“Well you know I think my fate’s belated
Because of all the hours I waited
For the day when I’d no longer cry.
I get myself to work by eight
But oh, was I born too late,
And do you think I’ll fail
At every single thing I try?”

The famous words that Joan Baez sung so beautifully at 2 AM in the morning over the muddy fields Sullivan County’s biggest dairy man, Max Yeger during the Woodstock Concert during mid-August 1969.

It’s my goal to be into the office by eight most mornings, 🌅  because that’s when most of the operators are in there and I need legislative hours when I can get them banging out new IOI Codes and manipulating data in preparation for next year while I spend my evening running label jobs for the campaign committee. It’s work that needs to get done and certainly all my experience writing R code helps enormously as I can automate things and put “sanity checks” into the code 🛑 so thinks halt if something is wrong. Without sanity checks 🤪 a lot of things would slip by as I’m not a detail oriented person. I’m a data person.

Finished reading The Rural Midwest Since World War II  by J.L. Anderson on Hoopla Library Books. 📖 I think some time I got that physical book out from the library but it never got read it. I’ve been fascinated by the mid-west for a long time, because it’s a place with cheaper land and prices, more in the rural-style of living I crave to live and would be a better place to build an off-grid home without all the regulation and taxes of New York. Better gun laws and fewer restrictions on fires and it’s probably easier to get land further away from the peering eyes.  👁‍🗨 Now just to get cannabis legal in those states. 🪴 Information is power, says the boy generating up more and more IOI Codes, the more you know, the better decisions you can make. 💭 Also finished up  skimming through John Soares’ Camp For Free: Dispersed Camping on Public Lands in America. 📙 And earlier in the weekend, I finished up Kirsten Li-Nelson’s So You Want to Be a Modern Homesteader, about her homesteading life in Northern Maine.

I dun a lot of reading this weekend, which is why I didn’t ride as much but still got out a fair bit, especially Saturday evening on the ride out to ol Voorheeesville. I still have my 10 August reads to fill on Hoopla, on my reading list for the end of the month into the first few weeks of September is a book on restoring old houses – – maybe the one I started last month but didn’t finish before the loan expired – – and another book on cannabis strains, as I still want to learn more about the best ways to maximize my pot smoking experience. 🚬 One option I’m considering is restoring an old house, that would be greener option then building new, but that requires a plan, good house inspection and contractors, and doing what I can pratically do myself. I can probably haul garbage out of a gully and paint a wall but I doubt I’m able to do anything structural.

Weekend still looks good for a long weekend. I got the bluetooth speaker I ordered last week on Saturday, so I will be able to listen to tunes and audiobooks both riding to work and while up at camp. It’s nice to have the tunes both when floating in the East Canada Creek and in the hammock. Plan to get at least one or two new audio books to read over the long weekend.