Day: June 5, 2025

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Thursday in an anxious haze 🌫️

Thursday, June 5, 2025. Going to be another hot one, especially by afternoon. End of Session Party at work was good but hot, I ended up heading home fairly early around 8 PM as I found it hard to keep my eyes open even though I had only one beer.

Hump Day just was kind of a crazy day. 🐪 Traffic wasn’t bad either way, though I was late heading in both because I left late as it took a while longer to iron and prepare my suit and tie and because I got stuck behind a slow moving dump truck pulling a telahandler along the Quay Street connector. 🏗️ It was difficult day in the office, not because of my doing, but what seemed like a lot of miscommunication. All I could do is listen 👂 put together what I knew and let others know.

Not having any milk yesterday, 🐮 I skipped making coffee at home for some water and caffeine pills. 💊 That of course messed up my sleep along with the diet cokes I had the party last night, which was so hot being in a suit and tie. I was originally going to wear a t-shirt and jeans or even shorts, and ride to party rather then drive my big jacked up truck and have to park and not drink much beer, 🍻 but I didn’t want to appear under dressed for the occasion.

I don’t ever have trouble getting asleep but it’s those early morning hours that can be tough. 🛏️ I got into this dream that I was down in New York City, probably for work, and I ended up in this car of complete strangers, getting dropped off in some random sketchy neighborhood and then it got dark out on a street with no working streetlights, and I end up getting mugged.  👿 It was a werid dream. But so was the party last night for a while, I was at this table of people talking about their luxury apartment life, you know with with the swimming pool and a whole bunch of games and leisure activities like fozball. 🏡

So often things get werid at work, 📺 as somebody who doesn’t own a TV, uses public transit or rides his bike to get work. 🚲 I’ve never had internet at home, and I can”t think of the last time I actually had my computer anyplace but my office – I think maybe it was March or April. I don’t have an iPhone, really it seems like I am always broke as I’m saving and investing everything I can towards owning my own land. 🐐 And not just a suburbanite house that smells like cow shit in some hicktown. I like being frugal and saving for a better tomorrow, even if it still seems impossibly far away, even though it’s not. I still seriously want to consider that early retirement thing, and build that off-grid homestead, even if I can’t do it today. First though I need to finish off that book on goat farming 📚 that is due to be returned on Friday to the library.

I really should get milk and make real coffee up tomorrow morning. ☕ This will improve my sleep compared to those caffeine pills which wake you up but also keep you up all night. But also I’ll try to get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight, 🛌 and sleep well. I’ve been avoiding getting milk because the local Stewarts is all torn up for construction, forgot / didn’t have enough room on the bike the last time I grocery shopped. But I could get some tonight. Then maybe if its not raining finish off the book on Goats 🐐 and read whatever is next on my Libby or Hoopla app, maybe just down at the Town Park so I can stay well after dark, rather then having to ride home from Five Rivers or wherever I go. Depends on how hot it is this evening too, and whether or not their there are thunderstorms. ⛈

Saturday doesn’t look quite as wet, 🌧 so I might take the Nature Bus up to Thacher Park, and hike and ride around the park for a while. 🚜 Sunday I’ll see if Dad wants to go to the Gas Up. I am looking at the following weekend potentially spending it out in Vermont, if its sunny but not too hot. 🌻 Probably do like Prospect Mountain Road and camp up off there and then hike Harmond Hill on Sunday. Just a quiet weekend, laying back in the hammock I’m envisioning. Or maybe not. 🏕 The following Thursday is Juneteenth, which I plan to get up early, hit up For the Love of Bacon 🥓 for it’s name sake, and then spend Thursday through Sunday at the Potholers and floating on the East Canada Creek. 🛟 Three nights if I don’t drive up on Thursday, so no permit needed. I could drive up on Wednesday, but I really don’t like fighting traffic after work. 🚗