Albany, NY

Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York’s Capital District. Roughly 135 miles (217 km) north of the City of New York, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 10 miles (16 km) south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. The population of the city was 97,856 at the time of the 2010 census.

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Getting fat

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Getting fat. 😮

When I went to the doctor the other day when I was weighted in I think the scale read something like 293 lbs. Honestly going to the doctors office during the pandemic was such a freaky activity I didn’t look too closely but I do think I’ve put on weight lately. I am sure I’m no longer the 265 lb I once was or the 245 lb I was during college for a while when I was walking ten miles nearly every day.

Now I don’t normally have snacks at home but I do sometimes snack on frozen fruit. In recent years I’ve been keeping the beer locked up when I’m home but I’ve been known to drink too much milk and apple juice. I should go back to water with lime or apple cider vinger. An even bigger problem is that I often make up too much pasta and despite adding lots of veggies I end up eating much too much mixed with unhealthy mayonnaise and cheese. I like dairy products much too much.

It’s been difficult lately to get enough steps in working from home. It used to be I would do a lot of walking, starting with the walk to the express bus, followed by a lunch time walk then a walk down to the library or park and then my evening walk. I still do my evening walk and many days I’ve been at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center waking but it’s not enough.

Truth be told, I need to get the battery replaced on my bathroom scale and start weighing in daily. I got to cut my calories and pasta mixes, drink more water and less apple juice and milk. Lay off the cheese, walk more. Both parents are heavy and I’ve always been a bit stout but I can do better.

PAUSE vs Save the Pine Bush and City Funding 💰

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PAUSE vs Save the Pine Bush and City Funding 💰

A few years back, People of Albany United for Safe Energy (PAUSE) was created to fight oil trains in Downtown Albany. The concern was the large number of highly volatile oil tanker trains that were parked in Downtown Albany for transfer to ships and pipelines heading down to refineries in New Jersey and New Brunswick.

In more recent years they’ve gotten into the zero waste advocacy – actually as a contactor for the city of Albany to comply with their state mandated landfill permit that calls for the city to have a recycling coordinator position that promotes recycling education throughout the member communities.

While this city grant may help with their advocacy efforts it does make their group tied to the city for funding. Criticize the city’s recycling efforts and their group may be without a city grant.

Save the Pine Bush has never taken city funding. They are fully not for profit and independent, free to criticize and fight any development in the Pine Bush.

In contrast, the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission, a state operated and largely state funded corporation, is able to focus on education and managing the land while being subject to all the political concerns such a corporation faces.