I concede maybe a full lemon shredded and put in my blueberries and carrot pancakes this morning was a bit too much tanginess for a Monday morning. Good song too from that Peter, Paul and Mary side two of their introductory record.
It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. ☔ Rainy start to the work week, but to a certain extent that was kind of needed as New England was fairly dried out, not much mud for spring time. Brush burning ban goes into effect today, and hillbilies everywhere we’re burning their piles before the burn ban goes into effect. 🔥 Still can have campfires, though, not started by you know what until well after dark if it’s going to produce black smoke. I don’t have a truck so no plans currently, I’ll probably save the wrappers for a roadside trash bin. 🐽 One of pig farms I follow on Facebook from down south was having a big bonfire of feed sacks stuffed with burnable garbage before things get too dried out. I guess if you have enough land to raise a bunch of hogs, nobody is going to care about a little smoke.
Of to work this morning on yokel-local CDTA bus, 🚌 that stops every five feet as yahoos and children pound on the windows, and scream out there brains, 😜 while I sit and just listen to my tunes 🎧, flip through an E-book on my phone 📱 and gentle watch as the bus churns it way downtown. Earlier bus to avoid the craziness of the Capitol and then rush over to catch the shuttle 🚀 to the suburban office. Honestly, the ten-year old white Chevy Traverse they drive back and forth, covered with finger prints from passengers touchin the salt and sand covered body 🖕 is not that fast, and is probably the reason I decided against buying the Godzilla Holstein. 🐮 That an the whole Iran situation. 🇮🇷 Do I really want a 7.3L big block when gas prices are heading up to $6 a gallon in a few weeks? ⛽ The poles melt from global warming and apparently the years worth of plastic garbage I’ve burned up in the wilderness and not sent to landfill or plastics recycling plant. 🌎 I saw another SuperDuty up in Latham that seems perfect for my needs, I should reach out to that dealership this weekend. But I was looking at old Big Red 🛻 at my parents house, and wondering how much it would be to get the frame repaired and him back on the road. I should move on, but I have a lot of good memories with Big Red but 14 years comes and goes so quickly. It makes me sad to look at ol Big Red, he was a pretty damn nice truck. But so are the SuperDuty trucks. 🤷♂️
And then I see another post about how people who buy new trucks are forever impoverished, though I don’t plan to change any of my retirement or investment plans to buy the truck, and let’s be honest, it’s not that much money spread out over 14 or 15 years. S&P 500 futures are up a ½ percent this morning, honestly, a few months of strong growth will make SuperDuty money look like it was never spent. But what the hell, I want to be kind of poor, with livestock and stinky ol’ burn barrel out back for my rundown cabin in woods when I retire. 🌲 🐮 🛢️ That SuperDuty will last most likely until my retirement in my mid-to-late 50s. Nice being Tier 4 retirement, and years of maxing out all my retirement accounts – a perk of being middle management and frugal outside of my love for ginormous pickup trucks. ♋ I know, I’ll probably die from cancer from all those years burning my plastic garbage rather landfilling it like the greenies insist is better. I was noticing how close the houses really are in Westerlo yesterday, too many neighbors and too much nuisance and dreaming of wilder country in my ginormous truck.
I expect a busier week this week at work 💾 with the major database update expected to start today. So maybe not a great week to troll dealer websites for trucks but I’m still chewing over my options 🍴 with the Iran 🇮🇷 situation. Tomorrow looks cold and blustery 🌬️ but I’ll still probably ride in as it feels good and the rail trail is ice free. 🚵 Save money 💰 on the bus so I can spend it on see above, leave later and get home earlier by a few minutes. I do miss the express bus. But in summer I admit I rarely ride it because I like how pumped I feel once it get to work. 🦵🏻
