Day: August 14, 2024

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Blackie Rides Again ๐Ÿšฒ

It could have been yesterday but I didnโ€™t feel like driving to work. Itโ€™s three days off the road not the end of the world. Gave me an excuse to get in a bunch of walking yesterday, and those days are over now. Riding to work tomorrow, got meetings all afternoon downtown.

Rode out to Five Rivers ๐Ÿธ and read for a while before heading back home with darkness coming earlier and earlier. ๐Ÿ“– Didnโ€™t take the fastest route back home but itโ€™s pitch black by 8:45 at this point. Autumn is rapidly approaching. ๐ŸŒƒ Itโ€™s nice to be back on the road. I drove in today and it wasnโ€™t bad except for that OGS Employee at the pump station who I wasnโ€™t sure if he was going to back into me.  ๐Ÿ’ฅ I forget when you donโ€™t drive regularly that near misses and blushes with death โ˜  are a normal part of motoring. Maybe I should get that recalled passenger air bag inflator replaced. ๐ŸŽˆ

Nice moon lit evening for sitting out back ๐ŸŽ‘ though itโ€™s getting late and I should head into bed ๐Ÿ› soon. Fried egg plant ๐Ÿ† with onions and tofu for dinner. Then after the ride, banana ๐ŸŒ and shredded oatmeal with some sugar free maple ๐Ÿ syrup. Good enough of a dinner and snack. Itโ€™s really getting late and I said I would be in the office ๐Ÿข by eight tomorrow โฐ and damn sure Iโ€™m riding in. Once this track is done on the Peter, Paul and Mary album. ๐Ÿ’ฟ

I was happy as a pig ๐Ÿฝ in shit ๐Ÿ’ฉ that I could get baking powder in an all plastic container at Price Chopper. Not only did I need baking powder, I hate the aluminum and paper containers that after you burn ๐Ÿ”ฅ them you have to pick the aluminum out of the fire. I can also in theory recycle โ™ป such things but we all known itโ€™s a scam and in the fire it fully disappears down to nothing. Donโ€™t tell a liberal that. I also got grapes ๐Ÿ‡ and bananas ๐ŸŒ so I can continue to rot out my teeth. ๐Ÿฆท Smoking all that grass โ€“ all $40 of it this summer โ€“ makes me think a lot about what is right and wrong and the bull shit we all live in especially after my trip to BFE Pennsyltucky a few weeks back. ๐Ÿ˜‚

I want to get out camping this weekend again ๐ŸŒง๏ธ, but I donโ€™t think the weather will cooperate though the forecast seems to be improving. I guess I donโ€™t need that much gear for Schoharie but also I see summer fading away so quickly. ๐Ÿ– ๐Ÿ‘‰ ๐Ÿ‚ And I donโ€™t know if it will be the last summer of my youth. Iโ€™m still looking at finding a home ๐Ÿก but then that will be it and days of travel and enjoying summer will be replaced with fixing the plaster and hauling buckets of grain out to hogs ๐Ÿฝ and caring for the grass, yes the kind you smoke. Thatโ€™s the only kind I approve of besides the kind out in pasture for the cattle to graze on. ๐Ÿฎ One of my elementary school ๐Ÿšธ colleagues is selling a batch of feeder pigs ๐Ÿ– if your interested. Never fried zucchini in bacon ๐Ÿฅ“ fat and cannabis but Iโ€™ve heard itโ€™s good. Next week are taking us out to 677 Prime, that hundred ๐Ÿ’ฏ dollar a plate ๐Ÿฝ steakhouse ๐Ÿฅฉ and they wanted to know if I still eat meat. Housekeeping is paying. Not regularly, but there is an exception for everything. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I have been thinking more about finding Zen. ๐Ÿชท At one time I used to think Zen was just another excuse for crass commercialism and not caring about tomorrow. But after reading ๐Ÿ“– and crying over the Art and Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance, ๐Ÿ smoking some grass ๐Ÿฆ— and listening to the Grateful Dead ๐ŸŽธ, Iโ€™m starting to realize itโ€™s something different. You can care about today while being responsible for tomorrow. Iโ€™m really hoping that a week from Friday I can get off from work and be fully off the grid and spend the day studying the clouds โญ• all day from the tube on the East Canada Creek. It might be the last time of the year. I do plan to get to Speculator for Labor Day Weekend but Iโ€™m sure that will be a remote work trip as will be most of the autumn trips. ๐Ÿ‚ Now if they can only get the internet working on the snazzy work laptop. ๐Ÿ–ฅ

โ€œI need a song, but the spring is for sowing
A word to the wise that the Earth must provide
A tomb to untangle the riddle of growing
First things first when you get to the landโ€

Time Marches on into Autumn ๐Ÿ‚

Upcoming Sunsets:

7:45 pm sunset โ€“ Friday, August 23
7:30 pm sunset โ€“ Sunday, September 1
7:15 pm sunset โ€“ Monday, September 9
7:00 pm sunset โ€“ Wednesday, September 18
6:45 pm sunset โ€“ Thursday, September 26
6:30 pm sunset โ€“ Saturday, October 5
6:15 pm sunset โ€“ Monday, October 14
6:00 pm sunset โ€“ Thursday, October 24
Standard Time Begins โ€“ Sunset on Sunday, November 3 is at 4:46 pm
4:45 pm sunset โ€“ Monday, November 4
4:30 pm sunset โ€“ Tuesday, November 19
Earliest Sunset โ€“ Monday, December 9 at 4:23 pm
4:30 pm sunset โ€“ Thursday, December 26

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