While it has gotten some heckles from the neighbors, it seems like it's a good location especially for those who own cars. A lot of people who are addicted to opioids aren't necessarily from the city, and want a private location they can drive to relatively anonymously and recieve the potentially lifesaving treatment without being harassed by drug pushers as is unfortunately the case in Downtown Albany.
I generally don't support demolishing more of the Albany Pine Bush, but this area is already developed and between two major highways, so it's unikely to be restored to Pine Bush in the foreseeable futrue. But if the land is going to be used, this seems like a reasonable place with good privacy for people to get the healthcare they need.
People were laughing at me yesterday for wearing a rain jacket on such a beautiful day yesterday. It doesn’t fit well and I didn’t feel like wearing it today.
Catching the earlier bus in this morning 🚌 so I can walk a bit and also head into the office in Menands before catching the shuttle back downtown for a morning meeting. Then midday back to the suburban office. If I had been smart I’d worked from home before the meeting. 🖥️ A bit muggy this morning but the breeze and sun ☀️ feels nice.
No decisions on Memorial Day Weekend but looks cool and cloudy 🌥️. I could do the traditional option of Vermont but that weekend is always so buggy. More leaning towards taking the Nature Bus to Thacher Park 🏞️ and or maybe a night in a state forest in the hammock and then heading out of town the following weekend. Been thinking Burnt Rossman would be fun, do some floating in the Schoharie Creek 🛟 on the tube at the swimming hole. Three weeks from Saturday is the Gas Up Tractor Festival 🚜, I might go with dad or maybe by myself so I can spend the whole day as dad gets tired quickly. Could camp at the Cotton Hill lean to just up the road or even hammock camp in the wilderness nearby.
If I had been smart and known about the Corporate Challenge today I would have driven in. I missed it last year as I rode my bike to work that day. 🤷♂️ Ultimately it’s fine as while the shuttle was late so was the express bus both due to traffic on the South Maul Arterial. It’s fine, I was home by 5:53 or so.
Bike wheel has arrived according to the call I got, 🚲 so I’ll head to the woke bike shop probably Sunday as I don’t want to make a special trip as if I can at all avoid it and I don’t want to drive to work tomorrow as I have meetings downtown and I don’t have parking downtown. Sunday should work though for repairs. I really hope to be back on the road by Monday.
NeighborI think in the swanky apartment complex was smoking that not as quite stinky marijuana 🚭 this evening again. I get why people don’t like it. Shit stinks, especially some of that stuff in the city. Rural areas and in the wilderness, who cares but in the city that smoke drifts. I don’t support a ban on smoking weed or cigarettes in multi family houses especially outdoors but it sure can be pungent at times. Kind of like the silage 🌽 as I walk past Preska’s dairy.
Down at the park this evening, 🏞️ doing some reading 📖 and some walking on this beautiful evening. 👀 Contacts are bothering me again, and I’m tired so I’ll probably head home early and then to bed before too late. 🛏️ I think I need to look at some new library books, the books 📚 I currently have about building a cabin and wood framed structure really aren’t hitting my interests. I find things on that to be almost a bit too repetitive but also lacking in the real specifics I’m actually interested in. I get tired of reading about codes and permits and experts though I realize all are important.
Truth is that I’m just seriously confused 😕 about so many things in this world today. 🌍 I just wish the alternative to wokeness wasn’t the stupidity reflected in Donald Trump. Liberals have many good ideas but also a sense of moral superiority that is so troubling to me – and an inability to listen to the other side. Plus it just seems like at times their so stuck in their beliefs unwilling to see right from wrong. Liberals are so addicted to capitalism and consumerism and find it hard to believe people can save and do the right thing.
And at the same time kind of bored. 🏕️ Just another summer of the same old trips. I got to come up with some new adventures and things to do this summer. 🛶 With my truck so old at this point I don’t want to do some great trip out west but I should think about a trip to the North Country, the last time I did that was during the pandemic.
In recent years, I’ve been doing a lot of reading and watching videos trying to understand homeownership and investing more generally. One of the most common claims is that a home is an appreciating asset sort of like many stocks are – they often go up in value over time. But does the house go up in value, or just the land? Or are they somehow connected?
The physical building – is unlikely to be an appreciating asset on it’s own. Human-made structures are regularly attacked by the forces of nature and wear and tear. Indeed, I find it hard to believe that a house is actually an appreciating asset, although a building combined with land — housing — often is an appreciating asset, as people will pay more for a house over time, as land gets allocated to housing and a growing population seek housing close to work with a shorter commute.
I find the paradox to be quite fascinating. How a depreciating underlying asset – a physical building that is getting worn out and needing repair and replacement – can appreciate in value when maintained and upgraded due to it’s location. Maintenance and upgrade cost can be quite substantial – 2 to 3 percent of building’s entire value each year. A lot of tearing up, throwing away and buying new. Maybe that’s what I don’t like about suburban houses, with so much of their fragile material that quickly becomes landfill.
