Day: March 19, 2022

Good morning! Final Day of Winter ⛄

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.