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Highest Elevation Populated Places in NY State

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Highest Elevation Populated Places in NY State 

   FEATURE_NAME       COUNTY_NAME ELEV_IN_FT PRIM_LAT_DEC PRIM_LONG_DEC
 1 Knapp Creek        Cattaraugus       2349         42.0         -78.5
 2 Rock City          Cattaraugus       2349         42.0         -78.5
 3 Onteora Park       Greene            2339         42.2         -74.1
 4 Four Mile          Cattaraugus       2323         42.0         -78.5
 5 Hanley Corner      Delaware          2310         42.1         -74.5
 6 Nichols Run        Cattaraugus       2303         42.0         -78.5
 7 West Union         Steuben           2264         42.1         -77.7
 8 Harrisburg         Cattaraugus       2247         42.0         -78.5
 9 Shady Corner Curve Essex             2247         44.2         -73.9
10 West Greenwood     Steuben           2247         42.2         -77.7
11 Little Rock City   Cattaraugus       2211         42.2         -78.7
12 Herkimer Landing   Herkimer          2192         43.5         -74.8
13 Elka Park          Greene            2178         42.2         -74.2
14 Meredith           Delaware          2169         42.4         -74.9
15 Anderson           Sullivan          2162         41.9         -74.7
16 Branch             Ulster            2149         42.0         -74.5
17 Shandelee          Sullivan          2119         41.9         -74.9
18 Summit             Schoharie         2113         42.6         -74.6
19 Lent Hill          Steuben           2087         42.5         -77.4
20 Hampshire          Steuben           2073         42.2         -77.5

Tuesday, Tuesday 👨‍💼

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Is the Long Weekend here yet? I can’t complain as my plan is to be heading north on Friday before work, setting up camp and probably working down at the Speculator Library. At least that’s the plan, though things could change.

Things have just been busy. 😀 It’s getting to that time of year, and there is hardly a minute without an email popping in the email box. ✉ Of course, it does help that I’ve become fairly good at coding and usually write a short little script to handle a complex tasks. I’ve also been tired recovering from a fun weekend. 💻

Pancakes this morning, though I didn’t added carrots this time. 🥞 I still have a few carrots left at home 🥕 and I admit adding carrots adds a lot of bulk to the pancakes without a lot of calories, but its fine I had lots of syrup and frozen cherries and other fruit on the top. Last night was cornmeal and onion pancakes and sardines before I went to the store. 🐟 Sardines are super healthy, without a lot of toxins and but loaded with omega-3 healthy fats and calcium.

After dinner, I rode down to Hannaford and got some eggs, frozen fruit and onions. 🧅 I basically live on onions and summer squash all summer long. Tomorrow I’ll ride uptown and go to the farmers market, 👩‍🌾 and maybe visit the colleagues at the downtown office. I was pretty tired, and with it getting dark early, 🛌 I headed to bed after I got home, knowing I would be up early in the morning to head to work around 7 AM so I could be in the office before 8 AM. ⏰ Woke up to a dream last night, I don’t remember exactly what it was about 💭 but I put on WAMC on my phone 📻 and went back to sleep. One of the side-effects of being stoned up in wilderness, is you don’t really dream when you are asleep, only when you’re awake.

Then it’s been the usual, 🪴 listening to the Grateful Dead and an E-Book about indoor growing of pot. I really don’t smoke that much, outside of around the campfire or the hammock, 🔥 but it’s just such a fun topic to explore. Cannabis really is an agricultural product, growing good weed is much like any crop, so I’m told. 🌽 I mean I’m not thinking of starting a pot farm right away, but it’s fascinating. And fun, high times. I wonder if that’s why I forgot to export the city field when I created that mail list yesterday. 📫 Always blame it on the drugs and not the manic pace of the office yesterday where I was typing %>% and writing R code like a manic monkey. 🐒

Some people are just happy to get stoned, 🥌 but I am just fascinated about the psychology of the brain and how it’s impacts one body, and how to maximize the experience while being responsible. 🧠 I’ve always had some interested in pyschology and how the mind works but now I want to learn more to make sure I can be more creative, 🌈 and more of a thinker. Plus I don’t want to do unnecessary harm. I want to learn everything I can learn.

