I don’t know, what gets my heart beating hard is smoking a lot of pot and those caffeine pills, or hell that dark roast coffee they always have flowing in Assembly’s Data Center which is the Jack Daniel’s of the coffee world.
I might complain a lot about being moved from my beautiful downtown office overlooking the Capitol to a suburbanite industrial building 🏢 overlooking the old city dump and the sewage treatment plant and sewage sludge/PFOA incinerator – it stinks 👃🚽 – but the free unlimited coffee is always good drunk in my DACC mug. ☕ I get all the best swag working for the campaign committee. Says the boy who burns his trash 🔥 and wants to eventually own livestock like hogs 🐽 and horney buck goats. 🐐 It’s actually a lot of fun, th money is good and I don’t have to ride the State Street Hill on my mountain bike 🚲 every day or take Delaware Avenue. Though it sucks with them doing away with the express bus. 🚍 For a while before end, that was pretty awesome with transfer though evening we’re tight. That coffee ☕ definitely makes me poop 💩 well. That and all the fiber I try to include in every meal – be it carrot 🥕 or zucchuni pancakes 🥞 – and yet another big pot of kidney beans 🫘 I boiled down yesterday. I like them just as much as Edward Abbey.
I am not even a real programmer, 🖥️ as fact quietly noted by the real programmers but I do enough SQL and R to make IOI Codes and other data manipulation to keep things moving along in my little division. We do some pretty cool stuff. Next month for my Hoopla September reads I maxed out 📚 last night I got a book on Linux Programming and Rust programming. I keep flirting with old Rust language even as much as a curse the borrow checker 🔎 because I know it’s a superior and safer language to C++ and I like the CARGO package manager, though not how most Rust programs are statically linked rather then using system libraries which are mostly designed to be called from C or C++. I also got a bunch of other Edward Abbey and Hunter S. Thompson books, a book about homesteading and one on using wooded land for a variety of processes, Richard Thayer’s Nudge, and one about the best hikes in Northern Michigan. 🚶 I heard they have cheaper cannabis in Michigan, and a lot to explore especially in the wild part of the state that is not Detroit. In theory a burn ban, 🔥 but most hillbilies without nearby neighbors don’t obey as it’s like a civil $150 fine for funding local libraries at most.
Yesterday I got vaxxed, 💉 and I was incredibly disappointed that I was not questioned about my demand to get the COVID vaccine because it wasn’t fun last year with COVID for Christmas. 🎅 I didn’t get to explain because I smoked some pot a few weeks back, 🚭 that I’m a former smoker and therefor at high risk of the COVID! But the vaccine didn’t work last Christmas, just like seatbelts don’t work in a car crash when you feel sore the next door 💺. I mean you can’t prove in that wreck that you would have definately thrown through the windshield without the seat belt. 💥 I clicked on an ad accidentally for a trial lawyer ⚖️ and now my feed is full of ads for a car crash attorneys. We live such a trippy world these days. 🏳️🌈 See if my heart ♥️ gives out in the next few days, probably won’t but that would suck after spending all that money so I could have 20/15 vision and see better then the typical liberal. 👀 It will be interesting to see what the Trumpster does with marijuana, I won’t argue it doesn’t stink and is kind of obnoxious in urban areas – but it’s kind of fun too. Some of my biggest Trump supporting friends also enjoy dipping their hands in growing that plant to smoke, you know in many ways it’s easier then tobacco to grow and lot more fun to smoke or bake into brownies. 🟫 When I say former pot smoker, doesn’t mean though that I plan to stop it’s just that I have to go to work today, I’m not at camp, and I’m not stoned.
