Earlier in the week I ran the mid-month label jobs. I actually cheated this timeand exported the list through the first half of September and put it 74 more days of wearing contacts I will note.
The morning is starting out cloudy, humid and damp but the sun is expected to come out later on ⛅ though the risk of thunderstorms remains throughout the day, though the chances of a good afternoon soaker as the day goes on. That said, the latest forecasts have been downplaying the risk.
It was a shitty week, where I got wrapped up in my delusions. 🤪 It’s just the times we live in and I so wanted to go back to those days of working remote and being able to work from camp. Whatever, at least I don’t have to dress up for work and work 9-5 PM most days. Next summer maybe I’ll still have the chance to work remote some of the time when I’m spending some of my time working for campaign committee. I’ll keep pushing for that. The bike tire has been good after going flat earlier in the week,
I need to put my contacts in 👀 and get going. Only 74 days of having to do that as two days before the surgery is glasses only. 👓 I’ll be glad when that’s done. I could have had the surgery next week but it would mean no swimming essentially for the rest of summer. That doesn’t sound like much fun. ☹️ But I do hate dealing with the glasses and contact lens. Plus let’s be honest, I like anticipation better then actually engauging in activities. Waiting for Christmas is always much more fun Christmas Day. 🎁 🎅
People are like you act like $4,200 to get LASIK is like nothing, 💸 when you bemoan when you have to spend a buck thirty to ride the city bus when it rains ☔ or my bike breaks down. But my eyes are something that is unlikely to break down or need repairs and parts, at least until I’m really old 👴🏻 and need cataract surgery. I figure out $4,200 over thirty years is $140 or $11.66 a month. Plus $4.2k seems so little when I’m looking at homestead properties at closer to $300k, complete off-grid solar systems at $15k-$20k, new trucks at $35-50k, etc. Shit is expensive but unlike your eyes you don’t have to throw it away in 10 or 15 years. 🗑️ Solar is kind of like that as is owning a house but there are still components to fix. I guess there are still biyearly eye check ups and I may eventually need cheap drug store ⚕️ reading glasses but it’s not like the endless stream of contacts, contact cleaner, lens cases and glasses.
I actually saw some houses I kind of liked at Zillow 🏡 yesterday, but I don’t want to buy at this point. Really, I’m okay with my dumpy apartment but I do still worry at some point it will get too expensive. Maybe I can downsize to a studio apartment or an old motel in the city where it’s cheaper if necessary. That said, wherever I move would certainly be more expensive then my dumpy old apartment where I ride my bike to work.
The thing is properties I like are too far from work for easy commuting, plus New York State sucks on so many levels – from the burn ban to the gun laws to permitting. There is a neat off-grid cabin in Gilboa 🎄 which was great but much too far from work, a house in Nassau on ten acres I sort of liked but still much too suburban with electric heat but a fire places and a pretty generic you know suburban interior and no barns or infrastructure for livestock. 🐐 Truth is I still want to travel and not be feeding pigs and goats in this heat and breaking ice in water troughs at this point in my life. It’s good though I’m learning what’s out there, and are many interesting living arrangements mostly outside of commuting range cities, it’s not just fantsy land of YouTube. 📺
I am thinking and actually packing to go out to Schoharie today. 🏕️ Just a quick overnight but the weather forecast and clouds this morning 🌫️ give me pause as I’m not sure how nice of a day it will be with the real possibility of downpours and thunderstorms ⛈️ all afternoon meaning Mine Kill Pool is closed. With the current sky conditions and forecast I’m inclined to call it off 🙅but tomorrow is the Auto Show at the Power Project and that’s always fun to go. I started to pack but I think I might change my mind and just catch the bus to Thacher Park later. Maybe next week, they’ll have more produce then at the farm stands.