Night before dawn is 6 hours and 31 minutes,
Dawn starts at 6:31 am and runs for 26 minutes,
Sunrise is at 6:58 am which is 5 hours and 1 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 1:03 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 7:07 pm is 7 hours and 7 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 33 minutes concluding at 7:34 pm,
Leaving 4 hours and 25 minutes until midnight.
Cloudy, damp and mild. Maybe about 15 degrees warmer then the first day of winter — things are trending milder then expected earlier on — but hardly a nice late spring day. 🌺 At least no heat required today, and maybe a few more nights sleeping with the windows open. Even with cooler weather expected, especially in the nights by mid-week, it seems like much of the coming week will feel like early April rather then mid-to-late May. Spring is Sunday.
| Today. Feels like … April 15th. |
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Scattered showers, mainly before 9am. Cloudy. South wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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59 degrees | 7:07 sunset |
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| Tonight. Feels like … May 10th. |
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Showers and thunderstorms likely before midnight, then a chance of showers between midnight and 2am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light east in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
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46 degrees | 6:56 sunrise |
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| Sunday. Feels like … April 4th. |
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A chance of showers, mainly after 3pm. Increasing clouds. Light and variable wind becoming west 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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53 degrees | 7:08 sunset |
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| Sunday Night. Feels like … April 9th. |
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A chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy. Northwest wind 8 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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34 degrees | 6:54 sunrise |
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| Monday. Feels like … April 4th. |
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Mostly sunny. West wind 8 to 16 mph.
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53 degrees | 7:10 sunset |
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| Monday Night. Feels like … April 1st. |
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Mostly cloudy.
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31 degrees | 6:53 sunrise |
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| Tuesday. Feels like … March 26th. |
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Mostly sunny.
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49 degrees | 7:11 sunset |
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| Tuesday Night. Feels like … March 29th. |
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Mostly cloudy.
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30 degrees | 6:51 sunrise |
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| Wednesday. Feels like … March 24th. |
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A chance of rain after 2pm. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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48 degrees | 7:12 sunset |
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| Wednesday Night. Feels like … April 11th. |
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Rain likely, mainly after 8pm. Cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
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35 degrees | 6:49 sunrise |
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| Thursday. Feels like … April 1st. |
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Rain likely. Cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
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52 degrees | 7:13 sunset |
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| Thursday Night. Feels like … April 19th. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
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38 degrees | 6:47 sunrise |
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| Friday. Feels like … April 1st. |
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A chance of showers. Partly sunny. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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52 degrees | 7:14 sunset |
Good ridden winter, although I’m well aware of the 8-14 day outlook that suggests the mild weather of late isn’t expected to last into late March and early April.
🌹🌻🌼Only 1 day remains until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼
Spring begins at 11:33 AM tomorrow. 🌷 Hopefully we will have sun, although it looks more like will be mostly cloudy to start the spring month. At least not excessively dry.
Cloudy and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Tuesday around 6 am. ☃️
Today looks like it will be kind of wet and gray day. ☔ Not as much rain as I expected, that will be good if I decide to go to the library later on. 📚 I might walk out to Five Rivers some point today, depends on how much rain we get but I don’t want to get stuck in a rain storm walking back home. 🐸 Or I might wait until Sunday to go out to Five Rivers.
I am thinking about some coding projects 👨💻 and trying to learn about new map-making techniques. Also been thinking about getting the soldering iron out and rebuilding the GPS-logger for my truck before the summer camping season, so I can have maps and logs of my summer road trips. 🏕 Although, maybe those trips will be somewhat abridged with the high prices of gasoline, ⛽ but ultimately you have to live. For now, until it gets nicer, I am pretty much staying closer to home, walking places or taking the bus.
The past few days I’ve gotten in over 15,000 steps a day, 🚶♀️ although with the weather today, I doubt I’ll be able to continue that trend. But it seems like with the warmer weather, it will be easier to get more steps in, especially on non-session days when I can walk before work, and then at lunch time.
