The forecast says it’s supposed to rain by around 10 AM this morning though earlier in the day they were warning of rain earlier so I headed in early, going the long way via Menands and stopping a for a while down by the river.

I am sure it’s going to rain this morning, 🌧️ but I think the commute home should be rain free, as will be at lunch time. I am hoping to have ridden more then 100 miles since Monday, 🚵 mostly commuting but also lunch time trips and out to Five Rivers a few nights. Tonight I probably won’t do a trip out to Five Rivers as I have to pack for Memorial Day Weekend. The plan is to pack tonight, and leave fairly early tomorrow, getting groceries on the way into work and then if there is enough coverage in the office, leave at 2 PM for the Green Mountains.

Riding in this morning, I finished up the Power Broker. 50 chapters, 62 hours later (well, 31 hours as I played at 2x speed). 📻️ I think its a mistake to say that the Power Broker was a negative book about Robert Moses, if anything it’s a story about a complicated and often conflicted man who got great public works accomplished, even at enormous cost. A man who bent the rules not for personal profit, but to get great things built and increase his own power.

For being such a long book, one of the things most noteworthy is how much is left out of the book, 📚️there is very little ultimately about the Power Authority and Jane Jacobs isn’t mentioned at all, and the LOMEX is only mentioned in passing. The claims about the One MIle in the Bronx got a lot of attention when the book came out, but ultimately as Caro points out it was complicated why Moses chose the route he chose, and it wasn’t as simple as some of the critics of Moses have pointed out over the years. If anything, Caro is far more sympathetic towards Moses then what most of he reports on his book are.

Now I got to find some new e-books and audio books 📚️ to bring up to camp for the long weekend. I figure it will be good reading in the hammock when I’m up in the Green Mountains over the long holiday weekend, hiding under the bug net 🐜 as I know the black flies are certain to be intense. The good news is that come dark the black flies go away, and there should be some nice evenings by the fire 🔥 enjoying some quiet in the wilderness.