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An uncomfortable truth …

A lot of industries — and businesses not pejoratively called industries like farmer’s and rancher’s cooperatives — have used the techniques of “big tobacco” to sell their products, and overcome regulation. When businesses of all sorts band together, they produce their own science and research, and use those claims to back up their marketing. Often government and academia is deeply involved in supporting these industries, and you have be very skeptical of claims put out and weight the pros and cons of any scientific study. Skepticism matters!

Just because the cops are out to get you isn’t an excuse to commit crime

Back in the 1960s there was a folk ground known as Peter, Paul and Mary. They sung many folk songs, some quite politically controversial like If I Had A Hammer and This Land is Your Land. Half a century later, it seems almost absurd that these folk songs and the bands that played would have received extensive FBI surveillance.

But the FBI had it’s reasons at the time – these songs were often first sung by socialists, many of whom actively advocated and in some cases engaged to violence including bombings in an attempt to overthrow the American government. Some in the New Left like the Weathermen and the Black Panthers where taking up the mantle of violence against the government even as Peter, Paul and Mary sung their folk songs.

In 1969, Peter, Paul and Mary released a children’s album, Peter, Paul and Mommy. Shortly thereafter, in an attempt to suppress the freedom of speech and break up the music group, the FBI set up a sting operation against Peter Yarrow who was known inside circles to enjoy groupies – young girls brought to the members of popular bands to provide sexual gratification.

As the story goes in 1970, Peter Yarrow was in a bugged motel room when the 14-year old informant who crossed state lines went in, and Mr. Yarrow unbuckled his pants and masterbated in front of the underage girl. He was immediately arrested and ultimately served a few years in prison for transporting an underage girl across state lines for a sexual act. Not an uncommon practice at the time for music groups – lest the term groupie and the arrest of other singers like Jonathan King on similar charges, nevertheless was a serious crime that hurt minors and was justified to be charged and punished for his actions.

Peter Paul and Mary would be broken up, trying their best to downplay the arrest of their member while still selling their children’s record. They would not rejoin together until 1977, a half decade after Yarrow got out of prison and had received extensive mental health treatment. Yarrow went on to become an advocate against childhood bullying and many of the group’s post 1977 songs were for children.

There really is no question that Peter Yarrow committed a serious crime against a child and that he was punished and deserved to be. Ultimately, President Jimmy Carter pardoned him on his way out the door. The evidence suggests that was a sound decision even if it was the only time in American history when the president pardoned a person for a sex offense against a child. Peter Yarrow has done much good since they terrible act a half century ago.

That was fifty years ago. More then two generations prior. Donald Trump’s criminal cases filed against him brings us to today. I think it’s hard to argue that Donald Trump wasn’t targeted by the FBI both during his presidency but especially thereafter post January 6th uprising. A lot of FBI members and police more generally take their roll in protecting the country and it’s democracy very seriously and the former president’s actions most certainly raised alarm in the minds of many lawmen just like Peter, Paul and Mary’s songs did to a prior generation in the FBI.

The FBI, or more likely many members of the FBI felt that Donald Trump was a threat to the country and his actions warranted surveillance. Likewise, the FBI and the federal prosecutor were looking for things to charge the former president with, especially after January 6th. The former president had several chances to return stolen classified, national security documents but failed to and lied to investigators. These are serious offenses, though had the former president voluntarily returned the documents chances are he could have avoided prosecution and it would have been maybe a fine or violation of the law rather than a serious felony.

What the president did was a serious offense and he should be prosecuted and quite possibly sent to jail for a while, and be mandated to pay a significant fine. It’s not like he didn’t have a chance to go down this road, but justice demands he be treated like every other criminal. Donald Trump’s service to the country as president and other good acts over the years should be taken into consideration during his sentencing.

Likewise it should be up to a future president to decide if a pardon is warranted in the sake of justice, weighting both the former president’s actions, his good deeds both before and after his criminal acts, and the way the FBI targeted him. A pardon never erases or undoes a crime but it releases a person from any further punishment and resets the slate going forward. Would such a pardon be justified? Only time will tell.

It seems like September 7th was the hottest day of summer 🧺

It wasn’t bad down by the river yesterday for the work picnic with the breeze though it was hot both over the charcoal pits and the sweet corn station I set up with all that boiling beer.

