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Tomorrow the song goes, “Leaving in the SuperDuty…”

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I guess it’s better then the Pope Smokes Dope or whatever I would be singing along riding my mountain bike to work past the garbage recycling plants, sewage treatment works and the old Albany Northend Landfill. And it pissed people off that I burn my garbage and drive a F-350, even if it does make some impressive flames with all that plastic burning, but don’t tell a liberal.

Apple pancakes this morning. 👏 How fast those zucchuni disappear when you have them breakfast and dinner meals plus then summer squash for lunch. 🍆 Hard to argue about enjoying them for the next month while they are still avaliable. Dad gave me a spaghetti squash from his garden to eat, I haven’t cooked it up yet after my freak out about what I though was arcing in my mind after the grease fire last week. And the near choking to death 💀 at 677 Prime on Tuesday. I just fear losing my apartment and having to buy a 25-year old Honda Civic and one of those plastic houses in the suburbs everybody says is so wonderful. I just so love those little off-grid hunting cabins with grunting hogs and burn barrel out back. No more recycling anything but that occassional tin can or other scrap metal 🥫 for me, not that would change much. ♻️ As that dairy farmer I follow notes, manure and silage is smell of home. 🐮

Yesterday was busy, 👨🏼‍💼 so much to do in the office between my two jobs. At least the Communications Moratorium for the legislative side of things starts Friday and things should be much quieter. Remote working on Friday and Monday from Speculator, then I have my doctor’s appointment at 9 AM on Tuesday for my yearly physical, and then I’ll remote work from home or maybe the library, 🖥️ then off to downtown for mid-day meeting and then off to my office in Menands for the balance of the day. The following weekend, who knows, it’s a matter of the weather deciding. I need to study my options for cellphone boosters more. 📶 And also at selling my old truck – I get offers but it’s tough as I am not sure I’m willing to move as much on price as people want me to. I should also list the truck cap seperately.  🤷🏻‍♂️ The money from selling the truck could definately cover the cellphone booster, which would be good for remote work. Won’t help where there is no service but often I camp were service fades in and out.

Tomorrow it’s up north. 🕒 The hope is to get up to Speculator by 9 AM to get right down to work and start running data jobs. 💿 That said, I am making good progress though I might have to re-run some of them with a change, but that’s not a big deal. Set up camp and hammock, 🏕️ work and relax. I am undecided if I will hike Snowy Mountain on Saturday or Sunday, but one of those days. 🥱 Going to fuel up the SuperDuty ⛽ and get groceries tonight, and everything packed except a few things I can’t pack until morning. Double check my list. Monday I’ll probably do some paddling on the Sacandaga River and Lake Pleasant, though I’ve always wanted to explore Indian Lake if it’s relatively calm or maybe some of the Jessup River. 🛶 Not sure! And obviously enjoy some cold beer and smoke some dope, have some fires. 🔥 Because you might have heard a rumor that I like to burn shit. Looks like regardless, it’s going to be a beautiful weekend.  ☀️ Cool but sunny, great weather for hiking, and even paddling, but maybe not so good for swimming or using the tube one last time, ⭕ though I will pack it regardless.

Map: Sand Lake
Map: Harrisburg Roadside Camping

Second half of the hump 🐫

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Might only be Wednesday but on Friday at this time, I’ll be heading up north for the Labor Day Weekend so whatever.

Well except for that piece of steak I choked on last night and had to be helimich maneuvered, 🥩 it was a pretty good day yesterday. I wanted my steak rare, I like my food chewy and with lots of fiber, and it definately was. And the waiter gave me good bear 🧸 hug after several people raced over to save my life. So yeah that happened, and on the bus ride 🚍 I had to pee despite not drinking a lot last night. 🍺 Counting down the minutes until the bus reached my stop, and then a wadle home with a very full bladder, but I made it to the shitter in time. 🧻 I miss being in the woods and peeing whereever. I could have taken the SuperDuty into the reception last night, but I just didn’t want to risk getting a DWI. 🚔 Damn valet lost one of my co-workers keys 🔑 last night.

Ah, yeah so it’s Wednesday. 📆 I hate leaving the office with a stack of work left unaddressed but there is much left to do, so I am heading in pretty early again. 🚴 Need a good bike ride to help with my digestion and burn some calories this morning. Thursday I’ll be busing it as I want to bring my laptop home for Friday through Tuesday’s remote work up north. 👨🏻‍💻 Tuesday I have my physical, at least I’m not dead, so I can attend that. ⚰️ Assuming I do nothing stupid this weekend. I’ve haven’t gotten my hunting license yet, though I’ll be wearing blaze orange 🦺 especially if I’m leaving the trail as people will be out in search for tree rats 🐀 by the weekend, as Labor Day is late. This evening, I might start packing, as Thursday I often get stuck in meetings in the office, though I hope to catch the 5:20 home so it’s plenty of time to run to Wally World and top off the SuperDuty, so I can leave early and hit Speculator by the 9 AM rush of work. 👨🏻‍💻

Onwards, the weekend is rapidly approaching 📰 and the data jobs aren’t going to disappear off my desk until I get in there and start processing them.

I guess we’re getting the rain out of it’s system before the weekend 🌧️

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Labor Day Weekend looks pretty damn good, and soon enough it will be Friday and I’ll be heading up north hoping to get the Hardwood Hill. I didn’t do it last year because it was rainy Labor Day Weekend last year.

The stove has been well behaved, eggs were good with all that fresh veggies from Shauls. Rainy day today so I’m taking the bus to work, plus I have a reception to go to work. 🚍 Adopting the reduced bus schedule not that have much choice in the matter. I’ll probably bus it in a Thursday too because I need to bring my laptop 💻 home as I need it for remote work come Friday from camp 🏕️.

Looks like a beautiful weekend ahead, but obviously it could change. ☀️ Cool up north but it’s already deep into the month of September this Labor Day, the seventh, a there will be some colors starting to change on the trees. Though you could already see the red maples getting red up at Burnt-Rossman Hills over the weekend.

I called and let the DEC know about 📱 down tree 🪾 on Cole Hollow Road and gave them a heads up about Betty Brook Road Bridge deck, which they are planning to replace. I will call the doctor up 🩺 to reschedule my physical appointment tomorrow. I asked for a new time on their website but they didn’t respond. Worse comes to worse, I go to my psychical tomorrow hung over 🍻 whatever.

Like solar, I don’t mind data centers much 🤖

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Fear the Data Centers, we are told. They use a lot of electricity. They change rural character, taking vast amounts of space, they’re noisy.

But I’d argue they are a rural land use. They don’t drive or put many cars on the road, don’t have children, they generally don’t involve a lot of people. They don’t require a lot of cops and firefighters. No curbside garbage pickup or power and gas lines to run to hundreds of little homes. Not much in the way of auto fumes or cats killing all the birds, pesticides or lawn fertilizers.

The big benefit of data centers is they don’t create a lot jobs – which means you don’t have a lot of people out in the country disturbing the wildlife, complaining about the smells of burn barrels and manure, or the some times late night activity that is part of farm life as diesel pickup and tractor do their work.

People often focus overly on aesthetics rather  the often negative impacts that bringing a lot of people, cars, and cats to an area. A big machine that hums along in the background next to a cornfield or a hog barn has a far lower impact then any residential development.

Map: Stone Dam Lake