Good morning! Happy Average High is 40 🌨 !

Keep that point next week, going to extremely mild and warm. ☀

Sunny and cold, around 25 degrees at the Elm Ave Park and Ride. ❄ There is a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There is an inch of fresh snow on the grass. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️

Walked down to the Park and Ride 🚏in hopes of catching the earlier bus downtown so I could walk laps on the Empire State Plaza before work but the bus 🚍 is no where to be seen. I might have as well caught the later express bus downtown, especially if we hit traffic going downtown.

Kind of a pretty snowy ☃ morning, with bright blue skies and the sun at such a low angle. Winter has held off so far and is likely to continue holding off for a while but I’m sure eventually we will be getting some real cold and snowy weather.

The tires are on Big Red 🛻, the shock bushing fixed and tomorrow the truck is getting his state inspection. Then I’ll be on the road again. I don’t expect to do a lot of winter driving but sometimes it’s nice to have a vehicle to run to the store and when I head out of town.

I walked down to CVS last night both for exercise 🚶 and because I was hoping to get my COVID-19 booster 💉 but they were out, and suggested that I make an appointment online. I filled out the form on my phone and it refused to submit. I am going to try again today from the office. They have a vaccination center in the Empire State Plaza but it’s only open on Wednesday and I didn’t want to feel like shit 💩 driving Red home from the shop.

The Empire State Plaza is super icy for walking 🚶 on this morning. 🌅 They don’t salt the road way anymore above the platform building because road salt not only destroys roadways and automobiles but also buildings. Salt leeches through concrete into the rebar which causes rebar to rust and expand, causing concrete to crack and loose its carrying strength as happened to that building 🏢 in Florida, though that was sea salt not road salt.