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Andy Arthur

October and already the leaves are fading away in the Adirondacks. 🍂 Most shocking to me is that we are less then a month away from November, which in many ways should be a sigh of relief with the craziness of work and with the deep blue skies and crisp days of that month.

Clearing out after the rain ☔

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Last night was clear until well after bed time when it rained for a while. It was foggy this morning but by eight the blue skies returned. Breezy but clear.

It’s nice to wake up another morning in the wilderness. 🌄 It’s quite autumn like this morning with a reasonable amount of color. 🍁 I’ll probably head out riding in a bit 🚵 and do some reading 📖 and just thinking 💭 and dreaming today.

Yesterday was such a busy day with remote work 💻 and I already have more label 🏷️ and data jobs to run but I’m thinking most of them can wait until Sunday. I’m thinking I can process a bunch of them all at once at the Rennselaerville Library. Plus I don’t know how much solar ☀️ I get at this campsite. 🏕️ Especially in the autumn with the leaves still on the trees 🌲 but the sun angle quite low. 📐

Continue to be a bit annoyed by the Drive Safe and Save app. 📵 It just complains every time I turn off the Bluetooth or enable power saving, and loves to remind me it’s willing to record a trip ⏺️, every time I am drunk or high as duck 🦆. What for? Saving $50 every six months – less than $10 a month. I get it if it inspires me to avoid crashes good but it seems to ding me for hard braking so randomly and never gets me for actual bad driving 🚘 like those almost crunch moments on the road 💥 or when I look down and see I’m actually speeding by quite a bit. It’s like riding my bike 🚲 to work to avoid paying the bus 🚌 fare or eating whatever crap is at the campaign committee to save on food at home. 🍲 Not that even waves money 💰 in the long run. I know, spend money on what you actually care about and not on the other crap.

Just kind of a cool and breezy morning today, ☀️ taking it slow, doing a lot of reading 📖. Trying to learn everything I can about the Rust programming language but truth is I just need to sit down and write code. You can be an expert on the borrow checker but it’s meaningless without practice. But it’s a cool morning. I do want to ride over to Mount Pisagh later on an to the OSI Parcel of Cheese 🧀 Hill and just enjoy the colors and the beauty of the day. It’s a Saturday so the pace of work slows down a bit but I do have a bunch of data jobs to process but maybe the can wait until Sunday.