I think it stopped raining! ☔
I guess that’s a sign that I can ride to work this morning. Maybe I’ll get wet on the evening commute, but it beats riding the bus or gasp, taking the SuperDuty (!) to work.
Yesterday was fine, the buses were okay, 🚌 but the transfer from the Capitol to the shuttle at the Empire Plaza was a good run as the local was running late with traffic. Then in the evening, walked around the Plaza but it just seemed like there was a thousand security guards 👮 watching me as I was getting in my steps, and then they locked the door at Knickerbocker Arena Walkway and I had to figure out an alternative way to get down to SUNY through the parking garage. It was fine, caught the bus and made it home but I’d rather ride and save the $2.60 and get some exercise in. 🚲 Hopefully the bike now will keep working good for a long time.
I had to ask the Google AI voice thingy to tell me how much the market is up since March 31st, 💰 just for the masturabatory pleasure of seeing how many times over the SuperDuty was paid for by market gains and how I’m not poorer because I spent all my money on said ginamormous truck. 14.3% since March 31st, though let’s be honest, things were pretty depressed in the market at that point, though even a year to year basis, things are up. Not that my portfolio tracks the SP 500 exactly, as I have a fair amount of money in cash and bonds, but it’s nice knowing the truck 🛻 is paid for and it’s not having any real material impact on my future. I could have bought a 25-year old Honda Civic for a lot less money, but I like my SuperDuty even if it cost $150 to fuel up for 500-miles of traveling, which I have yet to do on the SuperDuty. Even if I don’t yet own that off-grid cabin, I can still spend a lot of time in the wilderness 🐺 singing along with the Dire Wolf, playing with that dripping plastic and smoking weed, knowing those days aren’t that far away.
Did some reading last night 📚, listened to more of David Gessner’s All the Wild That Remains, and I got day dreaming about spending more time in the wilderness. 🐐 Truth is I am just waiting for that dang truck cap to come in so I can move over all my camping gear. And get up to the woods. Saturday marks 5 weeks since I ordered it. I should give Andy Ruth a call and see where it’s at.📞 It will be nice to get up to the woods, have a fire, 🔥 burn up all that accumulated paper and other burnables. The brush burning ban ends today, so no need to keep the fire small at this point if I have enough burnables and pieces of wood for a roaring fire. Seems to always be an ample supply of pallets 🪓 around where I work, which while I dislike dealing with the nails, are great for getting fires started and sending burnables up in smoke without too much stink. 👃 Dropping those milk jugs and cider vinegar in recycling ♻️ bins along the way has helped cut back a lot on the trash.
Cornmeal pancakes this morning, 🥞 with lots of onion, shredded carrot, pinto beans, some garlic, salt, oatmeal, whole wheat flower, egg and stevia for a good breakfast. Dinner last night was fried onions, pinto beans, peas mixed with olive oil, water and stevia. Kind of porrage but good and filling after a cold and wet commute home. 🚍 I kind hate riding the bus, maybe I should have bought a 25-year old Honda Civic but I still like my SuperDuty but not so much for driving to work even if gas ain’t cheap these days. 🛖 I keep flipping through New York Land Sales and Christmas Associates, and there are so many affordable cabins and remote properties out there, but I still need to work a few more years, build more savings before I have my off-grid acerage out in the country with the goats, burn barrels, ATVs and other toys. Those days aren’t that far away, 👴🏻 as I keep thinking about retirement in 2040 or so.
But first I need to hop on the mountain bike and ride to work… I beg you, you don’t murder me, when I awoke the Dire Wolf, six-hundred pounds of sin, grinning at my window.
