As Petula Clark sings on the radio some 60 years later. Going to be a nice day, which is a good thing because I have a lunchtime meeting downtown in the dungeon. But first it’s off to Menands on my mountain bike to type %>% furiously and work on more IOI Codes. I wonder who is catering lunch? I mean if I’m riding up that big State Street hill, they better have lunch, LOL!

Carrot pancakes with apples, cinnamon and topped with blueberries and maple syrup. 🥞 🥕 A good sugar high for a while. The oatmeal and carrots add a lot of fiber which is so important. I haven’t included lots of carrots in my diet lately, but when I do I find it greatly improves my vision. I always make fiber a key ingredient in all meals, as not only does it keep me pooping good it avoids consuming too many unhealthy calories, despite all eat.

Did some cleaning of the kitchen and the bathroom 🚽 yesterday evening. Yes, I see that mouse dropping 🐁 in that picture I took this morning off the coffee pot. They do like my stove, and I should check the electric trap, or go back to a snap trap if they’ve figured that one. I do like the mouse zapper as it’s super clean and easy to use. Just have to keep it full of peanut 🥜 butter, cleaned out and batteries 🔋 fresh. Things are better now, but maybe not perfect, but I’m a dirty hick and everything is falling apart in my apartment, and it’s not like the landlord doesn’t have my unit in his eye for a studs-level gutting. 👁‍

Hopefully they’re won’t be any garbage trucks 🚚 overturned on the expressway downtown this morning, That would have been a bad thing if it was Friday morning, and I decided to drive out to Vermont to work for the weekend, and needed to be set up by nine. 🕒 That’s something to consider, shit like that happens sometimes when you are motoring. For a while, when I was riding in on my bicycle 7:30 AM the expressway was completely blocked, but it also impacted the commute people driving in at 9 AM. I am just glad I decided to ride in yesterday. Not only did the rain hold off until darkness, I ddn’t have to deal with the whole traffic ordeal. Plus I got honey and sugar-free syrup. I haven’t had honey in a long time, it’s kind of calorie heavy and pure sugar but it’s so good especially with all the apples I now have hat home from apple picking. Often I complain about the school traffic this time of year, but with the bicycle commuting I’m totally missing the traffic. Plus I head in so early these days.

I am really digging those headphones 🎧 that are fully wireless and have 20 hour play time. While I’ve used wireless earbuds for some time, I didn’t realize how annoying that wire that seemed to break on cheap so often really was. I know people have had Apple earbuds and similar Bluetooth ear pieces for decades now, but I’m not into that high technology until it’s cheap and common. There $15 earbuds when they break or get lost won’t be the end of world, chances are ultimately they’ll become. 🔥 And I’ll get new. Don’t tell a liberal. The sound quality is what you would expect from low-cost ear buds, but still allows me to enjoy tunes and podcasts at work and when I’m hanging out.

I haven’t decided if I will watch or listen to the debate, assuming it’s on the YouTube or broadcast on WAMC streaming over my phone. 📱 I am sure they’ll have coverage of it in the news the next day and on the 538 podcast. I am pretty sure I am going to just vote for libertarian Chase Oliver, because honestly I hate both candidates. I like smoking pot, and I think Kamela would be much better on cannabis even if Donald Trump says he would allow state rights on cannabis, and would get the federal government out of business of regulating cannabis. But there was Jeff Sessions, who reminds us only bad dudes like me smoke. Or something like that. 🚭 And Trump would be better  on gun rights, though seems like his record when he was actually in the White House was mixed on that, witness the bump stock ban.

Legal grass, that can be brought across state lines and smoked legally in national forest is a higher priority at this point, plus it would be nice to be able to buy firearms without committing a federal felony for lying on the 4473 form. 🔫 Just saying. Not that I need more guns at this point, I have what I need that is legal in New York. I also think Biden, I mean the Harris Waltzer would be more likely to appoint people to Forest Service who would close down more campsites and roads in the back country, because they feel like they have to save the earth. 🌎 I do think the Waltzer and Company would be better on climate change and advancing electric cars and cleaner less polluted cities, even though we are pretty much ducked on that front. 🦆 Plus more mass production means cheaper off grid components. ☀ I don’t want to decide and it. doesn’t matter at all in New York and it’s not like I really have a dog in the fight. 🤷‍♂️ Somebody will win, though I concede that a Trump win would make work easier for me in 2026 as people won’t be hating on Democrats so much with a dumpster fire in the White House. 🗑️

Besides cleaning I spent some time reading trying to finish up the books I have to return this week, including one about rebuilding old houses. Amazing how fast time goes by and how a 3 week loan fro the library doesn’t last very long. But I guess not finishing a book isn’t the end of the world, and if I really am interested in it, I can always take it out again.