Day: October 15, 2025

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Rough road

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At this point if the NYS DOT doesn't want to maintain the asphalt I feel like they should just mill it down and let it revert to a dirt road. The lightly traveled road to the Bog River Flow and Horseshoe Lake is always damaged by the frost every year but barely repaired. 

Wednesday October 15, 2025 — Horseshoe Lake Wild Forest

Don’t Tread on Me in the Era of Trump 👑

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Many people might think I’m a Trump supporter with my Don’t Tread on Me flag. but if anything, with the era of the imperial presidency, I think Don’t Tread On Me these days has a very different meaning – opposition to power more generally, and the abuse of power more specifically.

It’s not to say I’m not sympathetic to many things Donald Trump advocates, particularly his belief in second amendment rights. Indeed, I even voted for him last November, though I would say it was hardly a ringing endorsement as much as protest vote against the state saying my only choices should be Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump by throwing the third parties off the ballot. Plus I wanted a disrupter, an outsider, somebody not so wedded to conventional wisdom.

Still this is hardly an endorsement of a king, or the selective prosecutions or abusive acts of Donald Trump in the White House. Nor is an endorsement of the migrant and immigrant round-up or harassment of those of non-white complexion. Things needed to change, new ideas introduced and decades of grime leaned, but so much of Trump 2.0 has been about grift and vindictive acts. I’m not impressed.

How Does Population Density Impact Voting in Erie County?

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While it's a pretty good predictor, with a 0.68 correlation, in many cases, rural areas are redder and urban areas are bluer then population density alone with suggest. And then some suburbs are bluer then density alone would suggest.

 

How Does Population Density Impact Voting in Erie County?

While I still can… ⌛

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There are those who object to me spending weeks in the wilderness, rambling around, smoking and days spent giggling listening to the loons, gobble of the turkeys and calls of bucks. They say, why don’t you grow up and buy a house and spend your time working on it and paying for the weekly garbage service and high-speed internet in every room.

But it always hits me hard to know these days won’t last forever. I figure it’s best to see America and enjoy the life before I’m too old and other responsibilities for my land. While I don’t think I’d ever own a dog, eventually when I have a home and homestead, I am sure that will livestock to feed and a million different fixer-up-projects and other things to do which will make travel difficult. Who knows how long – indeed my parents are getting up there in years, and I’ll probably end up with their 5-acre homestead with the dog.

So in the mean time, I have to think it’s best to travel and experience as much as I still am relatively free of commitment. That’s why I am planning out a trip to Michigan next year with a new truck, and this summer and autumn I’ve tried to extend my vacations as long as possible.