Triggered but I need a weekend in the wilderness 🏕️

So yeah, yesterday was an interesting and crazy day. I typed 1 AM rather then 1 PM into the robo dialer and one of the member’s calls went out at 1 AM. I explained to everybody what happened and thought up a way to kill the daemon on the server to make sure it’s never running after hours. Then it was just crazy with so many things flying past my desk yesterday. Kept it together, rode home and packed for camping.

It didn’t help that I came home and the first thing on my social media feed was of course the meme about how stupid renters are, and that if you rent you are going to live a life of poverty, soon to be tossed out in the street with no equity or savings. But I don’t want be stuck home all the time to feed hogs, mow grass or be up on the roof making repairs. Someday, yes. Next up will be the social media posts about how if you don’t drive a 20 year old Honda Civic, you’ll forever be living a life of poverty, might as well start searching the dumpsters for spoiled cans of cat food if you want to eat. And of course the wheels of your car are going to fall off as the internet shows because you ignored that noise. I really should stay off social media, the stuff the feeds you are such crap. And then just endless pictures of cows and hogs from the millions of farms and homesteads across America. Soon it will be all about chopping corn silage for the ladies. At least I’ve pretty much blocked the political crap.

It wasn’t a bad day yesterday even if it was crazy. When I finally got out of the office at 5:15 PM or so completely frazzled and insane, I looked at the radar and skies and saw a thunderstorm barreling down on me. I figured I’d be south of it and I started to ride home but when I got down to Corning’s Preserve, it started to rain and I didn’t want to get caught in a wicked thunderstorm, so I bellyed up to the SUNY World Headquarters Bus Stop thinking I’d put my bike on the bus, but it was late and it didn’t rain and I ended up riding all the way and not paying the Woke Bus Company. Plus I’m pissed at the Woke, because they’re taking away my express bus come two weeks from now, while I’m out in the Finger Lakes. Not that I bus it in much during the summer months, instead preferring to bike in both ways. But if I want to use transit to get to work when I return from summer vacation, I’ll be taking the yokel bus to work both ways, unless I get the very early last remaining Voorheesvile bus downtown.

While I am kind of tired of Piseco-Powley Road that’s probably where I will end up this weekend. 🏊 I did Schoharie last weekend and I was going to do White House but it’s going to hot this weekend and I want to do the Potholers and float on the East Canada Creek before the summer is done. ⭕ Losing daylight quickly now, and I have some books to read through, and then in a week and half I’ll be out to Finger Lakes, God willing, through Labor Day. Then it’s September. In September I generally do things like Rensselearville State Forest, or maybe I’ll do Charles Baker or the Greens as it rapidly gets too cold for swimming. 🌲🌳 Maybe shoot myself some tree rats 🐿️ hang out. No remote work this year though. Then October after my eyes heal, I want to do a trip up to the St. Regis Canoe Area 🛶 and paddle some of the lakes in the fall foliage and ride a bunch of the Adirondack Rail Trail they’ve built from Tupper Lake to Saranac Lake, or we’ll converted from the old rail grade.