You know, I didn’t sleep at all well last night. So many things are on my mind,I don’t think the recent news makes things any better and did I pop a caffine pill yesterday in the morning to get started? I dont really recall.
It’s been cold and I went walking last night inside the Empire Plaza until around quarter to six. Walked a half hour before work and a half hour after work. Riding the bike certianly would be healthier to work, but it’s been much too cold. With the cold I’ve been keeping my apartment a few degrees warmer — I don’t know maybe 53 or 55 degrees at the most — but it certainly feels comfortable but it’s probably because the heat runs non-stop in my drafty old unit. Hopefully though with the new refigerator my electric and gas bill will be less then last year. Left my headphones at work last night, which was a major annoyance, I like having music when I walk and even more so on the bus. But then I found the The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
I’m finally back to eating healthy 🥦 with the holidays done, fully over COVID and the refrigerator working well. Stocked the pantry good with nutrious food on Tuesday, 🍏 so much easier and affordable to shop with bagged frozen fruits and vegetables. Still have that rusty, mildew covered refrigerator sitting in my kitchen waiting for the landlord to remove it, but I did clean off some of the mold. Had a belated great cheese fondue with the family 🧀 on Monday and previously on Thursday had pizza 🍕 at work. The thing is I realize it’s fine to enjoy food when it’s provided, if you are eating good at home and camp. It’s like having that occassional toke or smoke and some beer up in woods. Ain’t going to kill you to spend a few hours laughing along with the Dire Wolf. Truth is I’m well aware that this might be the last or one of the last New Years Eve fondues with my family. Plus besides all the wine, flour and cheese there was a lot of broccoli, mushrooms, bread, and well as cocktail hot dogs involved. Got to enjoy life with your parents when you still can, those days are limited.
Like so many Americans I’m kind of disturbed about President Trump’s initiatives, especially his energy emergency initiative. ⚡ While I do have concerns about some of the build out of solar and to a lesser extent wind, I don’t think we should be halting the development of renewables, which is an important source of energy, especially will electricity demand surging. It’s not like climate change is going to go away with the new President. It’s like the smoker’s cough. It”s nothing, honest. We are already paying for it with the insurance market going all whacky. Probably the unavailability of insurance, and bankruptcy of insurance providers from all the disasters lately is the thing that brings down the economy. Maybe I’m regretting my decision to vote for that asshole more then a little. Kind of like voting for Elliot Spitzer or helping out with Howard Dean’s Democracy for America. Why on earth did I get involved in such things in my innocence? I know, I wanted to be politically involved. And I saw that gun control ad when I got my balot.
What started to set me off was thinking about the race/ethnicity codes I developed for targeting at work. 👨🏿 Race is such a problematic subject, but I thought it would be good to have it as just another way to target various demographics, but after announcing it I realized it was kind of potentially problematic. It’s one more data point, but I kind of now wish it won’t come back to bite me. I also developed more Veterans data and marriage status – – the idea is to provide many so many different things. Heck of it is it took I haven’t gotten any push back yet, and I could delete the codes if requested, but in retrospect maybe that’s not the direction I wanted to go in expanding data sources in our database. It’s all in my mind.
With Martin Luther King's day beautiful bright blue skies, the hoar frost covering the trees and bushes on made for a brilliant contrast, looking down at the browns of the farm fields below.
Walked a half hour before work and a half hour after work. Riding the bike certianly would be healthier to work, but it’s been much too cold. With the cold I’ve been keeping my apartment a few degrees warmer — I don’t know maybe 53 or 55 degrees at the most — but it certainly feels comfortable but it’s probably because the heat runs non-stop in my drafty old unit. 
Hopefully though with the new refigerator my electric and gas bill will be less then last year. Left my headphones at work last night, which was a major annoyance, I like having music when I walk 
and even more so on the bus. But then I found the The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
It’s like having that occassional toke or smoke and some beer up in woods. 
Ain’t going to kill you to spend a few hours laughing 
along with the Dire Wolf. Truth is I’m well aware that this might be the last or one of the last New Years Eve fondues with my family. Plus besides all the wine, flour and cheese there was a lot of broccoli, mushrooms, bread, and well as cocktail hot dogs involved. Got to enjoy life with your parents when you still can, those days are limited.
It’s not like climate change is going to go away with the new President. 
It’s like the smoker’s cough. It”s nothing, honest. We are already paying for it with the insurance market 
going all whacky. Probably the unavailability of insurance, and bankruptcy of insurance providers from all the disasters lately is the thing that brings down the economy. 
Maybe I’m regretting my decision to vote for that asshole more then a little. Kind of like voting for Elliot Spitzer or helping out with Howard Dean’s Democracy for America. Why on earth did I get involved in such things in my innocence? I know, I wanted to be politically involved. And I saw that gun control ad when I got my balot.
