I decided not to head to the Adirondacks until tomorrow morning

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I decided not to head to the Adirondacks until tomorrow morning … 🚵

Today turned out not to be as hot as expected, and honestly I don’t like having to fight traffic to get camping. I may try to retire to bed around 9 PM tonight, and pack my gear as much as possible tonight, and set my alarm for 5 AM. Then if I leave at 6 or 6:30 AM tomorrow, it will be pleasant drive north, and I get there by 9 AM, and have my first beer cracked open by 10 AM and be down to the Potholers by 11.

It’s going to be an extra long-trip up there having to drive up to Piseco due to lower Powley Road being closed. But I want to get up to Piseco-Powley Road at least once this summer, and enjoy the potholers. Maybe I’ll get back up there again come fall when the road re-opens but I’m going to take a wait and see approach towards that.

Earlier int he week, I got the screen-material to fix the screen tent, I just got to make sure I bring a needle and thread, and when I get to camp, I’ll tack it up on the tent, and sew it on while I have some free time come the long-weekend that I am taking. I plan only to stay on Piseco-Powley Road through Monday, after which I might come home but I’m thinking of camping close to Spectulator and doing my work day on Tuesday at the Piseco Library and maybe part of the day at the Town Park overlooking Lake Pleasant the beach.

The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew

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The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew

But, God, he could be a dick. Those who knew Jobs best and worked with him most closely – and I have talked to hundreds of them over the years – were always struck by his abrasive personality, his unapologetic brutality. He screamed, he cried, he stomped his feet. He had a cruelly casual way of driving employees to the breaking point and tossing them aside; few people ever wanted to work for him twice. When he fathered a daughter with his longtime girlfriend Chrisann Brennan at age 23, he not only denied his paternity, he famously trashed Brennan in public, telling Time in 1983 that “28 percent of the male population of the United States could be the father.” His kinder side would only emerge years later, after he had been kicked around, beaten up, humbled by life. He grew up poor, an adopted kid who felt cast aside by his birth parents, feeling scrawny and teased and out of place, and he remained deeply insecure for most of his life, certain that it would not last long.

Unemployment Rates

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States with the lowest unemployment rates in June 2020: Kentucky (4.3%), Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, Maine.

I bet you never would have thought Kentucky would have healthiest economy in America, with an unemployment rate 11.4% below the unemployment rate in New York State (15.7%) and Massachusetts with the worse unemployment in America (17.4%).

Odd times we live in America.