I parked up in the old bluestone mine up at Thatcher Park OSI parcel, ever so carefully, finding a place plowed deep enough to expose the rock. I am so parnoid about getting my truck stuck, even with the 4x4 nowadays.
Fuck yeah. Doc Sarvis is riding his mountain bike to work, though truth is I’d rather be smoking pot and riding my mountain bike in the snow wilderness. But I’ll save that for Christmas Day as I should really work a few more days this year, and keep the disorder going on in the office. I totally get what Mayor Daley said, “The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.” Trust me, when you oversee the data unit, shit always broken.
Beautiful day, crisp for riding in. Once the snow squall pulled off the sun came out and the sky got blue. Definitely on the cooler side of things, but not so frigid as the wind is light. Tomorrow may be snowier for riding in, I was thinking I could drive in and grab some pallets to bring up to camp on Christmas Day, but I should have time to find wood in the woods and not deal with having to pick out pallet nails from the snow and ice at the end of the trip with my magnet. Much easier clean up if you just burn natural wood that fully burns down to ash. I was worried about the rain, then freezing rain expected Friday through Sunday, but now it looks like mostly snow, though I got to be careful come Sunday driving home. I don’t want to wreck my junk pickup. Especially as I never fixed the recalled passenger airbag which I’m sure at this point is full of metal fragments. Today the rail trail is mostly ice and snow free which is nice, though by tomorrow morning, there may be more snow on it – and certainly by evening there will likely be a good dusting, but by then it will be dark out unless I leave work. The Normans Kill Gorge provides some great scenery as I listen to Ian Sylvia, well until I reach the smell of the garbage recycling plant, sewage treatment facilities and oil train yards.
Gotta live like you’re dying but also not crack your frame. Those old Chevy 1500s are all such a mess with the rusted out junk frames, as witnessed by the parking lot of Govel Welding. 👨🏭And then I got reading all the comments, that now are in all my social media feeds about how badly the Silverado frames rot out in salt belt. I can blame myself for not fluid filming the frame each winter, I’ve heard good things about it but it’s another appointment or thing to do as I don’t have a paint sprayer or a place to do the messy work of applying the oil to the frame. I did regularly pressure wash the frame, crawling under my big jacked up truck, but alas it didn’t work. 🚿 I actually woke up during the night, and ended up going down a deep dive into undercoating and trying to preserve the undercarriage of trucks in the salty northeast. Best advice, move to the woods of North Idaho! No road salt there but lots of burly pickups for hauling water and cattle. And buy an AR-15 and lots of handguns for your off-grid cabin, and burn your all plastic trash. What can I say, I had really woke thoughts last night.
But if you can’t take such a dramatic step next year, applying fluid flim once or twice a year to the underbody of your truck can help by protecting the factory zinc coating, though it’s not a miracle solution as it can only boost resistance like the COVID vaccine. I wore my muzzle yesterday at the Nutcracker, as I really didn’t want a COVID-ity Christmas this year, as I want to have one last big fire in wilderness before I retire Red. I’ve also heard the old Vermont farmer trick, spraying used motor oil using a paint sprayer or underbody kit remains a popular option. Also helps keep the dust down on your driveway, or you can toss old feedbags down to collect the oil before burning them. Don’t tell the EPA, though I’m not necessarily planning on buying one of those EPA rated displacement-on-demand, shit lubricating 0W-20 engines that stall out at every traffic light. Spraying used motor oil on your car to prevent rust, is far greener and more useful then tossing it in bags of garbage to make sure they quickly disappear in the fire. If I only had land, of course, I would have long ago bought a homestead in New York if not for the burn ban and probably the gun laws too, but don’t tell a liberal that. I heard that fluid film makes your pickup smell like tractor grease in a barnyard, but I’m not convinced that is a bad thing. And it sure beats a rotted out frame, even if it’s not perfect as DOTs find even more corrosive toxins to dump on the highways each year, killing both the Pines, grass (not the kind you smoke), fish in roadside ponds and creeks, and pickup trucks 🛻 unlucky enough to drive them in the winter.
Man, I’ve become such a nuckle-dragging redneck over the years, but I do like my big pickups. It’s not to say I don’t believe the future is electric cars – and solar power – but so much of the interim technology is crap. Maybe it’s what I see on the Internet, but all it seems like now is cars are these Woke Mobiles full of screens and technologies, and fuel saving hacks that seem worthwhile when viewed on aggregate by some bureaucrat in Washington DC, but right now what is rolling out from Detroit and even Japan is complete crap. Ultimately though, it’s obvious the future is electric cars from China, where the government is rapidly supporting its industry to advance the technology. You can mock Chinese stuff, and they do make a lot of plastic crap that fills our trash cans with stuff that fills landfills and makes stinky black smoke, but they are real innovators when America digs coal and 60-year old dirty power plants. I’m just not convinced all this high tech stuff is making our world a better place, but if they could only make something like an electric Ford XL-trimmed truck using innovative stuff without all the displays and buttons for a reasonable price. Maybe I have too many good memories of my old Ford Ranger XL, and why I’m convinced I want a bigger model with similar level of basic trim. China is doing so many amazing things with LiPo batteries and solar, it’s not America anymore. Eventually I’ll get an electric vehicle, but it still challenging to fuel and maintain an electric car for long-distance travel. Especially a pickup for getting to remote country that I want to get to – and you know my thing for big trucks.
