July 15, 2015 evening

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64 degrees with some haze over the stars. Still quite a few fireflies out on this summer evening. 80 degrees tommorow with low humidity.

Today was a long and crazy day at work, but I’ve been around long enough to know those days happen a few times a month. I survived and on to a new day.

Went down to the Park and spent some time reading. While I was there, I discovered the pool complex has an open network called “Free Library WiFi”. While the network name is sketchy, it clearly is broadcasting from the pool complex and it works pretty well anywhere nearby. Saves on phone bandwidth and allows me to get podcasts to my phone. I could browse video and websites without worrying and quickly. My phone has 5 gigs of bandwidth now but with so many open hotspots it seems almost excessive. And no, I’m not thinking of having Internet at home. Verizon and Time Warner, you can stop sending me glossy flyers that don’t even burn well.

I’ve noticed it seems like the evening are getting a bit shorter now, even if it’s really only minutes. But come August, those evening sunlight will be dropping fast. Always remarkable how quickly the long evenings dissappear. Without the humidity this evening, it almost felt fall like. The dewpoint at 10 p.m. is only 52. Pleasant.

Tommorow is get packed for another summer weekend in the Adirondacks. It seems like I was just up in the woods but it’s going to be another hot weekend and I’d rather keep my feet put in the Potholers and enjoy a nice fire in the evening.

I’m thinking of taking the last week of July off for vacation. I don’t have a serious plan for it but everybody is taking vacation and except for a few days I’ve been stuck in the office. The days are getting shorter and if I wait until mid-August or later, I will be cutting into my days to get back to camp before getting too dark. Still a lot of trips I want to make but they are mostly long weekends.

July 15, 2015 update

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Good morning, Happy Hump Day. Still pretty gray this morning but we are up to 66 right now. Mornings seem much easier when the sun is out and shinning.

Today the bus downtown is a BRT commuter coach hybrid, bus number 326H. It looks like it’s been used for several years based on the wear and tear, along with the florescent lighting. The coach configuration with comfortable seats is neat but I’m sure it wouldn’t hold up for regular urban transit use. I also think the vehicle locator system is broke based on the lack of data in Moovit for this bus and the stop signal cord appears broken.

Tommorow it’s Thursday, so I will have to get packed for the weekend and go shopping. It’s really not that much work but it still takes time as I use the same food, pots and pans, clothes, and personal supplies as I use up in the woods.

Next weekend if the weather is decent, finally getting out to the Finger Lakes. I think I will probably take a full week and eventually end up in Erie, Pennsylvania. On the other hand, I would kind of like to get down to West Virginia this year, but I don’t know, it’s an awful long drive through Pennsylvania until I would get three. I hate long drives on expressways. I much prefer back roads.