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I finally got another CDTA Navigator Card after a few months of using the app and having it expired. Tap and go, most of the time I don’t even pull it out of my wallet.

The Navigator app is fine as a back up, but it kind of sucks having to open an app, click through it, and sometimes your phone battery is dead, have connection issues, or get logged out of the app. Or if the sun is bright and screen is dim, the machine has trouble reading the QR code.

Plus you kind of want to have the app open, fare ready, when bus arrives, and I don’t necessary love at all times puling your phone out and messing it with bums around potentially looking to swipe the phone out of your hands. All while balancing and loading the bike on the bus.

Provisional ballots | MIT Election Lab

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Provisional ballots | MIT Election Lab

Since the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) became law in 2002, all states have been required to use provisional ballots.  The only exception is states that offered same-day registration when the National Voter Registration Act was enacted in 1993, and even most of these states have found them useful in certain situations.

In its most basic form, a provisional ballot works like this: A voter whose name doesn’t appear on the voter registration list at a precinct polling place on Election Day—but who believes she or he is, in fact, registered—may be offered a provisional ballot. After being marked, it's placed in a special secrecy envelope rather than in the ballot box. After the polls close, the registration status of the voter is determined. If the voter was in fact registered in that precinct on Election Day, the ballot is removed from the secrecy envelope and counted just like any other ballot. If the voter wasn’t registered, the ballot remains in the secrecy envelope and is not counted.

Kind of bored πŸ₯±

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Lately I have found myself bored with many parts of life. It just seems like there are fewer and fewer new places to explore near home, new things to learn, new experiences out there. Or maybe I’ve just gotten so comfortable with the status quo, and are unwilling to look harder?

Truth is most of the easy and obvious experiences have been found and done. Going back and doing again for a second time rarely has the thrill of doing it the first time. Moreover, the lesser known experiences are often harder to research and accomplish – if it was obvious – I’d probably already done it.

Your mid-40s are different then your twenties.  It’s to say vast wilderness and wild areas don’t exist, still it seems like I’ve gobbled up the big places, and now the smaller, hidden places are harder to find. Or if I want totally new places, the trips and travel only grow longer and more daunting – as goes with the idea of my now canceled trip this summer to Michigan.

Going to be a hot one 🫠

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After going out to gawk at the voltage gauge on the SuperDuty – already charging the starting battery – I thought it night be cool enough to ride in but ultimately I decided to test out my new Swiper card and bus it in.

Bike rode fairly good last night 🚲 and I ran to the store on the way home but I’ve still been tired and it was hot. I thought about riding in with the cool breeze but when it’s this hot, you know there is a a constant threat of thunderstorms. β›ˆοΈ And I do want to do further adjustments to the bike, maybe see if I can pull the rear wheel and further straighten the derailuer hanger with vise grips and a hammer πŸ”¨.

A number of people have reached out about Big Red πŸ›», I will work on setting up appointments for them to look at the truck today. πŸ”Ž I found the title πŸ–‡οΈ and other service and purchase records. Was $4,500 to little to ask for? Compared to similar trucks and accounting for the frame rust and required repairs I think it’s fair though I could see why a lifted truck in otherwise decent shape would go for such a price. Honestly at this point I just want the truck gone and just enough money to top off my savings account so I can return to my full investing plan.

The weekend looks like rain, 🌧️ so maybe it’s good so I’ll be around to show Big Red. I kind of want Red gone too now because he’s no longer on the battery charger and the SuperDuty has basically replaced him in my mind. So probably no Schoharie trip this weekend. πŸ•οΈ Maybe the subsequent weekend I can do Schoharie, right before I head out on vacation to the Finger Lakes. Or maybe not. Seems like a lot of weekends lately have been rainy or I’m busy. I know every summer is like that.

Started researching dash cameras πŸ“Ή to capture my trips. The old one I have has an increasingly fogged up lens. Apparently that was an issue with the older models. It would be nice to have capture some of the views along the way. I used to do that a lot more before the old camera started recording such shit pictures after getting fogged up. ⏺️