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Mostly cloudy and 67 degrees in Delmar. ☁ A lot of its just fog 🌫 that will burn off. Calm wind. The dew point is 67 degrees. The skies will clear around 10 am.

Out for the morning walk 🚢. Got an early enough start to beat the craziness around the high school 🚸 though it’s tough to get out early with the mornings being so dark. Lady I passed by the school bus garage says I’ve lost so much weight, though certainly not from the picnic yesterday – I was stuffed though most of the things I stuffed my face with fruits and vegetables though I did have a hamburger πŸ” but skipped the cheese and condements. It’s fine I’ll burn it off. Part of it is I’m wearing a pair of the old large shorts this morning as I wore them yesterday to the picnic as it was casual and I wanted to stay cool. That said, not riding the bike to work 🚳 as I need to bring my laptop back into the office. I do plan on walking down to the express bus 🚍 and if it’s not raining β˜” do an evening walk too.

I got some canned πŸ₯« pumpkin πŸŽƒ and pie spice to make pumpkin pancakes πŸ₯ž this morning using ground oatmeal, bananas 🍌 and the afformentioned items. I took home a lot of fresh left over fruit from the picnic that I refroze so I didn’t need any more frozen fruit 🫐 at least until next week. I can stop and get fruit next week when bicycle 🚲 commuting along with chia seeds as I’m finally out end they’re good in pancakes and cream of wheat.

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny 🌧, with a high of 86 degrees at 3pm. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 73 at 4pm. South wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with a few breaks of1 sun the afternoon. It was somewhat humidllk. The high last year was 80 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 2015.

After the picnic I went for a three mile walk at Peebles Island State Park, 🦌 where I managed to avoid any thunderstorms and saw the herd of Peebles Island deer. It was a bit close, I could see the bolts of lightening β›ˆοΈ over Cohoes. Did 15,000 steps or 7.5 miles for the day but no bike riding. 🍻 It’s good I waited for a while before leaving the park as I had a bit of a buzz by the end of the picnic though I mostly just had diet soda with a lot of ice and only a splash πŸ’¦ from the keg, πŸ›’ but I kind of smelled of beer πŸ‘ƒ after cooking all that corn 🌽 over the pot of boiling beer and salt, splashing more beer on the grilled corn to keep it fresh before people got it. Messy but delicious. πŸ˜‹

Went over an visited with Linda, πŸ§“πŸ» the late John Wolcott’s wife and looked over some of his old clothes. She gave me some nice fitting things, as John got a lot of new and lightly worn clothing after the fire a few years back. Definitely besides the thrift store finds πŸ‘š, what I got from my dad and John I should be good with my thinner profile bar buying jeans πŸ‘– and some work clothes come the winter. It was nice to spend some time with her, it has to be lonely since her husband passed. I’ll have to make time this autumnπŸ‚ again.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 53.1Β° from the due south horizon (-17.7Β° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour πŸ… starts at 6:43 pm with the sun in the west (272Β°). πŸ“Έ The sunset is in the west (279Β°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:20 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 7:46 pm, which is one minute and 46 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ The best time to look at the stars is after 8:23 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 77 degrees. The dew point will be 73 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 12 hours and 50 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over today.

All night I’ve been super gassy 😲 I think due to the chickpeas I used for the crust of the eggs I made up yesterday plus frying 🍳 some chickpeas up with apples and bananas for dessert 🍰. Plus the beans I cooked up for the picnic, all that sweet corn, and veggies I reached for at the picnic. 🚽 I’m sure today after I go to a more normal diet and stay away from the chickpeas I’ll be good. I got a rolling pin yesterday and want to experiment now with simple wraps made from whole wheat 🌾 flour and water – and maybe some spinach. Nothing extra, nothing fancy, just fried in olive oil or baked up.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 67 degrees at 6am. 12 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 73 at 6pm. Light and variable wind becoming north around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1938.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 80 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 31st. Maximum dew point of 70 at 2pm. Northwest wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1959.

Going to take the Nature Bus 🚍 up to Thacher Park 🏞 and ride Blackie 🚡, read πŸ“– and do the hammock thing all day. 9:40 the bus leaves Slingerlands and 6:20 is the last bus home. 🏑 I could ride down the hill, it’s probably a lot of fun but it gets dark pretty early this time of year and I’m sure after a full day out in the heat and humidity I’ll be tired 😴.

