sucks…it’s barely December and we’ve had 22 inches of snow in the past two days and that is so damn depressing…but there isn’t anything I can do about that but just hunker down and hibernate…have 5 1/2 books and enough food for a week and I don’t have to go out until the10th….so damn tired of the weather running my life…not sure what I’m going to do today other than read…should do some meal planning and I am going to make some ham soup but not until I use up the container I took out of the freezer a couple of days ago…so, I need to get going and get the weight work started…more later…

Well…that was scary…they finally plowed the alley and one lane on the street so I took the car out to take some due books back and pick up a few things at Meijers but I won’t be doing that again…the tires on the car do not like the snow and the car was sliding all over the place…had to start stopping a quarter of a mile from the stop lights or the thing would just go into a slide…and it was almost impossible to get moving from a stop…so, since this is my last car and I don’t want to be isolated here, next spring I’m going to start looking for some steel wheels and mount some winter tires…so I’ll have to start saving now…should be about a thousand bucks or maybe I’ll look on the Miata forums to see if anyone has some used stuff…so that means I won’t be going anywhere until the roads are dry…yow!

Well…up and out of bed at 5;22 this morning and I would really like to get to 6 am at some point before I get up but I am enough of a realist to know that’s not going to happen anytime soon…just poured my first cup of coffee…there is another winter storm warning on for today with 6-12 inches forecast and that means I won’t be getting out of here until later in the week if I get out at all…don’t really have to go out until next week…have planned for this and have everything I need to hibernate for a week or so…might have to walk over to the library since I have books that are due back on the 9th…this is just too much, too early for winter…I really need to get more done around here today but I am so depressed about the damn snow that all I want to do is sit here on the couch and do nothing but I won’t…weight work first and then on the bike to get the rides done before 10am…not much to do today…I do have to cook since the turkey went bad yesterday and I had to toss the carcass so no turkey soup…but I have ham bones and they will end up in soup this week….more later…

Well…just finished taking an hour to shovel the 8-9 inches of snow we got overnight and that included a drift of a foot and a half that was along my front fence…and I am already tired of the damn snow…my new neighbors asked me when they plow the snow up here and I had to break it to them that they only plowed twice up here all last winter…I think they will make the complaint so I won’t have to…we’re supposed to get 4 more tomorrow so it looks like I’ll be shoveling all week…and it’s going to be cold with highs in the 20’s…ick…

Well…up at 4:14 and out of bed by 5:40 and I’m on the first cup of coffee that needs to work right now…we did get 5 inches of snow overnight so I’ll be out shoveling after I get the weight work and rides in…had an okay day yesterday and finally finished the 641 page Robert Ludlum book that took days and days to read and now I’m back into a Dean Koontz that should be a faster read…pretty damn worn out today and it would be nice to have a day off but that’s just not me…not sure what I’m going to do today but Man U plays at 7 and that is going to make me late for getting my work done…I did make whole bean coffee this morning and I can even taste it a little so I’ll take it…I wonder what would happen if I just sat here for a bit? Probably die but I’m not ready for that yet….okay, time to get the weight work started…more later…

Well…in the time that I’ve been gone from here, I finally got my partial dentures 3 weeks ago and I’m finally getting used to them…still can’t talk for crap but I just need practice for that and I don’t get any being alone all the time…think I’ll go back to reading aloud since the only way to train my mouth is by talking and I read all the time so that does help…over the past couple of days I’ve even been able to chew hard stuff like pretzels with no pain…they replaced the molars that were lost to infection and it is nice to have molars again and to not have to chew so carefully…still can’t taste anything so that is the next thing I’ll address at my yearly checkup in the spring…