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Map: Green Mnt NF Forest Road 74 Camping

Good morning, Happy Hump Day After Primary Day β˜€οΈ

The sun is shining and it’s a beautiful morning but I’m busing it in as I have a Save the Pine Bush Meeting to go to after work. And then Thursday looks like rain, but Friday I’ll be back to biking it to work.

Thinking next week will be only a one day to ride to work, 🚲 as I want to take off Wednesday and Thursday, and leave work early next Tuesday in the SuperDuty F-350 to get bacon πŸ₯“ at For the Love of Bacon, 🐷 and then head north. Speculator likely, but with the forecast pushing towards the warm side of things, the Potholers sound nice for a few days before heading north to Moose River Plains. πŸ•οΈ It will be nice to finally put the SuperDuty to work, though first I need to get gas. β›½

It was a long night last night, 🚌 ended up getting the bus home and then driving the SuperDuty back to election night event. πŸ—³οΈ People voted, shit happens. πŸ’© What can I say, America is becoming Trump Country, both on the left and right. Kind of fun, in an entertaining way, though you would hope that government would be run by adults and not teenagers on Instagram. I don’t even know who won the judge race, though I probably should care as it may very well impact what happens should Save the Pine Bush 🌲 end up in court trying to save the last remaining acres of Pine Bush from being bulldozed. I do like how the headlights auto dim at night on SuperDuty, it makes night driving much pleasant. ☺️

This weekend I want to get over to Rensselaer County to get fireworks πŸŽ‡ to light off when I’m off of work up at camp, you know sparklers and ground fountains that fit into my budget, which ain’t much plus more gas for the SuperDuty β›½ as I let it get low hoping for cheaper gas prices. I’ll probably get $50 for the weekend, and fill ‘r up in Rotterdam when I get bacon heading north next Tuesday. Maybe Papacanee Island and some of the Albany Electric Trail on the Mountain Bike πŸš΅β€β™‚οΈ and then East Greenbush Wally World for food, supplies, and sparklers πŸŽ‡ before heading home. Sunday go out to my parents house fairly early to clean out and photograph Big Red and get hims ready to sell. πŸͺ§

I was up early making pinto beans 🫘, rice and lentils for lunch, but it didn’t help that a bunch of police 🚨 cars came roaring through at 5 AM with sirens going and I found it hard to get back to sleep. 😴 I’m going to be tired in the office today, but I expect a relatively quiet day. It’s really too bad I can’t ride the bike to work today, 🚲 it’s going to be a beautiful day. Been learning about MapLibre GL, I want to eventually switch the blog over to that for beautiful, interactive 3D maps πŸ—ΊοΈ to replace Leaflet Maps I currently use, but it’s API is quite different and there is a lot to learn. πŸ€“

On that note, as Steely Dan sung a half century  ago, “Your ever lasting summer, you can see it fading fast…”

Map: Harding Road Trail
Map: Junius Pond Unique Area

Primary Day 2026 πŸ—³οΈ

I voted months ago at this point, but yes, today is the big day for people running in primaries, though the only interesting ones are judge primary locally, as it seems like Tom DiNapoli is going to scoop up the Comptroller’s race. Maybe because I liked his ice cream sundae day at Capitol some twenty years ago, I’m biased towards him. Good reason to vote for Comptroller.

Yesterday it was a busing it work day, 🚏 it was fine, walking laps πŸ‘£ after work in Empire Plaza. They have so many security guards patrolling the Concourse this day, the homeless people aren’t around to ask you about the Trilaterial Commission, but instead are in hiding outdoors. Rained all evening, we needed the rain, but it also meant when I got home at 6:15 PM I had a dinner, πŸ›οΈ and headed to bed bed shortly thereafter, as I was tired all day. Today I am taking the SuperDuty… Just kidding… The bike to work. 🚲 Still damp and cloudy today, but it will get progressively nicer as the day goes on. I have a primary day event to go to after work, and then it’s home. 🏑 Wearing my Paisley and Power Brokers shirt today, not sure if he’ll be there tonight. 🦴 Maybe on bike or bus home depending on when I get out of event, probably be closer to 10 or 11 so yeah, bus.  I got to either put more money on the CDTA app or better yet, just get one of those updated smart cards to use for the next ten years, so I don’t have to worry about having my phone working.  πŸͺͺ

Tomorrow after work there is another development for Save the Pine Bush πŸ¦‹ to oppose, so I’ll be back out in Builderland with the crew. Then maybe Thursday I’ll work on wiring up the truck, and this weekend I want to remove and clean up the rest of Big Red πŸ›» and take pictures of him and get him listed for those who are interested. Going to offer both the truck cap and truck itself for sale, and see what goes. Ultimately at this point I just want to get rid of old truck, once all my gear is out of it. Maybe move over the CB Radio this weekend, still need to get the antenna pulled, run wires back from relay box in the front, but neither is a big priority. And definately check battery lugs and get the solar connected in if I don’t do that on Tuesday. Also need to get to the grocery store at some point, though in them mean time I can run to Stewarts for milk and eggs to hold myself over.

Thinking of taking off July 1 and 2nd, πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ as it looks like we have staff in the office for those days, leaving for Speculator on June 30th at 3:30 PM with a side trip to For the Love of Bacon πŸ₯“ 🐷 on the way up to you know, avoid the Thruway Tolls by driving past the Rotterdamn Maul.Β Farmer Chandler was selling some of her bacon seeds earlier this spring, you know feeder pigs. If I only had land, I could have my own bacon. But I’d rather work my way to Moose River Plains early on July 3rd morning, set up camp through the July 6th which also is a holiday at my office, and come back late that evening. Nice long trip to enjoy my new truck that I’ve spent so much money on but have barely used so far, waiting for the cap to come, gas prices β›½ to come down, and get things wired up. But it should be ready this weekend. Of course, being gone form June 30th – July 6th means I can’t necessarily be around to show the truck, but I can put it out there I’m thinking of selling it. Really push it on July 7th, as I want it gone by vacation by July 29th. I think I’m banned from Facebook Marketplace through July 18th due to my stupid comments about how wonderful drugs are πŸ’Š but fuck Facebook, and all those stupid ads. It will fun up north floating in various creeks, πŸŠβ€β™‚οΈ maybe smoking some weed and drinking beer. 🍺

Map: Severence Hill Trail
Map: Gilman Lake
Map: Hoel Pond
Map: Lake Alice Wildlife Management Area