A nice day after a long winter ☀️

Heading up to the sixties today. Yesterday afternoon was a pretty nice day for visiting the family, riding out to Wally World, then out to Five Rivers and eating more pinto beans.

I am listening to the Eve of Destruction, 💥 Think of all the hate in Red China and take a look around to Selma Alabama as Barry McGuire sung some 61 years ago. What a clusterfuck the whole situation is in Iran 🇮🇷, people say it’s transitory like inflation. I mean, gas prices are expected to hit $4 a gallon this week and S&P 500 futures are only down 1% after being down 2% earlier in the week. Assuming there isn’t some kind of massive rebound this week and the Trumpster gives the world a dumpster full of puppies and kittens 🐕 🐈 I have my doubts I won’t be getting an excellent deal this week when I dollar-cost my way into the stock market after getting paid this week.

Dark morning today, with the time change ⏰ but I slept well last night and was up a little after 5 AM. Going to head in early in case I hit a bit of snow and ice on the bike trail this morning, as I was late past few days to adverse conditions riding in plus I was in late an hour when I test drove that ginormous pickup truck  🛻 last week. I was leaning towards putting in an offer on that truck mid-week but you know I’m having second thoughts, and I am less and less motivated to buy because not only am I unsure I truly loved the truck, but also because with gas prices going up, I don’t see loads of buyers racing to buy trucks. Thanks to the internet, all I can think is of how to get every inch of leverage possible in a car deal, and a recession and high fuel prices could definately help. Gas lines would be even better. I mean, who doesn’t want a big block when gas is $5 a gallon? Makes an excellent driveway ornament.

Going to decide the next steps 👣 by Wednesday. I may put in a bid for the truck I test drove last week if still available. Or I might just wait. I do think the white color scheme is kind of boring, even though the black accents help. 🐮 The black and white Godzilla Holstein. But some of colors are nice, but it’s hard to find a long-bed SuperDuty with the Godzilla and the FX4. Not to mention, do I really care about the color? Capacity matters more then appearance. But won’t white get stained yellow from dirt and sap, and look like yellow-mud-manure colored fur of a Holstein cow against the white of snow? It’s a truck for camping in wilderness. And with gas prices so high, do I really want the biggest block engine currently out there? Pumping loses are real, and even though I mostly do highway driving, I do occassionally run into stop lights. 🚦 Maybe my friends are right, what I need is a Taco truck. 🌮 Honestly, I’m not that excited about driving once again, or filling up a 34-gallon tank.

Rode out to Wally World yesterday. 🛒 It was a nice ride, though on the way home my bike was very much overloaded. Didn’t a lot of milk for my coffee ☕ this morning, but I did enjoy lots of blueberry pancakes 🥞 (with carrots 🥕 in the mix of course for fiber). I am basically down to my last egg 🥚 and milk is completely empty, and I’m low on whole wheat flower. 🍞 All things I can stop and get on the bike commute home, which will have plenty of daylight and hopefully not much snow and ice to deal with on the Rail Trail.

Then went out to Five Rivers 🐸 for a while and went for a walk, no boots 👢 required. It was a surprisingly nice evening, with daylight well after 7 PM. Still lit bit of ice and snow around but not terrible. ❄️ Should be nice today, even if I do hit some snow and ice on the Rail Trail on the way in but shouldn’t be too bad one way or another.