Everything is quite cold and damp from yesterday’s rain, but it is clearing in the Albany-area though not as quickly out west and I’m not sure if I do want to head out of town this weekend. At this point, it would be for only one night.
I got wet riding home last night ☔ which surprised me 🤨 but that green pea soup I made was pretty damn good. 😋 Cold, damp and gray to start out the day but now sunny ☀️. I kind of want to go out to Schoharie today, maybe ride the Catskill Scenic Trail or hike Bear Pen Mountain 🐻 or Cogdon Hollar Trail 🚶 but I know the color out there is likely already complete shit. 🍁 Autumn doesn’t last.
Actually it’s silly to spend all that money on gas ⛽ for my big jacked up truck when I can just go on my mountain bike for a ride. 🚴 Let me be freaking honest with myself, it looks cold and cloudy ☁️ and just crap out in Schoharie for the bulk of the day and I’d only be able to do one night. 🏕️ Truth is that I don’t need to smoke any more weed 🚭 not do I need to drink any more beer. 🍻 Hopefully in two weeks from now it will be nice enough to get out to Madison County and then I have a big ol fire. 🔥 Before the start of rifle season. 🦌
Maybe I’ll ride down to Coeymans and then over to the Henry Hudson Park. 🏞️ Then take the rail trail back home via Glenmont. It’s to be decided based on how long the nice weather sticks around. I also want to spend some time reading 📖. I think I left my camera 📸 in the office. I guess I could ride up to Menands to get that but that’s silly. 🚲 My phone takes pretty good pictures. 📱
From time to time when I travel both for pleasure and work, I think about getting a bite to eat at local restaurants. I rarely do and most of the time when I do I end up getting take out. It just seems werid to be sitting alone at a table.
Many dinners have bars that somewhat address that concern. But I’ve never been one for small talk, it seems like to me it would be kind of awkward to discuss with the waitress why I’m there, especially if it’s a work trip. Probably missing out on good food in my travels but it just seems werid to be all alone at a restaurant.
Maybe they’ll run out of money for the ballroom project and use what the was East Wing as a surface parking lot. Asphalt is relatively cheap, or they could just leave it as pulverized concrete to be extra frugal. Get some used telephone polls and surplus high-pressure sodium lights, string it up with residential wire between the polls, and you’re set. Good enough for some of the OGS lots. It would make a lot of White House staffers happy to have close parking to their office.
I am sure White House staff wouldn’t mind it being called the Epstein Memorial Parking Area, as long as they can park there for a reasonable rate, and there isn’t a lot of shredded rebar chunks left in the gravel to give them flat tires. I’m sure parking in Downtown DC is both expensive an inconvenient, unless of course you have a reserved space in a garage.
If there is anything Americans care about it’s parking. That and plastic, and having enough fat, sugar, salt and artificial colors added to their foods. Americans loathe such things, but actually love it in secret and will vote for such things, even if they wouldn’t be caught dead advocating for more parking, plastic, or junk food.
Making pea soup with shredded carrots and turmeric beacause it’s so fucking good and loaded with fiber especially with a little balsamic vinegar which I should have but don’t have. I know you have to recycle the glass bottle for landfill roads but whatever it lasts for a while especially if you get abig bottle. I’ll have to find creative uses for “waste” glass when I have a homestead as despite what the corporations want you to believe, recycling isn’t real unless you do it on the homestead yoruself.
I went to Hannaford last night and was particularly annoyed by all the brightly colored packages, 🥫 hawking more and more processed foods loaded with sugar, fat, and salt by the corporate scientists, designed to sell conveince by the marketers. 💵 All I could think of was that pungent smell of all burnt plastic and colorful glossy paper, and the morbidly obese government workers🫃🏻 as they drive from their suburban houses with the vinyl siding in their Honda CRV SUV. Of course, they all have weekly trash pickup, and recycle and send their monthly checks to PBS and Sierra Club and only use organic toilet paper endorsed by said organizations. 🧻 I mean, if you use a an outhouse or composting toilet, toilet paper does help tie down the nitrogen in all that urine and a lesser extent the poop. But if I a house a shitty septic system, I would get a bidet or at least a waste basket for the toilet paper for burning. Though nothing like that time I went to Wally World on vacation two years ago after smoking earlier in the morning, and I had a little more THC on my brain that I realized and was shocked by the bright colors. 🌈 It was insane how blue everything was at Walmart and how the packaging was bursting with artificial color.
So at 4:50 AM I was up and starting cooking down at the peas 🍲 and making more coffee ☕ using reused and new beans. I realize all that reused coffee beans is why I am staining my teeth, that and the redicolously strong dark roasts they have in the office. I was blaming it on the marijuana smoking up at camp, but I think it’s really the coffee. But it’s bad, my teeth looking disgusting lately, but I’ve heard it’s actually not harming them. I’ve learned if I want any chance of sleeping in the evening, and not waking up at 1 AM or 3 AM in some kind of crazy 🤪 session of wokeness, I need avoid more then 1 cup of the crack in a cup they hand out for free in the office. ☕ Honestly, I don’t give a fuck if my teeth are yellow, but I don’t want to become bucktoothed at young age, because dentures are mad expensive and a pain in the ass. Maybe I fully understand with my elderly parents now how important good teeth and eating good shit really is in an era of wokeness covered with recyclable plastics and colorful symbols and colored television advertising. ♻️ Don’t you know, save the earth, recycle and put solar panels on your suburbanite house. So many ads for asphalt roofies and vinyl siding on social media.
This time of year, the mornings are so dark, 🌃 especially with the clouds. 🌥️ I might want to turn the tail lights on my bike at least until I get to the bike trail for safety so I am visible to the motorists as I ride my mountain bike to work. 🚲 I decided not to head out to camp 🏕️ tonight, though I might spend tomorrow out in the woods somewhere, riding trail or hiking, and then maybe stay overnight. I don’t know, it depends on how cold and cloudy tomorrow. If not the alternative is hop on my mountain bike and ride out to Five Rivers or maybe somewhere else undecided. Been a few weeks since I’ve been to the Hollyhock. 🐦 That hill is a blast toride down and it wouldn’t burn gasoline. ⛽
Of all the fossil fuels, athracite coal is probably my favorite for heating. Maybe it's because it's a niche fuel you can drive your pickup to a anthracite dealer, and haul a few months home at a time. And it's a very warm heat, one that lasts all day and night, without being dependent on regular fuel deliveries. And its not automatic, thoughtlessly consuming fossil energy without some maintance of the system.
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