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Still sick 🤒
I am doing somewhat better this morning but not really. By the end of the day, I don’t know how I made it through it besides just being busy and working hard. Going to call in sick again today, but alas campaign data lists can’t wait so I’ll be putting in as many hours as I can while being at least somewhat conscious of data I’m processing.
I totally know it’s my fault that I got so sick. 🧼If I had only washed my hands good after going to the supermarket on Sunday night at camp, I’m sure I would have avoided the sickness. I don’t know where else I could have been exposed to the cold virus, 😵 I was wilderness camping Friday through Sunday and then riding trail alone at Partridge Run. The previous Thursday I had meetings downtown and also Tuesday, and while I got very sick starting Tuesday night, I can’t imagine it was from the lunch meeting so quickly, if it wasn’t food poisoning. 🥪I do need be careful about taking home “free” left-overs from work that have been sitting out on the table all day, especially if they are getting a bit slimy.
Going to work at Five Rivers for the bulk of the day. 💻️ They have free library wi-fi there, and it’s a beautiful day. Work from inside my truck, where I have power from the solar. 🔌If I work there, and need to take a pee, I can just find a tree, so I don’t have to worry about getting others sick with my cold. 🤒 I figure when the group by %>% summarize command is running on my laptop, I could do some bird watching. 🐦️Plus maybe enjoy some of the scenery and do a nice stroll during lunch time. 🚶♂️ Next cycle, I will re-write the code using POLARS and maybe rust so I don’t have to wait for the sometimes sluggish tidyverse to process data.
Truth is while today and tomorrow looks nice, 🌞 the almost certain rain come Sunday into Monday would have made the Columbus Day Weekend not a good one to get away. Plus the color is still somewhat limited in lower elevations. 🍁 I do want to try to do something fun on Saturday if the weather is decent – maybe riding trail and enjoying the scenery at Thacher Park – but Sunday I’ll probably stay home and read. 📚️ I also need to get shopping, probably Saturday as I had planned to shop on Thursday night before I got so sick, in preparation for the Columbus Day Weekend trip.🛒 Also want to work on my laptop on Sunday — I want to see if I can get the fan working on it or how difficult it is to replace, likewise checking the power port which also needs replacing. 💻️With those repairs, maybe I can get a few more years out of my laptop.
Next weekend, I’m thinking of doing Charles Baker. 🏕️🚴🚣 You know the Friday through Monday. Work both of those weekdays from camp, get set up before 9 AM on Friday. Probably less crowded at that point. Right now next weekend looks stunning beautiful and warmer — and there should still be good color I expect out in Madison County. 
At least that’s what I hope and are telling myself. At least I should be over my cold by then.
Got my latest pay stub and I can officially say I’m now paying more in monthly payroll taxes 💸then I am in rent for my apartment. I really bumped up my state and federal deductions as I’m worried with all the dividends and interest payments, plus the blog revenue, I will be chronically underpaying my taxes, and I don’t want to get fined this year, nor do I want to owe a ton of money come April like I did last year. 📈It’s been a great year in the markets so far, although I would have done better had I not decided to spend so much of the year keeping money in the high-interest savings rather then investing it, as I was thinking of buying a house. 🏠️
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He’s one sick puppy 🐕️
I could work remote today, but I have a pretty bad cold with a running nose and a sore throat, so it’s best to rest up as much as possible. Still have campaign committee work to do, but the state work is going to have to wait while I try to get in some rest and isolate from others. Truth is if hadn’t been for the pandemic, I would soldier on and be at work, but you just don’t work when your sick anymore in these days after the pandemic, especially when you have paid sick leave.
Yesterday I so wanted to believe I had anything but a cold. 🤒I don’t fully understand why I feared having a cold, it’s not it was the worse thing ever. Had to be food poisoning or the bad air in my apartment. Maybe because it’s the first actual cold I’ve had since the pandemic. So it’s been years. And like usual, the days when I’m sick are the most beautiful, sun filled days of the year, though cold. Colds are werid — at times I have tons of energy and feel like I could just suck it up and go to work — but other times I’m ready to collapse in bed. That said, I will probably spend some time working, isolated, in my truck down at the library where I have Wi-Fi and don’t have to worry about using too much bandwidth on my phone. 📱 They’re also detailing a car outside of my apartment, and the noise of the vacuums is annoying me. But so far no banging on the unit next door. I think they’re too busy doing dairy stuff 🐮 to work on that unit. It’s starting to look very swanky, I wonder when I’ll finally get new neighbors.
Today is the first day I’ve had all the windows closed in my apartment 🪟which is an admission on my part that maybe the colder weather is coming. Tuesday was actually so cold riding in I wish I had worn the insulated gloves, as🧤 my fingers were cold while I was riding in. Truth is come November, I’m going to have to decide if I keep riding in each day. The problem is with he time time change it will be dark, 🌃 which means I can’t ride home 🚳via the rail trail, though I have a light on the bike so I could ride to old train station and get the bus there, but I don’t love the idea of riding after dark in the city each day. But on the other hand, I’ll miss otherwise riding to work. 🤷♂️
Between the cold and the rain coming Sunday into Monday, 🏠️ I plan to stick close to home this Columbus Day Weekend. That’s not quite true — I might go up to Thacher Park or ride somewhere locally on Saturday but Sunday into Monday I’ll probably stay home and get caught up on reading the books I got out of the library on Hoopla before they all expire. 📚️Next weekend though I might do Charles Baker Friday through Monday, remote working those two weekdays, getting to the state horse camp by 9 AM next Friday. Assuming the weather is nice! Then Saturday or Sunday — one of those days — paddle on Nine Mile Swamp 🚣checking out the new boat launch and maybe riding around Hamilton and the Old Chenango Canal Trail and the other day riding trail and roads at Charles Baker. 💻️ The bulk of the work days will be remote work though, as I’m so busy — and probably they’ll be some of that in the morning and evenings during the weekend too.