Terra Prima as the signs say, it’s the only place where you can till the shit into the dirt, make chopped silage, and roll coal as the sprawl and plastic houses with their 25-year old Hondas roll out another 1,000 miles per day, or something Nadle Mercant and later Joan Baez song back when she wasn’t quite as old and still had a voice.
Rainy start to this Earth Day. 🌧️ It’s fine, the rain is going to stop early and I plan to bus 🚐 it in regardless, as I have a Save the Pine Bush 🌲 meeting to go this evening. I missed the Walkable Albany Meeting last night, I was interested in going but some how I thought it was on Earth Day too and couldn’t go with the conflict. 🚲 Regardless it was a nice bike ride home, got home, finished off the leftover fish from Saturday’s lunch plus some onions, shrimp, and rice. This morning is cornmeal pancakes with shredded onion, carrot and spinach. A pinch of salt, some stevia, cornmeal, and lots of tumeric. I like a good strong taste. And I just like mornings with a lot of fiber. 💩 With that strong coffee at work – I do like the Peanut Butter Banana 🍌 flavored coffee of the week at work – it keeps me pooping good. As the advertisement says, clears waste out of the digestive system. And keeps you full! 🥕 Morning breakfasts that don’t include at least one enormous shredded carrot in the mix just don’t feel like breakfast.
Spent much too much time playing with the VPIC Vin Database. 📀 It’s pretty cool all the information you can get on a car, but the PostgresSQL Function that provides the output table is incredibly slow, only able to do about 3 look ups per second, which is bad when you would ideally like to code all 12 million or so VIN numbers in New York State so to do analysis of the state’s auto fleets. It’s amazing how much data there is on each car from safety to transmission and engine, and in many cases the exact model codes of each car. Part of the problem is the built in function pulls all 200 or so automotive attribution linked through like 50 tables, so it’s bounded to be slow. I am interested in seeing how much I can parallel but the problem is I keep running into low memory errors and thread count errors in PostgresSQL.
Friday the bedliner get applied to Old Smokey, 🛻 so I need to wash him on Thursday and drop him off by around 8 AM, and then it’s just waiting for the cap to arrive. I hope it will be a quality product and a good applicator, Patriot Liner is relatively new but is said to be similiar to Bullet Liner I had on my old truck. Reviews are good. Regardless it will be protected by the cap and hopefully not get that much abuse camping. Or in a later life homesteading, 🚜 though even then I plan to be fairly gentle. I was looking at the price of another simple Renology 100 watt panel, as long as there room on the roof and the controller can handle the amperage at 12 volts, I do think I will want to install a second one for additional charging capacity fairly soon. Maybe as soon as I get a cap, as solar prices have come down so much, and I need more power as I add more gear. With gas prices up, I’d rather idle less, though with remote start and the reliable 6.8L, I’m less worried about less excessive idle. Hell, if I don’t want to listen to engine, if I’m camping where there is cell service, 🪫 I can always schedule idle/charging time. Continuing to study the up-fitter switch configuration, and pass through wiring and reconsidering where to mount the CB Radio. Still haven’t ordered the antenna mount yet.
I know the truck 🛻 and camper rig is really about short-term thinking, 🤔 but also 14 or 15 years is still a fair bit of time before retirement. Probably roughly 1/7th or 1/8th of my life, longer then from age 4 to college. Still, as the ads for Better Help for Financial Stress remind me, I do think too much about money, 💰 as I do want that off-grid cabin, even more then the SuperDuty and weekends in wilderness with fires 🔥 burning shit, I want to do that permanently. But really not in New York State. Maybe it’s all the time working in sausage factory, but I am jealous of all the freedoms people have in other states. I could save a lot of money just sitting at home all the time, but there is a life to live too. And at least for now, the markets keep growing 📊 quickly, and the investments are paying off. Each day, the my years of service grow at work, and so does my pension. I don’t want a fancy life, indeed, once I have my off-grid homestead I’ll probably be there most of the time upon retirement, still shit is expensive.
Well, I don’t want to take my F-350 SuperDuty to work on Earth Day, 🌎 so it be best I get in the shower now 🚿 and hurry off to the local bus stop. 🚏 I heard the SuperDuty isn’t exactly fuel efficent in city traffic, even if it is a lot of fun to drive. At least I can play on my phone on the bus, 📱 even while my phone warns me of Power Save meaning State Farm Drive Safe and Save not recording my bus trip. Yes, but I’m not driving. I’ll drive the SuperDuty on Friday to shop to get sprayed. So be happy insurance company, I’m not putting your corporation profits at risk. I will walk over to the 🚀 from Madison Avenue, I think the rain is done. Pulled another tick off my shoulder and I feel a bit achy in my knee 🦵🏻 it’s the third tick I’ve pulled off my body since Sunday not including the ticks I removed crawling on me on Saturday. 💀 It’s a bad year for ticks.