Looking ahead to Sunday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. β›ˆ High near 77. North wind around 6 mph becoming southeast in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 69 at 12pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 77 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Autumn πŸ‚ when the sun will be setting at 6:54 pm with dusk at 7:21 pm. On that day in 2022, we had rain and temperatures between 71 and 51 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 72 degrees. We hit a record high of 95 back in 1895.

A cloudy and dark Tuesday for rounding out August ☁️

Listening to Rich Men North of Richmond as I’m out for the morning walk, living in the new world with and old soul. A big pot of brown rice, red and green lentils are cooking down for the week – already had my first cup of coffee and looking forward to cream of wheat with chia seeds, yogurt and frozen fruit.

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Dark and gray and 64 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ But when there is no hope, there is help – see today’s forecast in the third paragraph. It’s already clearing to the east. There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. πŸƒ. The dew point is 64 degrees.

I was hoping to ride home last night 🚲 but when I started down Madison it started raining β˜” and I ran over to Broadway in front of the old Union Train Station and put my bicycle on the bus 🚍 and rode home. I should remember that is always an option and riding even one way still burns calories and saves money πŸ’΅. Bike rides secure but bounces a lot on some of the bumps. Heck of it is was just a light drizzle I’d probably had been fine to ride home but whatever – my left eye πŸ‘οΈ was kind of irritated at any rate.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 81 degrees at 4pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 67 at 6pm. Going to be sweating a bit on the ride out of Norman’s Kill. Maybe not a good day for making those spinach pizza things I’ve been thinking about cooking this afternoon. It will depend how hot and sweaty I am when I get home and if I want to ride out to Voorheesville in twilight of the day. Maybe tomorrow with the rain. South wind 5 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was sticky. The high last year was 91 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 2018.

Wearing my glasses into work today πŸ‘“ so I can totally have the four-eyes are better then two eyes look today. I don’t l like my limited view from the glasses, but I also don’t want to do any more damage to my sore eyes. I am hopeful by mid-day and evening commute I can be back to contacts. Then assuming the weather doesn’t crap out, it will be back down the Madison Street Hill, and then to Albany County Rail Trail making the climb πŸ˜… up through the Normans Kill George 🚲 to home.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:57 pm with sun having an altitude of 56.8° from the due south horizon (-14° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour πŸ… starts at 6:59 pm with the sun in the west (277°). πŸ“Έ The sunset is in the west-northwest (284°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:37 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 58 seconds with dusk around 8:04 pm, which is one minute and 40 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ At dusk you’ll see the Blue 🌝 Moon in the southeast (124°) at an altitude of 7° from the horizon, 226,316 miles away. πŸš€ The best time to look at the stars is after 8:42 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 76 degrees. The dew point will be 67 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 7 mph. Tomorrow will have 13 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 45 seconds over today.

Went to bed πŸ› early around 7:45 and I was asleep by eight. My left eye πŸ‘οΈwas very irritated as I forgot my contact solution when I went out to my parents house yesterday overnight and by afternoon it was a mess. Kind of a dark and rainy evening β˜” and because I get up so early it’s hard for me to stay up late. Had a great dinner of tofu – zucchini parmesan with the sauce made from delicious paste tomatoes that I got from my parents house. πŸ… Dessert was opening up that cantaloupe that I got at the store 🍈 on Sunday. Good stuff.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 4am. 🌧 Low of 66 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 6pm. πŸ–οΈ South wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It became very sticky as the night progressed. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1982.

Yesterday, I got a call from a friend who was a nurse πŸ‘©‍βš•οΈ in her younger years, concerned about all my recent weight loss. Apparently a lot of people have been talking about how much thinner I’ve gotten, concerned that I’m not eating enough. πŸ“© She sent me an article about the dangers of loosing weight too quickly, with fatty liver disease and other things that can happen if your crashing with your calorie intake. But truth be told, But the thing is when you don’t eat a lot of processed foods and eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, 🍏 it’s hard to eat excessively and keep pounds on. 🀰Trust me, I’m often very stuffed after eating and keep filling my mouth throughout the day with quality food. I don’t just eat 3 times a day, but non-stop from morning to night.

