Good evening! Partly clear and 29 degrees in Delmar. 🌆 There is a northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 1 pm. 🌡️

Launched my new blog theme, which I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, 🤔 since after my experience in the free coding camp, which taught me a lot more modern coding techniques like CSS3+4, ES6 javascript and modern HTML. A lot of the code on my blog was kind of a mess, it was good to try to clean things up, especially as since I moved over to PHP7 things were kicking up hundreds of errors on the back end due to not always testing array keys before calling them. ⌨ I decided I am tired of all full-screen pictures and particularly how slow they can load a times. Kind of a throw-back to an older blog look but using the latest in HTML codes.

This was kind of a stay at home day, 🏘 as I have this week off from work and I did not sleep well and wasn’t feeling good for a lot of the day. I’ve been continuing to work on my free coding class, 🤖 deep in the bowels 💩 of Redux which is a Javascript-HTML library for building high-speed interactive apps like your favorite email program and social media program. I don’t love it, in part because I doubt I will ever use it, but it’s good to expand my horizons, and know about it because all the cool kids are using it.

Later in the afternoon I went down to the library, 📚 and uploaded the latest version of the blog theme ⏫ and then went out for my evening walk. 🚶 With my boots falling apart and leaking badly, 👢 I’ve not done as many steps as I should. I should either order or go and get some more boots but I’ve been procrastinating a lot lately.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 20 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 25th. Merry Christmas, lol. 🎅 Think of all that colorful wrapping paper Santa will bring to burn. 🎁 Maximum wind chill around 15 at 5am; Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph. In 2021, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 15 degrees. The record low of -19 occurred back in 1951.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 33 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around January 5th. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 32 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1957. 8.4 inches of snow fell back in 1975.❄

I am thinking about going winter camping tomorrow ⛺ ❄️ before the real-cold weather blows in on Thursday into Friday. I am thinking two nights hot tenting, not too far from here, but I am still a bit worried about the snow being so deep, and how much I would have to shovel out — and if the roads will be icy. 🧤 I guess I don’t have to decide right away, and indeed I probably will just pack the bare minimum for hot tenting, as anything I don’t use at least food and water-wise will most certainly be frozen by Thursday. But at least it should be cold enough to keep things from getting all melty. Or if I wait to New Years Eve, then there might be less snow come the rain on Friday.

Before that though, I do need to think about going to the grocery store. 🏪 I keep finding things to eat around home, but my pantry is quite depleted at this point, especially as I planned to go shopping on Wednesday at lunch time during my work-at-home day, which became plans to go shopping Thursday for both myself and the then-canceled Christmas Party at work, 🎄 which then was going to be after the snow storm, which then became Monday after I visited the folks, which didn’t happen. 🚽 I do need toilet paper, so I really should think about doing that.

Today in 1974, Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States 👔  under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Very cold for Christmas Weekend. 😕 Saturday, Christmas Eve, partly sunny but ball-chillen cold with a high near 23. Christmas Day, sunny and cold with a high of 26. Typical average high for the weekend is 36 degrees. I hope Santa doesn’t freeze off his you know what. 🎄

Looking ahead, next Monday is Boxing Day 🥊 when the sun will be setting at 4:29 pm with dusk at 4:59 pm. On that day in 2021, we had mostly cloudy, mild, rain showers and temperatures between 42 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 35 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1895.