I rode into the office. I noticed when I got into the office that the emergency tire pump got left home, so I best not get any flats on the commute home, though I have a new tube and rear tire, so that reduces the risk of a flat. But there is always so much broken glass and metal trash on the roads between Erie Boulevard and I-787 where everybody throws their glass beer bottles out their car windows. I so despise things packaged in glass, not just because I can’t burn it, but because it makes such a mess wherever it breaks and recycling like so many other things is a scam but with better marketing with the greenies then plastic.
It was nice riding to work, and not taking the SuperDuty in. 🛻 I mean the SuperDuty is great for traveling, but it’s kind of big and heavy, and Water Street is such crap in Albany and it’s tight getting past all those parked cars and tight turns. And it gets like single-digit fuel economy in the city, even if I am happy enough with the fuel economy on the open road. The bike ride is so much better for my sanity. 
Now I’m just waiting for the truck cap, I should reach out to Ruth’s for an update at end of the week. Probably the rest of the week it’s back to busing it, 
as it’s going to rain. I mean I guess I could take the SuperDuty but that’s stupid as it burns a lot of soon-to-be $5 a gallon gas. 
At that price, if I let the tank get down to the last gallon, probably not recommended for risk to fuel pump, it would be $165 to fuel up. Granted that is well over 500 miles of gas on the highway, still that’s a big number.
Just to be safe, I plan to ride straight home tonight, 
and make a quick dinner and then grab the air pump and go out to Five Rivers assuming the weather is good. After fiddling a bit with quick link I got in on the bike, and a bit of adjusting – I mean bending the derailuer hanger – and no longer is the chain clicking, straining or jumping as I downshift and accelerate hard out of traffic lights. 
I think the stress on the chain actually caused the quick link to break off the Shram Chain I had, but I do think the quick link I got from Steiners was good. I am debating now about the junk QuickLinks crap I got from Amazon – send them back or not? The cheap QuickLinks are machined so poorly, and Mom sent me the UPS label for printing and I can drop them off tomorrow at UPS bin in the Empire Plaza. I kind of hate to reward a scam business. I know I won’t be ordering any non-brand name parts off Amazon any time soon again. 
I hate dealing with bike stores an the granola eating crowd, but generally what bike stores sell is quality parts, once you find out how to install them.
The Pine Hollow Arboretum was spectacular last night 
but not a lot of yellow flowers. 
Lots of reds and blues. Felt good to have the bike on the road, and after some adjustments shifting well, though once the chain came off at the stoplight. But now seeming good. Got dark quickly, kind of a bit of clouds to west in evening, 
plus the hollow is kind of a darker place. I was noticing the Paw Paw Tree 
wasn’t looking so hot, but maybe it’s been too cold to leaf out, as it’s part of the northern range. The Giant Laurel aka Rhododendron were quite spectacular though some still aren’t out in the full bloom. 
Got to the bank after picking up the bike part, went to Price Chopper and they had very affordable 18-pack of eggs packed in paper carton
and milk 
as with rain coming tonight through Friday, I doubt I’ll be riding in on my bike with easy access to Hannaford in the mean time.
and get a better deal on trash from Amazon, which promises a big pack of quick links, 
an install tool, delivered the next day. It was delivered, but the links were lightweight aluminum trash that so poorly machined that they didn’t even fit together. Driving in so I can get to Steiner Sports by 6 PM and pick up a quick link or I guess I chain if they don’t have it. I so hate driving my SuperDuty to work. Not just because of the traffic but all the cops with their penises hanging out their windows, 
kind of today is a nice day. I really should think about getting a second bicycle 
– a used road bicycle – this summer. Just pay the $500 and a road bike is probably better for commuting while keeping the mountain bike for trail riding and riding in winter if this is going to be my primary method of commuting. That way I always have a back up. Especially during those months when I did not have a car. But who knows by the end of summer if I’ll even be able to get fuel for the SuperDuty 
or for under $300. Some people are talking about $10 gas, though I expect a pretty big recession before then, which will cut gas prices, as people buy those expensive houses with lawn mowers that you have to drive a long distance to get to.
that homestead that always used to have smoldering burn barrels and smelled like hog shit and burnt plastic, I saw they subscribed to trash service. Apparently I had read the neighbors had long complained about them to the town, as a homestead smells well like a farm, but after burn ban they tucked the burn barrels away so they weren’t so visible road. 
Still smelled some plastic one day years later driving by. But honestly, I generally hate neighbors such almost as much as libtards. 
I would make sure to actually buy the property next to the hog farm to avoid complaints. If I do buy rural in New York, I’d probably be careful about how much plastic I burned, but I would still take the bottles and cans myself to the recycling center 
. And just try to minimize packaging like I currently do. Last night at Walmart I did buy sugar-free maple syrup and oatmeal, 
as I figure at this point, soon enough I’ll have the camper shell on my truck, and trash minimization won’t be such a big deal once I’m camping again.
opened up the Amazon package and realized what China 
trash I had bought. Mom got me the return label, 
and I’ll return it – mostly out of principal and disgust over the $15 I spent on something I could have gotten that fits properly at the bike store. At least this time I wore gloves so I didn’t have my hands covered with grease. I just hate messing with the chain on my bike. Beans aren’t cooking well, as the stove wasn’t turned on hot enough. It’s fine, I want to head in late, so I’m not dealing with so much traffic 
at rush hour. I’m the big boss man, so I can do shit like that, and my supervisors are five miles up the road. I guess it’s not all bad – my parents also subscribe to trash service – probably to get rid of all their Amazon crap – and the bear 
came and spread trash all over their lawn. I’m quite happy just burning and hauling what needs to be the transfer station, but I also get how burnt plastic when it smolders 
, the people who complain about how high gas prices are putting a crimp on their daily commute to Teenage Stink-a-Lot, 
but honestly, I am quite happy with how the SuperDuty drives. And the fuel economy is fair and reasonable, it doesn’t sip fuel but out on the highway it doesn’t guzzle it that much for traveling on the open highway. It’s worse in the city. Really pretty close to what the old lifted truck got on MPG. Solid front axle does drive differently on the bumps, but generally I’m very happy with the basic work truck I bought. Now I’m just waiting for the camper shell to arrive, 
so I can move my gear over and head out camping. Might just do hammock camping for Memorial Day Weekend though locally, even if I do have the shell by then, as it’s going to be super buggy up north 
with the black flies. I’d rather ride my bike to work most days, and enjoy the SuperDuty on the weekend.
