Negative five this morning, which isn’t that bad I guess but the wind is howling around. But aren’t you planning a trip up to Northern Michigan and Wisconsin to potentially establish a homestead upon retirement? Don’t you know it’s much fucking colder up there, smashing ice in water troughs and pitch forking frozne manure but maybe not with a woodstove and a forest to feed it, hot bovine breath and a burn barrel incinerating all that plastic trash, standing up wind from the stinky black smoke to warm my hands on.
The years of waste, the years of crime. 🗑️ Singing along with Country Joe and Fish. 🐠 Man I can’t fucking wait until I have that fucking big assed truck with the Godzilla engine, 🐲 even if I do feel the need to defend living in suburbs in a rundown apartment and riding my mountain bike 🚲 to work, as mid-level manager. I was looking back on that trip two years ago now when I was looking at land out in Washington County, actually technically Rensslear County for potentially building that off-grid cabin 🏡. Such beautiful country but New York State fucking sucks in many ways, even if it’s where I make my money over seeing the Data Services divsion. 💰 It was such an accomplishment at least in my mind getting all the parts together last week, formalizing our Digital Lists division through Work Order Tracking, took a lot of conjouling of different divisions to get all those parts working. It’s good to know something you built in your agency will likely last long beyond your tenure and get us set up for the future. 🖥️
Yesterday was cold and boring, 💤 stuck at home watching YouTube, scrolling through social media, reading a little 📚 and mostly just laying in bed under the heated blanket as I try to enjoy some warmth without cranking up the heat too much. I was thinking I do want to get up to Peaked Rock along the Batten Kill again, once the snow is gone and maybe after the roads open back up in Vermont to camp with my Godzilla with the camper. Trout fish 🎣 the Batten Kill! ⛽ I make so many excuses about the 7.3L and bad fuel economy, but that really is the truck I want even if it is mad expensive both to buy and drive. But I economize on so many other parts of my life, keep my heat at 48 degrees and don’t blow money at the bars or plastic retailers, and it’s not like I’m broke, with my retirement and investments doing good. Godzilla is six months of capital gains, at the rate of last year.💸 It’s not like I haven’t set aside the cash for it. Not going to drive that big assed truck to work unless I’m heading to the mountains after work to camp for a weekend or longer. Yet, I keep watching people who make foolish mistakes by buying these big trucks, but that’s the one thing I really like in life, that is until I find my own land, though I just really don’t want to build in New York with all the gun restrictions and burn ban. 🔥 🔫 You can get remote enough and not have anybody see or smell your fires, but it’s hard to get around state gun laws without cops on your ass. 👮 You want to talk about real money, start talking about buying land, building a cabin, roads, and all the things politicians insist you have like a septic tank to collect the poop for landfilling 💩 rather then composting outhouse.
Truth is I am kind of desperate for a good night in woods and fire, 🏕️ away from the city. And I could go out tomorrow and buy that Godzilla truck 🚚 but I’m going to wait until the snow is gone. It’s stupid as it’s going to take a couple of months to get a cap and gear put on in it. In a week and a half, I am thinking of taking off a day from work to test drive a Godzilla, but I worry about the dealership pushing me away – you’re not Godzilla Material – see what you want is a blown-engine F-150 or Maverick – or being convinced that now is the time to buy the Godzilla today, because you know they’re hard to keep in inventory, though if you study the dealership inventory, and settle for an FX4 – STX, travel a bit, and are willking to pay Godzilla money they are out there. 🛻 Maybe I should get a Honda and a house in suburbs rather then a run-down apartment that I rent from landlord month by month, but I like riding my mountain bike 🚴 to work, and traveling to the wilderness in the past with my big jacked up truck with 35s, and so enough with the Godzilla. When the factory tires wear out in a few years, I can put 35s on Godzilla without a lift kit. If I’m so extremely mentally ill, though I think a Godzilla will push them down the road a lot better then a half-ton Chevy did.
People think it’s so werid that I both work and live out in suburbs but insist on taking the bus or riding my bike to work. 🚲 And aren’t you supposed to be an eco-warior, you compost your food scraps 🍏 and hauling your trash to the recycling bin at work, avoiding excessive packaging, but also want a Godzilla, the biggest gas engine currently avaliable on pickup trucks. 🐲 But I really hate driving even though I do like my big trucks and time in wilderness. ❄️ I think after this weekend, we will be past the real cold, with temperatures returning to near normal by second half of the week with a warming trend for the week after Presidents Day. I’m ready to travel again, though not until the snow is gone. If I hadn’t needed to retire Big Red 🛻 at the end of year, I probably would have gotten at least a few more nights in at Rensselearville State Forest over the winter, or maybe the Madison County horse camp 🐴 though I don’t know this year with the snow.
