Monday, I’m a survivor 😎

It would be a nice day to ride my bike to work. But maybe that truck will go tonight. But probably not. I needed groceeries regardless, and tomorrow I can ride in.

Good morning, Happy Monday. Driving in this morning so I can swing by Walmart this morning, get a few dry goods, 🏬 then head into the office for work, then I am going out to my parents house for a belated Sunday dinner before their vacation and to show the truck off to someone who might be interested. 🤝Maybe it will get sold today or maybe not. 🤷Somehow it will get sold or scrapped. 🗑 But I want to give it at least a few weeks at the new price. 🤑You just got to keep trying and staying atop the messages, even if it just means a default reply. ✉️ Just another I am sure insane day at work, writing code, building tibbles and data frames, producing data joins and outputting lists. 🤪 Auto adds, and suppressions, please? Sign-off?

It was nice wandering around the Pine Hollow Arboretum last night, 🌲 🌺 even as wildflowers really start to fade away and darkness approaches earlier 🌆 as the first day of autumn is only a few days off, next Monday to be exact, when there will be more darkness then light. Winter is coming, I need to plug the leaks in my apartment before I turn on and start loosing too much heat. Still I’ll be glad once the noise of the motorcycles 🏍 and ricer cars 🏎 and diesel trucks 🚚 is muted 🔇 with the windows closed. Road noise just annoys me more and more these days. I can’t imagine people can afford to be driving their diesel around, but then again those people with the big throaty diesel trucks probably can afford the fuel. 

I want to get out to Vermont come Thursday evening, but it sure looks like rain on Thursday and maybe Sunday. 🌦 Maybe instead I drive out on Friday early, get camp set up early and then spend the day working remote from Bennington. I don’t know but regardless I am sure I will be super busy. That’s just the way things are now, making money, money, money as it seems to go out the door nearly as fast. 💸 It’s been a somewhat disappointing summer with the investments, things have grown, and I’m better off now then I was before I bought the SuperDuty but growth as slowed as bond prices have cooled as rates have increased. 📉 Means I”m going to end up paying more in capital gains at the end of the year, even as I just invest them, as when bond prices fall, yields rise. ⚖ But I also don’t trust the stock market to necessarily end much up in valuations, as the AI boom is faltering, but what’s the alternative.