A quarter mile from my office on the evening commute I lost pressure on my mountain bike rear tire. That rear tire is shot, I should replace it but it’s been good with the fix a flat. Aired it up a bit at one of those woke bike self service stations they have at all of the parks but never actually work properly. Races down to the local bus which I just barely caught. Got home and aired it back up fully.
It seems to be holding air fine 🚲 but the chain slipped into the lower front cog and was out of adjustment. I put on my nitrile gloves 🧤 which I don’t love ♥️ using as they’re disposable but that chain 🔗 grease is mad hard to get off my hands. That’s back in adjustment but ultimately I do need to replace the frayed front shift chain which is skipping. I’m kind of pissed it happened, it’s still a muggy day but actually less hot and humid then yesterday. I’m hoping to ride in tomorrow and Wednesday but that’d weather dependent. ☔ Friday after work I might do Schoharie.
Now I’m down at the Normans Kill West Preserve, 🍓 but unfortunately the blackberries aren’t out yet. They’re always such a treat. That and summer squash from the farm stands I really want. 🌽 Corn too but especially summer squash and zucchuni. Assuming the bike still has pressure when 8:15 rolls around I want to get some groceries 🛒 at Hannaford then ride home. If it’s flat, I’ll catch the bus home at 8:37 pm. Maybe it’s an excuse to walk down and get ice cream 🍦.
I scheduled my yearly physical appointment for the first week in September 😷 and I’m continuing to research LASIK but I’m thinking of calling 📞 to make an appointment later in the year. Too late to set up an Health Savings Account but whatever I’ll pay the taxes, it’s a good investment in my future. How many other things can you buy for around $5,000 that would provide you a life of good vision – lasting for decades, basically your lifespan. 👀 I’m just so tired of irritated eyes and dealing with contact lens. I’d probably wait until later in the year just as I want to use up my contacts that have in reserve and are paid for already.
“Under agricultural zoning in this county, you can have a roadside stand, but only for fruit, vegetables or ag products,” Beers adds. “He has a bait store. That is not allowed.”
Considering McKinney only operated at the end of the farm driveway for two weekends, how did the zoning office become aware of the teen’s farm stand? According to Beers, a “concern” was submitted by a local citizen, triggering county action. Beers contends the zoning office “did not get the name,” of the complainant.
What is the “daily forfeiture” penalty threatened by the county for continued operation of the bait stand? According to Beers, county officials are “not certain” regarding the penalty or fine amount.
People from the internet probably think the way I spent my whole summer is eating bacon, smoking weed and floating on an a truck tube on the East Canada Creek.
I wish life was that simple but it really ain’t. Still it’s kind of fun at age 42 to be riding my mountain bike to work several days a week and spend my weekends in the wilderness enjoying marijuana, onions fried in bacon grease and beer.
Honestly, some day I do want to settle down. But not the plastic life of vinyl siding, SUVs, asphalt driveway and mowed lawn on a subrurban lot of 3 acres. if I can’t have that off-grid cabin on acreage in wilderness right now, at least want some time to escape and pretend I’m away from it all with my bright flags up at camp.
I do wish there was an alternative life to the high-consumption, suburban life with weekly garbage service and high speed internet and a television in every room. The same old kitchens found in every suburban house, full of appliances and enormous television in every room.
The wilderness, while not perfect, gives me a chance to at least feel a little bit of what a tomorrow will bring, as does the drives up in country past the run-down old farms and houses. I like this world as it’s so real compared to the suburbs that seem so fake, so isolated form the real world in palaces of plastic and garbage financed by the 30-year mortage
About 15 years ago, I worked in Rochester and I can remember the Rochester Moat -- the Inner Loop. It was removed in the mid-2010s, at least the western portion of it to allow Downtown Rochester to be better connected with the up and coming College neighborhood.
LEFT - Downtown Rochester, circa 1995 (false color)
RIGHT - Downtown Rochester, circa 2019 (true color)
