Good morning! What day is it? Cruising through August Day, of course. ☔

83 days until the polls close on the mid-term elections says the newsman. I haven’t checked that to be sure but I don’t see any reason to believe that he is lying to me. I already made my choice between the Rar and the Tonk.

Rain showers and 62 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 59 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 10 am.

No early morning walk due to the rain 🚶 but I’m hoping to do some steps on the Plaza this morning before work. I have a busy day ahead with meetings but at least I am getting sort of caught up on the queue that built up while I was on vacation. 📄

Had more work that I brought down to the library 🖥 and worked out the picnic table they now have out front. I’m glad I replaced the battery 🔋 in my laptop a few months back not only because it was a fire hazard as it was running hot and had expanded but because I’d not always want to be tied to a plug 🔌. Especially in the autumn when hybrid work from the woods is more of a possibility.

Upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 22.04 last night 👨‍💻 and so far things have gone fairly flawlessly, bar a few random broken packages and other things I needed to fix. Linux these days is pretty good, but sometimes you just need to delete a file or tweak something, to ensure smooth sailing. ⛵  Some of my GIS packages, being that I was running ubuntugis-unstable didn’t upgrade smoothly without some manual upgrades, as did Python require some manual reinstalls of packages. But in general I’m happy with the upgrade, though I don’t like how certain things have changed.

I was a bit surprised by the rain this morning 💧although it really didn’t add much or end the fairly dry summer we’ve been having so far. Maybe it washed a little bit of the dust and mud off my truck but I have my doubts. The rain has pulled up the humidity and since last night things have been remarkably sticky.

I am thinking 💭 about taking a personal day on Friday as I have a lot of miscellaneous things to get done and I want to head up to Piseco-Powley Road one last time this year before things are too busy. 🏊‍♂️ Going to be hot but nice weekend to spend at the Potholers I’m thinking.