June 3, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Partly cloudy and 70 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 There is a west breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 60 degrees.

I am packed and ready to head up to the Adirondacks before work tomorrow. ⛺ I decided against bringing the kayak and I’m going to just work from Speculator before setting up camp in the evening. Probably spend three nights at the first campsite and move up to Mason Lake on Sunday. Not sure when I’ll be back home, a lot depends if my office 🏢 reopens next week, the condition of the cell service and the weather. It’s an early morning to be up there by nine but not quite as early as a week ago.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 59 degrees at 4am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 22nd. Maximum dew point of 60 at 9pm. West wind 5 to 7 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1947.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 96% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the southeast (141°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, some 228,486 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by November 24th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Strawberry 🍓 Moon is on Friday, June 5. The darkest hour is at 12:55 am, followed by dawn at 4:46 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:20 am in the east-northeast (58°) and last for 3 minutes and 24 seconds. Sunrise is 24 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:03 am with sun in the east-northeast (65°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 50 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 6 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 84 degrees at 3pm. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 59 at 8am. West wind 6 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 70 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1919.

In four weeks on July 1 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (303°) at 8:37 pm,🌄 which is 8 minutes and 39 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 85 and 60 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 81 and 60 degrees. The record high of 99 degrees was set back in 1913.

Looking ahead, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 3 weeks, Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 33 weeks, and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 5 months.

Further Down Burroughs Memorial Road

I’m thankful for sleep

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I’m thankful for…

A good night’s sleep. If I want to be happy the next day and do my best work, I really need upwards of nine hours of good sleep. When I do get such sleep it leaves me feeling restful and ready to go and make a difference in my life and those of others. Sleep is important, I try to limit my consumption of strong coffee, especially in the afternoon and get to bed before 10 most nights. So yes, I’m thankful for sleep.

The Police Take the Side of White Vigilantes | The New Republic

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The Police Take the Side of White Vigilantes | The New Republic

The incidents in Chicago and Philadelphia are evidence that American police across the country share a coherent ideology. Armed white boys don’t code as a threat to them; “anarchists” and angry black people do (even if the protesters are the ones at least attempting to engage in constitutionally protected behavior, while the roving white gangs are flagrantly violating the law). That disconnect, the galling image of watching the law so obviously tossed aside under certain circumstances, highlights a fundamental truth about what’s happening across the United States. The police are not using brutality to enforce “the law.” They’re using the law to enforce something else: a particular social order that is, to them, worth fighting for.

Dennis Karius Obituary – Colonie, NY | Albany Times Union

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Dennis Karius Obituary – Colonie, NY | Albany Times Union

Karius, Dennis William COLONIE Dennis William Karius, 69, passed peacefully, at his home, on Tuesday, May 26, 2020, following a brief illness. Dennis was born on May 24, 1951, to the late Robert, and Margaret (Will) Karius. He graduated from Catholic Central High School and earned a mechanical engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After college he worked for General Electric in Schenectady, Atlas Copco in Voorheesville, in California, and a two-month assignment in Germany. In 1984, Dennis opened a business in Guilderland, Computer Services, Inc. He worked for 27 years at SUNY Albany as an instructional support technician for the Educational Opportunity Program, retiring in 2013. In 2014, Dennis was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer. Although changes in his patterns of thought and communication were obvious, remarkably, he continued his quest toward social justice and participated in an assortment of forums, just a few listed here: president and treasurer of the N.Y. Capital Area UNA-USA Local Chapter, The Interfaith Alliance of NYS, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, Capital District Coalition Against Islamophobia, Poor People's Campaign, Save the Pine Bush, The Circle's Edge, Inc. Dennis also hosted two Public Access Shows (Citizens for Public Transportation and Solarize the Capital Region), he maintained email listservs for citizens for public transportation, solar panels, and anti-war issues, and was passionate regarding fair and safe voting procedures. 

Ode to Billie Joe

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Today, June 3rd might be a good day to jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Going to be partly sunny and 90 degrees in Sidon Mississippi.