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Morning Dew

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Yesterday out walking, there was some very heavy dew.

Taken on Monday September 19, 2016 at Notes.

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.