Figured burn off some calories from dinner. I do want to get home relatively early so I can put away my laundry and be asleep by nine so I can be up by five.

It’s been a good day. 🍏 Apple picking was fun with dad, I really need to cherish these moments. I’ve somewhat grown apart from my parents, I’m not them, and they have in many ways adopted the world view common in the elderly. They’re liberal but in a fixed, hardened kind of way. I’m more conservative but I also see both sides working in politics. Took home a ton of apples and tomatoes 🍅, lots of good eating. 😋 Forgot to get maple 🍁 syrup and I didn’t have room on the bike for eggs 🥚 or flour but I’ll stop on the way home on the bicycle 🚲.

They let me drop my cans 🥫 off for recycling ♻ in their ever so proud of trash service and after that my trash cans have a lot more room, much of it now is the shitter / compost bucket I store outside. I got groceries, 🛒 spend a lot of time outdoors hiking and thinking 💭. Mom was suggesting that I take the notary test and become a notary public. $60 for four years plus $15 for the test and I don’t know, maybe $25 for the stamp.📃 It’s another skill to have.

I see that Friday is the 13th which is silly but I’m a bit paranoid of that day 🙄 as it’s the one I got expelled from college 🎓 two decades ago now. All for a discussion of academic freedom. A lot has changed in two decades since I was a rebellious college student to these days as a pot smoking director. I’m thinking of remote working from Vermont that day 💚 but I sort of don’t want to be so far away from home lest something goes terribly wrong. 🏕 I’ve thought about working remotely and camping in the Green Mountain ⛰ National Forest from Thursday or Friday through Monday but it depends on the weather, how I feel and having good cell 📱 service. I’m sure Bennington has a nice library 📚 to work from.