Fuck it, I’ll ride to work this morning. 🚲 ❄️

Like everyone I heard the DIRE EMERGENCY SNOWSTORM warning about this afternoon and it may or may not happen, but the thing is I probably have meetings downtown this afternoon so I might as well have my bike and then I can just put on the bus if the weather turns to shit by afternoon. Even if it rains, I’m not going to die by getting a little wet. Not actually a super cold morning out, so should be a nice ride.

This morning the bike trail is freeze of snow and ice, and most of the lollygagers weren’t yet out as I started my commute, riding down Cherry Avenue then at the light merging on the bike trail and just cruising along. Listening to The Appalachian Trail: A Biography by Philip D’Anieri as I ride in. Still be a cool, and I probably will get rained on by evening, but if conditions are bad, I’ll put my bike on bus. And chances are good I’ll be downtown for meetings, and the bus is nearby there, so if it becomes a dire emergency snow storm, then whatever. But this morning is sunny, crisp, and cold and ice free.

Another quiet weekend ahead, books to read and run to Wally World for some groceries and supplies. I need to start looking at the next truck I’m interested in so I can start putting bids in next week. That said with work, it’s going to be hard to get away and do another test drive unless I go back to DePaula Ford. Maybe test driving is worthwhile, as with the Godzilla Holstein, while I loved the truck on paper as it checked all the boxes, after driving it, I ultimately wasn’t that thrilled with it. Those light gray seats did nothing for me. Still at times, I sometimes regret deciding against it, just like that 5-acre homestead next to my parents which ultimately sold for $120k though it did require like a new septic and other repairs before it was livable. But it wasn’t right for me.

And I keep asking myself, how expensive will gas go up this summer? Honestly, I’d rather the dealer make floor payments then me not get interest payments on my savings account and have to pay for insurance and fuel. In the mean time, if I feel like motoring, it’s $20 to join the CDTA Carshare and only $5 an hour to motor those little electricity city cars, and fuel and insurance is included. I should do that. Might be good if I want to go outlaying dealerships, though I think I want to do much of deal remotely, less likely to get ripped off so much if I have everything in writing. I don’t know, somehow the Middle East Crisis just makes me less interested in ginamous fuel-guzzling pickup trucks. Maybe also get over to Five Rivers with the nicer weather and long evening, but it might be windy tomorrow and kind of raw tomorrow. Sunday going out to see the folks, then rain on Monday, so I guess it’s back to taking the Yokel Local Bus back and forth to work.