The heck of it is despite all my weight loss, I am eating more then ever and spending more on food. πŸ’Έ  Some of it’s inflation but also I’ve been trying to expand my pantry and keeping healthy eating interesting, with new and different foods every week. At first I was very picky about what should be in my diet πŸ πŸ” but now I focus more on overall, doing a lot more home cooking with quality ingredients and very little sugar, saturated fats, and a reasonable amount of carbs. And lots of fruits and vegetables, consistent with Harvard guidelines for such things. 🍽 That said, I am surprised how much I’ve lost even since May. The 36×32 jeans I bought this weekend which I was afraid would be too tight, where almost too loose, almost necessitating a drop to 34. Figuring a year ago was I was primarily wearing 40 inch jeans, and even at times some of them were a bit tight, I’ve become so much thinner and healthier. I think it’s doing the stairs at work and lately bicycling to work. It’s not the limiting the plate size for sure.

I did do that physical back in late May, πŸ‘©‍βš•οΈ I’ve thought about reaching out to my Health Insurance’s nurses line to see if they have any advice on my recent weight loss. I am not concerned as I think it’s just I”m burning more calories then I’m taking in βš– but folks still seem to be very concerned. I am hearing that from a lot of people. Maybe I should see if my insurance covers the visiting of a dietitian to help me better understand my food choices, and come up with a better balanced meals, though I think my food choices are basically the consensus of what most of the health experts are saying, πŸ₯‘ and I’m NOT under in-taking healthy fats or proteins — or have some kind of undiagnosed disease. It’s not just that one nurse friend either, it’s relatives, co-workers and others.

On this day in 1966, the Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans 🎸 at Candlestick Park in a wicked thunderstorm β›ˆ San Francisco. After this, if you wanted to hear the Beatles, you had to listen to them on vinyl records or AM radio. πŸ“» Their next album would be Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Club Heart band, and it would have a dramatically different sound then the Love, Love Me Do records. 🎢

I have Labor Day Weekend Off πŸ• including the Friday before so I can go up to camp bright and early. I probably will do like I did two week ago — pack Thursday night — leave very early, maybe before seven, get gas in Rotterdam, β›½ then stop at Samdil Farm for sweet corn and vegetables and maybe meat, 🌽 πŸ₯© Walmart for supplies πŸ›’ and then try to make Speculator as close to 9 AM as possible to get the campsite I want and get set up. Then hang out for a bit, have lunch, then maybe mountain bike 🚡‍♀️ in the afternoon and do some fishing. 🎣 Maybe kayak Indian Lake on Saturday, if not to choppy. πŸ›Ά Saturday evening I might do an after-dark hike up Watch Hill to spot fire towers lit for the firetower light-the-night event. πŸƒ πŸ”¦ Later in the weekend, probably Sunday or Labor Day I’ll have to go back down to Spectulator for some swimming. 🏊. Should be a wonderful weekend, especially with some fresh-locally sourced steak and shrimp. And so much delicious sweet corn and other good things to eat.

A picture perfect Labor Day Weekend πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ weekend on tap. 😎 Friday, sunny high around 75 with a maximum dew point of 57 come 7 pm. Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Maximum dew point of 61 at 4pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Maximum dew point of 65 at 1pm. Labor Day is going to warm, may hit 87 degrees with lots of sun. I’ll be on the kayak πŸ›Ά on Lake Pleasant. Typical average high for the weekend is 79 degrees. Won’t be quite as warm up north.

Looking ahead, there are 9 weeks until Halloween πŸŽƒ when the sun will be setting at 5:51 pm with dusk at 6:19 pm. On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 64 and 37 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 56 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 2019. Been interested in making some baked pumpkin dishes, come the autumn. Plus pumpkins are a lot of fun to shoot with the ol .22 rifle up in the woods.

Little Moose Lake

The Old Rotting Macintosh System 7 🍏

I abandoned Apple when they abandoned System 7 aka Mac OS 8/9 for Mac OS X. I liked the old System 7, it was an amazing operating system from the user experience but it’s underpinnings by the mid 1990s were full of rust and groaned if didn’t crash regularly every time you used it under the weight of the then modern computing demands – the MultiFinder wirh shared memory and cooperative sharing of system resources where terribly big unstable hacks by the demands of modern computing in the mid 1990s.

