Technically tomorrow the absolute last day for contacts but I think I’ll make today the last day just to be absolutely sure I have no eye irriation when surgery day comes Friday. Glasses Tuesday through Friday morning, but I’ll learn to live with them as come Saturday they’re just going to be scratched up trash soon enough to be turned into bright yellow flames.
But first I covered myself in fix-a-flat slime as I was going to swap back on the tube that got a leak before heading into work today. But somehow that didn’t work out as planned. I patched the tube over the weekend and put my spare on, and I was going to put the patched tire that had fix-a-flat already in it and put the spare back in my emergency bike bag but that didn’t go to plan as the patched tube refused to hold air. It’s a snake bite (pinch) flat and they’re not really practical to patch. That slime stuff usually works good – put a hole in the front tire over the weekend but the slime automatically patched it up and I topped it off this mroning.
So I added slime to the spare tube and put it back on the bike. Somehow the slime tube came loose and sprayed slime all over the kitchen, the wheel rim, the tire and tube. It was such a mess. I ended up mounting the tire multiple times, because first I wanted to use the tube that was punctured but already had a hole in it. But then I greased up the chain and trued up the wheel and rode to work. Beautiful day, bike rode pretty well, nice and quiet with all the grease, and I didn’t get covered with grease in the process. So that’s a good thing. And I want to be a farmer some day, or at least a homesteader and deal with more broke-down equipment. Bad enough with the bike and all the other shit. I guess you build up a pile of scrap metal and fill a hollar with debris.
Truth is what I need is new tires – – both front and back at this point — for my bike. I hate buying more rubber crap, only way to get rid of it is landfill. Not going to burn rubber, lol, shit stinks. Price has gone up too on bike tires due of course to the Trumpster tarrifs. More money, did I mention my rent is due to this week, as is my $560 car insurance bill and the $4,200 or whatever they want for the big snip of my eyes. I transfered the money over from saving and it’s pay week but still like fuck. Maybe it was good I didn’t spend so much money hanging out at Rensselearville State Forest this weekend rather then heading north. Weekend was over much too fast like always happens. Sucky teaty.
Looks like we are getting some of that much needed rain this week. Rain showers, which means clouds probably more then wet stuff, but after spending that time in Rensselaerville they definitely need the rain. More then 1/3rd of Myotosis Lake is dried up, most of the creeks are dry or have minimal flow. Want more rain before the next fire I have up in the woods. Fortunately I’m not planning on doing any camping this week as my eyes recover, though I might go apple picking with dad on Saturday, assuming that I can see and feel well by then. Then maybe the following weekend I’ll either plan my October vacation or do a weekend trip, or something.
With my improved vision, I probably will drive north the last night I work and set up camp in the dark. I really think my contact lens were what gave me so much trouble driving at night with all their irritation. Glasses were better except I found it was hard to read the speedometer while driving with them. Probably start out around Speculator. Then my thought is I will head up to Horseshoe Lake for a few nights out at Lows Lake, ride back to the ledge, then ultimately up to St. Regis Canoe Area to ride the new Adirondack Rail Trail and paddle around there.
Hundreds of people plunged into the Chicago River’s chilly waters on Sunday as part of the first organized swim in the river for nearly 100 years, a previously unthinkable act in what was once one of the most befouled waterways in the world.
About 300 people, some wearing wetsuits, jumped into the Chicago River for a mile-long looping swim on an early, overcast midwest morning, a feat made possible by the often unseen but crucial progress the US has made in the past half century in cleaning its rivers of toxic pollutio n.
The wind is roaring here at at Huyck Preserve. With things being so dry that’s concerning. That said, it looks like Tuesday through the start of the weekend things look unstable in the weather and it’s quite possible we get a few inches of rain or maybe not. I know I’d want it wetter before the next time I’m up in the woods with a fire.
The ride around Rennselaerville State Forest was quite pleasant today as was the hike at Huyck Preserve. It’s nice having only a relatively short drive home, unpacking and being ready for the upcoming work week having done necessary chores Thursday night. Maybe I should have camped that night but I wanted to be super cautious about fire being so dry. That said, I bet the colors up north were amazing. Next weekend is recovery from eye surgery but maybe the following weekend I can get away and enjoy more of autumn beauty before the colors all fade into primarily browns of November.
While I don’t agree with everything the late Charlie Kirk said – he is simply wrong on climate change and kind of a bigot when it comes to diversity and letting people live their lives as they choose straight or otherwise – he was a tireless advocate for both the first and second and second amendment – and I have a lot of respect for that.
“Keep America free…. You should be allowed to say outrageous things. There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And all of it’s protected by the First Amendment.”
“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. ”
I do think both rights are in danger and we need more tireless young adult advocates for them like the late Kirk.
before heading into work today. But somehow that didn’t work out as planned. I patched the tube over the weekend and put my spare on, and I was going to put the patched tire that had fix-a-flat already in it and put the spare back in my emergency bike bag but that didn’t go to plan as the patched tube refused to hold air. It’s a snake bite (pinch) flat and they’re not really practical to patch. That slime stuff usually works good – put a hole in the front tire over the weekend but the slime automatically patched it up and I topped it off this mroning.
Somehow the slime tube came loose and sprayed slime all over the kitchen, the wheel rim, the tire and tube. It was such a mess. I ended up mounting the tire multiple times, because first I wanted to use the tube that was punctured but already had a hole in it. But then I greased up the chain and trued up the wheel and rode to work. Beautiful day, bike rode pretty well, nice and quiet with all the grease, and I didn’t get covered with grease in the process. So that’s a good thing. And I want to be a farmer some day, or at least a homesteader and deal with more broke-down equipment. Bad enough with the bike and all the other shit.
I guess you build up a pile of scrap metal and fill a hollar with debris. 
I hate buying more rubber crap, only way to get rid of it is landfill. Not going to burn rubber, lol, shit stinks. 
Price has gone up too on bike tires due of course to the Trumpster tarrifs. More money, did I mention my rent is due to this week, as is my $560 car insurance bill and the $4,200 or whatever they want for the big snip of my eyes. I transfered the money over from saving and it’s pay week but still like fuck. Maybe it was good I didn’t spend so much money hanging out at Rensselearville State Forest this weekend rather then heading north. Weekend was over much too fast like always happens. 
Sucky teaty. 
Rain showers, which means clouds probably more then wet stuff, but after spending that time in Rensselaerville they definitely need the rain. 
More then 1/3rd of Myotosis Lake is dried up, most of the creeks are dry or have minimal flow. 
Want more rain before the next fire I have up in the woods. 
Fortunately I’m not planning on doing any camping this week as my eyes recover, though I might go apple picking with dad on Saturday, 
assuming that I can see and feel well by then. Then maybe the following weekend I’ll either plan my October vacation or do a weekend trip, or something. 
and set up camp in the dark. I really think my contact lens were what gave me so much trouble driving at night with all their irritation. Glasses were better except I found it was hard to read the speedometer while driving with them. Probably start out around Speculator. Then my thought is I will head up to Horseshoe Lake for a few nights out at Lows Lake, ride back to the ledge, then ultimately up to St. Regis Canoe Area to ride the new Adirondack Rail Trail and paddle around there. 
