Day: March 29, 2026

Truth is all these days of pure madness have been leaving me sick with almost flu like symptoms, but I am not sure if it’s my madness studying every angle every day night, looking at the shadows as I hallucinate from the cannabis and coffee.

After a bitterly cold Saturday, 🌬️ I got the bike tire patched and back on my bike. Still spending endless hours researching trucks and dealership negogation tactics, 🛻 trying both to figure out what I really want as Iran blows up and how to get it at a fair price. Ultimately it’s not about the money, but my self respect in the deal, I don’t want to be just another consumer endlessly ripped off the at dealership. I work hard for my money, and I’m willing to forgo some of it for great adventures traveling, but it has to be fair. 👻 But I worry I am seeing things that aren’t really there these days, like that shadow that scared me other day in the corner.

Monsters scare me, 🤖 as do the ever so strange looking shadows that are necessary for me to get a least a few hours of sleep each night. But I’m trying to be educated and informed. 🤓  Is it pure madness to even be considering a truck with a 48-gallon fuel ⛽ tank as several of them I’ve been negogating over have – and others have a 34-gallon tank. And that 7.3L is fuelish, and the 6.8L is no Toyota Prisus. And what about Iran 🇮🇷 and Climate Change? 🌎 There won’t be much left of the ice on poles by the time I retire the SuperDuty, and it’s expected to be a record hot summer this year. 🥵 If my remaining deals fall apart this week, then maybe I’ll consider alternatives. On the other hand, that new truck would be great for camping and traveling, 🏕️ after I overcame the pain of filing it up. But first I got to overcome my endless jitters and find a way to at least get a few hours of sleep 💤 and restore my fried brain.

Heading to Walmart and probably the Schiffendecker Preserve 🐦 for a while. Then it’s off to see Mom and Dad, well dad is picking me up, and I can tell him about the great adventures I’ve had this week car shopping. 🚗 Then it’s back home and another week of negotiating. But I think while stressful and wearing me down, 😫 it will be worth it. And if not for the truck, for future endeavors as I’m learning so much on how to read people and think critically from the perspective of the people on the otherside of deal. 🤝 People think negotiations are about witty and clever remarks, but actually it’s about always putting things in frame of mind of the opposite side and being well researched, taking your time and being careful. But yeah, first Wally World.