That pretty much explains everything yesterday. You can let people know about a problem and give advice, and people can be free to ignore you. I haven’t heard back from landlord about the busted window screen they installed, and there was just so many interesting projects to keep me busy at work since returning. It’s just a lot of fun to link records and data together and build new products for clients to use.
Back in the groove after summer vacation. 💿 I was reading somewhere on the internet that they no longer make optical drives for computers anymore, the last maker is done. But then again, vinyl is popular once again. I don’t know, I do everything digital these days from my cellphone to solid state drives.
It was great riding to work yesterday. 🚲 There is so much serenity in riding that bike trail down into the Norman’s Kill Gorge. 🏞️ Got to farmers market and got corn 🌽 and more zucchuni because you can never have enough zucchuni this time of year, I don’t care what you haters say. 🍆 I also visited with my colleagues up on Capitol Hill for a while. I had shredded zucchuni with my scrambled eggs, with onions and mushrooms. Good stuff. Went down to the park until 8 PM then came home, got to bed around 8:30 PM. Sunrise sets so early this time of year. Tonight I’ll soak beans and get up early tomorrow to cook them. Maybe also cook up some brown rice and onions to go along with them. Looks like the rain will end early enough tomorrow that I can bike in tomorrow too, which means I won’t have to drive to work. I mean the local is always still an option but not a real good one with the transfer not working well, though I guess it’s always a chance to walk laps in Empire Plaza 👣 and get yelled at by the homeless schizophrenic people.
Rain come Saturday afternoon ☔ but they need it as there is a high-fire spread risk today. So if you’re planning to do any illegal outdoor trash burns 🔥 today, at least keep an eye on your fire. Hopefully it will be wet enough so the fire risk is low next weekend should I decide to head out to the woods for a weekend trip. 🏕️ Often things are pretty in mid-September with the golden rod and other fall species before the leaves turn. Maybe get to Five Rivers early on Saturday for a while, and then go shopping on Saturday afternoon to get oil and filter and a few other supplies. Sunday change the oil on Red. Why does it always rain on Saturdays? No Nature Bus this week to Thacher Park.
I mentioned to Mom last week that at times I was anxious about my old truck creeking and making sketchy noises on summer vacation 🤪 and now my feed is full of advertisements once again for fucking Better Help. Maybe I searched something or lingered over an ad, there isn’t a lot of evidence that your phone 📱 is listening to you at all times. But they’re the worse, exploiting data brokers left and right to try to target potential customers. Which is the exact thing I am constantly trying to get out clients to do using datasets I’ve been building at Data Services. 💾 Really use your ad spend and communications to targeted people! That said, I would never do business with Better Help, I think my health insurance covers TalkSpace or one of the other vendors, though I think honestly there is much more value in-person therapy. That said, I am not convinced seeing a shrink is worth it at this point in my life, 🧠 I tried that before but maybe I was focused on wrong things much like I often get focused on the wrong things on my truck, like the noises it’s been making for half a decade or even a decade now – normal operating noises at least with the lift kit. The ride though has gotten crap, and I do want to replace it before next summer. The thing is medicine is very bureaucratic, And if I want to call myself a redneck or idealize them, fuck them all.
So yeah the big snip of my eyes is in three weeks from Friday 👀 and that next week I will be down and probably would frown on me going to Adirondacks that week after the surgery, though I think Columbus Day Weekend I’ll tag a few days on that weekend 🍁 to do the St. Regis Canoe Area, maybe some time at Horseshoe Lake and definately the new Adirondack Rail Trail. 🚲 🛶 I will have to wear eye protection – maybe my shooting glasses when biking – but I should otherwise be able to do those activities. That first week after the surgery I am not supposed to do strenuous 💪 activities, so probably no biking it to work. I’ll have to decide if do local or drive to work, I do have that follow up visit with the doctor on Monday September 28, so assuming I can see I’ll drive in that day. I am so over wearing contacts. I did get one more bottle of contact solution, but only a single bottle even though it’s much more expensive that way, as that will certainly last through the last day I can wear contacts – I think it’s 3 days before surgery I have to be glasses only to make sure my eyes aren’t at all irrated.
Last time I was in the office was Tuesday, August 19th. Seems like forever ago, but then again vacation seems like it was a long time to be gone, but such a short time to be here. Like anything, it had to come and go, as otherwise it wouldn’t be vacation. 
I can’t believe summer is dun at this point though. It disappeared quicker then that that styrofoam egg container soaked in lighter fluid.
Still don’t know why the landlord replaced the old ones, maybe it was moss growing in the window sill and concerns about rot. The ripped one of screens when installing it. I’ll have to let the landlord know. Kind of roughed in, he removed the wood flashing, and didn’t paint the window sills he installed, but I don’t care if it’s not perfect or beautiful. I just don’t want to get sued when I move out over his crap. I’ve wrecked enough shit in my apartment over the 18 years I’ve lived there. Maybe he’s planning to fixing it later in the week.
just gives it a bit more character along with the roughed in window sills. But you make good money, why don’t you buy a suburban house with trash pickup and vinyl siding. Nobody needs a cabin in the woods with cows and a burn barrel out back. Don’t you know, burning all that plastic is bad for the environment? Got to make money, so I can save and invest, have that off-grid cabin, and maybe someday some of my own cows! 
They were so much fun to watch up in the National Forest the 13 days I was up there. It was nice hear cows mooing and belowing over the city traffic.
The plan is to drive to work today, then go to Walmart for some supplies, head home, cook a quick dinner, then go the laundrymat. I am not sure where I put my Torx Driver set so I might swing by Lowes and just get another one, pull the brake off my bike, swap out the broken spoke from one on the old wheel, and hopefully I can ride to work on Wednesday. 
It sucks there is no more express bus downtown. I could do the local, but the option kind of sucks – I get out of work at 5 PM but with the transfer and delay between the shuttle and local bus, 
it means I wouldn’t get home until 6:15 PM mst nights. That said, I don’t love driving and it is a chance to get some steps in between the transfer. And I can read books on the bus. But if I drive in, I can be home by 5:25-5:30 PM depending on the traffic, though I usually avoid the worse of it by taking the back streets through Albany’s South End. 
But I really hate driving, especially my big jacked up truck through the city, especially with all the midget cars all around that are so hard to see.
My oil life indicator says I’m at 40% oil life on my truck, and I last changed the oil in my truck in October 2024 so yeah I probably should think about doing that or at least making sure I have some oil in the crankcase. It probably could use half a quart now that vacation is over. And maybe a bit more coolant, though it’s not gone down much since the initial drop. What can I say, besides the suspension being basically shot on Red, the head gasket is starting to go or maybe it’s just the normal oil consumption and a leak in the heater core. I don’t want to think too much about it, as long as you put in it in “D” and it goes forward for the most part. I only really have big trip left for Red now – St. Regis Canoe Area 
in October but other then that maybe just some smaller trips around town.
though I fully admit it would be good to stay home for at least one weekend. The last weekend I was home was July 26-27th. That seems like it was two weeks ago? Where did the time go? 
I struggle to accept that it’s already September and that Big Red is soon to be 14 years old. But I figure travel while the weather is nice and I still can. Certainly that last week of September I won’t be able to head out of town as I’ll be half blind or recovering from the big snip of my eyes. 
Not that I can ee that well anymore these days with my contacts.