As Milk Prices Decline, Worries About Dairy Farmer Suicides Rise
February 28, 2018 Morning
Good morning! February is almost done.:mrgreen: Four weeks to Average High is 50 but we are certainly going to above that by midday. Sunny and 40 degrees in Delmar, NY. 😎There is a west breeze at 5 mph.
Only 20 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌺🌻🌼🌷 I can’t wait for those nicer days.
This morning I woke up fairly congested but well rested because I got to bed at early enough hour.💤 I had a big plate of eggs with hot sauce which helped. In this past year I’ve been sick a lot.🍳 Nothing major just a lot of throat and nose things. Ironically, mildew hasn’t been such a problem on my apartment and I’ve been eating more fruits and trying to be more aggressive at washing my hands.🍈🍉🍎🍏
Today will be sunny, with a high of 54 degrees at 3pm. 🌞🌞🌞16 degrees above normal. West wind 5 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 55 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1997. 3.6 inches of snow fell back in 2013.
The sun will set at 5:44 pm with dusk around 6:12 pm, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇At sunset, look for mostly cloudy conditions and 55 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 13 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 34 degrees at 4am.🌕 Full moon.🌃 14 degrees above normal. South wind around 7 mph. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1950.
Last night was pretty nice, and I went out for my evening walk past the High School. 🏃Lots of moonlight as tonight, after midnight is March’s Worm Moon. I didn’t get home until fairly late and after dinner and the walk in decided to retire to bed.💤
Yesterday morning when I started cooking breakfast and lunch on the stove at the same time, 🔥🍲bright yellow flames started to flicker from one of burners. Set the smoke alarm off twice. I put a lid over it and it burned itself out. I think I remember seeing a bread bag clip fall into that burner, smelled a bit like polystyrene and burned yellow, which makes me think that was what it was. Shit happens.
Yesterday was some what busier at work 📤📥📊but like most days it’s a lot of hurry up and wait. Made it through the day with no major disasters so that’s a good thing.
I tell you the weekend looks increasingly nice🐺 and while I doubt I’ll head out of town I’ll have to figure something fun to do on Sunday. Every week brings us closer to spring time and camping and traveling season.⛺
One month until Average High is 50 🎢when the sun will be setting at 7:17 pm with dusk at 7:45 pm (Daylight Savings Time).
February 28, 2018 8:55 am Update
Good morning. 37 degrees and sunny.😎 59 degrees with more clouds later. ⛅
Enabling the Next Generation of Geospatial Technologies
Many people are critical of the US military for not doing much for average Americans in their daily lives. Their adoption of the Geopackage standard will have a dramatic impact on society as the standard is expected to be the widely adopted on many consumer devices over the next decade making it easy to record, store and share a wide variety of mapping data. Much like the Internet, the innovation developed and promotes by the Defense Department is having an important impact on society.
ESP32 – Wikipedia
What they don't tell you about the Arduino Nano is its actually a gateway drug to get you to trade it up for the ESP32 which can be had for $3-4 direct from China on AliExpress. Now those are some serious bang for the buck as a microcontroller. Wow!
March for Science
""This is a crazy winter,” said Alek Petty, a climate scientist at NASA, in an interview. “I don’t think we’re sensationalizing it.”
“It’s never been this extreme,” Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute, told Reuters.""
MADD’s Second Failure
Lately there has been a lot of talk about the successes of Mothers Against Drunk Driving or MADD. Why is MADD not a potent political factor any more?
Besides, their successes at eliminating drunk driving making their organization obsolete, their failures at preserving the National Maximum Speed Limit have been under reported.
Well, a lot their failure as an organization was their disastrous campaign to preserve the National 55 MPH speed limit. Their Save the National 55 Speed Limit campaign became their focus of the organization and it was a focus that may have felt noble to its members but it was one that was not popular with the public.
Motorists like driving fast on the expressways. MADD for years pushed for tougher penalties against speeders, they were outright rebuffed in conservative states and in liberal states, the tougher penalties still were widely ignored. Motorists ignored the law and judges for the most part rarely gave tickets beyond the mandatory minimum. Radar detectors and CB radios allowed people to rat out the bears.
So no, MADD wasn’t a success at their second campaign that went up strongly against motorists desires for faster driving, even if they’re first campaign was quite sucessful.