Day: July 23, 2025

I’m anxious about it – what else will they find wrong – but it beats breaking down on the side of the road and I’m sure glad that wheel bearing didn’t burn up in Bum Fuck Egypt like the last one day. I might like smell of silage, hell yeah moo, but not while I’m waiting for a tow truck.

The few days that city composting plant, old dump and sewage treatment plant has been so pungent next to the office building. 🚽 👃 🏢 People wonder why I’ve gotten into candle warmers and making my office not smell like a giant public bathroom. Well, that answers it. But the weather has been amazing for riding back and forth to work. Last night, I was up in Colonie speaking out yet another warehouse proposed for the Pine Bush. The town was mostly was concerned about the warehouse looking woke enough, which apparently to town leaders means using enough brightly colored steel panels on the facade. 🎄 Honestly, if I had an opinion besides not building a warehouse on one of the last remaining pieces of Pine Bush. It’s actually horrifying how much Colonie is about making sure their warehouses are woke enough. But as they say, even the prettiest painted steel-building can’t make a hog confinement not smell like a pig farm. 🐽 I just wish America would get over it’s woke stage, and stop being pathological liars 🤥 about all things in life. I get it, most people don’t want to be thought of as bad people, or evil doers even if they engage is a lot of evil doers.

It was such a beautiful evening riding home last night 🚲 – actually both ways. The bike is working fairly well, and it was relaxing heading home after the public hearing. Yesterday was just so clear and beautiful out. It really was a really such a blessed day. Tomorrow is going to be quite hot and I think today is going to be storing me but that’s fine. Hopefully it won’t be too hot riding in tomorrow . I got to drop my truck off at the shop first thing and then I’ll ride in. I feel sorry for the mechanics working on the truck in the heat. I take the hubcaps off the truck, I feel like it’s makes it easier for them at the shop and it’s one less thing for them to mess up. 🧑‍🔧 Plus it makes me feel like I’m less disabled and hopeless.

Truth is I probably will get the truck back on Thursday. And I could have left for vacation Friday morning but I’ve already said I’m going to be in the rest of the week and next week. 🏕️ i’m really leaning towards that last week of August to head out to the Finger Lakes but my mind could change. I mean next week would be fine, but you know I don’t know what the weather’s going to be like and I really don’t want to deal with the racetrack traffic in Watkins Glen during NASCAR weekend. 🏎️ And the thing is I don’t want to drive out to the Finger Lakes on a Saturday cause it’d be hard to get a campsite till Sunday. That’s it I’m still thinking about going out to Schoharie this weekend.

Those rice and brown beans I cooked up yesterday where quite good for dinner and lunch. 🧑‍🍳 Lots of protein, but without the saturated fats. I don’t cook them up that much in the summer, but it was a cool morning. Plus not a lot of trash or expense – those 4 lb bags of kidney beans make several weeks of food – I cook up half the bag at a time, along with the 2 lb founds of corn. 🥞 This morning was onion-cornmeal pancakes, which I threw some of those beans. Fills me up good, they don’t make me that gassy 😲 compared to lentils, though sometimes their a bit gross in the bathroom. 💩 Yet, the health benefits are clear to eating beans – lots of protein without all the downsides of eating meat, namely the cholesterol and saturated fats. I am sure now my ad feeds will be full of Woke Bar Candy, which extra whey protein to build muscles. It’s amazing how the dairy men 🐄 were able to take a waste-product fed to hogs and spread on fields and made it into a high-value product for boosting protein in processed food. Have you ever looked at the prices for bottles of whey powder at the grocery store? What a fucking racket for hog feed repackaged for humans!

Eyes feel a bit irrated this morning, 👀 hopefully the contacts will be fine, but I still can’t wait until LASIK day, well actually a few days after that when the burning stops. I hate dealing with contact lens, and I can’t wait until that day comes. 🔥 And the weekend thereafter, when I celebrate tossing those now useless bottles of contact solution, contacts, and glasses into the fire. 📸 I  should take some photos for the memories of what was. Maybe that will part of the early October trip to the St. Regis Canoe Area to paddle 🛶 and ride some of the Adirondack Rail Trail 🚲 that now extends from the St. Regis Canoe Area to Saranac Lake, and I think soon down to Upper Lake. Fun way to enjoy the autumn, and probably not too many leaves will be gone then in the High Country. 🍁 I’m not planning on West Virginia this autumn.

So if I get Big Red back on Thursday or Friday, 🏊 I’m thinking Saturday morning heading out to Schoharie to swim, hit up farm stands and probably spend an overnight in the wilderness. And then as next weekend approaches, I’ll decide if I want to head out to the Finger Lakes or not. 🏕️ At this point, I’m really leaning towards that last week of August into Labor Day, and now I’m increasingly thinking maybe I’ll leave on a Thursday rather then a Friday, to make the trip even longer. Why not, if I have the time and things are really quiet in the office as the summer comes to a close? 🌇 The days are a lot shorter that time of year, but I have quite a bit of time I have to use up before the end of the year, though my goal is to roll over as much time as possible into next year so I can take a week, maybe a week and half off next summer for that Michigan and Northern Wisconsin trip, as it’s going to take 4 days between both directions to make it from New York out to Michigan. We’ll see.