Maybe it’s best to wear the winter jacket to work today when riding in and the glove liners. There may be a reason why it’s so cold in my apartment with the heat turned off this morning. I guess I didn’t expect it to be 25 degrees this morning. But alas, it’s still March at least for a few more days before trout fishing.

It was fun ride back home last night after the Colonie Planning Board Meeting. I went over there with Lynne in her car and then rode home from the office at around 6:55 PM or so – I was riding fast because I wanted to get off the bike trail before dusk as you’re not supposed to be on it after dark. Truth is I had plenty of time but the vigerous ride home was good after the sometimes tense planning board meeting. I needed to burn off some of that craziness.

Carrot pancakes this morning with some banana, pineapple in the mix. I always use oatmeal and whole wheat flour, so I have a mixature of fibers in my pancakes, plus I like them to be more dense and meaty. Added a bunch of apple pie seasoning to mix and a bit of Splenda as the bananas I have aren’t fully ripe which meant they weren’t very sweet on their own. Good stuff, I think fiber is one of the keys to a healthy diet though it never gets the attention it deserves. Fiber is like insulation in a building, people always pay attention to replacing the windows and solar panels while not focusing on what really matters. Fiber isn’t nutrient but it fills your stomach and displaces less healthy things like excessive fats and sugars. And it keep the poop regular.

After my blog post about thinking about Early Retirement to build a homestead, I am getting all these werid YouTube suggestions about how miserable people are when they choose to retire, especially without enough money to save, or the dreaded running out of money in old age. It’s kind of silly, it’s like people suggesting that I buy long-term care insurance while I’m young it’s cheap and have the money. I plan to own plenty of guns in my later years, and with some diesel and a gun I’m sure I can remove basically any trace of cabin and myself from the earth when I get old and decript. I’d rather live my best life, do the things I actually want to do, be healthy and when end comes don’t prolong the unevitable. I mean Hunter S. Thompson was not wrong!