It could have been yesterday but I didn’t feel like driving to work. It’s three days off the road not the end of the world. Gave me an excuse to get in a bunch of walking yesterday, and those days are over now. Riding to work tomorrow, got meetings all afternoon downtown.

Rode out to Five Rivers 🐸 and read for a while before heading back home with darkness coming earlier and earlier. 📖 Didn’t take the fastest route back home but it’s pitch black by 8:45 at this point. Autumn is rapidly approaching. 🌃 It’s nice to be back on the road. I drove in today and it wasn’t bad except for that OGS Employee at the pump station who I wasn’t sure if he was going to back into me.  💥 I forget when you don’t drive regularly that near misses and blushes with death ☠ are a normal part of motoring. Maybe I should get that recalled passenger air bag inflator replaced. 🎈

Nice moon lit evening for sitting out back 🎑 though it’s getting late and I should head into bed 🛏 soon. Fried egg plant 🍆 with onions and tofu for dinner. Then after the ride, banana 🍌 and shredded oatmeal with some sugar free maple 🍁 syrup. Good enough of a dinner and snack. It’s really getting late and I said I would be in the office 🏢 by eight tomorrow ⏰ and damn sure I’m riding in. Once this track is done on the Peter, Paul and Mary album. 💿

I was happy as a pig 🐽 in shit 💩 that I could get baking powder in an all plastic container at Price Chopper. Not only did I need baking powder, I hate the aluminum and paper containers that after you burn 🔥 them you have to pick the aluminum out of the fire. I can also in theory recycle ♻ such things but we all known it’s a scam and in the fire it fully disappears down to nothing. Don’t tell a liberal that. I also got grapes 🍇 and bananas 🍌 so I can continue to rot out my teeth. 🦷 Smoking all that grass – all $40 of it this summer – makes me think a lot about what is right and wrong and the bull shit we all live in especially after my trip to BFE Pennsyltucky a few weeks back. 😂

I want to get out camping this weekend again 🌧️, but I don’t think the weather will cooperate though the forecast seems to be improving. I guess I don’t need that much gear for Schoharie but also I see summer fading away so quickly. 🏖 👉 🍂 And I don’t know if it will be the last summer of my youth. I’m still looking at finding a home 🏡 but then that will be it and days of travel and enjoying summer will be replaced with fixing the plaster and hauling buckets of grain out to hogs 🐽 and caring for the grass, yes the kind you smoke. That’s the only kind I approve of besides the kind out in pasture for the cattle to graze on. 🐮 One of my elementary school 🚸 colleagues is selling a batch of feeder pigs 🐖 if your interested. Never fried zucchini in bacon 🥓 fat and cannabis but I’ve heard it’s good. Next week are taking us out to 677 Prime, that hundred 💯 dollar a plate 🍽 steakhouse 🥩 and they wanted to know if I still eat meat. Housekeeping is paying. Not regularly, but there is an exception for everything. 🤷‍♂️

I have been thinking more about finding Zen. 🪷 At one time I used to think Zen was just another excuse for crass commercialism and not caring about tomorrow. But after reading 📖 and crying over the Art and Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance, 🏍 smoking some grass 🦗 and listening to the Grateful Dead 🎸, I’m starting to realize it’s something different. You can care about today while being responsible for tomorrow. I’m really hoping that a week from Friday I can get off from work and be fully off the grid and spend the day studying the clouds ⭕ all day from the tube on the East Canada Creek. It might be the last time of the year. I do plan to get to Speculator for Labor Day Weekend but I’m sure that will be a remote work trip as will be most of the autumn trips. 🍂 Now if they can only get the internet working on the snazzy work laptop. 🖥

“I need a song, but the spring is for sowing
A word to the wise that the Earth must provide
A tomb to untangle the riddle of growing
First things first when you get to the land”