I remember reading about the New World Infrastructure on the Macintosh. It was such a major hack to make the whole system work. Things like whole sections of the ROM contained legacy code never executed but quickly patched over by the boot loader but still required to initially boot the system. But the user experience when things played along and didn’t crash was amazing.

I’m still mad Apple dumped the Copeland project and System 7 after all these years for Mac OS X. I think they could have built a cleaner undercarriage under the Old System 7 without destroying all in the user space that made System 7 so amazing, especially in the earlier years before the unstable kludges became more prominent after System 7.1 or so. Shared libraries are good but System 7.5 adopted a ton of unstable, often cryptically named shared libraries that was part of system’s downfall even if modern computing demanded it.

Good Morning – December 11, 2021

Good morning! Happy Saturday, Two Weeks to Christmas. πŸŽ… Don’t blame me, I’m not the Weather Authority. 🌩

That said, I don’t recommend using your umbrella today despite rain. Going to be real windy, especially later. Instead of complaining to me, why don’t you complain to the state weather authority. I get the whole wearing the muzzle movement and staying home, but this obnoxious to fall on the weekend. But it could be snow.

Rain showers around but mostly stopped for now and 44 degrees in Delmar, NY. β˜” Still a light to moderate breeze, but that’s not expected to last. Nor is the pause in the rain. Eventually it will rain like no tomorrow, then be windy. Maybe the power will go out, but I tend to go bed early, so I don’t care. But still quite mild. I slept in this morning, I was bad, but it was dark. I kind of woke up then went back to bed.

At some point this afternoon, I will walk down to the library, and strap on the muzzle 😷 and work down there for a bit at the library. πŸ‘¨‍πŸ’» I actually have a fair bit of bandwidth left to use up before the end of the month, so I could use the hotspot but the library is a good walk and it’s good to get out and about. πŸ“š I don’t get as many steps lately, because I retire to bed so early and often skip my evening walk. πŸ’€ But I sleep so much better and are more rested when I go bed no later then 8 or 9 PM each tonight — and wake up at 5 or 6 AM each morning, sometimes even earlier. 🚢‍♀️ Weekdays I’m usually in the office early then I walk on the Plaza, although sometimes I’m okay with walking inside with the muzzle on, but I don’t like it as I find it’s hard to breathe even through Lynne Jackson’s uber comfortable muzzles.

After parting with another $200 in cash, Big Red is back on the road. πŸ›» Not only was the back suspension bushing bad, which made the rear-end floaty as shit, was causing axle-warp, and I ignored it for too long, starting to chew down the carrier bolt, it turns out the reason why the front end was floaty was the suspension link on driver side was mostly gone from rot and the right one was bad, so they wanted to fix that before passing the inspection, so said, why they hell not. I’d rather not chew up those components even more by ignoring it like I did with the carrier bolt in the back. Plus, it’s probably good that the truck frame ride in some direction relative to wheels, and not throw it’s weight around on the new tires wherever it wants to.

Who knows, I’ve spent nearly $2,700 in repairs on Big Red over the past two and a half months — including everything from the alignment, the wheel bearing, the various bushings, and the tires which were about $500 more then budget thanks to Trump tariffs, πŸ”§ but he is running better and handling better then he has in a while. Hopefully he won’t need a lot more repairs in the coming year, but whatever, new cars are so expensive — the average new car costs over $50,000 these days — and I like Red and want to keep him on the road for a more few years if possible.  He only has about 98.5k on the odometer, although that is off from the big tires causing the odometer to be 7% below true miles. I like my camper rig, and it’s fun to be able to get out of town. I don’t think I’ll ever need more tires for Red at this point — those BFG tires are nice and have real deep tread, so they should be good at least in the deep snow, well until I high center the lifted truck, which I won’t do any more, I promise myself.

