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The wilderness I choose to live in.
The wilderness I choose to live in…
Many people where I work think it’s odd that I take public transit to work🚌, which it can be a pain on the late nights at work when I have wait for the next bus to come. I just hate driving in the city and with my big jacked up truck I’d never fit in the garage. I’d rather just play on the phone when the driver takes me to work.
I don’t have air conditioning at home, preferring to go down to the park with a book 📚 and sit out back until late in the evening. I guess not having air conditioning is different in the modern era.
But then again I also refuse to have internet at home because💻 its an unnecessary expense and I can either walk down to the park or the library and use my laptop to get on the internet for free. I guess that is a bit odd in the modern era.
I’ve also never owned a television, although for a short while I had a cheap HDTV tuner that worked until it broke. 📺But I never really used it much and only watched non commercial programming like the PBS Newshour – which I ended up watching less and less when their primary cause became pushing gun control. Most television is a stupid waste of time and advertising is so obnoxious.
I don’t really follow contemporary culture and politics. 🔌For my job I do read my clients newspapers but I rarely read the local news. I couldn’t tell you ninty percent of what is happening in the local news. I guess I don’t really care at this point as most things are beyond my control. Sometimes I listen to NPR but less and less when every story seems to be about attacking the president or pushing a left wing agenda. 📻 I guess I do check NPR.org a few times a week and listen to podcasts so I’m not totally disconnected.
Music wise I don’t really follow what is contemporary, probably the average date of music on my phone is 1968 or about a half century old. 🎤 The music my parents listened to college. I do listen to country music but rarely on the radio, and while my share of Jason Aldean records on my phone, I do also listen to a lot of Merle Haggard and Dave Dudley.
I’m just not really into contemporary culture or what is popular today. I think it’s too loud and commercial, it’s too offensive and explicit.📢 I’m perfectly happy to live in the wilderness⛺ that I choose to live in.
Stormy at Glidden Swamp
Hopefully it won't rain on my hiking adventure at Pharaoh Lake.
Taken on Sunday April 11, 2010 at Pharaoh Lake Wilderness.Average High Date
Average Temperatures
This table shows the average high, median, and low temperatures for the next year. Previous year values are shown in parenthesis. The sun angle is the maximum sun angle at solar noon for the day.
| Week | Date | Sun Angle | High | Median | Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 16 | 57.5° | 60 (44) | 48 (37) | 37 (30) | |
| 1 | April 27 | 61.2° | 65 (63) | 53 (50) | 42 (36) |
| 3 | May 10 | 65° | 70 (58) | 58 (50) | 46 (42) |
| 6 | May 28 | 68.9° | 75 (51) | 63 (45) | 52 (38) |
| 8 | June 16 | 70.7° | 80 (69) | 69 (60) | 58 (50) |
| 19 | August 28 | 57.1° | 80 (70) | 70 (65) | 59 (59) |
| 21 | September 14 | 50.8° | 75 (73) | 64 (62) | 53 (50) |
| 23 | September 26 | 46.1° | 70 (67) | 59 (58) | 49 (49) |
| 24 | October 7 | 41.9° | 65 (73) | 55 (62) | 44 (51) |
| 26 | October 19 | 37.4° | 60 (65) | 50 (53) | 40 (41) |
| 28 | November 1 | 32.9° | 55 (57) | 46 (47) | 36 (37) |
| 30 | November 13 | 29.4° | 50 (51) | 41 (42) | 32 (32) |
| 31 | November 25 | 26.6° | 45 (40) | 37 (33) | 29 (25) |
| 33 | December 9 | 24.6° | 40 (33) | 32 (29) | 25 (25) |
| 36 | December 26 | 24° | 35 (42) | 28 (38) | 20 (34) |
| 42 | February 9 | 32.7° | 35 (24) | 25 (16) | 16 (8) |
| 45 | February 28 | 39.4° | 40 (41) | 30 (34) | 21 (26) |
| 47 | March 15 | 45.2° | 45 (30) | 35 (21) | 26 (11) |
| 49 | March 27 | 49.9° | 50 (54) | 40 (46) | 30 (38) |
| 50 | April 6 | 53.8° | 55 (63) | 44 (49) | 33 (34) |
Weather Update – April 16, 2022
Rain and showers today 🌧
Maybe a bit nicer for Easter but cold with that wind. The windows will need to be closed by mid-day I believe. Maybe before I go out hiking and to the transfer station. Hopefully though I’ll be able to enjoy the birds before it gets too wet out though. At least we aren’t getting the snow or nearly the precipitation they’re talking about up north.
