Maybe I could leave for vacation this weekend… But I’m not ready 🏖️

Big Red is getting the wheel bearing replaced on Thursday. There is good chance it will be ready come Thursday afternoon if not certainly Friday. But I have nothing packed in the truck, and honestly I just want some time to break things in after getting it back from the shop lest there is any issues.

Maybe a week from Friday I’ll leave for vacation, though the second weekend would be NASCAR Weekend at the Glen, 🏎️ and I don’t want to be anywhere near the Glen that weekend, though if I was up there the week before then and had camp set up, I would at least have a place to say, 🏕️ and I could spend the second weekend in Trumansburg or Ithaca, avoiding the craziness of race weekend.

We will see, a lot depends on the weather. ☀️ If it’s going to be warm and sunny, my truck is working good and I have the jack back together, then maybe I will leave next Friday. Otherwise, I am strongly leaning towards the last week in August through Labor Day, September 1st. It’s not that far off and it’s something to look forward to.

In the meantime, if I have my truck back 🛠️ I might head to Schoharie for a quick overnight to swim 🏊 and get produce in the Schoharie Valley this weekend 🌽 🍅. And then in the first half of August, maybe  do that trip up to White House I am thinking about for blueberries and maybe one more trip up to Potholers to dodge the heat. 🏕️ Who knows, a lot depends on the weather. The one thing that gives me pause about a summer vacation the last week of August is the risk of Hurricanes disrupting the weather. 🌀 I don’t want to be camping in a hurricane, even a reminence of a hurricane could be quite wet ☔ out camping.

This morning was eggs 🥚 and a lot of cooking with beans and rice cooking down on the stove. 🧑‍🍳 I want to boost the amount of protein in my diet, and brown rice and kidney beans are one of the most affordable and healthy ways to do it. 🥩 I know eating red meat is supposedly manly but I don’t want to become a fat fuck again, 🤰 and I noticed some stretch marks on my arm after having a few beers 🍻 and not doing much last weekend with the hot humid weather and my truck being broke down, awaiting repairs later this week. I fucking wish I had called the shop earlier on, but I didn’t have a clear idea the wheel bearing was dead until driving home on Friday, before heading up to camp. 🏕️

Continuing to wrench my bike 🚲 with the front derailuer but it’s good enough to get me to work now without clicking or dragging, though I still don’t have the shifter working properly. It’s kind of frustrating for sure. I just can’t figure out how properly adjust that front derailuer. I will never buy another bike with a front derailuer I tell myself. In the mean time I may end up taking it to a shop if I can’t figure it out. Or maybe see if I can attend one of those clinics at the Troy bike rescue. I might upgrade to a better mountain bike next year, that is once I get the new truck. Definately want a bike rack for the new truck, as I did some damage to the bike letting ride sideways in the bed of my pickup on top of the gear. It would be good to have a really pro-mountain bike especially for my trip out to the Midwest next year. 🐮