Day: June 28, 2025

Everybody let’s sing along with Country Joe and Fish. Just like as it always is the case, the rain is getting ready to fall from the sky as is required for every weekend since last November. It saves up. Sunday looks pretty groovy as does Monday but then more rain on Tuesday. But maybe Independence Weekend looks good, especially if I get a jump start on it by taking off Thursday and leaving just early to get to For the Love of Bacon early when they open.

I really do think too much about bacon 🥓 and smoking pot. 🍀 That said, thank Dank Jack Diesel I got last November from that Colonie disperany with all attire of a DMV and a tiny parking lot for my big jacked up truck  is such crap, it really doesn’t get me high or maybe it’s gotten moldy and is crap. And it made my eyes so dried out and itchy, 👀 I still need to reach out TLC Eye Centers and a few others to learn more about getting the process started on LASIK before the end of year, and so I can open an HSA and save a bit on taxes on getting my eyes corrected permanently. I just so hate those tiny pieces of plastic in my eyes necessary to see, almost as much as I hate smell of Jack Diesel. Why on earth did I get talked in handing over $55 for it last autumn? 💵 Before summer vacation I need to get to Northern Lights. I really liked the stuff I got last summer, I’ll have to look back on my blog. I’m willing to pay for something that really makes me giggly and creative, and not just stoned out of my brain up at camp. My neighbor was smoking some of that diesel shit the other day, it’s even more noxious when you’re smelling it. I mean if I wanted to smell nasty burnt crap, I’d toss some rubber debris in the burn garbage. 🔥

It just hasn’t been the same since I was in the wilderness swatting those deer flies. 🪰 So busy, I’ve not had a chance really to get my blog updated or my mind back together. Wednesday work was non-stop, I drove in as I had that work dinner to go to at 5:30 PM, and traffic was bad getting there. Thursday I was working on that map for somebody up in Troy. Friday was the dentist and remote work, which with my new position as head of Data Services 🖥️ is so much of a pain because needing to access the network over the VPN, which only works on Windows,  And it’s so slow because my Windows HD is mounted in the CD drive bay, and it’s an old fashioned spinning disk. 💾

I was planning on doing a hike or bike ride or paddle 🛶 this morning and getting to Rensselaer Wally World to get sparklers and the water-proof case for my phone but I think I’ll wait for tomorrow, 🌥️ as already the clouds have pushed and I actually got quite a bit of groceries yesterday at Hannaford so I’m in no rush to get shopping. 🛒 I think I’ll wait until tomorrow, early Sunday Wally World should be much more empty. That Rensslear Walmart on Third Street is always packed compared to Glenmont, there aren’t as many Woke Folk out that way who will never shop at Walmart, a lot more goat owners, mountain folk and teat-strippers in Rensselaer County. 🐐 Probably because the gun laws are slightly better, and there are a lot of hills and deep hollers with good soil for growing silage and making milk and ice cream. 🐄 🔫

I guess the alternative today is to stay home and stay safe. 🚴 I think there is some kind of festival at Five Rivers today, but I still might ride out there on my bike and just hang out there, do some reading and observing nature. 🐦 📖 I got the replacement hammock in so I should try that out maybe later on. 🛶 Could do that down at Henry Hudson Park. Low tide is at 2:32 PM, which means if I went out kayaking in the Hudson  afternoon, there would be a gentle push to the north, but not too dramtic as the river’s flow tends to balance it out. I was thinking this time I’ll bring the kayak up to Pisceo-Powley for Independence Day though lately my thoughts have been evolving on that.