Day: March 22, 2026

Good thing I went to the store yesterday on my mountain bike. Only went to Hannaford to pickup a few things like fruits and veggies, I figure later in the week I can get anything else I need.

Going out to visit Mom and Dad later today, 👨‍👨‍👦 dad is picking me up at 2:30 for Sunday dinner. Other then that a pretty quiet in store, had eggs for breakfast, and now pinto beans are cooking down on the  stove. Yesterday, I cooked up some rice and baked some bread, and also rode down to the Norman’s Kill West Preserve. I thought about going over to Glenmont or Five Rivers, but much of the day was kind of windy, gray and cold. Spent some time reading 📖 and watching YouTube, my Hoopla borrows went back yesterday.

I reached out to a handful of dealerships to get OTDs, 🚚 but at this point, I plan next week to start putting out proposals on what I am willing to pay for the various trucks on their lots. If we can come to agreement with on price, I’ll take the truck. I know I won’t be able to get exactly what I want, but it will still be a pretty decent platform to build my next rig on. ⛽ I do worry about fuel prices a bit. If nobody wants to play ball, ⚽ I can wait, really my primary interest in buying over the next week is there in theory more pressure on dealerships, but with gas prices going up, a lot of base level trim SuperDuties are sitting on the lots.

Honestly, I don’t know buying a truck is always a bit of leap of faith, 🤷‍♂️ or as they say in SERQA process, an irreversible commitment of resources to the future. I don’t have any idea 💡 of who or were I will be in 2040 when I likely retire the truck, but those SuperDuty trucks, especially the base models like I’m looking at, hold the value well and if I have to sell it, I can recoup a lot of value. 🔎 I’ve looked at used trucks, but unless you want to get something with a lot of miles or years, you don’t save much money. It’s not like a Lexus, where depreciation eats away of them. People use trucks, drive them hard, wear them out. Plus, if I am getting a cab, batteries and gears for my camping rig, I want something were the underlying platform lasts as long as possible. It’s not like I make $15 an hour anymore. Still I feel so guilty about spending so much money, 💰 but trucks are so expensive these days.