The times are a changing

For good or for worse that’s to be decided, but I do like Daylight Savings Time as it means I won’t be riding home in the dark, and it’s a sign that spring is coming. Or so I tell myself. And I look at the forecast and it looks nice for the next week, warm enough I can probably turn off the heat and probably even open the windows up a bit during the day time.

Maybe midweek I’ll need the heat on a bit during the night, but it’s obvious what trend is occurring and it won’t be pitch black until 7:30 or maybe a little bit before. With days potentially reaching the mid-60s by mid-week and more light in the evening and the rail trail hopefully soon free from snow and ice I’ll be able to ride out to Voorheesville after work, or whatever as a way to get a few more miles in.riding and enjoying Five Rivers or the Bender Mellon Farm.

Nice thing now with the time change is more light in the evening, which is good if I want to head out of town after work. I am thinking of getting up to Adirondacks in April but I can’t do that Easter Weekend so I’ll have to figure out what makes sense. Maybe take of one or two days from work. I guess I could take off a Thursday and head north then. Then spend the weekend maybe doing some fishing and hiking. I miss spending time in the wilderness.

Yesterday with the wind I ended up sticking inside and doing a lot of reading, listening to and discovering new music and watching some Youtube. I’ve been reading a few books about sustainable building and homesteading along with a book on Javascript. I also was playing with map making and some new ideas I have idea for projects using R, but nothing all that concrete for making maps. I thought about going to the library, but with that wind and my desire to be lazy and now shower and get so changed, so I decided to stay home. I did some cleaning around in the kitchen, and now I really need to wash my sticky and generally gross kitchen floors. Still working on the taxes. I’m thinking I’ll be getting a refund but I want to double check things. I’ll pay the $8 to do the state taxes online. The federal ones are free with the online service I use. I could do a paper form and submit it by mail but I think the chances of mistakes are greater and by the time you figure the cost of postage and envelope.

I think I’m going to head to Walmart in a bit, before the crowds to stock up on the weekly groceries. I don’t want to get there too early because they won’t be stocked up. First I need to shower. Then after the groceries are unpacked, I really should wash those floors. And clean the bathroom sink. It’s got a lot more gross since I got the electric toothbrush as I spit and foam my mouth a lot more with it and I’m not always perfect at getting spit in the sink and getting things cleaned up. Then I got to get the compost and cans in bottles in my truck to bring out to my parents house, and the burnables outside before they start to stink with the heat coming this week. Can’t wait until I do some camping.

Been having problems with emojis on my computer displaying properly the past few days. Kind of sucks because I like using emojis in my blog posts. Seems like a font issue, maybe I just need to get on the internet somewheres and do another update. I checked and the emoji fonts are loading and I added them as priority in font config file with not much luck.