See I have an excuse to not ride my bike to work today 🚲

Besides the fact that it’s nine degrees out and wind is whipping around, tonight is the Public Hearing on condemning part of Albany Pine Bush for the trash transfer station now that landfill is supposed to close in the next few years.

Truth is like so many Mondays, I felt sick before I got out of bed, 🛏️ but getting up, unthawing some frozen strawberries 🍓 and shredding some carrots for pancakes, and putting the bread, sweet potatoes 🥔 and acorn squash in the oven to bake 🍞, I’m feeling better now. Maybe it’s the coffee ☕ that is certain to keep me pissing and shitting all of the time. I kind of loathe sticking around downtown until 7 PM and  going to city hall to bitch about the dump that I rarely use because I burn most of my shit. 🔥 But it’s important to fight to save the remaining Albany Pine Bush, 🦋 even if soon enough I’ll be leaving Albany never to look back. It’s just another public hearing, Lynne wrote me crib notes, and if I don’t want to get emotional or say what I really think about garbage hump of consumerism, 🐪 I can just have Chat GPT write me some notes. And it’s a chance to walk laps. 🚶

But somehow I was hoping for an excuse to say I’m sick, 🤒 and need to stay home but the coffee and strawberry pancakes 🥞 got me going and probably soon enough peeing and pooping, 💩 which the crap that doesn’t burn ends up on that garbage heap in landfill. Somehow composting toilets, out houses and humanure seems all the more attractive! But I also find the whole concept of permaculture to be so repulsive, 🍆 maybe because of who I associate it with, usually menonites and overly jacked up hippie types. 👦🏽 It will give me time to walk laps in Plaza where it’s warm, finish up Cathy Friends’ Hit By a Farm, an audiobook I’ve listening to about two lesbians who form a sheep farm in Western Minnesota and learn about the trials and tribulations of farm life between dead sheep and broken fucked up farm equipment. 🐑 It’s a good story, and sometimes I need a diversion from more serious material.

Wednesday Big Red 🛻 gets inspected and tires rotated, probably for the last time I tell myself, but it will be good. I want to get through this winter with Red. I need to pull off the hub caps and install the new windshield wiper but I doubt I’ll get a chance to do this before Wednesday morning, 🛠️ as there is a hearing about a development in the Pine Bush 🌲 on Tuesday to attend also. I will probably take that day off as I time use up before the end of the year and I want to read 📖 and if it’s mild enough do some riding. 🚲