Whatever as they say, rain is expected to start around 11 AM and continue through the afternoon before turning to ICE and SNOW come tomorrow morning, but probably not too much slop tomorrow but it’s unclear if I can ride in tomorrow.
Yesterday was a Tuesday, pretty much uneventful day. 🚲 Rode in yesterday via Corning’s Hill as I wasn’t sure if the Rail Trail was ice free and I didn’t want to bang up my bike riding over pock-marked ICE and honestly I’m okay doing Corning Hill, not that I love crossing that slip ramp at NY 32 / US 9W interchange or the merge where I have to get over on my bike in traffic, 🚦 especially when the traffic light isn’t cooperating. South Pearl though is much better since they repaved it last year. Less then a month before I can ride home in evening due to sufficient daylight, as long the bike trail is free of ICE.
Blueberry pancakes 🥞 this morning, I was looking at how good I look in the mirror health-wise. Getting old, but then again I was looking at pictures of Pamela Anderson after seeing her interview in Newsweek or one of the magazines I was reading on Libby. 📖 Man, she is so old at 58 years with wrinkles, it was a long time ago when I would watch her on Baywatch at my Grandparent’s big chest colored TV as a kid. Mostly thumbed through magazines last night on Libby, did a little reading and more listening to Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929. I am actually surprised, Sorkin while on the liberal news speaking tour, has a decidedly conservative views when it comes to covering the Great Depression, he is a lot my sympathetic to Hoover and critical of Roosevelt and especially Alfred Smith then you might think.
Truth is I don’t hate riding the bus, 🚌 it gives me more time to read, though I find I don’t care to listen to audio books on the bus, as it can be difficult to concentrate on them unlike on the bike, as I find myself flipping through the news or doing other things when on the bus if I’m not reading an actual E-book. 📚 But I also like how pumped I feel when I ride my bike to work. Just waiting for the black beans to get finished up on the stove in a few minutes, 🚿 then I’ll shower, and head off to work. 🌲 Another public meeting on development in the Albany Pine Bush, assuming Lynne is willing to drive in the rain I’ll probably be there this evening, otherwise I’ll walk laps in the Plaza and then catch that local home. If I have to catch the local, I actually prefer the 5:40 PM bus because it’s crowded not that I could get the 5:10 PM local bus with the shuttle 🚀 transfer or the bike ride downtown after work. Then I figure I have my steps in, have dinner and head under the heated blanket.
Honestly, I don’t mind the warmer weather of late, ♨️ it just makes everything at home feel much less cold. I’ve been keeping the heat at 47 or 48 degrees as in this weather that’s mostly above freezing or just barely below, I don’t worry about he pipes. I get that gas heat isn’t that pricey, but it’s still money that I could be putting into my SuperDuty or some day that off-grid cabin or manure spreader. 💩 You know I had to stick that line in the blog post. Going to bring in an empty milk jug 🍶 to toss in the recycle bin 🚮 on the way in, it’s funny how without a truck or trash pickup, you think about every piece of trash, and how you’re going to get rid of it. 🗑️ Taking kind of a break from the deep dive into building my next rig, 🛻 but even yesterday I did take a brief look into heater ports for a camper shells, the Car View website for invoice pricing and other info about some of the various trucks I’m considering and dealer listings. But it’s still 10 weeks out until I buy, so I don’t want to spend all my time studying trucks.