Drivin’ the train high on cocaine

Singing along with the Grateful Dead, I woke up at four AM to start the beans and while I laid on and off in bed through seven AM I also put the bread in at 5 and cooked cornmeal-spinach-onion pancakes for breakfast and had some coffee using up the rest of the milk, putting the jug into the white bag for carbon dioxide recycling.

Apparently all the farmers were showing the turning over of earth and burning off the burn piles of DEF jugs in celebration of Earth Day yesterday. That and it won’t be long until planting season, with May a week off and things starting to green up. I was seeing the Pennsylvania rednecks were happy to see the wind died down. Happy Belated Earth Day.

Been sleeping so well until last night. I woke up around 1 AM fell back asleep, at 4 AM I started the beans on the stove, and sort of dosed off a bit but by 5 AM was up cooking

Going to be a nice day for the ride in. Sunny and mild, light breeze, deep blue skies. Tomorrow too. More clouds on Friday though which I am planning to take off and rain come Saturday, Not exactly sure where I’m going but I want to get out of town for a few days. I miss nights in the wilderness, and finally it seems like the fire danger is down and the weather is improving, though I’m sure soon the black flies will be back. I haven’t taken Friday off yet but I’ll make the decision this afternoon. I

This evening regardless of my weekend plans I need to get to the grocery store. I am already pretty low on supplies but by this evening I’ll know what I’ll need for the weekend. Even if it looks rainy, I might still want to get away, as it would be good for fishing and doing some reading that is next to the fire or the heater. I could certainly just use a few days away from it all, particularly without the phone and the internet. Plus I wouldn’t mind getting some bacon from For the Love of Bacon.

I am starting to think my laptop is on it’s last legs. I think one of screen capacitors is going, or I have a loose connection in it. I have had this laptop since November 2016, so it’s nearly 9 years old. It has worked much better then the previous Samsung laptop I had which died after 4 years, and same with the Thinkpad that I got 5 years out of since it really started to fall apart. I am happy with the performance of this machine, it runs Linux well, but I think I want to look at a used laptop going forward.