And the seasons go around, and painted poneys go up and down. We’re captive on the carousel of time. We can’t return and only look back at where we came. I think I will share parts of discussion I had with the AI last night about homesteading, at some point later in the day.
I won’t say it will be the nicest day to ride my bike to work, 🚲 but what’s the alternative? Ride the bus and fight the rioters through the Capitol and lest get caught not dressed up for work? It actually feel good, as will the pinto beans that I made up this morning for lunch and dinner. 😋 Gray skies and maybe some snow flurries around, and lots of salt and wet on the road. I am almost tempted to try the rail trail today but I think I should wait until next week when the snow hopefully melts down even further. What we could use is a good soaking rain to burn the snow down good. ☔ More blueberry pancakes 🥞 this morning. Last night did eggs 🥚 and veggies haven’t done that in a while.
It wasn’t bad riding in yesterday, maybe a little wet and sloppy on the way back to the bus. It’s nice how much daylight there is in the evening, if there wasn’t the darn snow, I would be riding in both ways. 😀 Once the snow is gone through the time change in November, I almost certainly will be riding both ways to work except during rainy days. 🌇 It just feels so good to ride in, so much better for the mental health then the bus much less driving in even in the ginormous SuperDuty.
In a week from now, I want to take a half day to get up to DePaula (Orange) Ford and maybe Metro Ford to look at and possibly test drive a SuperDuty. I have a list of trucks I want to test out. Just to make sure that’s the route I want to go before starting to get price quotes in early to mid-March and finalizing my decision by the end of the month. Still I worry about pushy salesmen, or sharing too many of my cards, but I know I’m always free to leave the dealership – just make sure not to let my drivers license out of site. I keep studying negotiations and the business, how to get the truck I actually want. 🤝 I’m kind of nervous about it about actually going into a dealership and either being ignored as not being SuperDuty material or being star struck by the truck.
As much as I want to get a fair deal on the truck, getting the right truck that will make me happy for the next 15 years – likely through my retirement – is more important. ⚖️ That certainly doesn’t mean price is no object, indeed I have my budget and want to stick to it because I will need money for the truck cap and other miscellaneous hardware and wire, cellphone booster, and obviously my Michigan trip. Figuring out what is right isn’t completely obvious, indeed I’ve changed my mind several times on exactly what I want my next rig to be like. 💭
At one level, I look at inventories and at one level it’s not hard to find many 7.3L off-road package SuperDuties XL out there. 🔎 But then I look at specific trucks and the ones I really like are less inventory but honestly the trick is to to be flexible enough to get the truck I really want but within a reasonable budget. 💭 Some of it is hard to know what the real price is as sticker and even invoice price are imaginary with the incentives and hold back dealers have, once I have real out the door prices I can decide how flexible I must be on specific equipment. Right now it’s all just speculation on what out the door prices really will be. 💰 Ultimately, it’s hard to know what is real until you get quotes and know what you are dealing with.
Looks like it’s going to be good weekend for riding over to Walmart to grocery shop and get more big bags of pinto beans and cornmeal. 🛒 If the snow isn’t too deep maybe I’ll do some hiking somewhere too, but with the warmer weather and sunshine ☀️ expected for much of the weekend, I think things will be kind of melty today. 🎿 Honestly maybe it wasn’t the worse thing I didn’t get skis this year, as without a vehicle it’s been pretty hard to ski, plus most of the weekends have either been bitterly cold, 🌬️ or in the case of the coming weekend sloppy with the warm weather. I also considering possibly riding over to Central Avenue to visit the Salvation Army for some new shirts, but I don’t think I will with the snow, as I’d rather combine that with a trail ride and/or ski at the Pine Bush. At one point I had envisioned also looking at some Toyota Taco trucks 🌮 but I don’t think I’m leaning in that direction at this point.