Good morning, Happy Thursday! 🌥️

Today is supposed to be a fairly cloudy day but continued muggy but maybe not as hot. It’s July. Tomorrow I’m going to work from home but for now I’m heading in early on my mountain bike into the office.

At 8 AM tomorrow I have my LASIK Consultation 👀 at the local place down the road. It’s just a consultation to learn about the procedure and get evaluated for my suitability but I’m all for moving forward, though not next week but certainly in the autumn or early in the winter. I could do sooner, I guess it depends how pushy the salesman is there and how much of a discount they give me to go right away. My main reason for waiting is I want to use up my existing supply of contact lens, which weren’t cheap before I end up tossing perfectly good lens that I paid good money into a rip-roading fire while drinking a cold beer to celebrate my good vision. 🔥

I am so over dealing with contacts and glasses, I knocked my glasses off the shelf this morning and it seems like on cloudy days like today my eyes are often so irritated, regardless of how well I clean my contacts. To not have to deal with regular visits to the woke eye doctor and ordering more of those stupid plastic things you stick in your eyes would be so nice. It’s a good investment in my future, good vision is something I can use for the rest of my life and it’s not something that will break and need to be thrown away in a few years, paying a fee at a transfer station to get rid of or making black smoke. It’s money but it’s a good investment in my future. It’s unlike a car or a four wheeler or a computer or basically anything else you buy. Vision lasts a lifetime.

After my appointment, I’ll head into the office and then probably head out early on Saturday up to camp. I don’t really want to drive up after work and have to deal with the traffic. Probably just do a quick overnight up at Burnt-Rossman, swim at Mine Kill both days, hit up the Farm Stands on Sunday and maybe do some floating in the Schoharie Creek. I was going to go out Friday, but it’s so much easier to not be driving when I’m dog tired and setting up camp. Plus I’m hardly a fan of driving that ever so rough Betty Brook Road more then necessary. Tonight I’m not going to have much time to pack, as I have a Save the Pine Bush meeting to go to, especially if I plan on shopping for the things I need for camp.

My doctors appointment for the yearly physical is on August 6th so I definitely need to be back in town that first full week of August so if I do take off July 25-August 2nd I’m boxed in for that week even if it’s crappy. But that’s the week I think I want to take off not the week before as it splits summer up nicely. I am ready for a good vacation, it’s been a long week.