Good morning. Happy Thursday. Today I got to use my CDTA Navigator card. It’s like an EZ-Pass for the bus. It deducts $1.30 from the account you have with CDTA. Like EZ-Pass, it has an auto refill option with a credit card. Seemed to work okay, although I wish the proximity card reader was a bit stronger as the card needs to be right up against the machine to be read.

Cloudy or if your optimist, mostly cloudy this morning. 54 degrees this morning. Looking at 68 degrees with a chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon.  Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and 75 degrees.

One month until Father’s Day. Certainly it will be a lot warmer for dad’s day then mom’s day. The typical high is 79 degrees and dusk holds off until 9:11 pm in Albany.

The Corporation Challenge race is tonight. It’s an excuse for obese state workers to legally tie up traffic. Judge William Carter won’t be able to bitch out David Soares for refusing to prosecute the runners like he did with Occupy Albany when they tied up rush hour traffic downtown. To make matters worse I have to work late tonight, so I’ll end up having to walk a few blocks to make the bus while those runners interrupt the regular routes.

Today in 1780, a combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M. This event, said to be something out of the Bible, became known as New England Dark Day.