Worked hard all day, kept the loyal companion, the Buddha server crunching away. I’m not sure if everything I come up with will be used but I’m learning a lot about the system works and ultimately it’s the skills you have to make things happen quickly and with skills that matters.

Still really into the Grateful Dead 🎸 and smoking grass 🚬 mostly because it’s cheap and lasts for a long time but like most things in this world is so meaningful and yet at the same time so meaningless. I want to believe it changes everything when really all it does is make me forgetful, sleepy and a bit paranoid at times. But then again, I’ve struggled with paranoia long before I used any drugs. Most over Big Red 🛻 letting me down on some dirt road in a hick town or getting evicted out of my truly dumpy apartment and having no good place to call home 🏡. Truth is eating a healthy diet is far more important for the paranoia then smoking a little grass. 🌾

The pot smoking Data Services director, I have many ideas I’m working to make a reality even if I realize not all can be done. 🖥 But as somebody who knows Linux, C and particularly R and the open source GIS stack, there are so many things I can do if only I can find the words and sell the ideas. 🗺 Data is really powerful and there are so many good ways to use it that it isn’t currently be used. As much as I want to advance new ways of targeting 🎯 and using data, I realize what is ultimately most important is to have the tools ⚙ ready to respond for any kind of request that comes in. 🎣 After discussing it with the other supervisors and checking references, I think I made a good second decision on the new hire, hopefully this one will work out.

I’m hoping that I can put that antagonizng hiring decision behind me 😳, it’s often not obvious what is the right decision. Maybe I over think things. 🚲 Broke a spoke again on my mountain bike up at Thacher, I dropped the wheel off today but it wasn’t ready yet today but should be tomorrow. At this point, I probably won’t pick it up until Thursday as I’m planning to drive out my parents house 🏡 to walk the dog 🐶 on Thursday.

It’s not a big deal 🚵and I should get the tools ⚙ to pull off the cassette and true the wheel myself but usually the shop so far has been good on same day repairs. Granted I didn’t drop the wheel off until 1:30 as at lunch time I got busy with work and then the sky just opened up. 🌧️ I’m kind of pissed that I can’t ride in tomorrow or Wednesday if I don’t pick it up until Thursday but I’ll walk from downtown to Menands. 💩 Shit happens. It’s not like I didn’t need to get to Walmart for groceries 🛒 and driving to work isn’t that bad now that I’m in the office with acres of parking 🅿.

It was a fun weekend, 🏕 and I’m hoping for another nice weekend coming up but only time will show. ⭕ The water levels were much too high to float in the Schoharie Creek 🏊 and truth be told I don’t love swimming pools that much with the adult supervision and chlorine. 🍆 Schoharie has so many good produce this time of year and I like Betty Brook Campsite a lot. Then again, there is autumn for that 🍂 though this year that will be difficult with work. 💻 I’m still hoping to get up to Powley-Piseco one more time before summer is done for some quality time on the tube, studying the clouds, and riding the road. I don’t know it looks like rain ☔ this weekend.

Maybe I’ll bake some bread this weekend. 🍞 I haven’t had homemade bread in some time, I got away from it in favor of quicker meals on the stove top, especially cooking with corneal and onions and tumeric. 🥞 Made brown rice 🍚 and beans the other day, should cook more rice and beans. 🫘 Truth is I get tired of one dish and I switch it up and that other dish becomes the go to for a while. Last week I didn’t really have enough protein in my diet as the store was out of tofu so adding more beans is good though I guess I did cook salmon up with my summer squash and zucchuni a few nights.