See I am eligible for the COVID vaccine because I smoked pot a few weekends ago while I was looking at the Catskill Mountains, dreaming of the off-grid cabin with grunting hogs and a trash burner out back and that makes me a former smoker and at high risk of complications from the COVID virus. Probably also a hillbilly too.
At least that’s what I’m hoping CVS reports to the State Vaccine Registry, 💉 so that such words sit in on a computer database sitting on a state government office somewhere in Downtown Albany on bowls of one of the state computer database center. 💾 He smokes pot, now he needs to be injected. Getting both my flu shot and the COVID mind-control RNA-changing injections because neither sounds like so much fun. I mean having the COVID for Christmas 🎄 🎅 was such shit last year, especially as I planned to go to out to Finger Lakes and probably smoke you know what and have fires 🔥 and just enjoy the beauty of winter. ☃️ I don’t want to think about riding my bike on ice-covered bike trail yet. First I need to get a new rear tire for my bike.
So yeah, my vision is great 👀 though I still have some irriation from dry eyes that will go away over time I’m told, no more follow ups after the surgery, just usual vision check ups, they suggest in six months and then every two years until I’m really old – and only then if I don’t decide to blow my brains out and burn my off-grid cabin to ground before I’m so elderly and crippled that I need cataract surgery.🤯 I am still debating if my next audio book for this morning’s commute with be another Edward Abbey book – – probably Hayduke Lives! – – or Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles. Truth is as much as admire Edward Abbey I do think I like Hunter S. Thompson more. 🔊 Finished up Ethan Tapper’s To Love a Forest, the book about that Vermont forester who discusses owning forest land and rebuilding his own forest, and forestry life. 🌲 🌲
Got to drop my ballot 🗳️ off in the mail today, came last night, filled it out quickly as there really wasn’t much choice, I wasn’t going to vote for the shit Republican candidates for local office. I might have my issues with some in Democratic machine but as far as I’ve heard the town leaders haven’t done enough to piss me off, so I’ll vote for their re-election, plus one of board members is my former boss. So yeah he got my vote. I think I voted on the Conservative line for the Coroner and County Clerk, mostly to give a middle finger 🖕 to the machine. Same candidates as Democratic line, but I wish there was some competition there. Make them have to at least suck up to the Cops Union. 👮 The County Clerk kind of annoys me personally, he’s been kind of a pain to deal with his office when I’ve been doing research for Save the Pine Bush. I hate how they have everything so locked down on the deeds website, and often their office is not pleasant to deal with the few times I’ve had to call them. 📞 I’ll drop my ballot off ✉️ on my ride in.
I heard the landlord was going to be by today to look at an issue with the furnace next door and a potential gas leak, 🧑🔧so I’m going to have him look at the door’s loose sweep 🚪 and see if he can either screw it back on tight or replace the rotted out door. I did a little cleaning last night, including washing down parts of the kitchen. 🧽 Whatever, it doesn’t have to be perfect. Landlord mostly just cares about getting paid rent and I haven’t bothered him with anything since January. He replaced the upstairs windows not that I wanted him to do that. So the door seems like the next logical capital improvement.
Even though my rent is quite affordable – I realized the difference between my rent 💵 and local market rent rates more then would have covered my eye surgery over the past year – I do pay quite a bit and whatever he upgrades will last for the coming decades. I’ve been here 18 years and paid quite a bit of rent between my two landlords. But you should buy some big house in suburbs, 🏡 you know with trash pickup and cable television, 📺 and spend even more money upgrading it and filling it with furniture rather the hand me downs from my parents and grandparents twenty years ago, and a few things I got from Wally World. I noticed this morning my microwave isn’t working. Plug is broken. 🔌 Didn’t get a shock but I did notice the other day when I was cooking it was getting warm. It’s my fault as I unplug the microwave when not in use to save energy. What I should do is put it on a surge strip instead. I’ll get a need a replacement plug but then the microwave should work for years to come. That said, I mostly use the stove top for frying veggies, eggs, pancakes, and the oven. Microwave rarely gets used anymore since I’ve gotten into healthy basic ingredients eating. 🍳
I haven’t decided about next week. 🏕️ I need to check staff coverage for next week, and I want to see how my eyes 👀 are by the end of week, especially the dry eye condition. By then I’ll be done with the medicated drops and won’t have to wear the eye anti-rub shields 🛡️ at night which are kind of annoying, and my eyes aren’t so itchy or irrated at this point. Eye doctor says it’s important to keep my eyes wet. They gave me 3 small bottles of the artificial tears 😭 eye lubricant, it’s the preservative free stuff they recommend because it’s less irrating. Which is fine but it’s still a lot of burnable plastic, 🔥 and kind of expensive should I run out. I might end up using some of the left over contact solution to supplement it at times, to make sure my eyes are wet. The other thing is there isn’t a lot of stores 🛒 in the Adirondacks so I’m going to make sure I’m fully stocked up before heading north if I am going for a week. I guess I can get groceries in Speculator and Tupper Lake but they’re always kind of expensive there and the selection is crap besides overpriced can 🥫 goods. At least this time of year, if it’s reasonably fall like weather 🍁 I’ll only need to get ice one or twice during the week.