Personal

Not to too cold and windy this morning, but gray. I don’t love taking the bus or walking laps on the Plaza. Just one way though, as I think the trail will be crap and I probably should take the road. You know I’ll be attempting the bike path. I’m crazy.

Still it beats busing it to work and walking laps in the Plaza. I did that yesterday and it was fine but I get tired of walking laps in the Concourse with the same gray walls and sketchy people hanging around. Of course, you never know these days if somebody is schizophrenic or just talking on their cellphone. Both have been increasingly common in the Plaza. Keeps the state troopers employed. The bike ride gets me my exercise in, plus saves on the bus fare.

Made cornmeal pancakes this morning, this time adding some oatmeal, whole wheat flour and spinach to fortify them a bit. I often use just cornmeal and eggs with baking powder and a little bit of salt, plus shredded onions and turmeric but I wanted to try to something different. Change is a good thing, even if eggs are still mad expensive though I bought that big container of eggs a few weeks back, as they’re such a good source of protein. Apparently because I think a lot about including a lot of natural fiber in my foods my internet advertising feed is full of advertisements for Metamucil. 

I am very opposed to vitamins and supplements of all types, as if you are missing something like that from diet, you really should be eating real food to get it. If you need fiber, eat more vegatables. And maybe whole-wheat flour and oatmeal for your soluble fibers. I do use a lot of sugar substitutes though, because I think they are a way to avoid excess calories while giving a lot of sweetness to things. But soon once maple syrup taping season is underway, I’ll switch back to real maple syrup but not in glass because I hate breakable, unburnable glass.

I was annoyed about another high heating and electric bill this month at $122, which I get the grand scheme of things with inflation isn’t much still I was hoping for two digits. Maybe it’s because I had the heat up a bit when the landlord was over to repair the fridge and it’s been cold. Or more likely, I’ve gotten very comfortable with the heated blanket cranked up like a sweat lodge at times in bed, even though I keep the heat everywhere else at 50. Plus I’ve been taking longer showers, which means the hot water tank works harder.  Also think the landlord improved the insulation next door when he renovated that unit, plus while I’m not finding any new air leaks that I can find I am sure insulation isn’t great here, and it’s been such a windy winter, even if it’s not the coldest ever. Truth is by this weekend’s trip called off due to snow, I’ll probably save that amount just by staying home and reading.

I was so hoping to get out of town this weekend for the holiday, but it keeps going between a ton of snow, less snow, more rain and ice, and who knows. I knew for a while Madison County was off the agenda, but I had thought Schoharie or certainly Rennselaerville could have been a possibility, but nah. And it’s going to get even colder after the snow storm, so there isn’t going to be much snow melt next week. Maybe I’ll take off next Friday and do a long weekend, but I don’t know there is a lot of snow to dig out even that campsite in Rensselearville. I do want to have a fire though and look at the stars at some point. Maybe it won’t be until that first week of March. At some point things will warm up.

I got Valentine’s Day Candy for my employees this year. Probably have to have a meeting to hand them out today. And drop some over at the other departments for people who are such a part of my team. It’s good, I actually forgot to buy onions, mushrooms, and tofu this week when I ran over to get Valentine’s Candy but it worked out as I ended up eating other things so it’s all good.  Change is not a bad thing, despite what so many people seem to think these days. I get change can be painful and uncomfortable but sometimes you got to move on.