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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: Severence Hill Trail

Corporate America’s Profits Are Booming—and Signal More Good Times Ahead – WSJ

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Corporate America’s Profits Are Booming—and Signal More Good Times Ahead – WSJ

Profits are booming at America’s biggest companies—and their leaders say that likely won’t change soon.

From Target and J.M. Smucker to farm-equipment maker Deere, companies spanning the breadth of the U.S. economy are ringing up heftier sales and earnings. In recent days, many have raised financial outlooks for the year, citing robust sales as just one of the reasons.

Chalk the good times up to a confluence of fortunate events: red-hot artificial-intelligence spending, federal spending and the windfall companies are getting in the form of refunds of some of their past tariff payments. Plus, a booming stock market and high home values are helping many shoppers keep spending, even as plenty of others struggle to absorb rising prices.