Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Gotta make that money 💵 although not a pay week this week but I have great faith I’ll be paid next week. Two weeks to Clean Your Computer Day 🧹. With there being so much hard drive space these days, does anybody really have to clean their computer? 💻

Snow flurries, cloudy, gray, damp and 36 degrees at the Valero just waiting for the bus to take me to work. ❄ Calm wind. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around noontime. ☃️

Catching the later bus 🚍 to work because I never know with this bus and having to punch 👊 the clock 🕒 on time each morning. The truth is with manually filled in time cards you could get away with being a few minutes late and nobody would ever know. 💁 I did set my alarm for 6:30 but I reset it a few times. I’m bad I know and I had to iron my shirt 👚. But I did have a nice pan of eggs 🍳 for breakfast, one of the last of the fresh ones from my parents, as some kind of varmint finished off their chickens 🐔 and they don’t want to have chickens now as they’re planning on spending the summer traveling. 🚢

Today will be scattered snow showers, mixing with rain after 9am, then gradually ending. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 42 degrees at 2pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 10th. Light and variable wind becoming west 9 to 14 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 40 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1974. 9.3 inches of snow fell back in 1963.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 28.8° from the due south horizon (-42° vs. 6/21). Gain is accelerating now. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:20 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (238°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (245°) starting at 4:59 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 12 seconds with dusk around 5:31 pm, which is one minute and 17 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (229°) at an altitude of 22° from the horizon, 251,502 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:06 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 40 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 47 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 9 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 29 degrees at 6am. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 24th. Northwest wind 8 to 14 mph. In 2019, we had snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 8 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 2005.

Another kind of dreary weekend on tap but mild. ☁ Saves on the heating bills. More chance to work on projects and ride the exercise bike 🚲. Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. Sunday, a chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Typical average high for the weekend is 32 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 52 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 when the sun will be setting at 5:20 pm with dusk at 5:49 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 33 and 17 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1955.

Good morning! Happy Foggy Tuesday in the Albany! 🌁 Four weeks to Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛. It’s important to strip the teats to prevent mastitis. That’s the problem with thinking 💭 in quarters. At any rate it, it’s a pretty foggy out there, a little over the freezing at the bus stop by Valero. Calm wind. But what will I know when I’m in my windowless office?

Today will have a slight chance of rain after 3pm. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 43 degrees at 2pm. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 12th. I like March weather in January, especially the coldest week of the year. Going to be colder next week. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 28 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 1932. 9 inches of snow fell back in 1999.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:05 pm with sun having an altitude of 26° from the due south horizon (-44.8° vs. 6/21). Almost summer or maybe not be we are creeping in the right direction. Be thirty before you know it. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:02 pm with the sun in the southwest (234°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) starting at 4:42 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 5:16 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:52 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 41 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 33 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of rain or drizzle before 7pm, then a chance of drizzle between 7pm and 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 35 degrees at 6am. 21 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 8th. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1957.

I am really watching too many YouTube videos these days 📹 while riding the exercise bike 🚲. I did get in an hour reading 📖 last night but I made zero progress on the John Wolcott project index 📇. Data entry is kind of boring, reminds me of my desk job too much. 💼 After spending so much time at work sitting I just want to move and there is so much dreaming of a better tomorrow by watching those off grid and homesteading videos I’ve downloaded from the YouTube video. I’m burning calories at least but I’m ignoring many other needs in life.

I told somebody last night that I will sign Bernie Sanders petitions. ✊ While I can only legally sign one of the petitions I don’t often get asked to sign petitions. I don’t have to necessarily have to vote ❎ for him in the primary but I probably will. I kind of also like Elizabeth Warren but I still a few months to decide which bubble to fill out on the scantron. ✒

Winter returns for King’s Weekend. ⛄ Saturday, snow, mainly after 1pm. High near 31. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Sunday, snow likely. Cloudy, with a high near 34. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees. Yeah, I don’t think Madison County will be on the agenda.

🌹🌻🌼Only 65 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 when the sun will be setting at 5:21 pm with dusk at 5:50 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 33 and 18 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 34 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1981.

Good morning! Happy Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡! Take it Malvina Reynolds with your very white hair and cateye glasses 👓. Her music 🎶 was very old 👴 and subversive and I hate vinyl siding and green grass lawns free of dandelions unless of course you have a goat 🐐 chained up to a tree in the front yard. On this Monday, the 13th of January.

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same,
There’s a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

That think my dream involves more four wheelers, more fire, more livestock and guns than vinyl siding and chemical treated lawns.🚙 And I like tin roofs as it means a lot less for the landfill every few years. 💭 The idea of surburbanite living with an SUV, a fancy pretentious looking house, weekly garbage service and grid-tied power, does absolutely nothing for me.🚜 Probably more like a tractor supply commercial, or actually real life like the people in places like South Brookfield and Bedford County Penna live their lives.🐮

Mostly cloudy and 30 degrees at the Valero waiting for the local bus 🚍 as I am dress up for the session day today. ☁ There is a southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️ It looks like the bus will be on time, and I’ll probably be in early to work, probably the first int he office. But early to rise means it’s another chance to get ahead, make a better future for mysellf.

Spent way too much time ironing shirts 👚 this morning. For some reason they came out of the dryer very wrinkled. ♒I am thinking the issue was they were a bit damp. But I ironed all the shirts I need for the week this morning and to ensure they’re good and wrinkle free, I have them hung in the bathtub 🛁 shower curtain rod so they absorb the moisture in the air in the bathroom. You have to know it’s steamy in there when the bathroom steam set off the bedroom smoke detector on my way out to the bus 🚍. Then I knocked a bunch of papers loose 📄 but at least I caught the early bus in plenty of time.

Today will have patchy drizzle between noon and 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 39 degrees at 1pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 1st. Spring is coming, or so I tell myself. South wind 5 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 23 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1932. 13.1 inches of snow fell back in 1964.❄ Back when cars were real-wheel drive, and you threw them away at your friendly local landfill every 4-5 years.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:05 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.8° from the due south horizon (-45° vs. 6/21). Yeap, we have to wait for 4 pm for the golden hour to start. 🌟 The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:00 pm with the sun in the southwest (233°). 📸 Not only is the golden hour great for photography 📷 but it is also good for seeing a wild life. I saw a shit ton of deer bushwhacking back to my truck yesterday after the golden hour started yesterday. Went through some brambles and probably picked up ticks 🐜 but so far didn’t see any but I should have checked again.

The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) starting at 4:41 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 19 seconds with dusk around 5:15 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 I think the sun will be due east on the first day of spring, which if math correct is 270 degrees west. The best time to look at the stars is after 5:51 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 20 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 29 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 30 degrees at 6am. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 27th. Calm wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 8 degrees. The record low of -24 occurred back in 1957.

Snowy weekend weekend on tap to celebrate King’s birthday. ❄ Saturday, snow. High near 34. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Sunday, a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 28. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 66 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

But first a big snow storm on Saturday or maybe not. ❄ But we don’t know for sure but it could be a half of foot or more this weekend. 🎿 Maybe good skiing but I doubt I’ll get out to Madison County especially if it’s going to be pretty cold and snowy. But by then it will be only sixty odd days until calendar 📅 spring although that’s a pretty meaningless thing with the often variable weather of March and April. But at least with the first day of spring in 66 and 2/3rd days away trout season 🎣 is will be nigh.

Next Monday is Martin Luther King Day 🖤 when the sun will be setting at 4:52 pm with dusk at 5:23 pm. On that day in 2019, we had snow and temperatures between 21 and 0 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 2006.