Good morning! The Friday before Summer Vacation.

First though a trip to the dentist and the auto repair shop. So an anxious day then a week to vacation.

Sunny and 67 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 64 degrees.

Been going to bed 🛏 real early all week. I work late 🏢 – things have been super busy in the office – come home and have a light dinner. 🌭 Drink ice water 💦 and go to bed. Get up at five am when it’s still cool at six go out for a walk 🚶. Really it’s worked out so far this week.

The plan for today is to drop off the truck 🛻 at the shop and then catch the bus 🚍 to the dentist. 🦷 Then go work, maybe an hour late. I might leave work early to pick up the truck but I doubt the repairs will be done today so I probably won’t have the truck for the weekend but I don’t care that much because I wasn’t planning to head out of town the week before summer vacation. 🏡

I am always anxious about dropping my truck off at the shop 🔧 because I really have so little control over the matter. I don’t know if the shop is good or bad though I’ve had good experience so far with it in recent years. I know whatever it is it will be expensive with inflation but in the context of a $1,000 a month car payment. I have estimated likely costs in my head – a median of what I think it is, a worse case scenario and a best. 👆 But ultimately my goal is a trouble free vacation and remainder of the summer. I just hate having to drop my vehicle at the shop and not know what it’s going to be until that call.

Tomorrow is going to really hot ☀ and Sunday even hotter 😰 possibly the hottest day in a long time and that’s something after the heat of Wednesday. Saturday I’ll probably stay home for a while by the fan and then go to the library in the afternoon to cool down and work on the internet. Sunday is more difficult to plan – I doubt I’ll have my truck – but maybe I can spend the day swimming 🏊 at the town pool. It’s like $6 or $7 but for a full day of refreshing cool it will be nice. Especially with what gas prices are these days. ⛽

It’s just going to be hot. 🏖 Ordinarily I would spend the weekend up at a cold swimming hole up north 🏊‍♂️ but I don’t think I’ll have my truck this weekend and Friday is summer vacation. I figure just stay hydrated, keep shades drawn, stay be the fan when I’m not swimming or at the library. Early to bed, early to rise. Next weekend is summer vacation – it will be hot too it appears but at a pool or gorge swimming 🏊 it never gets too hot. I want to camp in the shade, have lots of cold drinks, so I don’t mind the heat.