Once the snow squall pulled off the sun came out and the sky got blue. Definitely on the cooler side of things, but not so frigid as the wind is light. Tomorrow may be snowier 
for riding in, I was thinking I could drive in and grab some pallets to bring up to camp on Christmas Day, 
but I should have time to find wood in the woods and not deal with having to pick out pallet nails from the snow and ice at the end of the trip with my magnet. 
Much easier clean up if you just burn natural wood that fully burns down to ash. I was worried about the rain, then freezing rain expected Friday through Sunday, but now it looks like mostly snow, 
though I got to be careful come Sunday driving home. I don’t want to wreck my junk pickup. Especially as I never fixed the recalled passenger airbag which I’m sure at this point is full of metal fragments. Today the rail trail is mostly ice and snow free which is nice, though by tomorrow morning, there may be more snow on it – and certainly by evening there will likely be a good dusting, but by then it will be dark out unless I leave work. 
The Normans Kill Gorge provides some great scenery 
as I listen to Ian Sylvia, well until I reach the smell of the garbage recycling plant, sewage treatment facilities and oil train yards.
Those old Chevy 1500s are all such a mess with the rusted out junk frames, as witnessed by the parking lot of Govel Welding. 👨🏭And then I got reading all the comments, that now are in all my social media feeds about how badly the Silverado frames rot out in salt belt. I can blame myself for not fluid filming the frame each winter, I’ve heard good things about it but it’s another appointment or thing to do as I don’t have a paint sprayer or a place to do the messy work of applying the oil to the frame. I did regularly pressure wash the frame, crawling under my big jacked up truck, but alas it didn’t work. 🚿 I actually woke up during the night, and ended up going down a deep dive into undercoating and trying to preserve the undercarriage of trucks in the salty northeast. Best advice, move to the woods of North Idaho! 
No road salt there but lots of burly pickups for hauling water and cattle. And buy an AR-15 and lots of handguns for your off-grid cabin, and burn your all plastic trash. 
What can I say, I had really woke thoughts last night.
this year, as I want to have one last big fire in wilderness before I retire Red. I’ve also heard the old Vermont farmer trick, spraying used motor oil 
using a paint sprayer or underbody kit remains a popular option. Also helps keep the dust down on your driveway, or you can toss old feedbags down to collect the oil before burning them. Don’t tell the EPA, though I’m not necessarily planning on buying one of those EPA rated displacement-on-demand, shit lubricating 0W-20 engines that stall out at every traffic light. 
Spraying used motor oil on your car to prevent rust, is far greener and more useful then tossing it in bags of garbage to make sure they quickly disappear in the fire. If I only had land, of course, I would have long ago bought a homestead in New York if not for the burn ban and probably the gun laws too, but don’t tell a liberal that. 
I heard that fluid film makes your pickup smell like tractor grease in a barnyard, 
but I’m not convinced that is a bad thing. And it sure beats a rotted out frame, even if it’s not perfect as DOTs find even more corrosive toxins to dump on the highways each year, killing both the Pines, 
grass (not the kind you smoke), fish in roadside ponds and creeks, 
and pickup trucks 🛻 unlucky enough to drive them in the winter.
but I do like my big pickups. It’s not to say I don’t believe the future is electric cars – and solar power – but so much of the interim technology is crap. 
Maybe it’s what I see on the Internet, but all it seems like now is cars are these Woke Mobiles full of screens and technologies, and fuel saving hacks that seem worthwhile when viewed on aggregate by some bureaucrat in Washington DC, but right now what is rolling out from Detroit and even Japan is complete crap. 
Ultimately though, it’s obvious the future is electric cars from China, where the government is rapidly supporting its industry to advance the technology. You can mock Chinese stuff, and they do make a lot of plastic crap that fills our trash cans with stuff that fills landfills and makes stinky black smoke, 
but they are real innovators when America digs coal and 60-year old dirty power plants. 
I’m just not convinced all this high tech stuff is making our world a better place, but if they could only make something like an electric Ford XL-trimmed truck using innovative stuff without all the displays and buttons for a reasonable price. Maybe I have too many good memories of my old Ford Ranger XL, and why I’m convinced I want a bigger model with similar level of basic trim. China is doing so many amazing things with LiPo batteries and solar, it’s not America anymore. Eventually I’ll get an electric vehicle, but it still challenging to fuel and maintain an electric car for long-distance travel. 
Especially a pickup for getting to remote country that I want to get to – and you know my thing for big trucks. 
