I did not expect the rain this morning 🌨️

There is no reason that I should have not expected, I mean the forecast did call for rain and mild temperatures last night. And I’m not complaining about that as it feels pretty warm inside but I was hoping to ride this morning in the sun either out to the Arboretum or Five Rivers. Maybe later and maybe I’ll check out the Sportsmart later in the search of skis but I know chances are good I won’t end up getting any.

Friday came and went. 🥧 It was a busy day with the pie contest and then I spent several hours tagging people in adult care homes in the database at work and grabbing other data on volunteer firefighters from some tax rolls on Long Island. And working with the operators to implement some complicated targets that were good, rational targets, but complicated in implementation even if they were good as they ensure communications get in front of relevant parties. The pie contest was fun, I was surprised almost all of my queche went and gone. Apparently queche eaters are a big thing – it no longer has the stigma that avocado 🥑 toast has nowadays. Eggs 🥚 are cheap again, and I wanted something I could make up from home.

There was a request that came in at 4:57 PM, 🖥️ and it was a good laugh not because it was bad but because it was a bit complicated to implement, and it as the weekend. I told the assigned operator it would wait until Monday. I didn’t say it but I was thinking, what the hell have a wrathed on my agency? Truth is though it makes sense to pull the suggested records – but not until Monday. It’s amazing how much things have changed in two years, and how much data I’ve been able to acquire from private vendor, public andgovernment sources. The parcels program is amazing, and towns are required are required to post tax rolls. And there is so much data you can gleam from and project just by family names or knowing what neighborhood one lives in, or the age or style of their home. Toblers First Law of Geography – “everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things“ – is such a powerful concept.

I left the office a little after 5 PM and wandered my way through the bumpy ol’ streets of the south end, riding in my ol jacked up truck with my cowboy hat 🤠 listening to Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World, followed by John Rich’s Shutting Down Detroit and Marmalade’s Reflections of My Life. I’m changing, arranging everything. The news headlines after the big meet up between the Trumpster and Mayor Mamadani just put a big grin 😀 on my face. Things are fucked up in this world, 🌍 but we’ll make it through it somehow. It’s great to see how much my agency has changed over past two years leading it- since I’ve made it a priority to link data together, script things, take full advantage of what we know about constituents. Things that were done on a small scale manually, can certainly be expanded and run in automated fashion.

Stocked up at Walmart so I can avoid the traffic around the stores through Thanksgiving 🦃 though on Black Friday I may have to skip buy nothing in favor of getting a few supplies on the way up to camp. With I had gotten more hot sauce in big plastic bottle, and maybe olive oil – both are lower in my pantry then is good – but I should have enough in my pantry and except for the olive oil neither is essential. Used a lot of olive oil with the queche I made for work so it wouldn’t stick and would taste good, 😋 more then I would use usually use. Now I’m thinking for the Christmas Party 🎅 at work I’ll have to to make those cranberry pancakes 🥞 I make at home with some Greek yogurt. I feel like that would be a hit.