This was such a busy day from camp, I barely found time for lunch and to set up gear a bit. Now it’s getting dark so quickly but it’s a mild pleasant evening with the cricketa in the background humming. Cool enough to sit by the heater – I should start a fire but I’m in no rush as it gets darker and darker out.

It’s the weekend before Columbus Day Weekend. 🍁 My parents are off leap peeping, out in the woods working remote once again. The data jobs started before nine, I worked from the Westerlo library until I had to go pee and by the time I got Rennselaerville State Forest I sprayed a tree with poop 💩 and had to change my pants 👖 when I finally got to camp and wash up. I think that salad 🥗 I found in the fridge at the campaign committee on Thursday evening was kind of slimy. Or maybe it was slimy onions 🧅I chomped down. Or all the coffee ☕ with breakfast. I’m fine now, and despite what the internet advertisers think, I don’t have Chron’s disease or liver cancer ♋ my doctor checked me out last year. 🩺🩻

People think it’s all fun and games with the travel 🍀🛻 but it’s actually a lot of work to set up and take down camp 🏕️ plus all that packing and fuel ⛽. It’s not all that much money, 💰 bar the extra cost of gasoline, beer and weed. 🍺 Or propane. And I’m having a lot of fun when I’m not working which is less and less of each weekend. It’s fine, election day is in about thirty days and then I can deal 🤝 with all the stuff I’m supposed to be doing with my state job but are neglecting. I’m going to be in the office Monday as it’s going to rain ☔ and there is a list 📃 of things to do and review. Plus I need to get to the laundromat, I have so much dirty clothes 👕 and if I plan to be in the office four days next week I need to look halfway decent. And my whole apartment like usual needs a good scrub 🧼 but by the time I get home I’m much too tired 😴.

I’ve tried to be learning more about the rust programming language 💻 but to really master it, I just need to sit down and write code. ✍️ The best way to learn is to do. Do some cool things with data using Polars and Rust I tell myself would be a good way to learn. I mean I do many great things with R but it’s slow and I know it’s not a real programming language even if colleges 🎓 love to teach it these days. I know enough Qt from writing QGIS plug-ins I could certainly write apps in C++ or Python if I really wanted to. Or probably better yet in C with GTK+ or even Rust. I’ve studied enough C and C++ over the years with some Stack Overflow I could certainly build cool things if I knew what I wanted to build. Then again that’s true with so much of life.