What can I say except that winter’s coming? I enjoyed that heated blanket a bit too much this morning, it was difficult to get out of bed much before six o’clock, though the caffeine pills really gave me a real jolt.

The truth is I really like the experience of europhia whether it’s from smoking pot or excessive caffeine consumption. ☕️ And I am absolutely sure that I am trashing my heart, not that eat much in the way of processed foods or saturated fats 💗except maybe when I’m at my parents house for Sunday dinner or at the campaign committee, though even there I try to balance and buffer it out with eating as much healthy fiber from fruits and vegetables as possible. It’s kind of amazing how a little pill 💊that costs 3 1/3 cents including tax gives you as much energy as a big cup of coffee without having to visit the pisser all of the time. I did have a cup of coffee this morning though, but only one but probably have more when I get in the office.

Eggs, onions and frozen vegetables for breakfast this morning. Nice start to breakfast, though I fully admit those onions made my cry a bit when I sliced them up 🧅 and I’m starting to get bit tired of onions all of the time. I mean onions add a lot of flavor to many meals 🤤 but like anything you can get in a groove and sort of over-due them. Especially during the summer months with all that zucchuni and summer squash which is all but a memory now. 🍆

Still dark out for the start of the ride into the office 🚴‍♂️ though it is getting bright out quickly. Had to use the light so I could be seen well by drivers. Cold ride in for sure, I wore the fingered gloves, and almost wish I had also worn the inner liners with the gloves. Kind of a damp morning and some fog in the Normans Kill Valley. 🪴 Looks like a new cannabis dispersary is going to be opening next to the refrigerator building downtown, that I will be riding past going back and forth to work. I’ll have to check it out when it opens.

Seems like my laptop continues to charge properly now that I reset the power cable. 🔌 I was going to order a new battery, 🪫truth is if I see puffiness in the battery and a shorter times working on the charge, I know it’s not long in this world. But since doing the BIOS reset with the charger, at least things are charging when the laptop is booted. And that’s a good thing for work when I use it non-stop.

Madison County or bust on Friday morning! At least that’s the tentative plan, get up to camp early, get set up, remote work until darkness, have a good fire on Friday night — preferably in a one of the more remote campsites where I don’t have to worry about finding lots of firewood or making too much smoke or noise with the music. Then ride all day Saturday, or maybe paddle Nine Mile Swamp on Saturday and ride on Sunday. I’ll decide based on the weather and my mood when I get there. Once we get past today though it ooks like all sun ball 🌞 is the future with warming weather.