Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Next Wednesday is Day After Election Day 🛀. Overcast and generally cloudy and 58 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 52 degrees. Mild day, I left my windows open a bit before leaving for work. Nice walk 🚶 down to the Park and Ride.

I was in bed by 8:30 last night 😴, listening  to a podcast for a while. 👂 Woke up fairly early but it was dark with the late sunrise 🌅 and the cloudy skies. ☁ Kind of a depressing day but once I’m in my windowless office at work I’ll never know. And I have thermostat right above my desk, so I can make things as comfortable as possible.

Today will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 65 degrees at 3pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 4th. Maximum dew point of 54 at 1pm. Light southeast wind. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 80 was set in 1946. 0.1 inches of snow fell back in 1925.❄

Tonight I’m heading over to John Wolcott house 📂 for a while. Later in the week – maybe tomorrow I need to return my library books I got out for vacation 📚. Technically they are due on Friday so I could drop them off then after work.

The sun will set at 5:51 pm with dusk around 6:20 pm, which is one minute and 21 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 63 degrees. The dew point will be 54 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 10 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be scattered showers, mainly after 11pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 57 degrees at 10pm. 22 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 2nd. Maximum dew point of 56 at 4am. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 28 degrees. The record low of 18 occurred back in 1988.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 51. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 48. Typical average high for the weekend is 53 degrees. Cool but that’s what is expected for the first weekend of November.

I am leaning towards heading up to the White Rocks area of the Green Mountains 🗻 this weekend and if it’s decent next week, head out to Stoney Pond in Nelson Madison County. This weekend would just be hiking and camping. Next weekend I might do some hunting 🔫 and fishing 🎣. Lots of that in Madison County. But this weekend i also want to go back to White Rocks and do that hike again and camp up there. Beautiful country, but it’s a bit of a drive north.

I have to figure out how I’m going to invest the remaining money after my 401(k) now that I’m not able to do deferred comp with my new job. 💰 I think I’ll stay away from getting too much into index funds, preferring FDIC-insured CDs for now. At some points the good times in the market will have to run out. Not sure when that’s going to be, but I’d rather wait and somewhat time the market, even though i know timing the market is a terrible strategy, but it’s hard to see things going up all that much now for a while. Planned now, a buck now can be a few bucks later to buy land, a tractor, livestock or more guns.

As previously noted, next Wednesday is Day After Election Day 🛀 when the sun will be setting at 4:42 pm with dusk at 5:12 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2018, we had drizzle showers, cloudy and temperatures between 54 and 44 degrees. I remember that day well driving back on the Thruway with a co worker 🚘. Another cycle done. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 73 back in 2015.