But he’s my toy — I don’t have a lot of fancy stuff, no ATVs or snowmobiles yet, πŸ’Έ not that many expensive guns, I don’t have Internet or television at home, I keep my heat at 50 degrees in my cheap rundown apartment, make my own lunch every day, and use transit to get to work. Some day, I’ll own more toys though when I have my own land. My vacations all involve traveling in Red. Plus I make more then $80k a year with my swanky new job downtown. I’m investing more then $2,500 a month, so it’s not like I’m stealing that much from my future. 🚜 That said, I’m legitimizing dumping a ton of money in Big Jacked up truck, but I don’t care about your feelings. πŸ›»

And truth be told, he drives a lot better now. πŸ›» It actually is nice to have the steering and body follow along with the road, rather then just kind of winding where it wants to go. It was totally irresponsible for me to ignore the rear shock bushing for so long, but it only got really bad in October. It was going to get fixed before my trip to West Virginia, πŸ• but everything go so dragged out with back ordered tires, the delays getting appointments, and me not wanting to pay the inflationary prices on everything. πŸ’Έ But I am afraid inflation is going to get worse, before it gets better, because the boys in Washington are quite happy to ignore inflation, because they know what it will take to solve it, and that’s not politically popular. It’s more fun to hit stuck accelerator harder, then it is slam on the parking brake.

I’m just glad this in behind me for now. 😌 Is it possible other things will break on Red? Yes, but I think most of the most pressing issues are addressed, and I don’t drive that much in the winter. I am now planning on my trips for the next few weeks — I have Monday off, along with the week before Christmas. πŸŽ„

Weather Update – November 26, 2021

The rain waited for morning to arrive. 🌧

Actually that’s a lie. it was raining when I got home last night when I wanted to go out for my evening walk after Thanksgiving. πŸ¦ƒ Some point though it will be nice and not as cold as Saturday plans to be, somewhat ruining my plans to get out of town.

I might try to walk down to the library πŸ“š if the rain lets up 🌧 and then get on the internet there, where I don’t have to be watching the meter constantly, 🌑making sure I’m not using too much of my limited hotspot/mobile broadband. The library closes at 5 PM today, so I can’t go too late, and I will have to make sure to bring my muzzle. 😷

I am hopeful that my new tires will arrive sometime next week, and then I can get the truck inspected and move forward with the inspection and getting the vehicle on the road. 🚘 To be prepared for that, I plan to stock up at the grocery store this week to make sure I have plenty of food should it be a few days without a car. πŸͺ I can always get groceries during lunch time or take a bus to the laundromat but it’s a bit of a pain.

Today.
Feels like …
December 12th.

Rain/Snow is likely then Chance of Showers

Rain and snow showers likely, becoming all rain after 9am. Cloudy.

Light and variable wind becoming northwest 8 to 13 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

and

39 degrees , 4:25
sunset.
Tonight.
Feels like …
December 3rd.

Chance of Snow Showers then Mostly Cloudy

A chance of snow showers, mainly before 10pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy.

Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

and

26 degrees , 7:01
sunrise.
Saturday.
Feels like …
December 31st.

Mostly Sunny

Mostly sunny.

Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

and

34 degrees , 4:24
sunset.
Saturday Night.
Feels like …
December 14th.

Partly Cloudy

Partly cloudy.

West wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight.

and

23 degrees , 7:02
sunrise.
Sunday.
Feels like …
December 26th.

Slight Chance of Snow Showers then Chance of Rain/Snow

A slight chance of snow showers between 10am and 1pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy.

Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

and

35 degrees , 4:24
sunset.
Sunday Night.
Feels like …
December 14th.

Chance of Rain/Snow then Chance of Snow Showers

A chance of rain and snow showers before 7pm, then a chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy.

Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

and

23 degrees , 7:03
sunrise.
Monday.
Feels like …
December 22nd.

Partly Sunny

Partly sunny.

 

and

36 degrees , 4:23
sunset.
Monday Night.
Feels like …
December 21st.

Mostly Cloudy

Mostly cloudy.

 

and

21 degrees , 7:05
sunrise.
Tuesday.
Feels like …
December 15th.

Mostly Cloudy

Mostly cloudy.

 

and

38 degrees , 13 max wind chill, 4:23
sunset.
Tuesday Night.
Feels like …
December 3rd.

Mostly Cloudy

Mostly cloudy.

 

and

26 degrees , 7:06
sunrise.
Wednesday.
Feels like …
December 6th.

Partly Sunny

Partly sunny.

 

and

41 degrees , 4:23
sunset.
Wednesday Night.
Feels like …
December 7th.

Mostly Cloudy

Mostly cloudy.

 

and

25 degrees , 7:07
sunrise.
Thursday.
Feels like …
December 3rd.

Mostly Cloudy

Mostly cloudy.

 

and

42 degrees , 4:22
sunset.