I was thinking if the old ladies at the polling place start selling pot brownies with extra fudge at the polling places as a fundraiser for the Lady Auxiliary, 🗳️ I’ll go back to voting in person, but instead it was so easy to just get my ballot in the mail, open it up, check off the marks for all the local Democrats and write in George Hayduke! for County Clerk. I am no fan of Bruce Higgley, I mean I’m sure he’s no worse then the typical machine politico, and the liberals would be like he’s probably better then the Trumpster, Mostly he’s a Democrat who wants to extract as much wealth out of the public. But that’s not saying much. 🐴 In other words, he’s just an asshole. I dropped the ballot in the mail box and the out wrapper in with other burnables, 🔥 soon enough to be bright yellow flames. After getting vaxxed last night, 🚲 rode out to Slingerlands with my dark glasses on to protect my eyes 👀. Then there was a bit more light left, so I rode out along Van Dyke Road past Preska’ Dairy 🐮 🌽 and that freshly chopped silage smelled absolutely amazing in a way only a cow person would truly understand. Going to make a lot of good milk 🥛 and ice cream 🍦 in the coming year. He’s very much a Republican with all of his signs for their candidates so likely to loose by double digit margins, but dairy man often are because if you milk cows, you’re a businessman, probably own a bunch of guns, 🔫 and of course he doesn’t like the subsidy the town gave to one of the other farmers in South Bethlehem to lease now town owned farmland, so no more traffic would infere with those who already have their homes built next to the crop fields that they also complain smell like cow crap during certain times of the year. 💩
I haven’t figured out next week yet. 🏕️ Might just do a quick trip this weekend, or maybe I’ll take off next Monday. Or I could take off the full week, and head north, starting in Speculator but ultimately driving to Horseshoe Lake and Lows Lake, the the St. Regis Canoe Area. 🛶 I do really want to check out out that rail trail, and if I wait to Columbus Day Weekend, as I’m sure Trump want you to call it, 🍁 I doubt there will much color left in the woods. Probably more deer 🦌 hunters then color at that point. But I’m not planning on heading deep into the woods, so whatever. It looks like Tuesday and Wednesday might be cloudy and rainy 🌥️ so that gives me pause. And I don’t know, I have a meeting to go to on Thursday, so when to find time to pack. 💼 Plus let’s be honest, if I’m going to the Central Adirondacks going to need be fairly well stocked up as there is only limited and expensive groceries that I can purchase along the way, it’s not like the Finger Lakes or Central NY where thee is a Walmart, or at least a Tops or Aldis not far away. I might do Cazenovia and Stoney Pond come November again this year I’m thinking. Maybe finally do that last gap in the Erie Canalway I haven’t ridden then 🚲 between Utica and Rome. Might be fun.
See I am eligible for the COVID vaccine because I smoked pot a few weekends ago while I was looking at the Catskill Mountains, dreaming of the off-grid cabin with grunting hogs and a trash burner out back and that makes me a former smoker and at high risk of complications from the COVID virus. Probably also a hillbilly too.
At least that’s what I’m hoping CVS reports to the State Vaccine Registry, 💉 so that such words sit in on a computer database sitting on a state government office somewhere in Downtown Albany on bowls of one of the state computer database center. 💾 He smokes pot, now he needs to be injected. Getting both my flu shot and the COVID mind-control RNA-changing injections because neither sounds like so much fun. I mean having the COVID for Christmas 🎄 🎅 was such shit last year, especially as I planned to go to out to Finger Lakes and probably smoke you know what and have fires 🔥 and just enjoy the beauty of winter. ☃️ I don’t want to think about riding my bike on ice-covered bike trail yet. First I need to get a new rear tire for my bike.
So yeah, my vision is great 👀 though I still have some irriation from dry eyes that will go away over time I’m told, no more follow ups after the surgery, just usual vision check ups, they suggest in six months and then every two years until I’m really old – and only then if I don’t decide to blow my brains out and burn my off-grid cabin to ground before I’m so elderly and crippled that I need cataract surgery.🤯 I am still debating if my next audio book for this morning’s commute with be another Edward Abbey book – – probably Hayduke Lives! – – or Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles. Truth is as much as admire Edward Abbey I do think I like Hunter S. Thompson more. 🔊 Finished up Ethan Tapper’s To Love a Forest, the book about that Vermont forester who discusses owning forest land and rebuilding his own forest, and forestry life. 🌲 🌲
Got to drop my ballot 🗳️ off in the mail today, came last night, filled it out quickly as there really wasn’t much choice, I wasn’t going to vote for the shit Republican candidates for local office. I might have my issues with some in Democratic machine but as far as I’ve heard the town leaders haven’t done enough to piss me off, so I’ll vote for their re-election, plus one of board members is my former boss. So yeah he got my vote. I think I voted on the Conservative line for the Coroner and County Clerk, mostly to give a middle finger 🖕 to the machine. Same candidates as Democratic line, but I wish there was some competition there. Make them have to at least suck up to the Cops Union. 👮 The County Clerk kind of annoys me personally, he’s been kind of a pain to deal with his office when I’ve been doing research for Save the Pine Bush. I hate how they have everything so locked down on the deeds website, and often their office is not pleasant to deal with the few times I’ve had to call them. 📞 I’ll drop my ballot off ✉️ on my ride in.
