I think I’ll drive my big jacked up truck to the office. It’s fine, I want to get more olive oil, hot sauce, maple syrup before the holiday weekend. And maybe bring my laptop computer home. Tomorrow the office is going to be closed through the weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday, I was surprised they decided to give us off yet another day this month.
Cold and dark out this time of year, but once I eventually got home last night on the yokel local bus 🚍, you know the one that stops every six feet and has the creepy transvestites and people with tattoos and needle marks, or so we like to pretend. 👹 Honestly, I’ve kind of gotten to like smelling the weed, though the stuff the people in ghetto smoke is such crap but I like girly smelling sweet stuff that makes me giggle up in wilderness on my mountain bike. Had some more of that delicious acorn squash last night, 🎃 and some of my homemade bread dipped in balsamic vinger and then some cranberries, oatmeal, cinnamon and Stevia blended up for desert. Breakfast with cornmeal pancakes with shredded carrots, onions, and spinach and too much Stevia so it was super sweet. But good. 😋
Been doing more listening to audiobooks and reading, 📙 most of the way through Ted Conover’s Cheap Land Colorado – Off Griders at America’s Edge. I like that book maybe because it reminds me somewhat of the trailer trash kind of neighborhood I grew up in or because everybody who lives on their 5-acres in Colorado prairies have burn barrels, trash pits, make their own electricity, chop their own wood and have goats. 🐐🪓 Maybe it’s the kerosene and hog shit I can smell through the book. I should finish up that book today. Tomorrow I’ll have to finish up the book I have out with Allen Ginsberg poems and Mark Sundeen’s The Unsettlers, which is kind of a similar vein. Then I got to find books to get out on Hoopla to read when I head up to camp, as they’ll work well if properly downloaded even in BFE Adirondacks where their is no cell service.
I was going to ride in this morning, 🚂 so I could stop and take some pictures of the Holiday Train at the Albany Oil Train depot, what the frack, but whatever. I think it goes past the Starship office mid-morning, maybe if I run out when I hear the train whistle I can watch it as it crosses Erie Boulevard, not that I really care that much, it’s the same old EMD locomotive and box car that goes by every day, but this time with some Christmas lights strung up on it. 🎅 Probably neater looking when you see it at night when the rusty old locomotive and box cars can’t be seen – only the lights.
Tomorrow I will probably stay home, read and if I bring my laptop home, 🖥️ maybe take it down to the library to play, and I might inevitably end up putting a hour or so of work on my holiday off, because that’s how such things go.
Not totally sure where or for how long I”m heading north on Friday. 🏕️ It’s still rifle season up north, 🎄 but it’s winding down with the holiday season winding up and over a month past since the start for NZ big game. 🦌 East Branch, Lake Durant, and Boreas River remain on the short list. Lake Durant is slightly higher on the list, I think it could be fun to ride around Blue Mountain Lake and maybe hike the Blue Mountain Lake Firetower. 🔥 Or maybe hike around Warrensburg on one of the peaks around Lake George, ⛰️ then camp on East Branch. But also Boreas River intrigues me, maybe going up to Camp Santoni and riding back to Newcomb Lake on my mountain bike.
I haven’t decided if I will stay up north through Monday, I am little bit worried about snow come Sunday into Monday, and how cold it will be. ☃️ Maybe I’ll take Monday off just to be safe. I still have quite a bit of time, and with so many holiday off in December I should still have plenty of opportunities to head up to the wilderness, have fires, 🎇 and enjoy all the wilderness has to offer in the snow even if I didn’t ultimately decide to get skis. 🎿 I guess if I was really desperate for skis I could look on Craig’s List or even buy retail, but I don’t know, it seems like winter is so short, and I’d rather stay home, save gas and money during the winter months and just read and learn. 🚧 This month in particular, I’m really interested in learning more about building science – metal roofs, electrical codes, and just more of the building process. Not necessarily about sustainable building or even suburban house building, but what works and doesn’t work in buildings, and what actually is long lasting and what is quickly used up garbage you regularly replace on a typical suburbanite house like the asphalt shingles and vinyl siding.
I remember getting a text from the LASIK eye doctor one week after the procedure asking for a good review if you were satisfied with the procedure and being WTF! Not because I was necessarily unhappy with dropping $4k on a lifetime fix to my vision but because my eyes weren’t yet fully healed or fully recovered and strengthened after the procedure and honestly were still itchy and need of regular use of dry eye solution.
It’s not to say I wasn’t immediately thrilled with not having to wear glasses and contacts, but it also wasn’t fun having to deal with dry eyes or eye drops for first week. While my day time vision was excellent – 20/15 immediately after the surgery – it took longer for my night vision to improve. But when it did, one of the first things I realized was how much brighter the night time looked. At first it was too bright at times with reflective signs – they tended to be washed out – but over time they became much more balanced as my eyes healed. Over time, the red eye disappeared, and the over bright reflective signs became less over-bright.
Truth is in many ways I’m amazed by how much my vision has improved. It was definitely worth it, even though at times at night I still think I need to remove my contacts, until I realize they aren’t a thing any more. And I’m not constantly touching my eyes, potentially damaging and scratching them as I try to fish out those pieces of plastic out of my eyes. Instead, I just have permanently fixed vision.