| Today. Feels like … April 1st. |
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Showers, mainly after 1pm. Temperature rising to near 52 by 9am, then falling to around 40 during the remainder of the day. Light and variable wind becoming northwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
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52 degrees | 7:39 sunset |
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| Tonight. Feels like … April 9th. |
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Rain and snow showers before 10pm, then a chance of rain showers between 10pm and 11pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers after 11pm. Low around 34. Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
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34 degrees | 6:08 sunrise |
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| Sunday. Feels like … March 21st. |
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A chance of rain and snow showers before 10am, then a chance of rain showers. Partly sunny. Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
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47 degrees | 7:40 sunset |
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| Sunday Night. Feels like … April 1st. |
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Mostly clear. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
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31 degrees | 6:07 sunrise |
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| Monday. Feels like … April 7th. |
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Mostly sunny. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.
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55 degrees | 7:42 sunset |
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| Monday Night. Feels like … April 16th. |
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Rain. Low around 37. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
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37 degrees | 6:05 sunrise |
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| Tuesday. Feels like … March 26th. |
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Rain, mainly before 2pm. High near 49. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
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49 degrees | 7:43 sunset |
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| Tuesday Night. Feels like … April 16th. |
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A chance of rain before 8pm. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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37 degrees | 6:04 sunrise |
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| Wednesday. Feels like … April 7th. |
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Mostly sunny.
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55 degrees | 7:44 sunset |
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| Wednesday Night. Feels like … April 14th. |
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Partly cloudy.
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36 degrees | 6:02 sunrise |
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| Thursday. Feels like … April 19th. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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61 degrees | 43 max dew point | 7:45 sunset |
| Thursday Night. Feels like … May 2nd. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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43 degrees | 6:01 sunrise |
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| Friday. Feels like … April 21st. |
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Mostly sunny.
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62 degrees | 42 max dew point | 7:46 sunset |
Daily Update – April 16, 2022
Good morning! No rain yet, we but we know what’s coming. ⛈
Maybe we won’t get as much rain as up north, and no snow but it is hardly going to be a banner day. I do hope to do some hiking at Hollyhock or maybe Blodgett Hill.
Clouds and 50 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ There is a southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear around 11 pm. Then cold and windy tomorrow for Easter with clouds.
What can I say, Easter might be late 🐰 but that’s not guarantee of nice weather. I have a family obligation next weekend so I can’t get out of town, but maybe the following weekend I’m hoping. 😎 The thing is at this point the weather is only going to get warmer and nicer, although that also means the black flies will be awakening soon 🐜 and I want to get at least one spring weekend in the Adirondacks before the black flies are out.
I am heading to the transfer station to drop off my recyclables ♻️ and be green and things like that. I’ve sorted out everything carefully, put a nice bow on it, have my $6 ready, and will put everything in the proper dumpsters to be green. As dubious as I may be about it all, I really needed to empty my trash cans 🥫 of metals and glass so might as well recycle plastics too.
I am hoping that the rain will hold off for a few hours, 🌧 so I can enjoy a few hours in the woods 🐦 looking at the birds and enjoying the spring time weather, although I think sun will be hard to come by. But still Hollyhock is nice. I might do Blodgett Hill, it’s a much more vigorous hike, but it’s sort of out of the way compared to Hollyhock which is just down the road form the transfer station.
Yesterday I sanded and primed my truck. Next time I have a nice weekend I’ll sand the primer down with fine grain sand paper then use the duplicate color to cover it. 🛻 Doesn’t have to perfect but I want to slow the growth of the rust holes. That said, the areas I worked on last year really did stop the cancer ♋ in its tracks. Rust belt life sucks.
I spent most of the evening and night 🌃 reading a library book about Javascript. I’ve been using that language on and off since high school to build my blog 📚 but my knowledge is pretty vague of modern Javascript and the techniques widely used today with nodejs.
I should have gone for my walk 🚶 yesterday as it was a pretty nice day but in the evening it got dark and cloudy ⛅ and painting the truck, sorting recyclables ♻ and reading 📖 took the balance of the day. I still do pretty good most days for walking and I expect I will close out the month of April averaging more than 10,000 steps per day. 👣