Going to walk down to the library shortly and work remote for the balance of the day, though if it’s like so many of these days, I’ll probably end up hopping into the SuperDuty and into the office on what is supposed to be my remote work day. Whatever, I need to get some supplies from Wally World. Next week, fingers crossed for Madison County.
I have ton of emails and stuff to go through from work, ✉️ but I started at 5:30 AM yesterday and pretty much worked non-stop until 5:30 PM yesterday so I’m ignoring them until I get to the library this morning with laptop to work. And then I’ll get on to to it all. I had hoped to get out to Madison County to ride trail 🚲 at the Horse Camp 🐴 and maybe shoot some tree rats for dinner 🐿️ but the rain is going to turn to wind and snow flurries later on, and I’m not ready for winter yet. Next weekend is going to be in the 60s and sunny, so I might go out to the Horse Camp then even if the leaves are well past peak then. But I’m sure still some color left in the lower valleys.
Today even if I work from home, it will be remarkably busy. ✅ I thought I got a lot of things off my check list yesterday, but as they say, the hits just keep on coming with the email box. All the Early Mailer voter lists were initially done but targets keep changing and things need to be fixed. And other mailings and lists need to be processed as do work for one of the other campaigns I’m managing. 💾 Just got to keep the data flowing and the code ticking along without too many errors. Soon enough, these days will beyond us. ⌛ Maybe after getting away last week to the Adirondacks I was freaking out less by time fading away quickly, but I also haven’t seen Mom and Dad in two weeks. But hopefully this weekend as I’m not planning to head out of town.
Last night in the middle of the night I kept waking and smelling the mold downstairs. It was kind of gross, but I think it was due to the pounding rain and wind into the evening. Rain is letting up before I walk down to the library to work, but more is expected later on. 🛌 While I don’t miss the noise from the 25-year old backfiring Honda Civics, 🚘 I do miss the fresh air, though certainly come this afternoon into the weekend when the front comes through the windows will need to be closed. 💨 It’s expected to be real cold tonight into tomorrow with roaring wind. I should see if cleaning under the stove will help, that’s real gross the last time I looked under there. I think since the sink was fixed many years ago, the moisture problem is less bad, but my apartment has always had mold issues, and the walls bowed out from the foundation, so both moisture, water, and mice get in. 🐭 It’s a cheap apartment, what can I say. Certainly not one of those suburban plastic houses full of garbage that people talk about being so nice. And of course when you wake up in the middle of the night, 😴 all you hear is ads for “See What You Need is Better Help” and of course “So Fat Mattresses”.
Tomorrow I’ll probably stay close to home 🏚 and Sunday go out to see the folks. Either today or tomorrow I want to hook up the new inverter, and get that ready to go in the truck. 🌬 Tomorrow is going to be cold and blustery, I am tempted to pull out the electric blanket, and maybe go to Wally World and get some duct seal puddy and caulk to fill in some of the leaks in my apartment before it gets real cold and I actually need the heat. 😰I have bread rising in the oven now, and pinto beans mostly done on the stove – now turned off until I get back home – but then I’ll do some cooking to finish such things up when i get home. 🍞 And then maybe tomorrow ride out on the mountain bike to Five Rivers. 🐦 Do some reading once I gets dark. I could consider going to Salvation Army to look at more work clothes and to possibly look at getting a suitcase – I need one as I’ll be doing a work trip to NYC in a few weeks, and I need something to bring clothes in.
Three weeks from now after the Election is Done, 🗳️ I’m heading up to the woods somewhere for a week until rifle season opens in the Southern Zone. I am not totally sure were, I’ve thought about going as close as just the Green Mountains ⛰️ and all the way south to New River Gorge. I’ve been thinking and researching Southern Ohio though the number of roadside camping locations seems pretty limited both according to Google Gemini and FreeCampsites.net. But maybe I don’t know where are good locations. That website doesn’t know about Canaan Heights in West Virginia, despite being one of my favorite places nested in the Mountain Laurel. Maybe that’s where I’ll end up, 🏕️ and do day trips from there like Dolly Sods, Spruce Knob, Seneca Rocks.
Things I’ve done many times before, but are easy, which is important with the days short. 🌇 But where to overnight on the trip down? It is a long drive to do one day, and I really don’t want to do I-81. Much rather take Bud Shuster’s I-99 to Cumberland MD. Avoid the awful National Disgrace Freeway as much as possible. I guess I could reserve a campsite online at County Bridge to overnight in Pennsylvania, but it’s much more expensive with the online reservation (something like $26 bucks after fees versus the old $10), plus I have to plan ahead. Maybe I do an overnight at Sugar Hill Lower Assembly-area north of Beaver Dams and Corning. Still that adds an hour to my drive on down there, less time to find back roads and poke around parts of Pennsylvania both for scenery and scope out sooty black garbage burning barrels. 🛢️Those gritty Pennsyltucky towns are fun, regardless of smell of burnt plastic and manure. 🐮I just kind of want to get up to camp, and hang out for a week, and not be setting up and taking down campsites more then necessarily. But then again, the Green Mountains are so close, and that would be an easily option. ⛺Mostly I just want some nights in wilderness, and not in the Northern Zone where Deer Season is open. Preferably with cell service, so I can watch videos and waste time on social media during those long November nights. But gas is expensive for my F-350. Maybe I should consider Allegheny National Forest too, I’ve been thinking of riding the Jakes Rock Trail system, plus all those great roads. And it’s been half a decade since I was last out that way. 2021 I believe.
