Sort of hot and humid as I go through recovery on the Hump 🐪

Nursing myself back to life after those three beers and hot dogs and too many drunk cookies at the End of Session Party last night. Did go for a nice ride home, after riding down New Scotland, I went to the quiet streets of Thornbury and Thoreau past the million-dollar McMansion houses, then ducked over Broccoli Ave and out past Preska’s Dairy, over through Adam’s Station Development, Westchester Woods, before eventually looping back Mosher Roads.

I didn’t say anything too obnoxious drunk 🥴 and I got home before it was too dark out after my new wild-assed ride singing along with the Grateful Dead, thinking to myself that silage smell at Preska’s was so much nicer then those hideous McMansion houses off Thoreau Avenue. If I had that kind of money, I’d blow it on acreage, cows, and yes, I’d have a burn barrel out back and I wouldn’t recycle plastic. ♻️ Regardless of my long extended ride, I got home safely before it was too dark, had some fun, 🚴 I am glad I didn’t take the SuperDuty and I even started to rehydrate myself with some water before bed 🥛 and some with the apple-carrot pancakes 🥞 for breakfast. Put four carrots in the pancake batter, not real large carrots 🥕 but I need that fiber to clear myself out. And not much coffee ☕ but lots of water this morning. I am okay this morning, 🤮 I tell myself, it doesn’t take a lot of beer 🍻 to do some damage when you are 43. But it was fun, especially that 5 or 10 mile side trip as darkness approached drunk riding through the back roads of suburbs.

Packed a lunch with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables 🥦 including primarily pinto beans, cut beans and brussel sprouts. I will recover I tell myself, 🤭 those hot dogs were outstanding. Maybe I just don’t like all those paper plates and trash and not composting food scraps, 🗑️ and the big party thing, but I do like open bars 🍻 and it was good to see the colleagues downtown, after all this time. Hell, I’ve tossed a banana peel and a corn cob into the fire mixed with plastic (Gasp!) from time to time too. 🔥 City owned facility, going straight to the hill in Pine Bush. Drink more water, a cold shower, 🚿 and the ride to work should hopefully do the trick. I do have to say that drunk bike ride home was kind of fun, and I just had just enough light when I got home that I barely needed the lights. Charged them up overnight, 🔦 as the plan is to go to Hannaford after work, pick up needed groceries (put the empty Apple Cider Vingar container in white bag to turn into CO2), and have a quick dinner – probably more pinto beans and maybe onions, then I’ll ride out to Five Rivers 🐸 and I want to see if I can finish off that book 📚 I have about the decline and recovery of birds. It’s a crazy world out there, and I’m so hung over this morning.

Counting down the days until I get the truck cap 🚛 and can head back up to the wilderness, 🔥 and have a fire. Going to transfer the money for this later in the week, and hopefully I’ll have it installed next week. 💵 Then it’s just a matter of moving over the wires and equipment to the new truck cap. Riding home, passing the Norman’s Kill, I was thinking I should go kayaking in Norman’s Kill this summer. 🛶 Put in on New Scotland and paddle up stream, there may be some strainers and strong currents, but it’s not too bad, years ago with dad I paddled down from State Farm Road (NY 155) to there years ago now when I was in Boy Scouts. It’s a nice close place. I need the truck cap first though as my racks mount to that.

Still working on debugging and caching the blog. 📀 While I am still not happy with the Google Preformance Matrixes and still some page loads are slow – I think there are some server issues – I’ve adopted a lot of advanced caching and proxy techniques, along with compression and other plug-ins to help make the blog load faster and more reliably, as lately I’ve had a lot of issues with downtime and getting pounded by the AI models looking for content to feed their models. 🤖 I am using more optimization, caching and SEO plug-ins to help speed things up and less DIY, roll my own solutions, though I don’t like how much of those plug-ins are about marketing, standardization, and the upsell. While all WordPress plug-ins are written in PHP AFAIK and you can change the source code to get rid of the obnoxious messages and features you don’t want, some ways I still prefer to roll my own, 🖥️ though I know professionally-written plug-ins are much better then anything I would write myself. I just hate all that commercial advertising crap. 🤡