Yeah, it was no fucking fun putting on the spare tube into he pitch black and catching an even later local bus home but I was able to patch up that badly damaged tube with a lot of rubber cement and chunks of rubber tube and it’s holding air again and the spare is off and ready to save my ass again hopefully not soon.
I’ve been talking for six months about getting new tires for my bike, 🚴 as the nubs are totally worn off the back tire and the front tire is compeletely cracked and crumbled, with pieces missing and you can see through the tire in part down to the tube which isn’t offering much protection though the fix-a-flat saves my ass most of the time with the little leaks. Hell I don’t know how many of the leaks I patched last night weren’t serious and would have been fixed with the fix-a-flat when properly mounted but the one that made me swap the tube in the dark certainly was.
I was actually up later then usual, by the time I took the even later local bus home then had dinner and patched up the tire. I was only up until 9 PM but that’s pretty late for me when most mornings I’m up at 4:30 AM or 5 AM to read and think. 🤔 I don’t use an alarm, I’m just use to getting up at that hour, refreshed with clarity in thought. ☕ Used the last of milk this morning, had some of the coffee black. Spent much of early hour reading the remaining, The Heart of the Homestead, mostly just to get it done as I have several more books to get through before they return automatically next Friday on Hoopla. Also plan to listen to more of Raising Goats for Dummies 🐐 on the way into the office. Need to top off my bike tires, shower 🚿 and then riding in. Hopefully the patches will hold good and I’ll make it both ways without having to swap tubes like I did last night.
Honestly it wasn’t the worse thing in the world, wasn’t like I had any plans for last night beyond more pea soup, homemade bread and bed 🛏️. Maybe didn’t get as much as sleep as I often do on a cold and dark winters night but it’s a Friday and I was still up bright 🔆 and early. Sunny and mild morning to start out what should be a good day. And hell, yesterday could have been a lot worse. I saw there was a crash on the expressway. 🚘 Truth is I really hate driving, though at some point if I ever want to move out of the city that will be a necessity as cars are the best way to escape the city, though park and ride can certainly help. Assuming Trump doesn’t cut even more of the funding for the busses 🚍 so the only service is left is only the “last resort bus” to the ghetto for those who don’t have any other choice but ride the bus because their too poor to drive. Unfortunately it seems like bus service is going that way lately. Soon the one bus at day will run from Arbor Hill to the Methadone Clinic, spray painted from to wall to wall with gang symbols, and be full of scary people covered with holes from all the needles.
I think I’m done with the green pea soup 🥣 after tonight. Any leftovers I’ll freeze. It’s been good but I’ve had too much of it the last few days. Not been as gassy 😲 since I got used to it and started eating reasonable portions. Tonight I want to soak the remaining two pounds of pinto beans 🫘 I have so I can enjoy them with many meals in the coming week. People might think beans make you gassy too but when they are a staple of your diet, you build the ability to process the fiber and starch. They’re inexpensive and a good source of protein too. May need whole wheat flour already again as I’ve been baking a lot and having a lot of pancakes 🥞 lately. This morning was oatmeal and Greek yogurt with banana and mango. Good stuff too.
Tomorrow looks good early, 🌲 for the first day of regular season. I want to get to the Pine Bush to ride, get a picture of the John Wolcott sign and visit thrift shops in search of more clothes for work. 👚 Get really nice stuff thrifting, you got to sort through the crap but then again the same is true with the overpriced crap you find at the Maul, and you don’t even have to go to stinking Maul with the gangs of horney teenagers running around, shoplifting and stinking of incense and processed food. 🍟 👃 Then I need to get another plastic milk bottle 🐮 for coffee on Sunday and rest of the week and stock up on a few other groceries not that my pantry is that bare but it’s good to have everything for the week. 🛒 Need to get soap 🧼 and maybe some shredded parm cheese 🧀 for certain meals.
And maybe get through some other books before Hoopla automatically returns them. 📚 I still have 10 November borrows to use up but I’ll get them later in the morning, maybe closer to Thanksgiving for my post-holiday trip to the North Country, 🦃 and in the mean-time finding reading 📖 material on Libby. I’ve been reading a lot about homesteading lately, maybe next month I’ll study more about construction 🚧 and building shit. 🏡 I just don’t want one of those woke plastic houses with the vinyl siding and asphalt roofs, with a 5 yard dumpster picked up weekly or for that matter an always full of plastic and stinking trash burning barrel. 🛢️ Really want to get away from all that plastic crap that is promoted endlessly, along with all the processed food that all I ever see is advertising about. Shit is far worse then occasional toke or drag on a cigarette. 🚬