Good morning! What day is it? A Pseudo Friday for Me, of course. ☺

Work weeks go by much faster when you take off Thursday and Friday. Of course the real payback comes January when I am super busy with work.

Cloudy and 53 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ There is a south breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 52 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 11 pm. ☃️

Lots of people out walking 🚶 on this very mild day. Nice start to the day though rain is coming later. Another dark morning to start the walk but getting brighter now. Running a little late but I am hoping if I can shower 🚿 quickly I can still get the express bus 🚍 downtown.

Glad the heat is off and the windows open. 🔳 Fresh air is always nice and there is something about paying for heat that I really despise. Maybe it’s because I don’t control the efficiency of my apartment outside of adding extra sealing to the door but more that I feel like every dollar 💵 I spend on heating is stealing from my future. But I can’t control winter ☃ but I can keep the thermostat down. Do look forward to eventually heating with wood harvested from my own land.

Spectrum sent me yet another ad for cable TV 📺 and internet. I find it hard to believe after all these years they’re still trying to get me as a customer. But these days with low cost unlimited data plans virtually being the norm and smartphones 📱 virtually being able to do everything – plus 5 gig Hotspot for free each month, I can’t imagine getting internet at home, especially living through the pandemic without it.

Got paid yesterday, and listened to Godspell’s Day by day. It’s just one more check, one more buck or thousand odd to go into retirement and investments. It’s been a tough year on the markets, and while I’ve worked to invest more, it’s hard to override the pull of the drop in both the bond and stock markets. 📉 Things will improve some day I tell myself, all the stock and bonds I’ve bought over the years will eventually add up once the markets recover. It is kind of disappointing though to watch the numbers slide in the wrong direction though, as you hope for a better tomorrow.

Need to get my truck inspected fairly soon. 🔍 At least by the end of the month. 🚚 I didn’t want to do it this week as I planned to head out of town. 📞 Maybe I’ll call on Friday, after I find out if I have jury duty next week or not. Of course that in part depends if I head out of town too. Wednesday is a good day for me as I’m working from home, but I don’t know if I can get an appointment that soon.

Continuing to work on the Free Code Camp class. 🖥 Still learning a lot – I think the things I’m learning about the grid model now will greatly improve my productivity when it comes to web 🕸 design. That said, learning isn’t always fun. 😤 Sometimes the class explains things and when it’s time to code I can’t get it to work without multiple tries. Sometimes I just feel plain dumb. Other times I wonder why the class is boring 💤 me with the same old shit I learned years ago. But I get its part of the learning process. The class though is giving me neat ideas 💡 for a new blog theme. I want to learn more from the class before I start writing it but I’m thinking a fresh new blog theme would be of order for the new year.

Definitely leaning towards heading out of town for a few days. ⛺ Thursday and Friday I have off. Not a lot of snow up north or even in Central New York. The thing is I need to plan on being somewhere on Friday that I can check on my jury status for next week 🧑‍⚖️ and let my employer know and plan what days to take off next week, namely Thursday. I think I’m going to take off the week before Christmas.

The weird shit they sell at the Empire State Plaza Christmas Bazzar 🎁. Every year I have to think how odd that stuff is. The things marketed by crafters to civil servants though is particularly odd. That said I’m not into that whole Christmas thing, I think it’s kind of silly.