Good evening! Nice evening, to bed early so I can leave before sunrise for the Adirondacks 🛏
It should be a nice but maybe cool weekend up north in the Adirondacks. Need to leave early as I want to set up camp before work at nine o’clock.
Partly clear and 60 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 There is a northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 51 degrees.
I’m pretty much packed and ready to go up north early in the morning. 🌅 It’s going to be an early day but I expect a relatively quiet day at work before the holiday weekend. Final day of remote work 💻 ever. The pandemic had to end eventually though. 👾 I’m sad 😔 about that but it’s been a hell of a ride over the past year and a half. Lots of working from Speculator.
Worked from home, mostly using my smartphone 📱, did some cleaning and packing, went to the library 📚 to return and get books. Also worked on the laptop from my truck down there as I hate wearing my muzzle 😷 when I’m trying to think, and then got food for camping 🏕.
Had a nasty little bug 🐞 in the blog mapper with ArcGIS layers that I accidentally introduced yesterday, which I ended up spending hours trying to debug when I found the missing return statement I removed yesterday but shouldn’t have because it breaks things with certain maps.
Made live my new website 🕸, andyarthur.com which is designed to be a professional profile, highlighting my mapping skills and offering to help folks with their maps 🗺 in an effort to make new connections and hone my skills. It’s kind of a mod_rewrite wrapper around the blog and a very simple HTML file, but it’s all about the maps and skills I have, not random thoughts about pig farming 🚜 or politics as this blog is about.
While I’m happy 😊 with my job and I’m well paid, I’d like to make some new connections and highlight my skills for some point in the future 🔮. I know there is a good future in GIS and they are good skills to master, and the best way to do it is practice. I’d like to figure out how to make the jump into GIS professionally 🗺 eventually when I have my off grid homestead as a source of income and health insurance so I’m not entirely relying on savings and whet I can harvest. Now I should think about doing Linked In again. ⚒ I deleted my old profile at the beginning of the year to disconnect from an old bully / troll but I’m realizing the benefits to building connections. 🔗
It’s also September now and I need to stop kicking the can 🥫 down the road about my mental health issues and the truck. After the Labor Day Weekend I’ll think seriously about addressing those issues. Neither I think are that critical right now but I know maintenance delayed can get expensive.
