A deep and dark December day as the sun rises later and later each day through January. It was a late night after leaving the City Council Meeting at 9 PM to catch the bus home and then have dinner and be just so jacked up after all that.
Slowly but surely I awoke out of bed 🧟♂️ and walked over to Stewart’s to get more milk in another plastic bottle soon enough to melt and turn into bright flames as it gets the cold and wet firewood burning. 🔥 I just get tired of all that plastic stuff and the lies that the media tells us about recycling and how we should just buy more stuff. 🎁 What do you want for Christmas? 🎄 Just some time in the wilderness to listen to Ian and Sylvia, smoke grass, burn shit, poop in a bucket and ride trail.
It’s fine I tell myself. 😀 If I can’t save the world, well I’ll just try to save myself as the hours wile away and I sing along with the old Ian & Slyvia record I discovered on the OpenTunes. So many of the folk standards but with a pentatonic tang that tastes like cattle and silage for my ears. 👂 Apparently I mentioned how much I enjoy audiobooks from the library, and now my feed is full of advertisements for Audible. 📚 But why would I pay for something that I get free? 📱 I was reading about subscriptions on the Internet, though I think the only subscriptions I have is my rent check, the electric and gas bill, insurance bill and my cellphone bill. 💵 Which are all costs, though I try to keep the electric and gas below $100 for 10 months out of year, though it’s difficult to keep below that in the winter with my drafty apartment when it’s below zero and 48 degrees isn’t warm enough to keep the pipes safe from freezing. ❄️
Tomorrow I got to take off to get my truck inspected. 🔎 I guess I could drop my truck off and ride to work and then leave early to pick it up but that seems like a lot of work, especially now that I work in Menands. Or I could I work from home. But I probably have hours to use up before the end of year, and maybe I’ll take off a few extra days around Christmas or New Years, though their giving us off already December 24-28 and January 1-4 so that’s plenty of time to get away for three night adventures if the weather holds up. ☔ Going to rain a fair bit on Thursday into Friday and be in the mid-fifties so that should eliminate the deep snow at many of the places I’d likely be camping 🏕️ if I head out of town.
Today on paper would be a good day to ride in 🚲 as I really haven’t been getting the exercise I need, but besides the Christmas Parties I still eat quite healthy as I don’t buy junk or processed foods both for health and for less plastic which can be kind of smelly and toxic when you burn it. But the bike trail still has snow and ice on it, and moreover I have yet another Pine Bush hearing to attend tonight. 🦋 I did walk laps around the Empire Plaza for an hour last night but it’s not the intense exercising that riding produces. But I also don’t love riding the Delmar Bypass or Corning Hill to work – it’s lacks the serenity of the bike path. Hoping after the warm and rain on Thursday into Friday, the bike path will be clear. Maybe Thursday I can ride in. What’s the worse that come happen? I get soaked riding back downtown? Sock it to me!
But other then that, listening to a little more of Ian and Sylvia, 🎸 then it’s shower time, pack lunch and off to work on the yokel local bus, 🚌 getting my hours in reading and thinking, 🤔 and inching my way to and from work. I do miss riding my bike to work but I do get more of a chance to read while I’m on the bus. 📖 That said, I usually listen to audiobooks when I ride to work. And thank you Audable for advertising on my blog. Need more money to buy more plastic wrapped crap. ♻️ Gotta recycle after all.
