Good morning! Happy Thursday. Two weeks to Halloween 🛥️. Rain and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Breezy, ️10 mph breeze from the west-northwest 🌬 with occasional gusts up to 46 mph 💨💨💨. Definitely not umbrella weather due to the breeze but I’ve seen worse rain with stronger winds. The skies will clear tomorrow around 1 pm.

I am feeling better today after a good night’s sleep in my truck cap. 😴 There was a few gusts of wind but generally my truck cap was dry 💦 and the rain noise on the roof was quite soothing. Drive back to the city wasn’t bad, took a shower 🚿 and now the bus 🚍 to work.

It kind of ducks for my parents on their vacation 🌀 although once they get past the rain and choppy seas 🌊 today they should have nice weather 😎. If I had my vacation this week, it would have been probably fairly decent in West Virginia. No burn ban down there either.

Today will rain. 🌧 High of 50 degrees at 3pm. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 10th. Breezy, with a west wind around 24 mph, with gusts as high as 46 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 57 degrees. The record high of 85 was set in 1947. There was a dusting of snow in 1970.❄

The sun will set at 6:10 pm with dusk around 6:39 pm, which is one minute and 36 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 50 degrees. Breezy, 22 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest with gusts up to 38mph. Today will have 10 hours and 59 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 47 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 42 degrees at 5am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 9th. Northwest wind 15 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1978.

I’ve decided for now to hold off on replacing my laptop bag. 👝 I’ve been using this Sierra Club ♧ bag that was gifted to me from John Wolcott which works pretty good and has decent padding with extra cardboard added for protection. I didn’t originally like how the shoulder strap is short and I have to carry my lunch in a separate bag but I’ve gotten use to it. 🎒You can guess what happened to the old bag, fire not landfill.

I often read 📖 and sometimes share those paid articles that I see about personal finance. Some are good, most are kind selling shit. 💩 They often talk about the importance of saving to buy a home – which I’m doing 🏡 but I can’t imagine owning a home and land unless is off grid and has enough land where I can raise livestock 🐐🐓🐷 and burn my own trash 🔥 without bothering the neighbors in a state that protects my second amendment rights 🔫. My parents have decent neighbors but they’re too close in my opinion

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, areas of frost before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 58. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Maximum dew point of 43 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 59 degrees. Should be a good weekend for the Save the Pine Bush Hike and maybe also hiking in the Catskills on Sunday. I’m thinking about doing Indian Head Mountain this weekend 🗻 but I could change my mind.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Halloween 🛥️ when the sun will be setting at 5:50 pm with dusk at 6:19 pm. On that day in 2018, we had mostly cloudy skies with patches of fog in the morning and temperatures between 61 and 28 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 73 back in 1946.