Good morning! What day is it? A muggy and Gray Hump Day, of course.

Came early this week with Monday being Independence Day. I should take off next Monday too for another four day weekend.

Mostly cloudy and 70 degrees at the Exit 23 – Albany (I-787). 🌥 There is a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 21 mph 💨💨💨. The dew point is 66 degrees. The muggy weather ends around 5 pm. 😓

Remarkably humid this morning. 🌅 Then again we got a fair bit of needed rain yesterday so it’s not all bad. The air conditioning on the bus feels pretty nice.

Again somehow I manged to stay up too late 🌃 and I’m dragging my ass to work, barely catching the later express bus 🚍 downtown. I was so good until the late nights at work and the holiday weekend. Ands despite being dog 🐶 tired yesterday.

Yesterday I was still a bit tired 😴 after getting home late after hiking down the mountain ⛰ after watching the Independence Day fireworks 🎇 from the undisclosed location. By afternoon it poured ☔ and I had to take the local bus 🚍 home. Later in the evening it cleared up a bit, and I got my steps in 👣 walking down to the park 🏞. Made it through Tuesday. Did get kind of wet walking 🚶 home in the rain.

Finally started to break in my new boots. 👢 The old ones I got on West Virginia in early November are pretty worn out – I ordered the replacement ones two week ago and they arrived the next day. I’ve yet to find much difference between cheap and expensive boots.

Like so many other times, 🏡 I clicked through to an article that wades into the debate if it’s better to buy or rent property. While I tend to agree that for two properties of the same size, it’s better to buy, especially with cash. But if you live in a small apartment on the bus line, it’s probably cheaper than buying a much larger home than you need, especially if it’s not your forever home.

It’s not that I don’t want to eventually own my own land, 🚜 but just not a generic house in the suburbs in a liberal pukey state like New York. The internet is a constant reminder that there are other ways of living with lower taxes and fewer restrictions than New York.