If anything this year, it’s a been a windy one. Not to mention quite wet. I am on the fence about riding in this morning, though I probably will though who knows what I’ll do come the evening. I might put my bike on bus, that way I’m not riding in wind all the way home. That said, I do like the exercise.
It was kind of a rough night sleeping. 🛏️ Cue the advertisements for Better Help and mattress retailers. No, what I need is a night or two in wilderness. For some reason I find it hard to sleep on Monday nights. 💤 Maybe it’s the stimulus of weekly shop at the bright and colorful Walmart 🛒 or the craziness of driving 🚘 Or maybe it’s that I still face four more days of work. I woke up for a few hours last night, and then slept into 6:30 AM. Now I’m running late and need to shower, and get on my bike and head to work up in Menands. 🚴
Truth is I spend too much time dreaming of a better tomorrow, 🐺 🌲 🐮 and reflecting how awful life is in New York. Thanks to internet, I see how other people live, how they can survive on much less, how there are other opportunities out there. I was angry that the Supreme Court isn’t going to review the state’s sensetive areas law and all the bullshit gun laws, 🔫 ⚖️ and I just so want to get out of city. Truth is I am troubled by my work, but I also don’t love Trump and I am worried 😯 about the tarrifs screwing things up even more. But the status quo sucked, and it’s easy to be critical of the Trumpster, but let’s be honest, for too many decades politicians stood idlely by while Rome burned. At least Trump is trying something new. 🆕 Will the tarrifs work? Probably not, but we can’t keep going on the way we’re going. After following Homesteady’s move to Alaska, along with those off-gridders in Missouri and Arkansas I know damn well there is another world out there. 🐐 I don’t know why I’ve stayed as long as I have in New York except for the money. And pure laziness.
Truth is I am just so desperate for a night in wilderness, 🏕️ and so annoyed how people are so mocking and dismissive of it – oh he wants to go camping – like it’s some kind of lolly-gagging, just an excuse to burn things and smoke marijuana and drink beer. 🍻 When you put it that way, it seems so trivial, that nights in wilderness are not essential, they’re just a silly recreational pursuit. I am annoyed that in two weeks, on Saturday, at 1 PM in middle of the long holiday weekend I have to go to Mom and Dad’s 50th Wedding Anniversary party, as I know that is going to be a beautiful weekend.💍 It’s special for them, and I know it may be one of last time we will be all together.
That said, maybe I’ll spend as much of my weekend in wilderness as possible in Rensselearville or Schoharie, but I really wanted to get to Adirondacks that weekend, as I am sure that is one weekend it will be nice. 🎄 I guess a weekend in wilderness isn’t as essential as air, water or making money so I can pay the rent, but doesn’t mean I want it badly. And it’s not like the only think I do in wilderness is camp, indeed, the bedding overnight is only one part of adventure. 🔥 I hate term “he wants to go camping”, it seems so trivial and it’s not at all what I want to do. I want to be in wilderness where I shoot guns, have big fires with nobody caring what I toss in fire, smoke grass and lay back in hammock, read, ride my mountain bike, 🚲 and just take in the beauty of wilderness. I guess there is always the following week but the week after that I have to lead the Save the Pine Bush Hike.
Eggs with wild onions I harvested on Sunday in woods, along with spinach, broccoli and cornmeal and lots of turmeric this morning for breakfast. Last night, it was a reheat of some pork roast and apple sauce with some of those wild onions and a red onion chopped up before going to Walmart. Only Shopping was fine, only spent $71 which balances out from previous weeks, but they didn’t have bananas but I might get them on commute in one of these days on my bike. Hoping to commute in through Thursday, though that day might be dicey with rain. But if I get wet at the end of day, so be it.
In the mail yesterday, I got a letter from the NYS Health Department with a five dollar bill and promises to mail me a $20 check if I filled out an online survey about my thoughts on tobacco regulation. Hell, even in New York that check will buy a pack of cigarettes or a cannabis joint. It actually wasn’t that bad to do on my phone, mostly asked if I supported bans of smoking at multi-family housing, or sales of cigarettes. No. I don’t advocate for lighting up, but if people want to do it then so be it. I think treating all cigarette smokers as addicts in need of serious detoxification is a bad pubic policy. There are some people who are truly addicted, you know standing outside in cold to smoke, but that’s not everyone. Maybe because I do sometimes enjoy a light every once and while next to fire up in wilderness. I am sure the survey was supported by the tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes, and state has more money then they know what to do with for smoking cessation, so this what happens. Might as well get my $25 and because the survey it’s self is only $20, the state ethics laws don’t apply to it.
along with spinach, broccoli and cornmeal and lots of turmeric this morning for breakfast. Last night, it was a reheat of some pork roast and apple sauce with some of those wild onions and a red onion chopped up before going to Walmart. 
Only Shopping was fine, only spent $71 which balances out from previous weeks, but they didn’t have bananas 
but I might get them on commute in one of these days on my bike. 
Hoping to commute in through Thursday, though that day might be dicey with rain. But if I get wet at the end of day, so be it. 
with a five dollar bill and promises to mail me a $20 check if I filled out an online survey about my thoughts on tobacco regulation. 
Hell, even in New York that check will buy a pack of cigarettes or a cannabis joint. It actually wasn’t that bad to do on my phone, mostly asked if I supported bans of smoking at multi-family housing, or sales of cigarettes. No. I don’t advocate for lighting up, but if people want to do it then so be it. I think treating all cigarette smokers as addicts in need of serious detoxification is a bad pubic policy. There are some people who are truly addicted, you know standing outside in cold to smoke, but that’s not everyone. 
Maybe because I do sometimes enjoy a light every once and while next to fire up in wilderness. I am sure the survey was supported by the tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes, and state has more money then they know what to do with for smoking cessation, so this what happens. Might as well get my $25 and because the survey it’s self is only $20, the state ethics laws don’t apply to it.