Maybe because I cast my vote for the rodeo clown. And maybe it was a mistake but the decision is done. It’s just one of millions. And I left my belt at home when I was getting dressed, not discovering it until I was home, so all day I felt like a prisoner, a sucidial patient, somehow just off — though these were nice new, tighter jeans that at least weren’t slipping off.

Am I fully comfortable with my voting choices , probably not but the decision has been made, my lot cast. Truth is I’m more alienated then anything else from all the politics, even if it’s how I make my money , it’s what pays for the toys, the guns and cannabis — and some day in the not too distant future my off-grid cabin. I just hope whatever happens, the economy remains strong and we have good leadership for our nation, even though I know I’m pretty much powerless to change it. I can change myself, but I can’t decide who is going to be the next President. I wish the politicians would do more about climate change and inequality in economy, but it seems all they do is cut ribbons on infrastructure projects and attend kids science fairs.

The belt thing just through my off today. It just felt so werid. Then I accidentally left my wallet in my bike box when I was in an hour long meeting. Which was fine but I was nervous the whole meeting not knowing where my wallet was, 👛 and my laptop charger is dying. I ordered another one. It is what it is. My bike kickstand bolt came lose, but I found it on the road and just need to reassemble it. And tomorrow I’m planning on remote working and heading back out to the wilderness for a long weekend. But I’ll probably be back in the office on Monday, as while I like remote work, I’ve come to realize my office needs more supervision. Things are happening and I’m not always finding out on the email or phone. Plus it’s going to rain on Monday. Columbus Day Weekend looks great though if I plan to go out to Madison County to ride trail at Charles Baker.

And it just a werid day in many ways. Sometimes were super busy and other times were dead silent. Some of it was my fault, there was so many emails and so many data jobs to run the past few days, that I would think I was all caught up but i missed an important email that needed to be run. When I had downtime though I’ve been reading up on the Rust programming langauge, which I think is the thing i want to learn next. That and POLARS data libraries. For some things, interpreted languages like Python and R are great, but the more heavy data stuff I do with R, the more I realize how slow and clunky it is. Surprisingly, I really like Rust, it doesn’t have a lot of boilerplate and it uses method chaining and function programming in ways that are so elegant. I think it’s the future and while I’ve been mastering C for work, I think Rust is vastly superior in many ways. I know Java and C++ are very popular these days, but I’ve never been a real fan of classes.

Well, I should head home and get packed for heading out of town tomorrow morning before work. I don’t need a ton of things for camping locally through Sunday, but I do need to get some clothes and I might as well load some of the gear tonight so I can get an early start tomorrow and get camp set up before getting down to work tomorrow remotely from the wilderness.