That’s at least what I tell myself as I want to head up to the woods and have a fire and burn shit but don’t tell a liberal that. And ride my mountain bike without choking on too much dust and having enough stream flow so that I don’t have portage around every god-damn beaver dam.
Riding in yesterday on my mountain bike, 🚴 I so totally had to give the middle finger 🖕 to the Corning Tower as I looked up the hill from the bike trail along the oil train yard in the South End. Maybe that and more listening to Hunter S. Thompson. I think that audio book is almost done. 😡 I should listen to something more relaxing and less anger inducing when I am on vacation next week. And buy more dope. Today I’m riding in but probably won’t ride home, as I have meetings downtown mid-day so I need my bike to get there without being dependent on the shuttle schedule.
I started reading the Woodland Homestead, 🐐 🌲 and was super angry about getting a book out of the library about the Rust Programming Language only to find out it was a AI generated slop that was mostly non-sensible content regarding Go Programming Language. Literally just strings of words jammed together that do not make sense. Much like that one book I got about homesteading and one about solar over the summer that was same crap. It hurts other legitimate publishers who license their works to the libraries and get paid when people actually check out their real books. 📚 And it a waste for taxpayers too. 💰
Baked two loaf 🍞 of bread this morning, and made up eggs with onions and spinach and baked acorn squash and spaghetti squash. 🍆 Good stuff, had plenty of it already this morning. Almost too warm for the oven this morning but tonight I am going to a Save the Pine Bush meetings in Colonie and Guilderland with Lynne, Russell and the crew so I figure it will be a late night. Going to leave my bike locked in my office 🔒 and I will drive in tomorrow in the rain, 🌧️ as mid-day I plan to head up to the Albany Pine Bush Discovery Center for the unvailing of the John Wolcott Hiker’s Underpass under New Karner Road at the Thruway. He literally just had to call 📞 up the Thruway and ask for it.
Thursday I’ll also ride in and Friday I’ll drive in and maybe leave early for camp. 🛻 Fire conditions will likely be high still over the weekend, so I’ll either skip the campfire 🔥 or keep any fire I have quite small. Wednesday after work I’ll get many of the dry goods and supplies I need for camping, 🥫 and Friday I’ll get the remaining supplies and propane before work. Thursday night I want to get as much packed as possible and will set the alarm early on Friday. Even though this isn’t as big of a trip as the Finger Lakes it’s been a long time since I’ve been to Horseshoe/Lows Lake and even longer since the St. Regis Canoe Area 🛶 so I’m very excited about doing this trip.
Eyes 👀 have been doing better this week, I wasn’t sure with a full day of work staring at computer 🖥️ screen but it helps when I remember to take time to blink. The dry-eye solution helps somewhat, and the preservative free artificial tears 😭 are great but I try to just tear up myself at times to keep my eyes wet without putting chemicals into my eyes. I try to avoid rubbing my eyes as they recommend not doing but at this point I’m not strictly enforcing this. It’s just wonderful to wake up and be able to see without fumbling around with glasses, 🗡️ I swear it made it much easier when chopping up the spaghetti squash and acorn squash 🍆 this morning, that and having the 5-gallon bucket for holding all the compost guts. I used to use just a coffee can but with the amount of slop I make eating healthy and chopping lots of raw produce, the bigger bucket is definately a boon. 🪣