June 17, 2019 Night

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Good evening! Partly clear and 70 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 56 degrees. 🌃 Long day at work, but now I’m on the way home on the nine forty five pm bus. I will probably retire to bed shortly after getting home, although it’s nice enough, I could sit out back for a while. I’ll have to think about it a bit, because I’m sure tomorrow will be another long day at work. 😴

Summer must be coming. The late night buses are filled with tired men and women in suits and the arterial highways are congested late into the evening. 🚍 So it goes. Step by step the clock moves forward. Just run out another year, it’s been an adventure, but I think it’s been a good results oriented year, despite more gray hair popping up and the markets at best being moderate. ⏳ Looking forward to summer and more camping. ⛺

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 59 degrees at 5am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 22nd. Maximum dew point of 57 at 10pm. Calm wind. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It became sticky as the night progressed. It got down to 71 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1958.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 96% illuminated. The moon will set at 6:21 am. The Last Quarter Moon is next Monday with scattered showers. The Buck Moon 🌝 is in 4 weeks. Buck yeah! Sorry, I had to. Should be nice whole I’m on vacation. The sun will rise at 5:17 am with the first light at 4:42 am, which is 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 8 hours and 41 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 14 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have isolated showers. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 77 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 13th. Maximum dew point of 62 at 6pm. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 97 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 2018.

A picture perfect weekend on tap for the first weekend of summer. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 77. Maximum dew point of 55 at 7pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Maximum dew point of 59 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 80 degrees.

I’m definitely looking forward to getting out of town this weekend. ⛺ Only time will define where I go but I look forward to leaving the city behind for the wilderness. 🌲It will be warm and sunny, I’ll have to wear sunscreen so I don’t get too burnt from the sun. 😎 Then the days will start getting shorter but before then there is still many more summer days to enjoy. 🏊

In four weeks on July 15 the sun will be setting at 8:31 pm,🌄 which is 4 minutes and 35 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had hot, humid, partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 93 and 72 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 83 and 62 degrees. The record high of 96 degrees was set back in 1997.

Looking ahead, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 1 weeks, July 🏊🏿 is in 2 weeks, Cow Appreciation Day 🐂 is in 4 weeks, Last Sunset After 8 PM 🌆 is in 8 weeks, Labor Day 👨‍🏭 is in 11 weeks, Constitution Day 📜 is in 3 months and Columbus Day 🛥️ is in 16 weeks.

Flow in Summer Stream

Green Mountains closer, quieter then the Adirondacks

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Believe it or not, it’s actually a closer drive to the Green Mountains then the Adirondacks from Albany and I’d argue a nicer drive too. Certainly the last ten miles along US 7 are quite nice with views of Glassenbury and Equinox Mountains along the way.

Heading Through Prosser Hollow

I’m kind of bored with this part of Vermont but it’s certainly easy to camp somewhere you know well. I went up there for this Memorial Day Weekend but I’ll doubt I’ll be back for another year. But It’s certainly much quieter than camping on Route 8.

Powley Place

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Driving through lovely Powley Place, which is one of my favorite places to camp in the Adirondacks.

Not interested in contemporary society

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I am not into contemporary culture or technology.

I don’t have internet or television at home although I do have a basic Straight Talk smartphone. I don’t like how modern society is about burning coal and oil for nearly all energy and landfilling most products only after a short time of use.

Morning update

I like working with low voltage electricity, relays and microprocessors.

There is so much you can do now with inexpensive components bought direct from China. I spent most of the summer weekends back country camping, a lot with my truck camper shell with 100 watts solar and a battery for power. I like having fires, being able to burn my own trash rather than landfill it and would much prefer to cut split and heat with wood rather than oil.

Entering the Forest Preserve

I’m thinking the way I would go off grid eventually is…

To buy a hunting camp and land as my primary residence, make modest improvements to the insulation and add a small scale solar system, under a kilowatt and install a shower for bathing. I’d prefer simple, less things to break and easy enough for a lay person like myself to fix.

Farm Tractor

I want to pay for the property fully with cash.

fix it up, hobby farm it, hunt it, live on it full time. Living in a small town, my income would drop a lot but without paying rent, no utility bills except for my basic cellphone, and only taxes I could make it work. I’d hopefully be able to draw on existing funds I’ve saved for other capital needs for the property like upgrades to the building, UTV, tractor, other implements. I’m saving a lot now and for retirement to make this a reality eventually. It’s going to take a decade or two to get there but with dedication, a plan and meeting goals I can get there.

Why City Accents Are Fading in the Midwest – CityLab – Pocket

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Why City Accents Are Fading in the Midwest – CityLab – Pocket

The classic accent was most widespread during the city’s industrial heyday. Blue-collar work and strong regional speech are closely connected: If you were white and graduated high school in the 1960s, you didn’t need to go to college, or even leave your neighborhood, to get a good job, and once you got that job, you didn’t have to talk to anyone outside your house, your factory, or your tavern. A regular-joe accent was a sign of masculinity and local cred, bonding forces important for the teamwork of industrial labor.