Good morning! Happy Halloween! 🦇 🎃

As the bus slowly departs the station as the driver sips his coffee. It is a pleasant end to the month of October which ended most pleasantly.

Partly sunny and 43 degrees at the Elm Ave Park and Ride. 🌅 Calm wind. And like that, we depart the station 🚉 right on time.

It was to get away for a couple of days ⛺ even if it was just Rennselearville State Forest. I know winter is coming with gas prices heading back up and such trips will be more infrequent but it was a break from the craziness of urban life. 🤪

Walking the Plaza early this morning 🚶 trying to get my steps 👣 in earlier as I’m not sure if I will walk this evening with Halloween 🦇 but I do want to make sure I get the 10k in for the day regardless.

The state is busy setting up the ice rink ⛸ for the opening around Thanksgiving 🦃 and the holiday season. 🎅 🎄 I have to admit I listened to a track from a Christmas record the other day when I was feeling so sick 🤮. Seasons come and go so quickly these days, 🌸 spring will be here before you know it or so I tell myself.

Last week going to work before the time change. 🕒 More sunlight in the morning will be nice but not the very dark evening commute, especially the walk home in the dark. But next week is a three day work week with the Lunar Eclipse 🌒 holiday on Tuesday and Veterans Day 🪖 on Friday.

So far it’s been a relatively quiet morning 📧, the emails, texts and phone calls with projects have yet to roll 🍥 in. I have a list 📃 from the weekend but it’s only so long. Maybe though after my sick day on Friday there is a bunch of things I don’t know about.

Depending on how busy I am next week and the weather ☀ that will decide if I do a trip out of town for Veterans Day Weekend. I have surprisingly little vacation time left this year after I sell back a bunch of time to pay for my health insurance. 😷