Of course they are. And yeah, I’m watching some dumb Facebook video about dairymen scraping and slinging cow shit, because you know the internet and that’s the first suggested video and it’s winter so nobody’s grazing at this point. That and some random videos about boys with their Ford SuperDuty trucks. Insert some random comment about us rednecks burning garbage in the stinky old burn barrel, horney buck goats, and smoking weed while riding my mountain bike in the wilderness, and I have a blog post with a good pungent taste to it. What can I say, I am such hillbilly want-a-bee.
Happy Winter once again, though it’s going to be another mild and rainy ☔ afternoon, which means I won’t be riding my mountain bike to work today. But it won’t be that long until I can ride both ways to work as Valentines’ Day approaches and the days get longer. 🚂 Got fucking blocked by the train loading at the propane distribution yard last night, and ended up having to catch the later local bus 🚍 home by the time I rode downtown. Those propane tanker trains are so goddamn loud when your standing next to them and their banging their way along the siding, as you’re waiting.
So yeah, taking the yokel local bus (it’s so local and stops every six feet to pick up all the colored and poor peopleon -my favorite new word – the pogey! ) both ways, because you know it won’t rain today, 👣 and hell I’ll probably have downtown meetings this afternoon, so maybe I’ll get home earlier so I can eat more pinto beans and call it night earlier. 🫘 Maybe I’m just lazy and don’t feel like riding in, but I don’t love doing Corning’s Hill in the morning, having to ride across those slip ramps at rush hour and fight traffic at the US 9W and NY 32 Delmar Bypass Interchange on my mountain bike. But you could be like a normal suburbanite and own a 20-year old Honda Civic and sit in traffic both ways. And buy one of those plastic houses, a grown up version of those kid ones that are often tossed on brush piles to get them burning well when kids grow up. 🔥 How exciting, so much black smoke!
It’s funny how when I don’t abuse drugs, ☕ I mean don’t go for that extra cup or two or three of the extra strong and teeth staining free coffee in the office after having like 3 cups of coffee how much better you sleep at night, 🛏️ and don’t have to listen to podcasts at 1 AM with ads every 5 minutes telling you SEE WHAT YOU REALLY NEED is BETTER HELP and a SO-FAT MATTERESS. I mean I’m not opposed to getting a new mattress if I can burn the old one out back and still have money for a SuperDuty truck and a cabin that smells like wood smoke horney buck goat and burn barrel. 🐐 My office still smelled a bit like wood smoke, as my Carhartt still has that wonderful smell from Christmas Day camping. 🎅 Not only did I sleep good last night, 😴 just like those piles of heritage breed hogs in barn in cold as shown in the social media 🐖 I also slept in a bit but I think I should have enough time to boil down those kidney beans before I have to run out to the local yokel bus. 🚏 And I’ve totally cut out those caffeine pills, 💊 because while I enjoyed the boost and not having to piss every five minutes, they were making me so jittery and making my heart 🫀 feel like it was failing. Probably because it was, and I keep refusing to go to Clifton Park at rush hour and paying $50 to find out I’m one step away from cardiac arrest. 😍
Truth is while I’m made excited about the kidney beans, 🫘 for eating over the balance of the weekend, I am really excited about that after the warm and rain this weekend, ☔ I should be able to ride in most of next week based on the forecast. 🚴 And in a little over a month, be able to ride both ways to work, assuming the bike path is mostly free of snow. Days are better when you don’t have to take the bus to work, or even drive your big-ass Ford SuperDuty truck work in those days when I get it. ⛽ With the fuel economy, even with the destroked Godzilla, yeah, I’ll be doing a lot of riding of the bike to work. I’m actually opening up to paying a little extra for a SuperDuty with the extended cab, as I could live with the 6 3/4′ bed, and those trucks are more avaliable. Honestly, it makes no sense to cheap out when you are taking SuperDuty money, 💵 but I still want to keep to the low trim, simpler configuration that won’t be a big deal if it I get muddy inside and has at least a few less sensors and electronics to break, even though I know it’s 2026 and three-on-the-tree and mechanical everything is on it’s way out. I know it’s going to look crazy living in my dumpy apartment, 🪟 and being without a vehicle for several months, when I come home with big-assed SuperDuty. But honestly, I don’t want a plastic house, and I don’t spend money on a lot of things, but I do like my big trucks. I won’t lift the SuperDuty I tell myself. Well besides maybe a leveling kit and bigger tires. Or maybe not, how big do you really need such a big truck? I have other money invested for that cabin some point the future, and in the mean time once I get the SuperDuty, I can take that up to the woods and have fires 🔥 and enjoy the wilderness while I stay in New York for now for the money. 💰 I like my job as Data Services director, it’s fun, I get paid to write shell scripts and SQL commands, and come up with creative ways of linking and pulling data. 💾
As far as the weekend goes, 🚴 I am thinking of possibly riding out to Walmart on Saturday for some groceries, 🛒 and and maybe out to Five Rivers later in he day. 🐦 Sunday hit up Hannaford for anything remaining on my list. 📜 If my parents don’t give me a ride out to their house this weekend, I’ll go to the laundromat at 6 AM on Monday, taking the bus down there with my laundry soap powder, which should be a learning experience on many levels. 👖 But you could own a plastic house with a 20-year old Honda Civic and a washing machine in basement which works for two weeks before breaking down, and needing hauling off to the landfill and buying a new one. It’s fine, I bet though the big-assed SuperDuty would not be fun to park in the tiny laundromat lot. 🏡 I’m sure once I have it my rent will go up beyond what the welfare office rate, but whatever. Still beats having to commute to work, and I like my big trucks even if I do really want that cabin with the burn barrel, goats and hogs out back. 🛻 I also got Andrew Sorkin’s 1929 audio book out of the library after being on reserve for a few weeks now and I’m quite excited to listen to it this weekend.