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November 5th is right in the middle of when Election Day can fall.

Sleeping like a baby with the windows open 👶

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Turns out when you don’t drink tons of Red Bull in the day time, you sleep so much better at night.

That said the mornings are still quite dark, 🌃 though that will change come Sunday at least as far as the clocks are concerned when we set them back an hour, which means come Monday you can legitimately go to work an hour later, though the evening commute will be dark.

I’m up and going, with red lentils, rice, onions cooking down on a big pot on the stove. 🍲 Should make some good meals, those red lentils get so creamy and yummy once there fully cooked down. Enjoying the fresh air with the windows open, plus I don’t have to worry about my apartment filling with moisture and smoke from cooking or showering. 🚿 That said, the warm weather isn’t expected to last into weekend, though it will continue to be pretty mild next week.

Maybe some rain showers ☔ today through the weekend, though not a lot of precipation. More lake-effect rain though down wind of Lake Erie in Central NY  – I might head out that way for Veterans Day Weekend, as soon as next Friday. 🇺🇸 This time of year can be a bit tricky, but after next weekend, it’s big game season in the Southern Zone so I’ll probably stay out of the woods through at least after Thanksgiving. 🦃 Might do East Branch on Black Friday. Then can you believe it’s December? Yesterday, I had to rush to finish getting my ten free October borrows off Hoopla, 📚 got more books about computer programming, cabin construction and homesteading. You know the usual stuff. Now I just go to sit down and do a bunch of reading.

Noticed another creaking noise on the bike, 🚲 oiled it up but I’m not sure what’s causing it. Could be chain 🔗 stretch or gears not meshing properly, though I’m thinking it’s something more like a loose reflector. Checked the spokes. Should be fine for riding into today. Starting next week, I’ll be busing to home, 🚌 as I won’t be able to ride due it being dark out at the end of day at work. But then again, it’s getting into that cold ❄️ time of year, and at least next week with Election Day and probably taking Friday off if I decide to take a long weekend, 🏕️ it’s not like I’ ll be riding that much next week.

Climate change action isn’t politically popular 🌎

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When people say they support something to pollsters its often difficult to capture their depth of support. Most people would say they like chocolate ice cream but asked if they would be willing to forfeit $100 for a chocolate ice cream cone would pass on the ice cream.

On paper most people would like something to be done about climate change. But their depth of support is equally shallow as is there support for chocolate ice cream. It sounds nice to protect the planet for future generations, to avoid the severe damage to infrastructure and our homes and businesses that increased severe weather is to impose on them.

People like climate change action if it’s free to them and has no impact on how they live their lives. Slap a few solar panels on your roof, scrub your plastic bottles before tossing them in the blue bin, drive your Prisus to Wally World. But not so much if it means much higher energy bills, less reliable electricity, more restrictions on driving, less low cost products at the store and fewer jobs.

I think many on the left are correct to diagnose climate change as a serious problem. But they are quite happy to live as life of fiction, pretending that the solutions are zero cost – or just a big bill they can dump on the rich.