We haven’t had much rain this autumn but just wait for it – wait for it – two plus inches of rain is expected or maybe it will be more slop then anything, you know slush, road salt and big glops of wet white crap following out of the sky. Pretty much what one would expect these days.

I am just hoping for not too much snow up north 🌨️ or at least it won’t last long, as I plan to head north after Thanksgiving for at least three nights, maybe more. I am undecided but it could start out along the East Branch and then drive north to the Vanderwhacker Woods and ride either back to Camp Santoni or Essex Chain Lakes on the mountain bike, assuming there isn’t too much snow. But it’s good it’s going to be snow and wet, as I have plans for a big fire. 🔥 Especially if there is a bunch of leftover pallets and other scrap wood from hunters who set up camp for the season. Plus more motor oil and other burnables I might have. I also probably will get up early on Black Friday to hike, hopefully before the crowds. 👪 No way in hell am I going anywhere need a store that day. It’s Buy Nothing Day for a reason.

It’s off to work after showering 🚿 on the mountain bike 🚵 for the last time this week as tomorrow will be much too wet, so I’ll be busing it. But it’s fine, I have afternoon meetings downtown, and I don’t exactly love riding up the State Street Hill, especially in the rain. Kind of a cloudy day today before the rain, but it looks like it will hold off until I’m home in the evening. Went for a nice evening walk, finished off most of the bean soup 🥣 and this morning cooked up more rice and lentils with tomatoes. 🍅 Breakfast was cornbread pancakes I cooked up with lots of tumeric and more stevia then I’m proud to admit. It was too sweet with that fake sugar, and I didn’t remember to add any salt. 🥞 Topped them with non-fat Greek yogurt. I’ve gotten into my dairy habit again, though I’m not eating those big blocks of cheese anymore.

Been spending a lot of time lately studying Autotools, Cmake, Visual Studio and Build Environments. 🖥️ I am just trying to figure out what build environment I like best and what I should put my efforts into learning how to code. I feel like I have a very good grasp of C / C++ languages and also Rust after studying them but I need to get better at setting up a professional-like build environment to manage my code, and make sure every day I’m writing a little bit of code. I was all about Rust but that language has it’s limitations – – almost all of it’s binaries are statically linked – – and it’s one of those odd languages. But I also want to a good package manager, so I maximize my use of libraries while writing code rather then re-creating the wheel, 🎡 as results are more important then trying to create what has already been created by others who know far more then I do.

Also been trying to finish up my libraries books 📚 which return automatically on Hoopla today. I keep getting out my 10 Hoopla books each month, and then I get busy and only end up skimming half of them. There is so much to learned by doing more reading, but many nights, I get home and I’m fried, preferring to watch silly YouTube videos 📺 on my phone about homesteading or technical topics, especially old technology – – thinks that teach some things – – but aren’t really practical things. It’s not a complete waste of time, but I could be using my time better, though at times after work I”m so fried. 😴