Good morning! Happy Bacon Day 🥓 !

Hog farmers and backyard pig farmers everywhere rejoice. I actually had supermarket bacon the other day when I was camping in Madison County and it was pretty good.

Clouds, dampness and 36 degrees at the Elm Ave Park and Ride. 🌫 Calm wind. You will be saving money 💵 on your raspberriesheating bill as temperatures aren’t expected to drop below freezing until Sunday around 7 pm. ☃️

Woke up around 4:30 and laid in bed 🛏 for a while reading 📖 about ggplot before getting up at 6 AM and making pancakes 🥞 for breakfast with breakfast sausage and strawberries 🍓. The frozen strawberries have been my dessert of choice lately, change it up from blueberries. Need to get pineapple 🍍 or raspberries next time.

I don’t mind getting up early as I’m usually in bed 🛏 before 8 pm most nights during the winter months. I’m just trying to maximize the daylight and I prefer to get my steps in before work rather than walking 🚶 in the darkness and cold of winter after work. All week I’ve been doing 10,000 steps a day or more then 5 miles. Monday when I did not get to the office 🏢 early I did my evening walk.

The bus driver warned me that next Thursday she expects to be late 🚍 as she is doing the school 🚸 run before the express. I guess that means less time for the morning walk 🚶 on the Plaza although once season returns I won’t be doing my walk 🚶 with a suit and tie. I could do the super block around the high school but that would require a really early start especially if I have to shower 🚿 and iron my shirt and pants to go with the suit. 👨‍⚖️ That’s assuming that with the pandemic raging out of control that things don’t go remote. But I’m prepared this time.

Walking laps on the Plaza. 😷 Yesterday I did it with the muzzle inside the Concourse but I really don’t like exercising with the muzzle on. 👾 Plus with the pandemic raging out of control, who wants to really be inside passing by a lot of strangers even with the muzzle on. I’ve gotten enough COVID shots and boosters 💉 to qualify as a heroin addict or maybe at least a COVID addict but you can’t look at the stats and know that a lot of the people you are walking past are hiding the COVID behind their masks even though they are vaccinated.

I’m kind of glad that this is the final work day of the year. 💼 It’s been a good year for me, I have that corner office with the brass desk lamp, the pay and all the goodies that go with that. But it’s been a long and crazy 🤪 year with the COVID continuing to hang around all of our necks. But like so many of us I got so addicted to those COVID stimulus checks 💵 and when they stopped coming in I always feel so broke. But I’m saving for a better tomorrow, I fell myself.

Who knows what 2022 will bring 💭 although I tend to think it will be less crazy then 2020 although pose its unique challenges. The key 🗝 will be just to work hard and make the most of it whatever challenges come my way. I can’t control my year but I can control my attitude. ☺ Plus I’ll find plenty of times to get out of town, ⛺ hang out in the woods and burn shit. 🔥