Is the Long Weekend here yet? I can’t complain as my plan is to be heading north on Friday before work, setting up camp and probably working down at the Speculator Library. At least that’s the plan, though things could change.

Things have just been busy. It’s getting to that time of year, and there is hardly a minute without an email popping in the email box. Of course, it does help that I’ve become fairly good at coding and usually write a short little script to handle a complex tasks. I’ve also been tired recovering from a fun weekend.

Pancakes this morning, though I didn’t added carrots this time. I still have a few carrots left at home and I admit adding carrots adds a lot of bulk to the pancakes without a lot of calories, but its fine I had lots of syrup and frozen cherries and other fruit on the top. Last night was cornmeal and onion pancakes and sardines before I went to the store. Sardines are super healthy, without a lot of toxins and but loaded with omega-3 healthy fats and calcium.

After dinner, I rode down to Hannaford and got some eggs, frozen fruit and onions. 🧅 I basically live on onions and summer squash all summer long. Tomorrow I’ll ride uptown and go to the farmers market, and maybe visit the colleagues at the downtown office. I was pretty tired, and with it getting dark early, I headed to bed after I got home, knowing I would be up early in the morning to head to work around 7 AM so I could be in the office before 8 AM. Woke up to a dream last night, I don’t remember exactly what it was about but I put on WAMC on my phone and went back to sleep. One of the side-effects of being stoned up in wilderness, is you don’t really dream when you are asleep, only when you’re awake.

Then it’s been the usual, 🪴 listening to the Grateful Dead and an E-Book about indoor growing of pot. I really don’t smoke that much, outside of around the campfire or the hammock, but it’s just such a fun topic to explore. Cannabis really is an agricultural product, growing good weed is much like any crop, so I’m told. I mean I’m not thinking of starting a pot farm right away, but it’s fascinating. And fun, high times. I wonder if that’s why I forgot to export the city field when I created that mail list yesterday. Always blame it on the drugs and not the manic pace of the office yesterday where I was typing %>% and writing R code like a manic monkey.

Some people are just happy to get stoned, but I am just fascinated about the psychology of the brain and how it’s impacts one body, and how to maximize the experience while being responsible. I’ve always had some interested in pyschology and how the mind works but now I want to learn more to make sure I can be more creative, 🌈 and more of a thinker. Plus I don’t want to do unnecessary harm. I want to learn everything I can learn.

I am thinking it’s time to look at ordering a new bike chain on my bike, before the old one really starts chewing up the gear set again. I have close to 2,000 miles on the chain after it was replaced in April and I’ve noticed it’s gotten a bit noiser a times, though some of it was a frozen/muddy/rusty link that oil and some riding freed up, but I know I’m due to a change soon. Chains are inexpensive, the gears ain’t. I have a chain rivet extraction tool and quite possibly a chain at home but I’m not sure if it’s the right chain for my bike. But I think I should be able to fix myself. I’m also thinking I need to look at replacing the pedals soon, the ones that are sqweaking at times and I’m worried a bearing is starting to fail and I don’t want to happen out on the trail or commuting.