February 10, 2016 Night

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Good evening. Currently mostly cloudy and 27 degrees in Delmar. Tonight will be scattered snow showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 20. West wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of around an inch possible. Waxing crescent moon which set earlier tonight.

Tomorrow’s sunrise will be at 6:56 am with first light at 6:27 am, which is 2 minutes and 19 seconds earlier then today. For tomorrow, we are looking at a chance of snow showers, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 23. West wind 10 to 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

I went for my evening walk after going down to the library. It is a pleasant evening, and I knew if I went to the library, I’d be up and going to my walk. Quite mild this evening and the stars are decent. Tired though, but I realized I would be able to do my walk this weekend with bitter cold expected.

Screwing around with data.ny.gov, I discovered I could make beautiful maps of retail grocery stores based on an Ag and Markets dataset. I decided to make a map of the 322 Stewart’s Shops that are located in New York State, primarily in the eastern half of upstate. It’s a really cool map. There are 49 Stewart’s Shops in Saratoga County alone, followed by 37 Stewart’s Shops in Albany County. Lots of places to buy milk and get gas. Cool stuff.

I hope you had a good day. Mine was a bit rough around the edges but things will get better as the week progresses or so I tell myself. Sleep well!

February 10, 2016 Evening

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Good evening. Currently mostly cloudy and 32 degrees in Albany.

Tonight we have a Waxing Cresent Moon with 19% illuminated. Look west, it’s quite a pretty little sliver. It will set at 7:51 pm. Full moon on February 22nd.

Tonight we will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 4am. Cloudy, with a low around 23. West wind 8 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

In four weeks on March 9 the sun will be setting at 5:55 pm, which is 35 minutes later then tonight. There are 4 months, 6 days until Fresh Veggies Day. when the sun will be setting at 8:35 pm. Fresh veggies at the farmers market are something I really enjoy, along with those late sunsets.

Went out to City Beer Hall for one beer for the Albany County Young Democrats’ monthly happy hour. It was nice and I would have stayed for another drink but I was out of cash. I never got around to the ATM and was trying to save some money at any rate, because despite getting paid today, finances look tight due to an unexpected payment I had to make.

I was annoyed to discover that National Grid stopped my auto-pay and I owe them two months back pay and three dollars in interest. It’s paid now but it should have never happened in the first place. Their website is awful clunky, and was slow. The first try, it defaulted to an old bank account then the site wouldn’t reload. I finally paid it off with the right account, and I’m waiting for the money to clear, so I can be in good standing to be reinstated for auto-pay for the next eight years. My finances are so stressed and this isn’t helping it much at all. It was so damn frustrating.

Eventually when I move out of the city, I’m going to forgo grid electricity in favor of a low electricity lifestyle from solar cells, batteries, and a gas generator. Concrete floors, a wood stove and propane instant hot water heater, as I don’t need or want all that fancy obnoxious technology all the obnoxious suburbanite kids have now. I’d rather have land and no neat neighbors then a fancy suburbanite home.

Probably heading down to the library in a bit once I get home and have some dinner. I have some updates I’m working on for the blog. Maybe I should start doing my taxes too. We will see. I like being lazy and staying home but there are limits on what I can do with my Smartphone or non-wifi laptop.

February 10, 2016 Morning

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Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Currently we have light snow fog/mist and 30 degrees in Albany. The sun is peaking out of the heavy clouds giving some pretty light filtering down on the recently fallen snow.

Today will have snow showers likely, mainly before 11am. Cloudy, with a high near 36. West wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Sunset will be at 5:20 pm with twilight at 5:49 pm which is one minute and 19 seconds later then yesterday. Tonight will be a chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 21. West wind 8 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

There are 3 months, 27 days until Best Friends Day. This means you have lots of time in the meantime to practice being a best friend.

Nine years ago today, Senator Barack Hussain Obama announced he was going to run for president. Often seen as a long shot, he won the Iowa Caucus about 10 months later and would be quickly cast on the national scene as our first black president during the worst recession of a generation. He would go on to serve two terms and pass a major health care reform law.

It seems like that is all recent history, but time sure goes by quickly. A year from now will have been a decade since graduating from college. I guess when you catch a bus downtown every day and go to work, time goes by quickly. Those 31 years and 11 months until retirement will come quickly.

The weekend looks to be frigid. No camping for me despite the long weekend. Thinking about going to the Adirondack Outdoorsman Show on Saturday but only if the roads don’t look icy. I don’t know what the weather will be for the weekend as relates to lake effect, but I haven’t driven on icy roads in nearly a decade, so I’m not interested in learning.