Good morning! Happy Hump Day. 🐫

It rained a fair bit in the evening and then more during the night. But by morning it cleared out although more rain tomorrow and then during the weekend. Needless to say I’m not heading out of town this weekend.

Partly sunny 🌞 and 62 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a west-southwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 58 degrees. I don’t with the rain that stopped about two hours ago it feels more humid than that. I wish I hadn’t worn the vest to work.

As to be expected the express bus 🚍 isn’t so express at departing the station 🚉 with estimates showing it running about fifteen minutes late. At least it’s on the map and I can watch its progress. This changes in a week or two when the school 🚸 runs end for the summer.

Because of the rain last night I had to take the local home, which I don’t enjoy even if it’s about as quick compared to the walk 🚶 home from the Park and Ride. But the rain cleared up for a while and I returned my remaining books 📚 to the library. I should get some more out but I’ll wait until next week before I head out of town.

Tomorrow is the oil 🛢 change and tire rotation. I’ll take the hub caps off myself tonight and at some point pick up an air filter and and top off the coolant. Truck hasn’t been burning oil like it was years ago but it’s largely because I have the solar and don’t idle it while camping. ⛺ in the fall I’ll have the transfer case oil changed and maybe the transmission fluid although I’ve heard mixed messages about doing that after a certain point. With gas prices likely to exceed $5 I doubt I’ll do more than 2,000 miles before the end of summer. ⛽

I still have a wheel on the truck that clicks when I drive it.⚫ I think it’s just one of the Rockstar hub caps isn’t perfectly balanced as it changed wheels when I got the new tires put on. Been doing it for at least two years now. Since the alignment and replaced front bushing and maybe tie rods the year before I’ve not noticed any unusual tire wear but I’m planning to rotate them each oil change going forward. I’d rather not burn up a wheel bearing on the road at this point if I can avoid it. Big jacked up truck life.

My hope is to head out of town either Thursday or Friday next week. ⛺ Probably Friday morning early that way with Juneteenth observed on Monday I can do the three nights in one campsite day without moving or getting a permit. In the summer heat, ice won’t last more than three nights even with two coolers, one for beverages and one for everything else. Maybe this weekend I can reinflate the tube for floating. ⚫