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A variety of maps, writings, and photos on a various topics that can’t easily be categorized into a county or place.

Getting up at 5 AM wasn’t the worst idea 💡

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Did need the electric lights this morning as it was dark, but I feel better after a good night’s sleep. The key is to get bed early and then get up early. Sleep much better that way.

Yesterday was a complete drag, 😴 but somehow I made it through the day half alive. Had eggs with lots of crushed fresh tomatoes and some cornmeal and Chipotle spices this morning. Pretty good start to day. Foggy out this morning. 🌫 After the coffee ☕ this morning though I’m not at all foggy. Going to ride in to work at 7 AM, 🚲 shortly after a shower. 🚿

Just got to keep moving ahead, 👣 one step at a time. I might not have clear direction, but I need to keep reminding myself I am saving for a better future and I’m getting damn good at the R statistical language and even C programming as I do this every day at work. 🖥 Throw any kind of CSV or Excel document at me, and with some %>% magic, I can transform it into something useful.

Saturday is going to be crap ☔ but maybe I’ll go to Thacher Park on the Nature Bus. Next weekend, thinking of remote working from Rensselearville State Forest – – get up there before work at 9 AM, set up camp and work from the hammock, hopefully mostly using my phone but also cna use my laptop. Long range looks a bit too nice for next weekend, ☀ I am sure it will cool down and be less sunny then they promise.

Owe the lab $25 for blood tests 🆎 after my doctor’s visit. It’s fine the actual physical had no co-pay but it’s the lab work where they make you pay. Getting a physical is good to know your health. ♥ They still want me to get a stress test to check out my heart due to my family 👪 history but I don’t really have the time these days, being so busy with work.

I’m slightly horrified on how much plaque I see building up on my teeth. 🦷 It’s kind of gross despite me brushing every day and flossing. Seems to get a lot worse when camping, maybe because I’m not brushing well enough. 🪥 Or all the bananas and fresh fruit I eat. 🍌 🍏 Been trying to keep up but it’s tough and annoying to see all the black spots over me teeth. Maybe it’s cannabis, but truth be told outside of camping and around the fire I don’ t smoke much at all.

Don’t murder this late August morning

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I had a couple of tokes of Tropical Skittlez,

I did a five hour energy shot and dragged on a cigarette,

Sat down by the East Canada Creek on this most beautiful of days,

Singing along with the Grateful Dead’s Dire Wolf

Don’t murder me! And I begged you, you don’t murder me!

Then I awoke the dire wolf – six hundred pounds of sign. I wolf came in, I got out my deck of cards

And jumped in the creek this late August morning.

Placid

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The lake was very placid this morning, looking out from Hiawatha Point.

Taken on Tuesday September 20, 2016 at Notes.

Truth is that I’m dead tired 🛏

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I did not sleep much at all yesterday. I just feel sick. I’ve been working like a dog, getting into the office early, trying to keep up on both the legislative and campaign side of things.

I have a pounding headache from the lack of sleep 😴, as I could not sleep last night 🌃. I laid in bed listening to the 538 podcast then Lex Friedman interviewing Donald Trump. 🎤 The guy’s a snake 🐍 but then again all politicians are. He says he’s for legalization of pot. Good. 🐸 I rode out to Five Rivers this evening and to get summer squash at Meads Farm 🍆 but they were tiny and expensive but at least I won’t run out. I should have run downtown to the farmers market today. 🧑‍🌾 I know there isn’t much time left to do this year and maybe forever as who knows where I’ll be next year. Hopefully alive and hopefully on my own land or getting there but first I got to make it through the winter.

Truth is that I have no idea how I’m going to make it through the winter this year. 🌨️ I’ve not found a home, my apartment is so drafty and falling apart. And I keep sending the landlord the $800 checks buying myself some time before the inevitable eviction. I keep looking at houses on Zillow but they’re the same consumeristic crap I always see. 🏘 My parents have gotten so elderly and obnoxious, I hate visiting them as all they ever talk about is how much they love their garbage service, how much they hate Trump and how I should buy more shit 💩 because I make good money. Mom wanted me to come out tonight to help dad fix the lawn mower but due to my lack of sleep I felt like I couldn’t drive and keep my eyes 👀 open. I’m kind of a wreck tonight. The electric blanket and sealing around the door 🚪 will help and I can afford a bit more heat. ♨️Money’s always tight 💵 but I do better than most do.

Trump’s worried about the smell of marijuana 👃

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Smoking marijuana can be pungent, often more pungent then tobacco. That’s a fact, though many of the quality cultivars are far less smelly and harsh then the low-quality street marijuana that was common before the legalization in many states. Marijuana isn’t as skunky and nasty as it was when it was illegal.

That said, smell of marijuana is many ways socially defined. Most marijuana smokers aren’t the least bit bothered by the smell of the smoke passing by somebody smoking it in their backyard or door stoop. If anything, they will have positive associations with the smoke, noting the unique flavor signature from the turbentines. Same is true with tobacco smokers, especially those who smoke quality tobacco.

This is not unlike many ordinary smells that people have different associations of such as so-called “dairy air” – – the rich smell of grain, hay, silage and manure. City kids might be grossed out by the smell, but farm kids are likely to embrace the rich-earthy tones of the recently harvested silage. Dairy air is associated with happy cows, land that is providing, and ultimately paychecks. As they say, manure, the smell of money.

Ultimately there is no role in the federal government to worry about the smell of marijuana burning unless it’s a large industrial facility who smoke is impacting multiple states. Cities and towns are the best place to regulate such things, though the most reasonable policy is to allow the smoking of marijuana anywhere tobacco can be smoked. Obviously, you still want to protect children’s and worker’s lungs, so towns and cities want to restrict smoking indoors, in hospitals and schools. But in open air settings, such as designated smoking locations and large parks and public spaces, there is little harm to permitting smoking.