Hot back in town 🥵

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If I didn’t have seven interviews scheduled for tomorrow and wasn’t a bit short on vacation time, and it didn’t look so stormy for the coming weekend, maybe I would have found a way to extend my weekend out in Schoharie for a few more days. It was nice, particularly at that Betty Brook site.

Turns out that I didn’t run out of propane this morning, 🔥 but instead I forgot to turn the tank back on this morning, and if I had done that I would have had enough fuel to make it through the morning. I guess it took a while to burn the fuel out of the lines in the hot weather, and I should have known that but I wasn’t thinking clearly. Must have been the pot I smoked last night. Always blame it on the drugs, and not my stupidity. At any rate, campfire breakfast was good. 🍳

It was nice at the car show 🚘 but a hot day for sure, with the sun beating down and humidity. Turns out the Fultonham Country Store next to Shauls — the ice cream stand — doesn’t open until 2 PM.  🍦I know that’s kind of lame, but so be it. Spend a lot of time soaking my feet down in the Schoharie Creek by Mine Kill before going to Shauls to get a few more produce things, 🌽 🍆 then the auto show and the pool. 🏊‍♀️

Doing my wash currently at my parents house 👕 I may see if I can if I can stay overnight to beat the heat and because it will probably be dark 🌆 before things are done. It won’t be bad sleeping in the truck camper with the fan running, then I can listen to podcasts or stream other content, kind of like I can do at home.

Going to be a hot week. 😅 But then again, that’s to be expected this time of year. Ten the heat breaks come mid-week. I’m just hoping things will get hot again for summer vacaton.

Old Karner Road vs Today

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A look at the routing of Karner Road through two aerial photos.

LEFT - New Karner Road 2021 

RIGHT - Karner Road, 1952

How fast things change 🚬

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I was watching somebody smoke cannabis up at Mine Kill State Park the other day. Pungent but so is tobacco. Once a criminal offense to openly display or publicly smoke cannabis – long after mere possession had been decriminalized – nowadays it’s regulated the same as ordinary tobacco – banned inside most office buildings and restaurants but allowed outdoors most places except at schools, hospitals and near the entrance of office buildings. Plus no smoking inside of motor vehicles for obvious reasons.

The thing is it really shows how arbitrary the old law really was. It does make you sleepy, time go by quickly with your eyes wide open, relaxed and somewhat giddy and forgetful. It takes the edge off of life. But hardly as powerful as alcohol. We were putting people in jail for something you can now go to a dispensary and hand over $10 for a week of relaxed evenings in the woods. Or grow in your front yard if you so please. Something that is essentially a more pungent tobacco.

In some ways it reminds me of gay marriage. Once taboo – you know homosexuality – now somewhat common and ordinary and certainly not centered on sexual deviance or colorful dress. Something a decade later accepted as normal, just how everybody does it. Government can be so cruel.