Vacation can be exhausting 😴

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Vacation can be exhausting 😴

Even though I’ve been trying to take my vacation easy, trying to sleep in, taking mornings easy, camping in one campsite most of the week, and keeping a laid back schedule, it always seems like after a week camping I am feeling so exhausted.

Maybe it’s the time in the sun or the alcohol. Maybe it’s because its more work to camp than to sit at home where I have running water and a shower. Maybe it’s the moving gear between the cab and cap of the truck – and securing the campsite before I leave, but it’s still so tiring. Seems like a job every day.

A lot of people I know when they do vacation, they eat out every meal and stay in a motel room. But I don’t know, that sure feels a lot like work travel. I don’t want to rely on strangers, I don’t want to stay in some weird place when I do that enough for work. Staying in my truck or in my tent, just feels like I’m in a more comfortable place that some random motel room.

Off-Grid homestead the 3 rs

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Off-Grid homestead the 3 rs

7/25/21 by Charley King

Episode: https://anchor.fm/s/9522f48/podcast/play/37816998/sponsor/an6dgh,aan2vs/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2021-07-26%2F4d534dfab997dc786e25d2131fe855c9.m4a

Today we talk about reuse, repurpose and recycle.

It seems like so much of the green living movement these days is about buying shit to be sustainable. Got to have the right kind of plastic for the burn barrel or landfill I guess, as your buying to be sustainable. It’s stupid. If you care about the environment buy less shit and get it second hand if you absolutely need it. But remember where it’s going shortly. Common sense can save you a lot of money and help the environment much more than making some kind of green fashion statement.

Good Evening – July 30, 2021

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Happy Weekend! Out walking along Rock Cut Road observing nature and the scenery of the Catharine Creek Marsh. 🐦

I know the USGS still calls it Bad Indian Swamp, but the new name seems so much more organic. 🐸 Certainly it is located at the end of the Catharine Creek before it becomes Seneca Lake. Also makes it sound like a good place to protect and not bury under garbage. In prehistoric times, the entire marsh was under water. Then part of it was landfilled to build an air strip, part of it drained for muck farming. But a lot of it has been protected and restored in recent years.

Mostly sunny and 68 degrees at the Catharine Creek Marsh Wildlife Management Area ☀. There is a north-northwest breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 53 degrees. Very clear with deep blue skies this evening. Today was an amazing day for hiking.

The bulk of the day was spent at Sugar Hill, 🗻 which I am glad to see is in good repair. So often it seems like state facilities are just falling apart left and right. 🏚️ The Finger Lakes Trail takes you through some nice back country and it was fantastic to see the fire tower fully restored and open through the cabin. I have lots of good photos on my other camera 📸, I’ll post Monday.

Then I went back to Watkins Glen Pool fit a swim 🏊🏻‍♂️ mostly to shower 🚿 and wash off the sweat 👹. But despite the cool weather, the pool was actually fairly pleasant as it was warmer than the air. But once I got out of the pool I was ready for a quick towel dry and fresh clothes.

Then I went for a walk 🚶🏻 along Rock Cut Road observing nature 🐦. Beautiful area, not a lot of traffic on a Friday evening 🌃 as it’s always so dusty as pickups pass by. Been thinking about paddling 🛶 tomorrow in the marsh. I want to watch the sun set at Seneca Lake one more time, so once I make it to Airport Road Trail I’m going to head back to the lake.

Why Printers Add Secret Tracking Dots

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Why Printers Add Secret Tracking Dots

At that point, experts began taking a closer look at the document, now publicly available on the web. They discovered something else of interest: yellow dots in a roughly rectangular pattern repeated throughout the page. They were barely visible to the naked eye, but formed a coded design. After some quick analysis, they seemed to reveal the exact date and time that the pages in question were printed: 06:20 on 9 May, 2017 – at least, this is likely to be the time on the printer’s internal clock at that moment. The dots also encode a serial number for the printer.

These “microdots” are well known to security researchers and civil liberties campaigners. Many colour printers add them to documents without people ever knowing they’re there.