Finally got some decent weather the next few days and no Pine Bush stuff to do in the evening, so I’ll ride both ways to work though not on the Rail Trail as there is still is too much snow. Charging up the bike lights (still needed for safety at end of the commute), and in a little bit I’ll be off.
Made it home before the snow last night, 🌨️ the Guilderland Planning Board Meeting was everything you thought it would be, the Dale Houck subdivision approved, after Steve Feeney gave his defense of the proposal. More suburbanite homes in the Pine Bush, next to the noisy ol’ Thruway. 🚙 Fried some onions, rice, shrimp, veggies for dinner. Went to bed fairly early, I was up a little before 5 AM to pee, and that point, I figured get the beans started on the stove. You know, life is tough when you don’t have pinto beans to eat.
Apple – carrot 🥕 🍏 pancakes this morning, Walmart has had all these apples super cheap – I assume they are stored from 2025, but shredded in the pancake batter I make up they are still pretty good. I do eat too much Stevia, but whatever it’s calorie free and doesn’t upset my stomach, though all that fiber keeps me pooping good 💩 especially after that strong coffee ☕ in the morning. Fudge-flavored coffee at work this month is good. Plus I like all that sugar and carbs to power me to work on bike. And the fiber keeps me feeling pretty good all day.
Another fairly quiet day in the office, 🖥️ it would be so much busier if they could fix the database and we could start updating the addresses and making corrections. I always like doing that, it’s a chance to give to develop algorithms and figure out what people are writing on their voter form in comparison to what their actual USPS address is, along with cross referencing other databases like USPS and Property Tax rolls.
I am still thinking a lot about the SuperDuty, 🛻 going back and forth about how important the FX4 package is to me, after reading some people’s opinions of it on Godzilla or SuperDuty groups I’m a member on Facebook. I like the idea of skid plates to protect the uncarriage from sticks and especially snow and ice banks, but they note the plates aren’t particularly tough or Comphrensive, and honestly, are you going to off-road an enormous HD truck on rough trails? No way in hell, that’s what I have a mountain bike for. 4×4 is more then fine for any dirt roads and even mud wallows I might be crossing. Maybe more important would be the long bed for more room camping. 🏕️
I don’t know, I guess I should look at different options, and it’s hard to know until I actually get real out-the-door price quotes from dealerships. 🛻 I hear different things about prices, it’s really hard to know what vehicle actually costs based on advertised price without fees. Often I’ve heard when you call the dealership, they’ll give you a lower price, but then tack a bunch of fees and taxes on it. 💰 Some people get excellent deals far below what I’ve been seeing listed and even on Edmunds if forums are to believed. So I don’t know. Tomorrow I’ll call and see if the trucks I’m interested are avaliable for test drive on Monday ot Tuesday. That will give me idea if I want to continue in this direction, and then I’ll start calling dealerships for quotes once March is underway. I really want to take delivery by end of the month, so I have time to order a cap and break the truck in well, move over and wire up equipment, get it’s first oil change before my summer trip out to Michigan.
Nice how much brighter 🔆 the mornings are now. But what I’m really looking forward to is the time change a week from Sunday. Yes it will make the mornings darker for a few weeks but we will have so much more daylight in the evenings. 🌃 Going to be 50 degrees on Saturday so hopefully that’s a good chance for a lot of snow 🌨️ melt. I’m hoping by mid next week I can start riding to work on the Rail Trail but who knows it is going to be cold come Sunday again. But spring is coming.