Fine, I’ll drive in today so I can pick up my bike wheel after work today. I don’t love driving into work with the shit rough city streets and traffic but I need to get the bike wheel and I can hit up the bike place on the drive home and maybe get some more bananas to enjoy at home.

Then tomorrow, I’ll ride in 🚲 as I have my downtown meeting and from there ride or bus it home. That’s probably the easiest option by far.. 🅿 It’s not like there isn’t acres of parking where I work, and it’s not like I’m more then about 8  miles away from work, and if I take the city streets to Steiner’s after work, I’ll avoid the city traffic. I’ll head in early again 🌅, try to be in the office by 8 AM so I get my legislative hours in and I can continue to work on developing new IOI Codes for targeting purposes in 2025.

I will get my bike wheel this afternoon after work, 🚲 and then get it re-installed and depending on the time maybe go out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center or maybe just the town park. 🏞 Ride in tomorrow. That is good as I have that meeting downtown, and if it rains by evening, I’ll take the bus home. 🚌 Really looking forward to getting the bike back on the road again this afternoon.

Been studying my car insurance policy, 🔎 to understand why my rates went up so much over the past six months – – nearly 25%. A lot of it’s inflation, how expensive cars have become with all the mandated safety gadgets and electrification, how crowded the roads have become in big cities, and climate change. 🌎 People don’t want to believe this climate change shit is real, but between the wildfires and floods, a lot of cars are getting prematurely junked and insurance is paying out. I need to reconsider my $200 deducatable comphrensive and $500 collision, those deductibles are much too low for such an old vehicle, and with inflation that ain’t much money.

The thing about monkeying 🙊 with comprehensive deducatable, is it doesn’t save much as that is a relatively small part of the bill, and there are always so many deer 🦌 out there on the highway I’ve come close to hitting in the past. Maybe I should adjust collision up to $1,000 but with car prices these days, I am not sure I want to drop it all together, as my truck still has some trade in value unless it’s wrecked — even if I know inevitably I have to replace it in the next year or so..