I had forgotten how nice the bike ride is into the office, bar the glass spilled all over the road. If I had only picked my bike up on Tuesday, I could have ridden in yesterday but today was beautiful but smokey with the wildlfire smoke. Not as bad as a few years, but there was a brown haze around riding into the valley and the sun looked hazy, almost like during a partial solar eclipse. Almost a bit eerie.

Busy day today and I have meetings downtown so I am in early. I try to be in each day by 8 AM, for one it makes for a better bike ride as there is less traffic on the highway and bike trail at this hour. I am just so glad that my bike is back on the road. A good morning with onion and cornmeal pancakes, topped off with greek yogurt. It’s been a while since I’ve done that. Been doing too much eggs lately, which are a good source of protein but also have a lot of saturated fat, despite all the vegetables and onions I like to put in them.

The new hire for Data Services accepted the position, and I’m hoping it will finally work out. The other operators seemed to like my choice, and I have feeling this person won’t back out. Maybe I was trying to change the agency too quickly, advancing new ideas and new people, trying to ram a round peg in a square hole. It happens. I’ve continue to develop new IOI Codes for the system, and for the most point after announcing the new codes, have gotten primarily just radio silence. I know people are busy, and they’re not as interested in my project and my hard work as I am in. Maybe I’ve just tried to keep myself artificially busy at work, so to make the time go past quicker and not think about all the other problems in my life. It was fustrating those days that my bike was down and out with that broken spoke. I wish I had driven to work on Tuesday and picked up my repaired bike wheel then.

Meetings today downtown, but one of them is a lunch meeting with free food. Maybe not healthy but delicious and I’ll primarily pile the green stuff on my plate. Then it’s out to the folks house to walk the dog, and do a quick overnight there house sitting. Maybe stroll around the yard for a bit, down by the creek, and think more about my housing decisions. That property next door to there’s is still up for sale on the market, largely sitting abandoned, and continue to crumble. I cut a check for $150k it could be mine, and I’d only have to pay for the upkeep and taxes. And cost of commuting. 🛻 But regardless of what people tell me, I would have to give up so much of my freedom, especially if I got livestock. But it would be fun to grow my own grass, and not the kind you mow.

I need to read more, as all the e-books I got out at the end of July will quickly be coming to expiration. But maybe the reason I haven’t been reading more is the books don’t really excite me. But it’s also been summer, I’ve been out riding my bike, camping, hiking and exploring. Come winter, I’ll do a lot better with reading. Used to be in the summer, I’d go down to the park and read, but since getting the bike, I usually like to ride in the evening. And last night I spent adjusting the bike, and reseting the wheel, before going down to Elm Avenue Park for a bit, when I ended up just writing a blog post about what I’ve been thinking a bout lately. So many things have been on my mind lately.