I have been playing with Google AI and thought it would fun to search the term, “Do Not Smoke Grass”. Mostly because I one of the best parts of getting high is not actually smoking grass but thinking about getting high. Plus, I had noticed how AI so reflexively is anti-burn barrels and open burning, from the government-heavy training models, I wanted to see how it would react to random search term regarding cannabis.
AI Overview: No, you should not smoke marijuana (also known as “grass”). It carries significant health risks, including lung damage, cardiovascular issues, and potential negative impacts on brain development, particularly for adolescents and pregnant individuals. Here’s why you should avoid smoking marijuana … If you or someone you know is struggling with marijuana use, resources are available to help …
Holy shit, talk about being woke!
Now I get that any discussion of the use of cannabis should include the downsides of marijuana consumption, particularly the harmful effects of daily smoking and intoxication. Don’t go driving your big jacked up pickup as high as fuck into town and be giggling your brains out as you run over the 80-year old lady crossing the street. That’s not cool. But AI is not good at keeping things in context, and it’s over reliance on government sources, especially strongly worded government sources, it can provide very woke, one sided view on the world.
I think it’s good that Trump is tearing down the priestly palace known as the government, and all it’s authoritative declarations. For too often, government — that is the employees in government — has walked around with a priestly nature, acting like only they know what is right to you heathens, who dare challenge the “public’s policy”. You know, “contempt of the court” or not worshiping the “sovereign”. Its bull-crap and we all know people work for the government for the money, or maybe in some cases to get their views enacted into public policy.
Now we need to get AI to start thinking like we are now seeing the world in the era of Trump. That facts are not authoritative, even when coming from the government, but instead offer evidence and give us pros and cons to various policies. AI should be skeptical and bring in all views points, and never be bias to the government sources over the voice of people. The government does not know better, which is a key message of Trump administration. And they are correct.
How I would re-write this answer as a better AI:
A Better AI Overview: Many people enjoy smoking marijuana recreationally (sometimes called “grass” or “pot”, however scientists note there significant health risks, especially with regular use or prior to operating machinery or driving an automobile. Based on studies of tobacco smoke, which contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds as marijuana smoke, many scientists believe that exposure to cannabis smoke can cause lung damage and cardiovascular issues. They also believe it can cause negative impacts to the brain development of youth and with regular use can cause memory issues with adults. Women who are pregnant should be particularly concerned about the carbon monoxide in marijuana smoke which can cause birth defects and natural abortion. Those with a history of mental illness, should avoid the use of marijuana due to risks of marijuana-induced hallucinations leading to serious mental illness such as paranoia and schizophrenia. If you choose to smoke marijuana, do so in moderation. One in five marijuana users report struggling with use habits, here are some resources are available to help …
That’s why my house was robbed that I am thinking about buying a house and a new car, which I will need car insurance for and a better home security system for my elderly parents looking for assisted living as they recover from the theft of COVID-19 in the local nursing home by the young men who recently bought motorcycles. I am also thinking about saving money in an IRA after eating lunch at McDonald’s after discussing my retirement options after the breaking and entering of my Occupus television set which I can’t decide whether FIOS or Spectrum cable is better for watching ESPN or cellphone service. My plumbing is bad but I want solar energy so I can be green and recycle my trash for less.
Are savings bonds a good investment? I don’t know I have want to wealthy so I can buy a Cadillac or Tesla after my car is totalled and needs a lot of body work. I was driving drunk after having too much bottled water from Aquifina and Coca Cola. It’s fought to get my children into catholic pre-kindergarten but I’m worried about pedophile priests educating the impoverished children about the tea party. I got overcharged at my oil change – I was told it was a felony to have my brakes serviced and coated with nalaxone and overcome my opiod addiction for Cyber Monday deals. My glasses are fogged up but I don’t have any contact lens left and need to reorder with Verizon.
How about clean coal and good paying jobs in oil and gas industry, so I can fill up my Chevy Bolt for less money as long as I can afford the repairs but I’m hoping my Section 8 voucher and Medicaid insurance will pay for the mortgage a luxury condeminum in Clifton Park. Assuming my Cadillac doesn’t die and I’m injured in a car crash with a Ford, I will be buying more organic foods from leading almond milk producers to go with my high technology Apple iPhone that is being shipped via FedEx and the USPS through the Amazon website, which they are providing me with cloud analytics for less than what it costs to watch two hours of news with Joe Biden who plans to Make America Great Again after many years of Donald Trump’s banking services and hotels.
Thanks for reading. I am sure this is a very meaningful post to the Facebook algorithms.
The answer the popular spam post on Facebook wants you to know is that you have to pee.
Or maybe you want to be a farmer when you grow up. I don’t know. I just wake up that early as I’m usually asleep by seven or eight o’clock most nights as it’s cold and dark out – and truth is I’m exhausted by the time I get home. And eight hours of sleep later it’s four or five am.
Waking up early I’m much more rested and clear thinking then I am in the evening. I can read and think clearly. Or write with lucidity. It gives me time to cook and have a quality breakfast and watch the sun rise. I feel much better come the day, and sleep comes easy as I’m tired and exhausted early on.
