Day: December 23, 2025

It’s totally going to snow today, but I think I can handle the evening commute in the snow and dark, as I only have to ride downtown and catch the bus home. Probably be dusting of snow on the ride in but I’ll go easy on the “gas” on my bike today.

After today, I have off from Christmas Eve through next Sunday, 🏕️ and the plan is to head out camp on Christmas Day and come back either Saturday or Sunday. Don’t want to  camp too far from the plowed roads, as they are expecting around a half foot of snow on Christmas Day through Boxing Day. 🎁 I guess it’s good and safe for all the country boys to burn up their boxes and swapping paper on Boxing Day. I won’t tell the liberals if you toss the Styrofoam that all the toys come in the fire too. You can’t see the smoke after dark and the flames are fun to watch against snow while passing around the pipe and drinking the ice cold beer. 🍻

One last trip with Big Red. 🛻 Then I won’t have a vehicle until spring time when I park him at my parents house on New Years Eve. Probably three nights in wilderness 🌃 but it depends on how truly cold it is and it might be better to head up home Saturday rather then Sunday which might be icy. ❄️ I don’t want to loose all my camping gear in a wreck, and I have a feeling that at this point if I slid the truck off the road, the bed, fuel tank and rear wheels would likely snap off the frame. To say nothing about the original Taka passenger airbag full of rust and fragments exploding in my face. 💥 That sounds kind of fiery and bad.

Singing along with Arlo Guthrie’s Coming Into Los Angeles, 🎸 as I chomp down on the cornmeal pancakes with all those onion and carrots. Waiting for the sun to come a bit higher, showering and then for slog through the snow to work. 🌨️ I mean I could bus and shuttle it in, 🚀 but I like the ride. I mean if I wasn’t so damn mentally ill, I could buy one of those plastic Woke Houses in suburbs and Honda SUVs and drive to work, but I like my cold mold encrusted apartment and riding my bike to work. 🚲 And yeah, I am so going to buy that big-assed, Red F-250 Superduty long bed reg cab 4×4 come the spring but not before then with all those corrosive deicers on the road. It’s just so much fucking money, 💰 forever gone, but it will mean many nights in coming decade in the wilderness by the fire 🔥 smoking grass and seeing little hick towns that smell like cow shit! 🐮

And that new truck will definately be smelling like Fluid Film, lamoline and sheep farm after I spray the hell out of it come next autumn to fight the war on rust. 🐑 I always knew that dealer-added rust coat is scam, so I didn’t get that, and I had heard good things about Fluid Film and/or using motor oil to coat your undercarriage, but I never took the time or got the equipment. But I understand the importance now and will be getting the equipment come autumn.

Phone wasn’t charging well yesterday, 📱 and I was bummed out about that, but it turns out it wasn’t plugged in well either at home or into the office. It was fine once I got it home and charging. 🔌 So I don’t know. I watched some videos about pickup trucks, and kept dreaming about that day in February when I order and take delivery in April. Won’t be long, nor will my trip out to Michigan. I read a little bit more from the book I had from the library I’ve been poking through on homesteading, 🐐 and I need to figure out what books 📚 to get out on Hoopla before heading out on Christmas Day 🎅 to camp. That said, I probably will camp where I have cell service but I want to download my reading material in advance should the signal 📶 be weak as it often is in wilderness.