I am thinking it’s time to look at ordering a new bike chain on my bike, ⚙before the old one really starts chewing up the gear set again. I have close to 2,000 miles on the chain after it was replaced in April and I’ve noticed it’s gotten a bit noiser a times, though some of it was a frozen/muddy/rusty link that oil and some riding freed up, but I know I’m due to a change soon. Chains are inexpensive, the gears ain’t. I have a chain rivet extraction tool and quite possibly a chain at home but I’m not sure if it’s the right chain for my bike. 🔧 But I think I should be able to fix myself. I’m also thinking I need to look at replacing the pedals soon, the ones that are sqweaking at times and I’m worried a bearing is starting to fail and I don’t want to happen out on the trail or commuting.

What’s next? ⛺🥾🍂🚴

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The next adventure, assuming the weather cooperates, is heading up to Perkins Clearing in the Adirondacks at the break of dawn to work on Friday remotely and then spend the holiday weekend around the Speculator, riding, paddling and floating maybe with a bit of sparkle from Tropical Skittlez.

Then it’s just a matter in September when the weather is nice to plan Fridays to work remote, heading up to Rennselaer State Forest or Charles Baker. I bet riding those dirt roads at night would be a lot of fun. And even into October.

Come November, after Election Day, depending on the weather I’ve been thinking about a trip up to the North Country or Horseshoe Lake. Yet that depends on how much snow there is and what my living arrangements look like by then. And how well Big Red is running at that point.

Today apparently is National Dog Day 🐺

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Is that a celebration of the Dire Wolf? Just asking for a friend after the long weekend. Now it’s back to work at least for a few more days.

It’s back to work after a fun weekend. 👨‍💼 I am riding my bike to work, though who knows how wet it will be by afternoon with the thunderstorms. 🌩 I am not sure if I should be wearing jeans or shorts today, 👖 but I have more clean jeans, and I’m hoping to make it through the week without going to the laundromat, with the plan to work from Spectulator on Friday, so I don’t really have to have perfectly clean clothes for that. I think I had fun with Tropical Zkittlez, I shoud get more of that before the holiday weekend.

Things are unpacked and I’m ready for the week.  🧹 Accidentally spilled flour over everything unpacking last night, and I need to finish up cleaning tonight, but things should be good. I got the Drive Safe and Save beacon installed in my truck, though I’m not sure when I will drive next — probably Thursday night to stock  before camping. Thursdays though I often work late in the office, so that’s a consideration as I need to be n Speculator before 9 AM to remote work. 💻️

Scammers left my cellphone alone on Friday, ☎️ trying to run the same old tax scam that they’ve been harassing me for months about my back taxes that don’t exist. Do I pay too much in taxes, and should I have a plan to cash in some of my assets to buy a house? 🏘 Yes, but not through a scam service, which one day I tried engauging them when I was bored and maybe a bit high on vacation, after weeks of them calling. They seemed most interested in selling me a loan either for taxes or debt. 💣 I didn’t give any personal information but I asked a lot of questions about what they were selling.

I’ve been avoiding my work email box, ✉️ as I’m sure it’s suffed full but at least my physical mail box wasn’t too bad. 📮 It’s just a busy time of the year, both legisatively and for the campaign committee, but good work is getting done. It is really good that I’ve mastered R and the tidyverse, 🤖 as those are things I use every day, even more then other langauges like C or Python. R is such a werid language, but it’s really good for data maniplulaton, at least with reasonably sized datasets.

Do I spend too much time studying all things cannabis these days? 🪴 Probably yes, but it’s a fun topic to learn about – it’s agricultural, it’s political, it’s controversial and it’s the most pungent of odors. 👃 What’s not to like about it? I have kind of a one track mind, 💿 though there are some who will accuse me of becoming addicted to marijuana. I do admit coming home after summer vacation, the world seemed so plain and colorless after many nights of fun 🌈 but it wasn’t like I was that compelled to light up, as I have decided to limit it like my drinking to only when I’m out on adventures, and only in a reasonable quantity, bar once and while having a bit of fun and singing along with Dire Wolf under the stars in the wilderness. ✨ Truth is there is actually very little evidence to Cananbis Use Disorder, it’s mostly something that judges 👩‍⚖️ and treatment centers see as a money maker in the form of kick-backs for government workers.