It got up the 40 degrees today so I started the bike and let it idle in the driveway for a few minutes. Other than that I took down the Christmas stuff that is not still frozen to the ground and used the powerwasher to clean the salt and crud off the car and to blast a ditch through the ice mound the city has built at the end of the driveway.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.