Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the second gear of the week. Hot and humid day today, after a nice respite for cooler weather this past week. Next weekend should be fairly nice, although maybe showers on Sunday.

It was a pretty quiet weekend, although I ended up going into the office for a couple of hours on Saturday. Never did make it to the Adirondacks, as on my way out the bus, I got called back into the office, and got stuck working at the office for a while on Saturday. Went fishing on Friday and Saturday nights, and mostly lost lures and broke fishing lines in the Hudson River.

If I had my truck this past weekend, I probably would have gone up North. Sunday was really nice for sure. I could set up easily in the dark with the electric lights, but setting a tent up in the dark and getting a fire started in the dark is no fun. I don’t mind cooking in the dark in the woods when I have lots of light, but with bears and other wildlife, not so much in a dimly lit campsite.

This week I am truly hopeful for getting Big Red back soon. The body work should be done by mid-week, so it mostly depends on what needs to get be done to get the engine restarted. Then I finally can return the loaner car, and get my truck back. I will probably drive around town a few days, to make sure everything is running well, and re-tune and tighten connections on the CB radio. Then I plan to finally get out of a town for couple of days.

Then I am looking forward to getting out of town. I have a list of potentially places to go, but ultimately that will be decided based on the weather, and when I get my truck back. North Lake is on the short list, but also is the Western Adirondacks or Moose Plains. Probably don’t have time to plan out a full trip to Pennsylvania. If don’t get my truck back until Friday, it will complicate weekend plans.

At this point, due to work constrains, and simply because I haven’t put any miles on my truck this summer, I probably will hold off on the lift kit until November. I am going to take my truck to have it’s tires rotated in the next couple of weeks, and I think that will hold things over until the state inspection in early October. This will buy me more time to save more money, and have things to look forward to in the fall. Or maybe decide to spend the money somewhere else.