Good morning! The Monday before vacation. 🏖

It seems like that thunderstorm was gone before it barely even started. It was so quick, enough for me to cancel my morning walk, though what for I’m not sure. I did step outside for a while  before the thunderstorm and the nice cool breeze was nice. But now it’s just humid, damp and yucky.

Rain and a very brief thunderstorm and 72 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛈ There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 68 degrees. The skies will clear around 4 pm.

Kind of a muggy, cloudy, icky morning. 🌧 Maybe not quite as hot and humid as yesterday, but still hardly nice. That said, yesterday was pretty much awful, I ended up staying home next to either the fan by my computer or laying on my bed. Learned a lot of new techniques though for manipulating geo-spatial data 🌍 in R — I actually posted that peak finding algorithm I developed yesterday early this morning.

Dropping Big Red off this morning to have the wheel bearing put in. 🔧 Most of the noise was the loose hub cap, but I’m still pretty sure that bearing is on its way out too. 🛻 Worth it to get fixed for peace of mind — which ain’t free. 🤪 It would cost a lot more if I burned it up on vacation and had to get towed. I know what a bad wheel bearing sounds like from recent experience, and while it might not be grinding yet or the wheel falling clear off the truck, it’s clearly on it’s way to getting that point with the squeaking the curves and when abused. I make good money, and keeping the truck running well is better then having to buy a new one.

I should have my truck by mid-day I’m hoping so I can get it at lunch time, and hopefully not have to leave work early today. 🕛 It was stupid to leave work early on Friday, as I never ended up even driving my truck over the weekend, as it was hot — and I didn’t go anywhere because of the wheel bearing but mostly because it was hot and my parents didn’t have power yesterday due to a heat-related black out. Never lost power at my house. 🔌

Other then that, I want to take the relief from the heat and humidity over the next few days 😅 to get ready for vacation. My goal is to have everything packed Thursday night, run to the laundromat and be rolling by Friday morning by 7 AM. I want to top off my propane tank, 🏮 as it’s been a few camping trip since I last filled it but I am thinking I can do that along the way, maybe in Greene, NY. I would do Oneonta, but I the Tractor Supply is ways off the expressway. I might stop in Oneonta though to go to Dicks as have a gift card and want to buy another cast iron frying pan.

That said, I don’t want to make too many stops on my way out to the Finger Lakes, 🏕 as my goal is to get there early and set up camp where I want to stay both weekends. The earlier I leave the more likely I get the campsite I truly want before the after-work crowd arrives for the weekend. I just want to be all set for the weekend, have camp fully set up and can relax. Saturday I want to have all day, especially if it’s hot to spend swimming 🏊‍♀️ and taking advantage of ice cream 🍦 and other activities. Already thinking about what I will eat at the Glen Dairy Bar.