August 8, 2015 midday

Good afternoon.Β It’s 79 degrees this afternoon and sunny. Not a drop of humidity this afternoon, with a dewpoint of around 56 degrees.

I didn’t post an update yesterday,Β because when I got home from work yesterday, I was tired from a long weekend at work, and was asleep by no later then 6:30 PM and didn’t get up until around 7 AM. Sometimes a good night of sleep is good.

Finally started to clean up my apartment and get stuff put away from last week camping.Β Things didn’t get fully packed up last weekend, and I was just tired after a long week of work, fiddling with my cellphone to get it working again. I finally ordered a new SD card, and will get that in the phone later, and move over my music collection. 64 GB should give me a lot more place to store music, podcasts, and photos. The camping stuff has been cleaned with bleach and the coolers, water jugs, boxes, and other equipment is in the attic, all ready for next Thursday when I take it out to pack for camping again — assuming next weekend turns out to be recent.

I picked up oil and filter, and made sure everything was right for doing the oil change.Β I got the oil drained out of the truck, and then I couldn’t get the damn filter off the truck. I had a cap wrench that worked perfectly last time, but because last time I installed an oil filter that had a asphalt coated end — Purcolator brand — my cap wrench wouldn’t fit. Dad came over with his belt-style filter wrench, and between us both banging it, we got it off. I don’t know how it got so tight on. I only hand tighten the filter. I never use a wrench on it, as you don’t want to over-crimp the filter ring. That sucked. And yes, I spilled some oil on the asphalt driveway, but it’s asphalt and most of soaked up okay with paper towels. But i got a purty picture.

Decided to go down to the park to check on the Internets.Β I love the wi-fi at the park. It’s much nicer to sit out in the park, on the hill by the pool complex and check the web, compared to going to the library. I’ve never used the Bethlehem Pool because it’s like $5 but maybe some hot day when I’m in town, I’ll have to try it out.

Heading down fishing in a little whileΒ at the Hudson River. I will probably pick up some hot dogs and fry them up on camp stove. I could I guess use the barbeque grill, but I don’t feel like bothering with the charcoal. Next weekend if I’m out camping, I will do some grilling for sure. Might go camping somewhere around Wells and visit the Town Beach or go camping out at Burnt-Rossman and go Mine Kill State Park. But who knows if the weather will be this nice next weekend.

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