Good evening! So it’s official now, I’m no longer a Young Democrat, I’m an old one. 🎂🍰 My 35th Birthday came and went. Mostly cloudy ☁ and 29 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a north breeze at 7 mph. The skies will clear tomorrow around 10 pm.
It was a pretty good birthday, 🎂figuring all that I had to work today and was stuck in the office late. 🏢I did get a chance though to go for a walk to Price Chopper and buy some coffee.☕ Not a half bad sunset from my corner office overlooking the mountains, and I still make a decent amount of money even if it’s still never enough to fully make ends meet.🚍Ended up having to wait a while for the bus at 7:30, because I just missed the 6:45 home but that’s fine. I had my laptop with me and they have free internet at work. I could sit at my table in the office and work on my laptop while waiting for the bus. I probably could have gotten a free drink on my birthday but I’m a bit tired and feel somewhat congested so I refrained. I really have some mixed, maybe conflicted feeling about turning 35. I guess it means I’m finally an adult.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low of 21 degrees at 6am.☁ Six degrees above normal. Maximum wind chill around 13 at 6am; North wind around 7 mph. In 2017, we had cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 17 degrees. The record low of -12 occurred back in 1965.
Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon with 97% illuminated.The moon will set tomorrow at 6:18 am.🌕 The Blue Moon will be tomorrow with a chance of snow showers. The sun will rise at 7:11 am with the first light at 6:41 am, which is 58 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄Tonight will have 14 hours and 4 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 20 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will have a slight chance of snow showers between 10am and 4pm.❄ Mostly cloudy, with a high of 29 degrees at 1pm. One degrees below normal. North wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 30 degrees. The record high of 56 was set in 2013. 11 inches of snow fell back in 1966.
Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 24.☀ Sunday, scattered snow showers.❄ Cloudy, with a high near 33. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Typical average high for the weekend is 32 degrees.⛄
Seems like it might be too cold for camping, but maybe I can do some hiking locally. If Saturday looks like the best day I might see if I can go to my parents house for Sunday dinner then and stay home on Sunday because I don’t want to risk getting caught driving in a snow squall. After the rent was paid, there wasn’t a lot left over so I’m trying to save gas and avoid shopping this week as much as possible.
Mom and Dad gave me a check for my birthday, which I used to buy a few more inexpensive electronic components – namely a box of Arduino Nanos, another LED display module, an Arduino SD Card socket, an Arduino GPS Module, and some PIR sensors to switch on lights or other devices when you walk into a room.💻📟 I think I spent less than $45 total. That’s real money on a tight budget but remember my big jacked up truck can easily suck down nearly twice that in gas, at least when prices are high. I’m building up a pretty good electronics kit, and some neat projects but there always is more to build and learn.:idea: I’ve also learned that projects rarely ever get fully done when you build them yourself and can dream up improvements. I just love how you can plug things into those tiny Arduino Microcontrollers, write some code and build totally home, custom solutions to your needs.📝 It’s both fairly simple physical electronics and microcontrollers programming in C#. I haven’t done much with computers in recent years but I do like the stuff I am building now.
In my 35th year, I hope to do a lot of traveling and camping. I’m just hoping the snow disappears early for the winter so I can get back to truck cap camping.🚚 I do need to find out why I’m not getting much power back to the truck cap though. I think I may have a blown fuse or a loose connection. ⚡I’ll figure it out when the weather gets nicer. I also want to finally get that solar panel mounted up top of the truck cap, so I can just park the truck in the sun to quickly and fully recharge the accessory battery.
I do miss camping and traveling. I am thinking about this April doing that North Country trip I’ve been putting off. ⛺It’s a long trip to the Northern Adirondacks but there is some nice remote country up that way. Massena is nice too. For my November Road Trip, I’m thinking about Northern West Virginia, weather dependent. I kind of liked camping in Cannan Heights on Forest Road 13.🔥 Maybe see the famous bridge that is on the West Virginia state coin. I don’t know for sure though, as the days are so short in November. I still also want to see more of the state forests in Allegany County NY, especially the Klipnocky State Forest famous for the hairy women. 🌌
I’m tired and have been in bed before nine tonight. 💤The lights are off except for my phone and the variable message system. 💥Hopefully that will fully shut down tonight at eleven like it’s supposed to, and not leave the leds blinking making it hard to sleep. I’m sure if it doesn’t fully power off as it should now that I’ve fixed the code, I’ll will power it off by just unplugging it. 💫
In four weeks on February 26 the sun will be setting at 5:42 pm, which is 36 minutes and 15 seconds later then tonight.🌆 In 2017 on that day, we had rain, snow, cloudy skies and temperatures between 38 and 24 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 38 and 20 degrees. The record high of 63 degrees was set back in 1976.
Looking ahead, Presidents Day is in 3 weeks, Memorial Day is in 17 weeks, Labor Day is in 31 weeks and Columbus Day is in 36 weeks.
📢😎Only 115 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🍔🍗✨
