Yesterday I left my fork at home by accident. I had to dig through my desk for a dinky plastic fork I had previously saved. I really don’t like eating using my reused plastic forks anymore except maybe at camp as I don’t like washing dishes there.
The moon is currently in the “tide-amplifying part of its cycle,” according to NASA, but by mid-2030, when this intensified series returns, people living in coastal cities may be dealing with severe floods “every day or two.” Why? This natural yet amplified lunar cycle will be coupled with higher sea levels caused by global warming, triggering a decade of dramatic surges in the number of days with high-tide flooding on nearly all mainland coastlines in the U.S., Hawaii and Guam. High-tide flooding, also known as “nuisance” or “sunny day” floods, is projected to exceed thresholds across the nation more often and occur in clusters that last a month or longer, the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team of the University of Hawaii said. Their study was published last month in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Looks like when the fog 🌫 burns off it will be hot 🏖 today. After breakfast 🥞 and a shower 🚿, I’m going to catch a bus 🚍 and head downtown to work in the office. Air conditioning there and I can draw the shades.
The other unit director requested Friday off, so I have to work Friday to supervise staff and I have an dentist appointment first thing Monday morning, 🦷 So no long weekend for me. I’m not complaining, as I don’t think it’s going to be a particularly nice weekend ⛈️, probably best just to do the Nature Bus 🚍 up to Thacher Park 🏞.
On the other hand, Schoharie isn’t the other side of the world, 🏊♀️ and summer is going away quickly. I saw the free car show 🚘 they have the NYPA Headquarters is this weekend, and it could be fun to go swimming and camp at Burnt-Rossman State Forest. Gas costs money, but I am not that broke. ⛽ But if it’s going to be cloudy and rainy all weekend, maybe Thacher Park is better. They are still talking about a 1/2 inch of rain on Saturday, which sounds pretty wet. 🌧
A week from Friday is the start of summer vacation. Probably leave right after work, ☀ that is if the weather is nice with the first night at Charles Baker, than Montezuma and ultimately the Finger Lakes National Forest. I’m working from home, so I might leave a bit early, I could probably ask for part of the afternoon off. Probably another fairly low key vacation, 😎 I think I like it better when there is less travel, less hustle and rush. Just stay in the same campsite ⛺ for the whole week in the National Forest.
Going to be a hot one on this Thursday, so a hot dog good light meal, especially if your on vacation which I will be a week from now..
Cloudy, fog and 65 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌫 Calm wind. The dew point is 64 degrees. Kind of a foggy start to the morning but it’s expected to warm up quickly and be fairly sunny for a change. Already the sun is trying to peak through.
Out for the morning walk 🚶🏻. It looks like they aren’t going to put a crosswalk signal 🚦by the high school 🚸 which is good as I’m thinking it will be more of a nuisance than help. They just replaced the pads for the blind that help them find the intersection and added some warning ⚠ signs for turning cars. 🚘 Not sure what the wire cut was for but it doesn’t look like they are adding a signal.
After such a damp and humid summer the mold is getting nasty again in my apartment. 👃🏻 I did some more scrubbing but this is a problem every year. Plus I think I smell a dead mouse 🐁some where in the kitchen. So I’ve been scrubbing things down with ammonia. ⚗️ My apartment is so dirty and rundown but it’s cheap and on the bus line. 🚌 And by the library 📚 and the park 🏞 . Eventually I’ll own my own land, paid with using cash and I’ll have a lot more options. 🏡 I do make good money 💵 but I don’t have access to much of it because it all goes into retirement, investment and savings accounts.
Some how that cleaning has raised my anxiety levels, 😳 that and because I can’t decide if I should get my oil changed and the tires rotated on my truck before vacation. Lately the truck hasn’t been burning much oil 🛢 and I can probably go another month or 1,500 miles before I need another oil change. The tires are getting louder and louder from the cupping but they aren’t far from fully worn out. That’s why I think about getting them rotated even though they were aligned last fall. But I don’t know, I plan to get the struts replaced, wheels re-aligned and tires replaced prior to my West Virginia trip in October.
The whole thing is kind of stupid, as it really doesn’t matter much. 🤷♂️ I get so stressed out about such things. My apartment is falling apart because it’s cheap and the building is shifting the vapor barrier is messed up, so it’s wet and humid all summer. My truck is getting old and needs repairs, but I have a plan to deal with it in September before vacation. 👨🔧 I have the money to fix whatever needs to be fixed. But I still worry much too much.
I do need to think about scheduling another therapy session, 👨⚕️ come September, because all my stupid anxiety isn’t healthy and it wears me down. I don’t know, I think I might want to try a real psychologist rather then the licensed mental health counselor I am currently seeing, just because he doesn’t seem to take my concerns or anxiety seriously. I think he’s deals much more in field of felons and drug addicts, but my problems are far less serious then what he normally deals with.
