Good morning! Happy Constitution Day 📜 !

I heard the constitution is a good source of carbon to tie down the nitrogen and smell from urine and manure in a hog yard. And confounding politicians of the opposite political party and their poorly thought out plans.

Overcast and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 62 degrees. The skies will clear around 5 pm.

Kind of a muggy morning 😰 but at the same time it just has a very mid September feel to it today. Out for the morning walk 🚶 as I try to get to the 10,000 step goal 🥅 which turns out to be remarkably hard to despite all the walking I do. The air has the taste of rubber on it, maybe I some butyl leaking out of the plastics plant down the road. ☠️

Traffic hasn’t been so bad around the High School lately 🚸 although it certainly helps when I get a later start. At least there are fewer idling cars 🚘 most days but crossing the driveway on the crosswalk by the high school is a bit dangerous.

I am glad it’s a Friday ☺ as it’s been a long week as I’m out used to working downtown five days a week with the bus 🚍 and everything else. But in some ways the consistency of it is kind it is kind of nice, as is not being home all of the time. 💳

Tonight I’ll run to the store and get some supplies 🍔 and get packed so I can leave early in the morning for the Adirondacks ⛰. I haven’t asked for Monday and Tuesday off but I have no meetings scheduled and I can hand my duties off to some other people or get caught up on Wednesday. I have the time, I should take both days off – pushing my autumn trip off a few weeks means I’ll accumulate more vacation time by the time I take off that week in late October or early November. ⛺

I’ve working updating the graphing code on the blog 📊 to work with Chartjs 3.5 as I’m still using the 1.x version. I wrote a wrapper around the old code but I want to be generating 3.5 code for future graphs so that it’s more future compatible and I can do more gradients on the graphs.