Maybe I should actually try driving Old Smokey today 🛻

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I think I’ve been too scared to drive the SuperDuty because I don’t know, it burns expensive gas and doesn’t get very good gas milage and I can want to keep it new. But I didn’t buy the the truck to just be a lawn ornament and occasionally drive to Wally World.

So I’m thinking in a bit, I will drive over to Woodstock Road Preserve in Berne, ☀️ as it’s a going to be a nice sunny day, and I want to play around a bit more with the off-road capacity of the truck and particularly the hill descent control on that nose bleed 🩸 of of a hill on the road. Maybe get the new truck a little dirty. Hike the loop trail around there, enjoy the views. Then maybe head over to Partridge Run Road, and ride my mountain bike 🚴 up around there, maybe to the Gulf and a few of the ponds. Also thinking about potentially driving over to High Point Road, riding over the observation tower, and then I don’t know doing the loop around there. 🤷‍♂️

Then out to Mom and Dad’s for Sunday dinner. 🌭 Then I might go for a quick hike at Holt Preserve and then to Wally World 🏪 to get groceries and a trim puller kit 🪚 before heading home. I want to pull the kick panel under the passenger side of my truck so I can see the pass through connections for the CB Radio and the Secondary Engine Idle Control wires. Just for planning purposes when I’m ready to wire such things up. Didn’t get the relay box pulled, I realized I unlocked 🔓 the wrong tabs and when I figured out what I had done wrong, it was getting late and I had other things to do.

Today through Wednesday looks pretty nice ☀️. Rain for Thursday though. Last night was showery, 🌧️ and later in the evening I think I heard the rain pounding the roof a bit. I didn’t spend a lot of time up though, as I got home, took a nap 🥱 watched a bit of YouTube and then slept most of the evening into the night. I’ve been trying to catch up on sleep after a week where I fell behind. Before sleeping I spent an hour or so studying under the hood of Old Smokey, looking to find places to route wiring, figuring out to remove the upfitter box to access the blunt-cut wires behind that and the kick panel to access the SEIC and pass through wires. Also figuring out the best routing for the CB antenna 📶 and the mounting location. There is a lot of room under the hood for installing equipment on SuperDuty with the 6.8L compared to the 7.3L, much less the diesel. I get why they called the 6.8L the destroked Godzilla, it is a lot shorter then the big mama truck. Ran into the neighbor, he is still pushing me to get a slide-in camper. I mean, who buys a SuperDuty with so much payload capacity and just installs a basic fiberglass cap? But I like keeping shit simple, doing my own wiring.

Expensive Coffee

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Did you know a $5 dollar cup of coffee ☕ can actually cost $150?

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If you are age 30, and buy a cup off coffee for $5 instead of buying an index fund that has a 9.8 percent return, the average of the S&P 500 over the past 90 years, and let it mature for 35 years, you would end up with about $150, which of course doesn’t include inflation or fees.

The point is every consumer item you buy, is essentially stealing from your future.

We all have to live, spend some money, get enjoyment out of today. But certainly something in a styrofoam or paper cup, that’s going to end up in a landfill or a fire shortly after use should be avoided, especially if you can make due without or find a less expensive option for enjoying today. I drink coffee, but I make it in my percolator pot, using my reusable mug.