Day: October 31, 2025

The rain stopped so I can ride to work and back, assuming the cassette isn’t acting up like it was on Wednesday night. I should look into that before leaving. I guess worse comes to worse I drive in, as I don’t know what the alternative is the bus really sucks. But I’m hoping I can ride today, as it’s the last day until Valentines Day I’ll be able to do the trip both ways due to the time change.

I made some loafs of bread up, acorn squash and black beans – and then eggs for breakfast. Just another case study on why my electric bill is so high. I haven’t turned on the heat yet for the year, though I concede at some point that will be necessary come November. It’s cold inside but I have the heated blanket, and most nights once I’m done with a hot dinner, I crawl into bed. I turned the electric blanket last night for a while as it was quite damp with the rain.

The black beans will be good for lunch today with tomatoes, onions, and broccoli. Be enjoying those black beans all weekend. I finished up the last of the 16-bean soup on Thursday, really slurped that up too quickly along with the bread and the last batch of acorn squash. So yeah I was up cooking bright and early this morning.

Drove to work yesterday. 🛻🛻 It was fine, I cut through the South End and avoid the traffic. Not sure if it’s faster taking the local streets, and some of those South End streets are complete crap bu then again the suspension in my truck s beat to shit too. I thought about stopping at Wally World yesterday, but I didn’t want to go out in the rain for stupid shit like peanut butter powder and Frank Hot Sauce when I had plenty of alternatives at home.

My truck is getting old. The license plate bulb burned out. But 15 years ago, I had another old truck and the license plate bulb burned out. Guess what I found in my drawer! A brand new 168 license plate bulb as they come in sets. From my old truck 15 years ago. I’m installing this weekend. How fast time goes by, everything is getting old.

Today will be the last night I can ride home from work, assuming there is no issues on my bike. I don’t know what was causing the skipping I noticed in the dark riding back from the Pine Bush Dinner. Hopefully it was just some junk or debris stuck in the chain or cassette. After tonight if I leave work at 5 PM going to need the lights and catch the bus the way from downtown to home. I guess it’s better then driving plus I get exercising riding in and back downtown.