Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Four weeks to Pink Moon 🌕 . Mostly sunny and 35 degrees this morning. Calm wind, a pretty nice morning for sure. Pancakes with the remaining blueberries on them , I didn’t get shopping yesterday unfortunately but maybe today.

While a cold start this morning, today will be mostly sunny with a high near 60F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. A bit breezy but nice. The normal high for today is 51, so we are running about 9 degrees above normal which is more like we typically have on April 19th. But it’s a nice change after the cold last night. I thought about turning the heat on last night but I decided it wouldn’t be cold enough for long enough to have to worry about anything freezing in cold. And by morning with the sun out and temperatures rising, it wasn’t bad at all.

I want to get to the store today and also down to the library to work for a few hours. I ended up not getting shopping yesterday, as I had a credit card issue and I needed to wait for more money to come in on payday today, because I had a lot of expenses — utilities, insurance and rent due yesterday — and not a lot of money in the bank with my credit card being suspended. I will first have to go to ATM and get money, because I don’t want to get to store and have other problems with my other card, and then not have enough cash. I always keep very little money in my accounts, because they aren’t interest baring, and truth be told, I don’t buy a lot of shit. That said, the whole crappiness of yesterday, got me checking my accounts and updating my net worth and looking at retirement, and thinking if I can stay course for another 17 years, by 55 things will be good, and I can have that hobby farm and land where I can burn things and shoot guns, and only have to work a real job mostly to get health insurance. Now, if Congress could just implement affordable health insurance for all …

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 51.3° from the due south horizon (-19.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:42 pm with the sun in the west (270°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (276°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:19 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 7:47 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:21 pm. At sunset, look for skies and temperatures around degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 12 hours and 39 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have partly cloudy skies. Not as cold with a low of 43F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Should be a nice night, feeling more like around May 3rd then late March. I will probably have to work late tonight, but I can do it out back with my laptop, assuming that the battery holds a charge. That battery I put in my laptop this past winter that I got off the Internet was complete junk. At least it hasn’t burst into flames yet. I wanted to get an exact HP replacement, but the laptop is now old enough — 4 years old — that the manufacturer no longer makes them. Kind of a pain to replace too, because my laptop requires you to take apart the case to get to battery.

While Good Friday will be cloudy it looks like Saturday through Tuesday will be very sunny with temperatures in the 50s, rising to the 60s by early next week. While I may have to work this weekend, I am thinking I can manage it from the Adirondacks — I don’t expect Saturday and Sunday to be that busy but I know places I can go to check my phone is necessary. There might be a few inches of snow on the ground to start the weekend off, but by the second half of the weekend it should be quite nice. I figure a big ol’ fire in woods and some beer and music is a good way to celebrate the life of union-organizer Christ who was murdered by the man for organizing the common man.

I am glad that they are opening up COVID-19 vaccination to most New Yorkers today, and everybody over age 16 next week. People have been waiting long enough. I felt more then a bit guilty about getting my first shot last week, but it’s good for me and everybody else in a community to get vaccinated. While I don’t think I’ll be getting a vaccine passport or going to any kind of events anytime soon that require a passport, it’s good to know that in a few weeks I’ll pretty much be immune from this deadly disease that has killed nearly 700 people alone in Albany County. Two weeks from today I’ll get my second shot and then by the end of the month I should be pretty much immune.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Pink Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 7:51 pm with dusk at 8:21 pm. On that day in 2020, we had rain showers, cold, cloudy and temperatures between 46 and 37 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 63 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1962.