I could work remote today, but I have a pretty bad cold with a running nose and a sore throat, so it’s best to rest up as much as possible. Still have campaign committee work to do, but the state work is going to have to wait while I try to get in some rest and isolate from others. Truth is if hadn’t been for the pandemic, I would soldier on and be at work, but you just don’t work when your sick anymore in these days after the pandemic, especially when you have paid sick leave.

Yesterday I so wanted to believe I had anything but a cold. 🤒I don’t fully understand why I feared having a cold, it’s not it was the worse thing ever. Had to be food poisoning or the bad air in my apartment. Maybe because it’s the first actual cold I’ve had since the pandemic. So it’s been years. And like usual, the days when I’m sick are the most beautiful, sun filled days of the year, though cold. Colds are werid — at times I have tons of energy and feel like I could just suck it up and go to work — but other times I’m ready to collapse in bed. That said, I will probably spend some time working, isolated, in my truck down at the library where I have Wi-Fi and don’t have to worry about using too much bandwidth on my phone. 📱 They’re also detailing a car outside of my apartment, and the noise of the vacuums is annoying me. But so far no banging on the unit next door. I think they’re too busy doing dairy stuff 🐮 to work on that unit. It’s starting to look very swanky, I wonder when I’ll finally get new neighbors.

Today is the first day I’ve had all the windows closed in my apartment 🪟which is an admission on my part that maybe the colder weather is coming. Tuesday was actually so cold riding in I wish I had worn the insulated gloves, as🧤 my fingers were cold while I was riding in. Truth is come November, I’m going to have to decide if I keep riding in each day. The problem is with he time time change it will be dark, 🌃 which means I can’t ride home 🚳via the rail trail, though I have a light on the bike so I could ride to old train station and get the bus there, but I don’t love the idea of riding after dark in the city each day. But on the other hand, I’ll miss otherwise riding to work. 🤷‍♂️

Between the cold and the rain coming Sunday into Monday, 🏠️ I plan to stick close to home this Columbus Day Weekend. That’s not quite true — I might go up to Thacher Park or ride somewhere locally on Saturday but Sunday into Monday I’ll probably stay home and get caught up on reading the books I got out of the library on Hoopla before they all expire. 📚️Next weekend though I might do Charles Baker Friday through Monday, remote working those two weekdays, getting to the state horse camp by 9 AM next Friday. Assuming the weather is nice! Then Saturday or Sunday — one of those days — paddle on Nine Mile Swamp 🚣checking out the new boat launch and maybe riding around Hamilton and the Old Chenango Canal Trail and the other day riding trail and roads at Charles Baker. 💻️ The bulk of the work days will be remote work though, as I’m so busy — and probably they’ll be some of that in the morning and evenings during the weekend too.