Windy tomorrow

We better not loose power tomorrow.

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October 14, 2020 Night

Good evening! Clear and 50 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. 🌌

So far it’s a nice night with crickets πŸ¦— in the background and stars up above but I’m tired after a long day and will soon head inside. Worked most of the day down at the library parking lot πŸ…Ώ and then came home. Installed the new battery πŸ”‹ in my laptop. πŸ’» Called into the Guilderland Town Planning Board meeting with a concern about the proposed Rapp Road rerouting. 🚧 Answered some emails πŸ“§ and went for my evening walk, maybe even watching a YouTube video πŸ“Ί and making up a few new maps πŸ—Ί for the blog.

Tonight will be clear early, then becoming mostly cloudy ☁️, with a low of 44 degrees at 11pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 4th. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph after midnight. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1978.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 4% illuminated. The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Friday, October 30. The darkest hour is at 12:42 am, followed by dawn at 6:40 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:08 am in the east (101Β°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. πŸŒ„ The golden hour ends at 7:47 am with sun in the east-southeast (107Β°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 54 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over last night.

Mornings sure are dark this time of year. πŸŒ… While it’s not such a big deal as I don’t have a bus 🚍 to catch downtown but I like the morning walk before the deluge of emails and calls come in. πŸ“₯

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 72 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 17th. Maximum dew point of 54 at 2pm. South wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 62 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1897. There was a dusting of snow in 1939.❄

I plan to work from home 🏑 tomorrow, and it should be a nice day to work out back if not too windy. It’s nice that my personal laptop now once again has a good battery life. πŸ”‹ That said I usually have my truck 🚚 or the wall outlet to plug πŸ”Œ it into. One nice thing about working remotely is that I can work outside. That said, I do kind of miss going downtown and having a real office 🏒.

Not sure if I’m going to be able to get out of town this weekend. β›Ί I’m watching the forecast but honestly it doesn’t look all that great. Maybe it’s best I stay home. I don’t know. I should have headed out last week quite honestly. It’s not like I’m going to have my weekend free to myself I’m sure I’ll still be busy doing the usual for work.

In four weeks on November 11 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (246Β°) at 4:36 pm (Standard Time),πŸŒ„ which is one hour, 37 minutes and 59 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 43 and 30 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 50 and 33 degrees. The record high of 70 degrees was set back in 2002.

Finally fixed some of the issues with the countdown clock βŒ› below. Namely I often cut and paste from previous years and forget to update things. But I should be good now with the right dates for holidays through the end of the year.

Looking ahead, Average High is 55 πŸ‚ is in 2 weeks, Day After Election Day πŸ›€ is in 3 weeks, Veterans Day πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ is in 4 weeks, Earliest Sunset of the Year βŒ›οΈ is in 8 weeks, Tea Party Day 🐍 is in 9 weeks, Festivus πŸ– is in 10 weeks, Bacon Day πŸ₯“ is in 11 weeks, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏑 is in 13 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 3 months, Inauguration Day βœ… is in 14 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 17 weeks, Valentines Day ❀️ is in 4 months and Presidents Day πŸ‘΄ is in 18 weeks.

 Nice Day At Labrador Pond

I got the new battery finally in my laptop. πŸ”‹

I got the new battery finally in my laptop. πŸ”‹

According to my back of the envelope calculations of what the Linux kernel reports, the new battery has 83 percent more capacity then the old battery. It says that the new battery will last nearly six hours compared to the hour and a half of the old battery.

While the battery cost $30 and sat on my shelf for a month and a half until I had the free time to install it, the truth is it took all of 15 minutes to open the case, and put it in and replace the various screws missing from the case. I tend to loose a lot of screws from laptop cases, I probably should be dipping them in lock tight or something.

Hidden cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up | CBC News

Hidden cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up | CBC News

It's safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items.

A Marketplace investigation into Amazon Canada has found that perfectly good items are being liquidated by the truckload — and even destroyed or sent to landfill. Experts say hundreds of thousands of returns don't end up back on the e-commerce giant's website for resale, as customers might think.

Marketplace journalists posing as potential new clients went undercover for a tour at a Toronto e-waste recycling and product destruction facility with hidden cameras. During that meeting, a representative revealed they get "tons and tons of Amazon returns," and that every week their facility breaks apart and shreds at least one tractor-trailer load of Amazon returns, sometimes even up to three to five truckloads.

Low Head Dams Are Dangerous

The reds of the maple highlight the danger that low head dams pose to kayakers and wildlife. This dam probably exists to provide water to canal, or maybe it's historical. I don't know, but looking from upstream, you would never realize there is a dam there except for some warning sides. That said, the Mohawk is a mix of rapids and falls around Peebles Island.

Taken on Saturday October 19, 2019 at Peebles Island State Park.