I am hoping we get enough rain that it melts the snow and ice from the bike path so I can ride it in on Thursday, though I concede that’s not likely so I’ll probably be taking Corning Hill in if I ride in on Thursday. Today and tomorrow will be be busing it days.
Got more Save the Pine Bush Meetings to go to tonight, 🌲 I didn’t go to the organizational meeting last night as it was cold and dark and honestly I didn’t want to spend half the night in a overly swanky bar somewhere off New Scotland arguing about bullshit politics and stragety. I am the map and GIS guy, and they wanted me there, 🗺️ but I’d rather go real public meetings where I can bitch out Town Leaders for demolishing more of the Pine Bush while I dream of the log cabin with grunting hogs and a burn barrel out back. 🐽
I get so defensive about retiring Big Red, 🛻 because he was more then just a truck to me, though I knew his time has come. When a vehicle is perceived as being unsafe and unreliable, maybe it’s time for retirement. Let him become somebody’s else’s problem, preferably somebody who has a welding experience and a knock for fixing little things roadside, and isn’t primarily taking him out to the wilderness or driving 5 states away to see the Great North Woods of Michigan and Wisconsin. 🐺 🌲 🦌 And I can’t keep stop thinking about how fucking much money those SuperDuty trucks are but I so want one. But my knowledge and study of finance says it’s a bad idea, but it could give me a lot of joy over the next 10-15 years. I keep studying car buying stragety and pros-and-cons of various vehicles, though I know I have time. The earliest I would buy a truck is the last week of March. Even if it means passing up the deal of the lifetime. 🤝 They’re not that rare, and there is a shit ton of Ford dealers Upstate.
It’s not like I am going to find land in Upstate New York close enough to work where I can have a burning barrel, not have to recycle stupid plastics, an an AR-15 and handguns to ventalate such a trash burner. 🛢️ 🔫 So I might as well get the big-ass truck I want. Capital gains will make the money spent on the truck disappear in the next year, assuming the market continues to grow like the past few years. Sucks to have to spend the money, but New York is where I make my money, and I make good money but I work hard and good deliver results for clients. I heard the head programmer was saying good things about the work I do in the department I oversee. 🖥️ It just tickles my ego, every time I hear people talk up my work. But maybe because I have a small dick and drive a big truck.
I keep reading books about buying cars 🚘 and everything I can learn about the industry, both from the Internet on YouTube and the library. If I am very stragetic, cast a wide net of dealership, have some flexibility in model and trim (like an 3/4 ton F-250 vs 1 ton F-350), there are definately options out there. I need to understand the off-road package too, what does it buy besides AT tires? Most of the SuperDuty trucks come with the lockers. Maybe a skid plate under the tranny, I do worry about the tranny lines getting caught in brush, though I’m not going to take a $50k or $60k HD pickup down some rough narrow trail. 🤡 I don’t want to get scammed, get a fair price from dealerships, but maybe I’m more afraid dealerships won’t sell me a SuperDuty even though I have the cash to do it. Oh, you what you really want is a blown-engine (aka supercharged) F-150 or Ranger. No shit sparky, I know those trucks exist. We won’t show you the SuperDuties, you’re not SuperDuty material, sorry bro! But I’m a unit director who makes six figures, even if I do take the city bus and ride my mountain bike to your dealership because my big jacked up truck is off the road.
Truth is it gives me something to think about and dream about this winter, 💭 as the day goes by and is much easier to price and develop compared to the off-grid homestead, which involves so many systems to develop and study. 🐐 There is something nice about buying something already built, and not fragmenting the forest further, but so many of the existing houses are plastic houses tied to grid with the assumption of maximum wastage of resources. And while I guess I could I make it work in New York, lest some smoke drift off the property though at least in ag community, people aren’t to likely to care about the smell of some wood smoke or manure. 💩 Still it ain’t no Missouri or even Wisconsin, and I think just makes sense to build some place where I can do it right, with minimal interference by the urban state government. A truck I can at least drive up to wilderness 🐺 aways from all this urban shit, and you’re not going to have neighbors around, though one time I saw people were bitching me out on internet forums for doing so much shooting in woods, and disturbing their peace. 🔫 Fuck ’em. I want to shovel out the bus stop, shower, 🚿 then it’ s the bus to work! Read on way in, catch the shuttle over the office, work, work, work.