I heard the landlord was going to be by today to look at an issue with the furnace next door and a potential gas leak, 🧑🔧so I’m going to have him look at the door’s loose sweep 🚪 and see if he can either screw it back on tight or replace the rotted out door. I did a little cleaning last night, including washing down parts of the kitchen. 🧽 Whatever, it doesn’t have to be perfect. Landlord mostly just cares about getting paid rent and I haven’t bothered him with anything since January. He replaced the upstairs windows not that I wanted him to do that. So the door seems like the next logical capital improvement.
Even though my rent is quite affordable – I realized the difference between my rent 💵 and local market rent rates more then would have covered my eye surgery over the past year – I do pay quite a bit and whatever he upgrades will last for the coming decades. I’ve been here 18 years and paid quite a bit of rent between my two landlords. But you should buy some big house in suburbs, 🏡 you know with trash pickup and cable television, 📺 and spend even more money upgrading it and filling it with furniture rather the hand me downs from my parents and grandparents twenty years ago, and a few things I got from Wally World. I noticed this morning my microwave isn’t working. Plug is broken. 🔌 Didn’t get a shock but I did notice the other day when I was cooking it was getting warm. It’s my fault as I unplug the microwave when not in use to save energy. What I should do is put it on a surge strip instead. I’ll get a need a replacement plug but then the microwave should work for years to come. That said, I mostly use the stove top for frying veggies, eggs, pancakes, and the oven. Microwave rarely gets used anymore since I’ve gotten into healthy basic ingredients eating. 🍳
I haven’t decided about next week. 🏕️ I need to check staff coverage for next week, and I want to see how my eyes 👀 are by the end of week, especially the dry eye condition. By then I’ll be done with the medicated drops and won’t have to wear the eye anti-rub shields 🛡️ at night which are kind of annoying, and my eyes aren’t so itchy or irrated at this point. Eye doctor says it’s important to keep my eyes wet. They gave me 3 small bottles of the artificial tears 😭 eye lubricant, it’s the preservative free stuff they recommend because it’s less irrating. Which is fine but it’s still a lot of burnable plastic, 🔥 and kind of expensive should I run out. I might end up using some of the left over contact solution to supplement it at times, to make sure my eyes are wet. The other thing is there isn’t a lot of stores 🛒 in the Adirondacks so I’m going to make sure I’m fully stocked up before heading north if I am going for a week. I guess I can get groceries in Speculator and Tupper Lake but they’re always kind of expensive there and the selection is crap besides overpriced can 🥫 goods. At least this time of year, if it’s reasonably fall like weather 🍁 I’ll only need to get ice one or twice during the week.
Two more days of medicated drops, three of no-rub shields at night, protective or sun glasses while riding, plus over-the-counter dry eye solution for next six weeks or so to keep my eyes from getting too dry.
In six months or so I should get an ordinary eye check-up but no glasses or contacts should be required, then every two years after that just to ensure eye health, but nothing further should be needed after a lifetime of glasses and contacts until maybe I’m in my late seventies or eighties and need cataract surgery. 35 or 40 yeas away. Maybe eventually a pair of inexpensive cheater glasses from the grocery store for reading.
All after twenty seconds under a femtosecond laser hooked to a computer for each eye. And 41 hundred bucks.
