Got to have the moo juice to start the morning off right with coffee and carrot pancakes loaded with cinnamon and topped with blueberries and syrup. What will happen with empty container, see below. Not that I’m in any rush to go out and get any kind of dairy animal soon.

Clouds and cool this morning, woke up around 5 AM or so. ☁️ Didn’t sleep as well last night, 🛏 not totally sure why as it was a good day for sleeping. Went out to Five Rivers last night after riding home from work. 🐸 Not a bad evening but it sure gets dark early now that we are rapidly plunging toward September and ultimately autumn. Before you know it will too dark to ride after the evening ride home. 🚲 Stiff wind again last night pushing up against me riding home. Last night was those delicious kidney beans 😋 fried up some some scrambled eggs, peppers, onions, and cornmeal. 🍳 Good eats for sure.

Black tie dinner tonight 🕴️so I got to wear a suit and tie to work. It’s so baggy on me since I loss so much weight. Some day I should get at least one suit that actually doesn’t look like it was tailored for Trump. I know I shouldn’t complain, it’s a $100 a plate dinner that I’m not paying for at 677 Prime Steak House. 🥩 I get a laugh 😂 at how people think I’m a vegetarian because I don’t eat meat daily and often prefer beans and tofu as a protein source over meat. I’m not against meat, it’s a good treat but it’s often loaded with saturated fats. 🥓 You know how I love my Mariaville Farm Bacon. 🐽 Maybe some day when I have land I’ll get some feeder pigs too. 🐖 I could change and drive back into the city after work, but I don’t want to drive home especially if there is alcohol involved. 💥 Truth is I drink less and less these days, and really after a drink or two I’m not ready to get anywhere near an automobile. 🚙 If anything I’d much rather have a smoke. 🚬 I tend to think smoking pot is actually healthier then drinking – – alcohol is a particularly problematic substance on many levels but it’s very legal and widely accepted outside of motoring. 🍻 Calories in alcohol are the worse kind, even worse than added sugars. On the other hand, cannabis is still controversial for reasons I do not understand. But then again, there are many things government does that I do not understand besides the activists, corporations, and government workers wanting it that way. 👥

I think I will be able to get away this weekend, 🏕 I was thinking about Thursday after work but I might be stuck in the office until late on Thursdays, as often is the case. I need to get propane most likely after the ten days camping during summer vacation, and it’s probably better to get up to camp when there is daylight, so I’m thinking of leaving before 7 AM on Friday, stopping and getting what I need and setting up camp by 10 AM. 🛻 Early start 🌅 but maybe it’s what will work best, plus I hate driving half awake to camp with deer 🦌 especially this time of year. Haven’t yet gotten my State Farm tracking device for the discount program, but hopefully that will come in the next few days. It will be interesting to see if it actually works and I get the discount. 💵 And better yet, if it actually teaches me to be a safer driver. I think of my self as a safe driver but I’m sure I have some bad habits – though I’m not foolish to think my driving is above average like supposedly most motorists do.

Other then had, just moving forward. ➡ Need to get new e-library books 📚 out on Hoopla and maybe Libby before I leave on Friday for my mini-vacation. 🏖 Not sure totally what I want to read 📖 but I would like to get a book about restoring old houses and maybe something again homesteading. Plus maybe an e-book but Midwest life or another part of the country. 🚜 While I grew up in the country for the first 24 years of my life, there i much still to learn. And maybe some good tunes to listen to while I’m floating away on the East Canada Creek. 🔉 I’ll get them from YouTube. Maybe some Phish records, I got the Allman Brothers the other day saved to my phone. 📱Plus lots of Grateful Dead 🎸, I’ve become such a Deadhead lately, lol 😂. I wonder why. Good memories from summer vacation 🏖 that is the part I remember.

I continue to study the various houses and properties that are popping up on Zillow, 🏡 which really thinks I want to live in Rensselaer County, maybe because I checked out that one property in Hoosick Falls and decided it was too far away. There are options, and I should make up my mind, but I have yet to find the perfect 👌 property. After learning what I pain real estate agents can be once you first reach out to them, I try to do as much due dillegence including a property drive by 🔎 and GIS data study and pull the deed before I ever research out. Been writing and thinking a lot 💭, finishing up things I start on vacation a few weeks back, and really trying to figure out what’s next in my life, from housing to automobiles to smoking and homesteading. What can I say, I like the dirty life as deep down I’m redneck even if I wear a suit and tie. 💩

The internet marketers have discovered I have a concern about paranoia and smoking weed, 🤪 so now my social media feeds are once again filled with advertisements for Better Help and Talk Therapy and low cost mental health treatment options. 🧑‍⚕️ Of course you feed the advertisers the fact your concerned about paranoia, not understanding the context, the advertisements become very tailored for big angry black men. 👨🏿 I was shocked a bit at first about the ads with all the black people I was seeing. As apparently those are the only people who have such worries in the racist algorithms that sell shit on the internet. And of course advertisements for drug rehabs. Because I’m just looking for a good time up in the woods, and not worries about my housing situation or my big jacked up truck getting old. 🛻 I’m not paranoid about privacy or internet tracking but I do not like these targeted ads, they are so creepy, 👻 especially as they rarely understand the context in which you might be reading or researching a topic. 💭