January 1, 2016 evening

Good evening. Partly cloudy and about freezing. Hate these dark, damp days of late? It’s going to be partly sunny tomorrow and around 39 degrees. Still a bit of a breeze but not bad for January. Lake effect continues to our west. Cold weather comes for Monday and Tuesday but not unreasonable for this time of year.

Went for a walk down to the park this afternoon. Not many folks there, kind of cold, dark, and gray today. Spent some time working on various pieces of code for the blog and map making. Pretty quiet day, as I was stuck in town without a car and the library was closed. Sometimes quiet days are nice. Been listening to some podcasts this evening and making some maps.

January 1, 2016 morning

Good morning. Happy New Year on this morning of 2016. Currently 34 degrees and partly cloudy to start off your New Year. Next few days are expected to reach around 40 with more sun on Saturday and Sunday. Colder weather and sunnier comes in for Monday and Tuesday, with higher expected around 24 degrees for both days. Mild weather but cloudier returns for the second half of the week.

Today I’ll probably work on some more coding and head down to the town park. Maybe work on some things around the apartment. Still somewhat recovering from my cold. Tomorrow looks nicer, so I’m thinking I will hike out to Five Rivers Education Center in the morning.

Next weekend looks cold and snowy but we will see. My guess is my next trip will wait for Martin Luther King Jr Day Weekend but we will see. Still have plenty of 2016 left to do stuff and by April the weather gets fairly mild.

January 1, 2016 early morning

Good morning. Happy 2016. Currently 37 degrees and overcast this evening but with a chilly breeze. So the new year is upon us, although honestly many of us would like to put it behind us, so that the political silly season is behind us.

My failing truck meant that I didn’t really get to do anything special for New Years. Damn thing wouldn’t start again when I got to Sears to buy shirts and I had to get it jump started and leave it at the garage. Being the holiday weekend, I won’t see the truck back until Monday or Tuesday. Hopefully things will be back running by then again. It could have been worse, I could have been stranded in the Adirondacks without cellphone service, hoping a trooper or someone else could give me a ride. Sucks, but I don’t think we are talking about thousands in repairs. Probably a few hundred at the most. I swear cars never work properly. I haven’t been posting much lately because of my frustration and need to cuss at the world.

Went out to my parent’s house today for their annual cheese fondue. They’ve been doing it for some three decades or so. It’s delicious as ever but rough on the stomach and rear end hours later.

Been working on some new code for the blog and map making, although I’m spending a lot of time just relearning the ins and outs of object oriented coding, because I have done much coding in a long time. I have a long list of blog fixes and improvements I want to make during the winter months of 2016.

I don’t think I missed that much not camping in the Adirondacks this weekend. My tent is not a four season tent, so I would worry that if we got a lot of lake effect snow while camping it could knock down the tent. The gray skies and wind wouldn’t make camping much fun at any rate. I looked at camping locally but that wasn’t as practical as first thought. We will see when the next time I’m out in the woods camping – the snow is getting deep in many places, seasonal places are closed, and the weather may be too cold. We will see. It’s January. I do have a three day weekend off for Martin Luther King Jr Day but that tends to be a quite frigid time of the year.

December 31, 2015 morning

Good morning. Currently 40 degrees and partly sunny. Going to cloud up more for the evening, and drop down to 30 degrees. Not much lake effect snow, but it’s expected to pick up by evening, leaving 6-12 inches of snow in much of the Western Adirondacks as the new year gets underway.