How to Dream

Dream Up an Idea

Dreaming and imaging a future is an important as it can be the first step towards making a plan that may take a decade or longer to implement. Dreams are the first step, but one must then follow it up with a goal to back it up, along with much smaller goals to measure one’s progress to it.

Break Up the Dream Into It’s Raw Components

To get towards a dream, one must figure out what it’s made up. What are each part of reaching the dream? How much will it cost? What skills are needed to reach the dream? The numbers might seem outrageous and out of reach today, but every large number is just the sum of smaller numbers.

Figure Out a Timetable

What is a reasonable timetable? Goals are easier to reach if you stretch out the timetable for reaching them, but we all have limited lifespans, and as we get older our health declines, regardless of what we do prolong our health. Longer timetables also have greater risk, as over more time you risk of accident, job loss, or health decline.

Figure Out Major Yearly Goals

Figure out how much must of the desired goal must you reach every year? This actually is not difficult thing to do, it’s mostly math. You should plan on reviewing your goals each year, to figure out how close you are at meeting your yearly goals, and try to exceed your yearly goals to the greatest extent possible, as some years you might fall below your goals.

Automate Smaller Goals

Automating savings is one of the easiest way to get towards savings goals. With modern savings accounts and investing methods, you can automatically save each paycheck. Other small goals are a bit harder to implement, but one option is setting a routine or scheduling time to do something each week. Block out an hour for excerise, or time at the range to become a better shooter.

January 19, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday is 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆. Cloudy and 33 degrees in Delmaritian. ❄ There is a southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 3 1/2 inches of snow on the ground, but it alrasty warm enough that the roads are just wet and with the sun out the snow isn’t expected to last long – the first half of next week will be cool – but come Wednesday we will have temperatures more like March than January. β˜ƒ ️

Still not feeling great 😷 but its tough in the winter with the stuffy inside air. I still got up at 6:30 am and made up cornbread 🍞 waffles but I sure feel congested. Nice and warm in the apartment as I turned the heat up yesterday and it’s mild enough this morning that it’s clicked off and well into the mid 60s in my bedroom.

Riding the exercise bike 🚲 and its working good and fairly quiet after lubrication but there is a bit of a rubbing noise from the brake which I set to add more resistance to the pedaling for more cardiovascular effort. I should see if my parents have some unused weights I could use or maybe I could use those big heavy brake disc’s for lifting that is once I clean off all the dust. Lifting those would probably be quite good for upper body strength 💪. Using the brake disc’s might be a better idea as they are something I already have and don’t need more stuff.

Today will become partly sunny 🌦 later on, with a high of 36 degrees at 11am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 19th. Again not real cold but the wind will make it a bit nippy. Southwest wind 5 to 14 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 31 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1929. 8.5 inches of snow fell back in 1886.❄

I should go to the store today as I’m really low on dairy products 🐮, I don’t have any cheese or butter which is no fun for sure. I am thinking about getting the stuff to bake bread 🍞 because I haven’t done that in years and I never have bread at home except when my parents give me left over rolls half of which end of getting moldy and tossed into the compost.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:07 pm with sun having an altitude of 27Β° from the due south horizon (-43.9Β° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:08 pm with the sun in the southwest (235Β°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (243Β°) starting at 4:48 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 16 seconds with dusk around 5:22 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:57 pm. At sunset, look for some remaining snow showers around 🌨 and temperatures around 30 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 13 mph with gusts up to 28mph. Today will have 9 hours and 30 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 48 seconds over yesterday.

Maybe I’ll also go skiing 🎿. If I do that I’ll probably go down to Schodack Island State Park assuming there is enough sun β˜€ and the snow doesn’t melt right away. I’m not super sick but with my head congestion I don’t want to over exhaust myself and get sick. 😷

I should do some cleaning today and reading too later. 📖 Maybe get out my soldering iron and repair my wall display. May continue to scrub the soap scum off the walls of my bathroom 🛀

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 12 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 1 at 5am; Northwest wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Going to be fairly cold night and the same is true for Kings birthday 👑. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 0 degrees. The record low of -22 occurred back in 1970.

🌹🌻🌼Only 60 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

That’s always a good sign. 🌷Not sure how long this winter will last but I can’t believe we will get away without at least one more big storm and a cold period. I really am not planning on many big trips until April, as March is always busy at work, even with my new job if only for different reasons.

As previously noted, next Sunday is 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 5:00 pm with dusk at 5:30 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 28 and 14 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1950.

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Duanesburg adopts solar moratorium after already approving big projectsοΏ½ | The Altamont Enterprise

Duanesburg adopts solar moratorium after already approving big projectsοΏ½ | The Altamont Enterprise

The thing is these solar farms take up enormous amounts of land and produce very little useful energy. Moreover of the energy produced by solar is being still produced as spinning reserve at fossil plants. 

I would rather see money going towards reducing emissions from existing power plants and retiring dirty old ones and greater efficiency, and subsidies for solar on homes and businesses. In many cases an existing gas or coal plant can be tweaked to increase output by better efficiencies creating all of the energy produced by solar farms. 

So much of the solar business is about green washing and scamming people who feel guilty about their high energy consumption, it's kind of like household recycling of bottles and cans - it feels virtuous - but has little impact on waste volume or consumption.

January 23, 2019 6:37 pm Update

Have you ever tried listening to a frequency modulated radio station using amplitude modulation (you can do this with software defined radio)? It sounds really strange, like the radio announcers are ghosts, very distorted.

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