Delmar, NY

Eat more eggs? 🥚

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It’s something I’ve been literally chewing over lately. Egg prices have come down a lot and eggs really fill you up for a long time due to their combination of protein and saturated fats at a relatively low caloric impact. They are sugar free but rich in vitamins so no morning sugar crash.

The flip side is well known about eggs. They’re loaded with cholesterol, eating two eggs a day puts you over what the Agriculture Department recommends for healthy levels of cholesterol in a day. Eggs are mostly Omega 6 fats which aren’t great either. Pastured raised eggs like folks who use chicken tractors are better but most of the eggs I’m getting these days are almost entirely grain fed.

Hard boiled eggs are great when cooked perfectly to the recipe but still a bit hard to peel. The trick is to watch the stove for as soon as it rolling boils, and then take it off burner immediately thereafter and let cool for no more or no less than 10 minutes then immediately rinse in cold water and refugerate. Sometimes especially after the cold bath they do peel better. But I sure hate biting into an egg shell as I have too many memories of real chicken shit covered eggs growing up in the country.

I’ve been adding many mornings a hard boiled egg with black coffee before my morning walk especially if I’m planning Ina carbohydrates rich breakfast like oatmeal or banana pancakes. Probably from a calorie to protein ratio I would be better with Greek yogurt or cottage cheese but I like to mix it up.

You can guess what I’m messing around with this morning 🚲

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Lol, lol, lol. I actually got all the spokes threaded back properly after months of on and off set backs and now I’m now up to the point of trueing the wheel when I broke a spoke nub. The inexpensive ones that came with the spokes I bought are complete junk that don’t even fit the spoke key but one I find my needle nose pliers I’ll reinstall the ones previously on the bicycle. At least I’m learning a lot about bike spokes and wheels.

Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Office is closed for the holiday but not the library. Cloudy and 68 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a west-northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 67 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 3 pm.

I am finally getting out walking 🚶. I six 8.6 miles yesterday mostly in the afternoon at the Town Park 🏞 but also I ended up doing an evening walk 🚶 and then reading 📖 a book about the housing crisis and reading up on bicycles until midnight when I went to bed 🛏 with complete frustration about it all. Pretty depressing subject was that book I was reading. It’s why I’m focused on saving money 💵 and investing in my future to protect myself from the evils of society.

I read up and discovered some more downsides of that Jamis Citizen 2 bicycle I had previously looked at – it’s heavy, and the super soft suspension might be comfortable but it’s not good for long rides. 🚲 Plus I am having second thoughts about spending so much on something that is ultimately going to break down and isn’t going to be good on the rougher trails. Plus how would it good would it be on dirt roads with gravel? And plus I’m not sure how good of a bicycle it is – the local shop sells them but I almost never see anybody riding them – everybody locally rides Trek, Specialized or Giant. While brands aren’t everything they can be a mark of quality.

Today will have a slight chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after noon. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 82 degrees at 3pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 27th. Maximum dew point of 71 at 4pm. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 102 was set in 1911.

Assuming the weather is decent, I am thinking about an afternoon hike 🚶 out to Five Rivers. I do need to keep an eye out for thunderstorms ⚡. Rice and lentils with peas are cooking up this week. 🐠 I took salmon out of the freezer for dinner tonight.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.4° from the due south horizon (-0.5° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:37 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 26 seconds with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 11 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:57 pm. At sunset, watch out for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 71 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 17 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 45 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 67 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 71 at 6pm. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 54 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1971.

On this day in 1886, the New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine dew, eliminating typesetting by hand. 🖥

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Maximum dew point of 67 at 9am. Sunday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 67 at 11am. Typical average high for the weekend is 84 degrees.

One month 📅 from now will be Campfire Day 🔥 when the sun will be setting at 8:15 pm with dusk at 8:45 pm. The average high temperature is 34 degrees, with a record high of 61 in 1895.

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I almost bought a bicycle today 🚴

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So fucking close but no bike.

I went to Mad Dog Bicycle and looked at their used bicycle selection but they only had one choice for used bicycles in my size — the same $500 in 2005 Gary Fisher Hybrid model that I have broken down at home for $350. I hate that bicycle, I don’t really want a second one of it. A consider that bicycle to be a lemon, maybe my fault for treating it roughly when I was in college, in my 20s. I took it once on a snowmobile trail during the summer, hoped over a branch or two, and that bicycle had never had much of time without mechanical issues including broken spokes thereafter, despite having the wheel replaced and completely rebuilt at least once. I did get 5 or 6 years out of it before it permanently became clutter, a project to repair sometime in the future, but after a two different shops told me it wasn’t worth repairing, and too many hours trying unsuccessfully to repair it on my own, only to have more parts fall off, I gave up.

Sometimes when you get stuck, the best solution to a problem is to allocate more resources on towards finding a fix. A held my nose and have been considering buying a new bicycle. I just want something that is reliable, can get me to place to place, works well with minimal headaches. I want something that’s comfortable to ride, can get me around town to parks, downtown to work, leisurely strolls on bicycle paths, and then also from point A to point B on dirt roads to trail heads for hiking, swimming, etc. You know like to a distant trail head on Piseco-Powley Road or Moose River Plains or even the Finger Lakes National Forest. Not to go off-road or jump trees or ditches, but be able to handle an occasional sharp piece of gravel, a curb or pothole accidentally hit. I am generally a lot more gentle on my toys when I was young, but shit happens.

I was researching Jamis Citizen 2 bicycle which is the primarily bicycle that Mad Dog stocks for $600. They have a good inventory I was told so I could come by back whenever I decided. I also looked at some Trek Bicycles at Downtube a month ago, mostly in the same general price range, I think the Trek FX-1 series and the next step up in the $700 range. I really liked the Jamis Citizen 2 bicycle when I sat on it, it’s super soft ride, though it’s a bit higher up then I would like, and they don’t make step through (women’s) style bicycle which I’d prefer for easy mount and dismount. I wanted to go back to Downtube for a second look at their bicycles, but when I was downtown there was no place anywhere near Downtube to park by big jacked up truck because there some kind of big festival going on in Washington Park.

I really like how comfortable that bicycle is and how nice it rides. I am good with the price at $600 minus a 5% cash discount plus 8% tax. I am at about 90% to buying it but I want to chew it over more this weekend before laying down my hard earned money. The thing is it’s going to rain tomorrow and even if I took delivery today I probably wouldn’t get much use before next weekend. They says they have plenty in stock and with my large size, the one they have out on the show room is unlikely to go before I can buy it if that’s my ultimate decision. Plus the town clerks office isn’t open until next Wednesday if I wanted to register it in case of theft and to avoid getting a ticket for riding an unregistered bicycle. If I get it during the week next week I’ll have to leave work early which is bit of an issue as the director is off but leaving an hour early can still probably work as it’s relatively quiet around the office especially next week.

I’m getting close and I think it’s what I want but I want to proceed with caution.