Not going to be a good day to ride in today, necessarily so I will bus it in. Yesterday I did the drive my big jacked up truck to work thing, then inched it in and out of the tiny parking lot at the shit Glenmont Laundromat as people lined up for their slop bucket at whatever the woke restruant is next to that dump of a laundromat as I spent nearly $120 on groceries and supplies at Wally World.
I think I got some good eats out of it, 🍏 and more plastic crap ultimately to send up in smoke. But it will be good and produce much warmth with all that wet wood. Milk, eggs, flour, beans, fruit and vegetables. The usual stuff. Deodorant and toothpaste. Nothing fancy but necessary to ensure my pantry stays full. 😋 I don’t buy things I don’t plan to eat right away, though I probably didn’t need another 5 lb of carrots 🥕 this week but I didn’t want to run out as I’m using them in most meals I cook up. Had more of the green pea soup last night, probably going to put the rest of it in containers and freeze until later in the week or weekend for a change. It was such a bitch getting in and out of the laundromat parking lot, 🛻 but between shopping at Walmart and doing my clothes, 👚 I still was home by around 6:40 PM and was done with dinner by around 7 PM. I guess I read after that, maybe looked at some stupid TikTok or a YouTube, honestly I forgot and fell asleep fairly early on.
Past few nights I’ve been sleeping like shit, 🛏️ not totally sure why except it’s that time of year with the windows closed. It’s not like the electric blanket isn’t nice and warm, though I just toss and turn and find myself waking up during the night. I thought the solution was getting to sleep real early, you know bedding down at 7 or 8 PM and getting up at 4 or 5 AM but I find myself waking up during the night. Maybe it’s dreams 💭 of a better tomorrow, as I watch the minutes fall of the clock ⏰ madly and another year draws to a close. I really hope to get out to Madison County after Christma or at least before the year is done for a few nights in wilderness.
I got busy yesterday, 🔎 and never made the appointment for the inspection and tire rotation for Big Red but I’ll do that today. I also need to do my time sheets at work, 📄 and a half dozen other things that got put off as the line of people and problems piled up at my office, and I furiously wrote out little scripts and fixes to fix random things. Driving in and out was fine, 🚗 but I made the mistake and took Southern Boulevard in on morning, and while it was probably faster then South Pearl, it mean sitting in traffic which I despise. 🚨 There were so many cops on the road last night, I think I passed three of them driving home and running errands. I wasn’t doing anything illegal but come on, give me a break. Why do we have so many jack-booted thugs working for the government? Aren’t their jobs in the private sector, you know like selling roof-top solar panels and Woke-branded organic vacuum cleaners? 🚍 With the snow coming, busing it in today. I’ll bike 🚲 in tomorrow.
Continuing to push my way through Stewart Stronger’s Doable Off-Grid Homestead, 📚 which I need to finish up today before it’s due back at the library and almost done listening to Edward Abbey’s the Fool’s Progress 🃏 which I know is going to end in such a sad and ironic fashion as all of his books do. Honestly, I think I am running out of Edward Abbey books to read. But then again, I still have more Hunter S. Thompson books to explore. I’ll read the Doable Off-Grid Homestead on the bus this morning, and listen to the remainder of Edward Abbey walking the Plaza in the evening. Then I still have a bunch of books to read this weekend. It would be good to go out camping, so I can have a fire 🔥 and listen to audio books late into the night, though this weekend looks cold. I think my Hoopla borrows are all due back a week from Thursday,