Earlier this morning stumbling around, I got caught in the window shade cord, 🔳 and managed to fall on my knee, banging it up, and leaving myself kind of sore with a broken window shade. I am going to see if I can either glue the window-shade later on or maybe I can narrow the brackets. I still think I can get more use out of it. 🔧 I was annoyed that another thing is broken in my life. The good news though is that my repair to the trash can is holding up and I’m hopeful the JD Weld I put on my exercise bike will cure good 🚲 — I’m waiting to ride it for a few more days to get a good solid cure. Since that pedal broke on the bicycle I haven’t been riding it much over the winter, but I used to like doing that especially while watching Youtube videos I had downloaded. 📽
I was reading the town newsletter, and see now I have to have the cans separated from the plastic and glass for recycling. 🥫 What a freaking pain. ♻️ Fees have gone up to the point for recycling plastic and glass, it hardly saves money compared to putting them in a black garbage bag and sending them to the Rapp Road Landfill. $2 a bag for recycling glass and plastic separated out, versus $3 a bag mixed in with the garbage. 💸 Paper is $2 surcharge per car too. 📃 I guess the truth recycling really is becoming revealed as a valueless scam. ❗ If you want less garbage, you just got to buy less garbage, you can kind of forget about recycling these days. 🔥 Fire works too, but it’s kind of illegal, toxic and smells bad if you don’t have a hot enough fire. Need to move out to the open country, where nobody cares. 🐮 Recycling has become so damn hard lately with commodities prices so low. Even at work, nobody has recycling bins any more — you want to recycle, you have to haul your paper trash to a central trash can on each floor.
I think there should be permanent daylight savings time south of the Mason Dixon line but north of it they should continue flipping back to standard time north of it due to the winter loss of daylight that is more extreme in northerly latitude.
We need to know what is going on in Russia. Having access to the unfiltered Moscow line is vital when trying to understand Putin’s next steps. A prematurely published article celebrating Russia’s ‘victory’ over Ukraine was available on state-owned RIA-Novosti news agency and Sputnik’s site before being removed — a piece of journalism that revealed the extent of the Russian state’s disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty. By labelling this as dangerous ‘misinformation’, Dorries, von der Leyen and Clegg are preventing European citizens from getting the full picture on the political machinations coming out of the Kremlin.
Perhaps more importantly, the precedent set by such bold action as banning foreign news sites should make us worried. Press freedom has taken a bashing recently; during the pandemic, YouTube and other sites censored TalkRadio?for alleged Covid ‘misinformation’, while a recent BBC Stephen Nolan podcast revealed the extent to which Ofcom was willing to silence gender-critical views labelled ‘hate speech’. When it comes to interpreting foreign conflicts, the British government has proved itself to be similarly light?on principle. While British citizens who left to fight against ISIS with the Kurds were labelled terrorists and prosecuted on return, the foreign secretary Liz Truss announced her support for British citizens to fight with the Ukrainians against Russia during a broadcast round this weekend.???
Driving past the Alcove Reservoir last weekend on NY 143. For some reason when I compress Youtube videos, I end up with a lot of artifacts on the trees that I'm trying to get out of future videos.
For a long time I’ve been very interested in alternative perspectives not available on the mainstream media. I often think that sources like NPR are very one sided, too quick to dismiss other perspectives by calling them fake news and propaganda. But often alternative sources have good facts about what is happening on the ground, even if they have a different take on events based on alternative values.
People are quick to dismiss things that they disagree with as fake news. But when people and organizations are trying to censor things like Russia Today, then it’s all the more important to read up about them and learn their perspective and what parts of the conflict their highlighting. Russia Today is particularly good at highlighting the hypocrisy of the United States and the west when it comes to ideals of justice and fairness, even if they rarely look inwards to the problems of Russia. Just because they turn a blind eye to their country’s own problems or evils doesn’t mean they are fake.
By the same token, I also read the NY Post and Fox News not because I embrace all their pro police propaganda or sensationalist crime stories but because I like to be informed of the issues that concern conservative minded politicians. Not because I’m a right winger but because I like to hear the full spectrum of news and pick out stories and perspectives that make sense based on the evidence. Previously, I would read Inspire, the English translation of the recruiting magazine of Al Queda to be informed on how the Taliban saw the world.
Reading the perspectives of the Russian government won’t brain wash you but will make you an informed citizen who is more understanding of the Russian society and culture. Understanding other cultures can help make you a voice for peace and an more informed person.
