The calendar says it’s a Friday 🗓️

I feel like that’s probably an accurate fact as I drove in on Tuesday, there was the Farmers Market on Wednesday and I rode down to the park and last night I retired to bed pretty early with the skies dark and rain coming. And most destinctively, it’s going to rain tomorrow which means it’s going to be a Saturday.

How much rain we get tomorrow is very much up in the air, 🌧️ though I Know a lot of people want more then less as they didn’t get the rain here that they got back in Finger Lakes when I was on vacation. Could be an inch, maybe less depending on the models. Still hoping to get out early tomorrow, ride out to Five Rivers 🐦 to look at the birdies and the wildflowers. 🌻 In the evening get to Walmart for oil and a filter so I can get that done on Saturday. Technically I could wait longer on the filter but figuring I probably shouldn’t be changing my oil right after eye surgery and I don’t want to have to stay home just because my oil is due for a change. 🛠️ Plenty of other shit to break on that truck.

At around 5 AM when I started the black beans 🫘 on the stove, I could really smell that pollen on the air. 🌾 That stunk. Didn’t sleep great last night despite early bed time 🛏️, probably too much coffee ☕. As the rain clouds passed by, 🌫️ things weren’t that bad and indeed I did lay back in the bed until around 6 AM when I made cornmeal pancakes with probably too much Stevia but also a lot of zucchuni and onions. So they were good. The beans should be done soon, which I’ll drain them, shower 🚿 then ride on in this morning. 🚲 Even if I was feeling lazy, I don’t really have the option to do that bus thing anymore as it’s no more. 🚍 Riding home on the gorge trail, they were definately manuring one of fields 💩 along the trail before the rain last night, to get that nutrients soaked into hay or maybe silage grounds.

Misplaced my headphones 🎧 this morning and was desperately looking for them but I found them. Days aren’t the same in the office as I code without headphones. Kind of wish I wasn’t so achy but I have to ride in so hopefully soon I’ll be feeling better. No bus anymore!

I guess no COVID shot this year, 💉 though I will get my flu shot in a few weeks before the season is underway. Seems kind of silly that you can’t just get both at the same time, it’s hardly much more pain and there isn’t a lot of evidence that the COVID shot is particularly harmful. I don’t like vaccination mandates, but also getting COVID for Christmas 🎄 last year was hardly fun even if I was fully vaccinated. Whatever, the whole thing is kind of silly in my mind at least.

While I am staying home this weekend, 🏡 one of the next two weekends I do want to get out of town because in three weeks is the big snip 👀 of my eyes. But I’ll be glad to no longer have the irritation in my eyes or be dependent on my contacts or worse glasses 👓 like some kind of addict. Next weekend or maybe the weekend after I’ll do Rennselaerville or maybe the Greens. We will see. Probably Columbus Day Weekend with a few days tacked on in advance I’ll do the St. Regis Canoe Area 🛶. Looking forward to exploring the rail trail 🚲 and getting to that part of the Adirondacks – I haven’t been that far north since the pandemic.