Good morning, Happy Hump Day After Primary Day ☀️

The sun is shining and it’s a beautiful morning but I’m busing it in as I have a Save the Pine Bush Meeting to go to after work. And then Thursday looks like rain, but Friday I’ll be back to biking it to work.

Thinking next week will be only a one day to ride to work, 🚲 as I want to take off Wednesday and Thursday, and leave work early next Tuesday in the SuperDuty F-350 to get bacon 🥓 at For the Love of Bacon, 🐷 and then head north. Speculator likely, but with the forecast pushing towards the warm side of things, the Potholers sound nice for a few days before heading north to Moose River Plains. 🏕️ It will be nice to finally put the SuperDuty to work, though first I need to get gas. ⛽

It was a long night last night, 🚌 ended up getting the bus home and then driving the SuperDuty back to election night event. 🗳️ People voted, shit happens. 💩 What can I say, America is becoming Trump Country, both on the left and right. Kind of fun, in an entertaining way, though you would hope that government would be run by adults and not teenagers on Instagram. I don’t even know who won the judge race, though I probably should care as it may very well impact what happens should Save the Pine Bush 🌲 end up in court trying to save the last remaining acres of Pine Bush from being bulldozed. I do like how the headlights auto dim at night on SuperDuty, it makes night driving much pleasant. ☺️

This weekend I want to get over to Rensselaer County to get fireworks 🎇 to light off when I’m up to work, you know sparklers and ground fountains that fit into my budget, which ain’t much plus more gas for the SuperDuty ⛽ as I let it get low hoping for cheaper gas prices. I’ll probably get $50 for the weekend, and fill ‘r up in Rotterdam when I get bacon heading north next Tuesday. Maybe Papacanee Island and some of the Albany Electric Trail on the Mountain Bike 🚵‍♂️ and then East Greenbush Wally World for food, supplies, and sparklers 🎇 before heading home. Sunday go out to my parents house fairly early to clean out and photograph Big Red and get hims ready to sell. 🪧

I was up early making pinto beans 🫘, rice and lentils for lunch, but it didn’t help that a bunch of police 🚨 cars came roaring through at 5 AM with sirens going and I found it hard to get back to sleep. 😴 I’m going to be tired in the office today, but I expect a relatively quiet day. It’s really too bad I can’t ride the bike to work today, 🚲 it’s going to be a beautiful day. Been learning about MapLibre GL, I want to eventually switch the blog over to that for beautiful, interactive 3D maps 🗺️ to replace Leaflet Maps I currently use, but it’s API is quite different and there is a lot to learn. 🤓

On that note, as Steely Dan sung a half century  ago, “Your ever lasting summer, you can see it fading fast…”