Lots of wildfire smoke haze this morning, the hills looked brown and hazy, the sun a reddish ball as I rode in through the Normans Kill Valley. Not a bad ride downtown, the rail trail was actually a bit congested though I didn’t get on the road until a little after 7:30 AM when I try to leave most days by 7:15 AM to be in the office by eight AM.
Some ways I find it hard to believe it’s already Friday. 
Where does the time go so quickly? Sometimes it burns faster then roaring hot bonfire like rednecks like me like to build. 
Maybe with slightly less black smoke, but it’s still definitely smokey out there with a wildfire smoke, though not the acrid smoke we had early last summer. 
No camping this weekend as it looks like a wet one, especially Saturday night into Sunday. Maybe more clouds then anything else, who knows, it depends on the weather man you ask. 
Next weekend looks nice, and I might take off Friday to be totally off the grid for one last time through November. 
I need some time to stop dreaming of new lists to cram on the system.
Yesterday, I stayed over at my parents house to let out the dog 
while they’re out of town for the night. Slept over in my truck, it was a warm and humid night, but my eyes were bothering me 👀 so I decided to retire to bed 
in my truck early on and then got up early, let the dog out, played frisbee with him for a while 🥏 before heading back to Delmar half awake. 
Things got better after I had some coffee and woke up a bit, 
as I was half awake driving home. Better though then that obviously very drunk driver I followed out to my parents house last night — actually he kept on 443 after I turned onto Clarksville South Road. 🚗 When I was younger I might have driven home once or twice after a drink or two, but this guy or gal was obviously very hammered crossing both the yellow and white lines multiple times, and not by a little bit. 
Hopefully he or she got to their destination safely. One of the nice things about living in the city, is you can always take a bus home after a few too many, though I don’t drink like that anymore since I’m in my forties.
I have to say while the week went by quickly, I am exhausted. I look forward to the end of the day, riding home, having dinner. 
I might go down to the park for a while and read, or maybe I’ll just collapse into bed. I’ve just been so busy, and when I’ve had downtime it’s not been as free as in recent past.
and I have meetings downtown so I am in early. I try to be in each day by 8 AM, for one it makes for a better bike ride as there is less traffic on the highway and bike trail at this hour. I am just so glad that my bike is back on the road. A good morning with onion and cornmeal pancakes, topped off with greek yogurt. 
It’s been a while since I’ve done that. Been doing too much eggs lately, 
which are a good source of protein but also have a lot of saturated fat, despite all the vegetables and onions I like to put in them. 
and I’m hoping it will finally work out. The other operators seemed to like my choice, and I have feeling this person won’t back out. 
Maybe I was trying to change the agency too quickly, advancing new ideas and new people, trying to ram a round peg in a square hole. It happens. I’ve continue to develop new IOI Codes for the system, and for the most point after announcing the new codes, have gotten primarily just radio silence. 
I know people are busy, and they’re not as interested in my project and my hard work as I am in. Maybe I’ve just tried to keep myself artificially busy at work, so to make the time go past quicker and not think about all the other problems in my life. It was fustrating those days that my bike was down and out with that broken spoke. 
I wish I had driven to work on Tuesday and picked up my repaired bike wheel then. 
but one of them is a lunch meeting with free food. 
Maybe not healthy but delicious and I’ll primarily pile the green stuff on my plate. 
Then it’s out to the folks house to walk the dog, 
That property next door to there’s is still up for sale on the market, largely sitting abandoned, and continue to crumble. I cut a check for $150k it could be mine, and I’d only have to pay for the upkeep and taxes. And cost of commuting. 🛻 But regardless of what people tell me, I would have to give up so much of my freedom, especially if I got livestock. 
But it would be fun to grow my own grass, and not the kind you mow.
as all the e-books I got out at the end of July will quickly be coming to expiration. But maybe the reason I haven’t been reading more is the books don’t really excite me. But it’s also been summer, I’ve been out riding my bike, camping, hiking and exploring. 
Come winter, I’ll do a lot better with reading. Used to be in the summer, I’d go down to the park and read, 
but since getting the bike, I usually like to ride in the evening. And last night I spent adjusting the bike, 
and reseting the wheel, before going down to Elm Avenue Park for a bit, when I ended up just writing a blog post about what I’ve been thinking a bout lately. 
So many things have been on my mind lately.
