February 18, 2016 Night

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Good evening. Currently clear and 20 degrees in Delmar. Tonight will be clear, with a low around 12. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Waxing gibbous moon, setting at 3:08 am. Tomorrow’s sunrise will be at 6:45 am with first light at 6:16 am, which is 2 minutes and 28 seconds earlier then today.

Friday will have increasing clouds, with a high near 36. Light southeast wind becoming south 9 to 14 mph in the morning.

I finally bought a digital TV tuner and antenna. It’s just your run of the mill RCA DTV tuner and a GE amplified antenna. It was easy to set up as my monitor is already HDMI and I ran a wire from the analog audio output to my desktop / camp speakers.

I can already see what a time waster television can be but I also look forward to occasionally watching programs on PBS an the alike. The digital picture is super clear on my 1920×1280 23 inch monitor that I use for map making. I get like 20 channels. I am going to get a USB thumb drive tomorrow, so I can use the tuner to save video. Apparently not only does it have the ability to record video, you can play back the video file on a laptop or play movies off a USB stick. Technology is pretty amazing.

I feel kind of guilty about it all but it’s kind of nice to be able to watch TV at home and it really wasn’t that expensive. It really wasn’t much more than a tank of gas before it got cheap. And if I want to just listen I can shut the monitor off and save 31 watts of power. Oh well.

Went down to the library for a while then out for the evening walk. Between a lunch time walk and walking down to the bus stop this morning, I hiked around 7 miles today. Not half bad for a work day.

I hope you had a good day. Sleep well!

February 18, 2016 Evening

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Good evening. Currently clear and 28 degrees in Albany. Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low around 10. North wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Tonight’s Waxing Gibbous Moon with 73% illuminated will set around 3 AM. Monday is the full moon.

Friday will have a chance of rain and snow showers, mainly after 4pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 37. Breezy, with a light southeast wind becoming south 15 to 20 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

In four weeks on March 17 the sun will be setting at 7:04 pm, which is 34 minutes later then today. There are 3 months, 23 days until Flag Day. when the sun will be setting at 8:33 pm.

Long traffic delays taking the old 787 heading north out of the city. Traffic is heavy but moving south bound. Crazy bus driver will get us through the traffic quickly, even if means using the shoulder or the gore. Lots of crows flying around downtown. Generally a nice evening. Skies are kind of a pinkish color to the east with blues up ahead and yellows to the west. Kind words pretty.