Technically it starts tomorrow with no contact lens but I’m starting it today. I irrated my left eye when I slipped removing the lens yesterday so I definately can’t wear them today if I want my eyes to be perfectly healed before the big snip. Optometrist Edward Sissorhands already has my money, so I better be ready to stop wearing glasses come Friday. Maybe I’ll need cheaters eventually for reading but doesn’t seem like it’s going to be a necessity right away, and cheater are cheap and essentially disposable. I know in 2025, they don’t use scissors anymore to chop up your eyes, it’s done by shooting lasers into your eyes controlled by overpriced computers. But we don’t trust science anymore, because the scientists have all gone woke.
It’s a Tuesday. ☺️ Maybe I should go for a quick bike ride this morning, 🚲 as I have to drive my big jacked up truck to work 🛻 as it looks like rain tonight and I want to drive over after to work to the public hearing on the proposed solar facility in Albany Pine Bush. I’ll try to stick to script and not share my real thoughts on renewables for powering urban areas or how pro-natural gas I am, 📰 because otherwise I am sure I will be the quoted anti-solar, pro-natural gas voice in newspaper. 🦋 But I just don’t want them to cover the best butterfly grounds in Pine Bush with solar panels, when there is the rest of America. Did I mention that when I build or buy my house, I plan to do the off-grid thing, generating all of the electric energy with solar? ☀️ But no solar today, or at least not much as it will hopefully will rain. 🌧️ So not severe burn bans, as there is always stuff to burn up in woods. 🔥Having a sufficient battery 🔋 bank helps.
While there is some clouds 🌥️ this morning, it’s surprisingly pleasant 😀 outside this morning. I sure wish as hell that I could ride to work, 🚲 though that quick little ride through the cult-de-sacks of shit where all the woke people live with their Kamela for President signs and Gay Lives Matter signs, 🌈 was kind of nice. Not all areas of America can smell like cow shit after all. 🐮 I don’t mind gay people who own cows and have burn barrels. And I might have voted for Kamela, retrospectively after seeing what a shithead Trump 2.0 has proven to be. Maybe if I had gotten an earlier start, I could have ridden out Meads Lane to see REAL COWS but whatever. It is good to get some exercise even if I don’t get the twenty-miles or so riding in like yesterday. I don’t think it will be long after eye surgery that I will be riding to work again, at least one direction, weather permitting. 👁️ I just have to wear eye protection, maybe my yellow shooting glasses. That will look good riding through the projects on way to work, as I swerve around all the broke glass. 🍸 Lately the road has been so bad for having fragments of broke glass trash all over it. 📻 Been enjoying Hunter S. Thompson’s Rum Diaries audio book 🔉 while riding to work on my mountain bike. You know I kind of idolize Hunter S. Thompson.
Big pot of beans 🫘 cooking down on the stove. Second Half of the the four pound bag of beans is cooking down, I’ll freeze half and use the rest this week in various meals. It’s an excellent source of protein, pinto beans are very inexpensive and come in minimal plastic packaging easily turned into carbon dioxide. Healthy too. 🥩 I keep seeing ads for grocery-store steak on my blog, but I really don’t eat much meat anymore besides that occasional slice of locally-raised Berskshires bacon grilled up with lots of veggies up at camp. Maybe someday when I have livestock that I butcher myself 🐑 🗡️ I’ll eat more meat but it has so much saturated fat and plastic packaging that makes you obese. It’s like cheese, 🧀 used to be a big fan of it but not so much these days. As Joel Salatin points out, the best way to compost is to run it through livestock and turn food waste into meat and manure. 💩 Food waste in the burn garbage stinks and smolders so composting is best to return it to the earth. 🌎
Wearing glasses 👓 the next three and a half days. I really don’t like my glasses but they’re a necessity until the LASIK is done. Saturday morning the glasses are just trash. I was wondering if the the Lions club 🦁 takes unopened contact lenses, as while I used the bulk of them up I think I have several packs left over. I was going to bring them into the office 🏢 and leave them out, but who knows who has my prescription and I’d much rather help out at needy individual. I guess I could sell them, with the price of contact lens I’m sure there is a good market for them onto he internet. I didn’t mean to have a bunch left over – indeed that’s one of the reasons I put off LASIK but I also didn’t want to put off the operation that far into the future 🔮 as I didn’t want to run out in the mean-time.
Today marks two years of advertising on blog, 💵 which when the final book is written I have made $2,042 gross revenue from ads not including hosting costs and taxes. The blog contract is up for renewal next year, and I figure that will be like $600 or $700 for three years plus like $40 for the domain names each year I pay. I really should deduct those business expenses from my taxes, next year with the hosting contract due for renewal, 📜 maybe I’ll do that. I like being paid to rant on about how much I like burning garbage and smoking pot and gives me a chance to post my pictures and experiences as I capture and gives me an excuse to learn and exploit my GIS and data science knowledge. 🖥️ I enjoy it even without the revenue, but it also means the blog is no longer an expense but a money making property. This past summer, especially the last too months have been great, though once hunting season is over, there really won’t be nearly as much traffic or revenue until May or June when people get interested in heading back up to the woods to swat black flies. 🐜
