I can’t wait until this summer when you need to put gas in your car, and the way you do it is as follows:
1) Install the app on your phone for your local gas station brand. You will likely want to install multiple apps as not all gas stations will have fuel.
2) Check the app to see if gas is available at the chosen station.
3) Order your gas. The cost will be $15 a gallon for a maximum of 10 gallons or $150 prepaid.
4) Schedule your time to pick up your gas at the gas station.
5) When you arrive at your scheduled time, scan your QR Code at the pump for your prepaid gas, you can get your maximum 10 gallons.
6) No unscheduled fueling sessions will be permitted.
With temperatures heading up to 50 degrees today, rain this evening and similar temperatures tomorrow – and heading up into the sixties this week – it should help with the melting on the bike trail.
A bit breezy today 🌬️ and without much sun, it’s actually feels outside colder then it is but regardless it should still help with the snow melt. I am hoping we are beyond the worse of winter now, and soon enough I can have my windows open, maybe come Monday just for fresh air. Maybe Tuesday it will be in the 70s. Definately want to ride in that day. Got a Pine Bush hearing on Wednesday to attend, but whatever they’re talking more rain that day, along with heading into next weekend. 🌲 Going to be kind of shit by the time next weekend rolls around weather wise.
Had meetings downtown yesterday, 🏢 and ended up deciding it was late enough in the day that I wasn’t going to head back to Menands so I just rode home from downtown, keeping an eye on my phone and getting any necessary business done. 🤝 I went downtown during lunch, I was actually in my office less then usual, but it was a pretty quiet day after being busy earlier in the week. 🚲 Bike makes for quick and easy parking when I have to run downtown.
Today I’m probably going to head over to Walmart for a few supplies, though my pantry isn’t in awful shape at this point. 🛒 I could wait until tomorrow morning before going out to see the family 👪 or whatever, just pick up groceries during the daily commute on my bike back and forth from work at Hannaford as I don’t have any big shopping needs. Maybe it’s better to wait and use up what I have leftover at this point. More carrot 🥕 and apple 🍏 pancakes 🥞 this morning, lots of coffee, ☕ and just looking out the window hoping for spring 🌸.
Might ride over to Five Rivers, 🐸 both to see Meads Cows 🐄 and bring my boots and go for a hike in the afternoon. They say we might see some sun by mid-afternoon. And just kind of hang out and read, 📖 maybe think more about my next truck. Do I really want that big expensive, but rather basic SuperDuty? Or would I be happier 😊 without a truck, or something smaller but with a nicer interior and more technology. 🖥️ That said, even the work truck SuperDuty is loaded with technocrap compared to my old truck. ⛽ Fuel prices keep going up with the war, which I know tips my leverage in my favor on those rotting trucks, 🛻 still I remember I’m one ultimately paying for said fuel for the truck. But it would be such a great vehicle for camping and back country adventures. Those Toyotas are toy trucks, so tiny, and the half tons are such junk especially without a lift kit, which adds all kinds of problems. ⚖️ I call some people up and ask them their opinion. 📞
Soaring oil prices suggest that more increases could be in store for American drivers. Diesel, jet fuel, and other refined products are also becoming much more expensive.
As somebody without home internet or a colored television, rides public transit and keeps his heat at 48 degrees all winter long, I am often convinced that most people are dumb slugs who spend their lives staring at their boob-tubes, spending their endless hours obsessing over Kim Kardashian while mindlessly ordering tons of plastic garbage off of Amazon to fill their 6-yard plastics recycling dumpster that sits in their front yard.
Truth is my disdain for all things suburbia, the “reliable” SUVs and sedans, the plastic-coated houses with their vinyl siding, the mowed grass lawns, the supermarkets and big box stores, driving everywhere, expensive organic food is probably not grounded in that much reality. Lives based around monthly payments, installment loans, credit cards, mortgages and auto loans. Where people have negative or minimal net worth.
There are definately people who live extravagantly, over spend and are extensively in debt – or as the euphanism is – leveraged. Many people are just happy with the standard American existence of high consumerism, but that is not necessarily all Americans, as others do choose to live the simple life. There are more homesteaders out there, more people who don’t have a lot of technology then media wants you to believe. Indeed, living in suburbs, I have to think many of my views are colored by the people around me, and when I travel into the city and especially rural areas, it often is av very different experience.
