Day: February 3, 2026

Just don’t be like Waylon Jennings telling Buddy Holly, “Well, I hope your ol’ plane crashes”

Such a classic song by Don McLean on this Day the Music Died, 🛬 a long time ago, actually 67 years ago, back in 1959. The song apparently came out in 1971 but was part of the Bicentennial Celebration in 1976 at Grand Opening at Empire Plaza. 🇺🇸 And now this year is the Semiquincentennial, America’s 250th Birthday that nobody cares about because it’s mostly a masturbatory experience for President Trump. Mr. USA I guess wrapped in 3-mil plastic brightly colored red, white, blue before heading to the landfill or turned into black smoke in the smelly ol’ burning barrel. 🛢️

We were singing, Bye, Bye American Pie, 🎶 though after my old Chevy rotted out, I am getting myself a Ford SuperDuty I tell myself. Or something else, I am not that set on it. I can’t believe in like two weeks already I’ll start test driving trucks, maybe on a weekday so I can avoid the weekend crowds, but I tell myself I’m not going to buy, though I note it will be tough once I get in floor room and they promise me a low, low price and the trucks are nice. But I don’t want a truck until he snow and salt is done. ☃️ Yet, I do also want to have time to get a camper shell and break in the truck before planing out my big road trip.

It was cold but a lot of fun riding in yesterday. Honestly, it didn’t feel as cold as the mercury suggested but there was no wind, which helped a lot. Today though it’s back to busing it, mostly because I have a town planning board meeting to go to tonight with Save Pine Bush, though tomorrow I will be back riding I suspect. It was fine riding in yesterday, still some snow banks and ice around, but I made out fine. I think the nitrile gloves under the glove liners and wool gloves made all the difference. Hopefully soon the snow will melt and I’ll be able to ride both ways to work.

Seems like the bus always gets stuck in traffic the past few weeks heading downtown on Tuesday, but with a real scramble I was able to make it the shuttle actually with a few minutes time. Maybe I wasn’t as late as I had thought, though as when I got there it was a few minutes until Mike arrived with the shuttle bus. Ton of Future Farmers of America in their jackets at the Capitol today for lobby day. Tomorrow and Thursday I’ll avoid the craziness of the bus and transfer and just ride my bike in. But what I really want is nice weather so I can do the bike trail both ways to work. Spring will be here before you know it. It was funny, I looked over and former acting DEC Commissioner Peter Iwanozwitz was riding the bus, I probably should have given him shit about how rough some random truck trail I drove in Western NY was.