Orthodox New Year 2016 Night

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Good evening. Currently we have a brief snow shower coming through and 29 degrees in Delmar. Warm enough this evening I saw a kid and running outdoors on the sidewalk with nothing but gym shorts. Then again, when you run like that you must burn a lot of calories. But even for me on the evening walk, I needed no more than my Carhartt vest unzipped and a sweater. No breeze this evening makes it feel a lot warmer than recent nights.

Tonight will have occasional isolated snow showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation, most likely snow showers, is 20%.

Earlier this evening we had a rather pretty waxing crescent moon which was quite pretty but now has set. Tomorrow’s sunrise will be at 7:22 am with first light at 6:51 am, which is one minute and 28 seconds earlier then today. It certainly is a good thing the days are getting longer as these dark mornings are darn hard to wake up to.

Went down to the library and wasted some time on the Internet. Downloaded some updated GIS data from data.ny.gov website . Read a few articles but mostly killed time on Facebook as I’m fried from work today.

Tomorrow I’ll probably go to the store and go shopping for this weekend camping. Not perfect weather for winter camping in the Adirondacks but it will be decent. If the weather doesn’t work out or it gets too cold, I’ll just come home. I’ll be tent camping and will have to carry my gear back to the site, by fortunately where I plan to camp, the sites are all close to a state road that is regularly plowed and sanded all winter long.

I hope you had a good Thursday. Sleep well! Friday and the weekend are rapidly approaching.

Orthodox New Year 2016 Evening

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Good evening. Currently overcast and 29 degrees in Albany. Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. Light and variable wind.

Tonight we have a waxing crescent moon, setting at 10:22 pm. Not sure if you will see much of the moon with the clouds. Friday will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the morning. The warmer weather will be nice.

I left my truck at the Delaware Avenue Park and Ride so I’m taking the local Delaware Ave bus out to Delmar which is crawling along in traffic . It’s rush hour. I actually prefer sometime working late then taking the congested local home.

It’s been a long week, but I’m glad that Friday is tomorrow. Really looking forward to the long weekend and getting out of town. And I’m just glad every day we are getting closer to spring.

Besides camping, there is few things I like better than going down to the park with a good book and sitting on the hill overlooking the ice skating rink. Evenings in the 70s and the sun setting after 7 PM can’t be that far away. I also look forward to weekends spent up at the Potholers and Piseco Powley Road.

Orthodox New Year 2016 Morning

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Good morning! Happy Orthodox New Year! Currently mostly cloudy and 20 degrees in Delmar. Today will have a slight chance of snow before 9am, then a chance of flurries after 9am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 29. Light and variable wind becoming west around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.Sunset will be at 4:46 pm with twilight at 5:17 pm which is one minute and 9 seconds later then yesterday.

There are 1 month, 1 day until It’s Presidents Day. Every day we get closer to spring time. This day in 1969, An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.

Dropped off my jacket and overcoat at the dry cleaner to get cleaned. Apparently they are open on Martin Luther King Day, so I can pick it up after I return from camping. Also bought more coffee from Hannaford. Most of the way to work today.

While it’s an early start this morning, I expect today will be a lot less crazy at work today. The day should go by quickly. And then the weekend should be upon us before you know it.