NY Counties Redrawn to Reflect Proximity to County Seat

NY Counties Redrawn to Reflect Proximity to County Seat

I decided to "redraw" New York State Counties, so that each town is in the county closest to the county seat.

So for example, the Towns of Berne and Rensselaerville are closer to Schoharie County offices, so it would make more sense for them to be in Schoharie County then Albany.

It's kind of interesting. A lot of counties were preserved, but also some werid things happened like Niagara Falls was put in Erie County, Oneonta was put in Delaware County. Madison County got part of Tug Hill Plateau.

Essentially this is a Voronoi diagram of County Office Buildings, with towns joined against the Voronoi diagram.

Main Street

Lit by gas lamps, and with a classic main street appearance.

Taken on Tuesday November 9, 2010 at Wellsboro PA.

Last day of the year riding home from work at least at five o’clock ๐Ÿšฒ

Doesn’t necessarily mean that I won’t still ride in the morning or if I can ask the big director to leave early occasionally I can leave early to ride home. But soon a lot more busing it home on the express hopefully! The authority is about to get rich on my back.

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Time to blow this town, head out to Mad County come Saturday. Kind of like West Virginia but with more cows and smaller hills and no coal fields but more manure. ๐Ÿ’ฉ Partly clear and 35 degrees in Delmar, NY. ๐ŸŒ… There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. ๐Ÿƒ. Going to need the gloves ๐Ÿงค for the ride in.

My arm is a bit sore ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป feels like I spent the day at the range ๐Ÿ”ซ from getting my COVID and flu jabs ๐Ÿ’‰ last night but I made up for it with a protein packed breakfast of eggs ๐Ÿณ with edamame ๐ŸŸข, broccoli, onions and topped with lots of cottage cheese, tumeriac and nutritional yeast. Lunch is brown rice with lentils and even more edamame and tumeriac. ๐Ÿš Got to have that protein to make my arm feel good. And coffee โ˜• with cinnamon and ginger. Ginger and turmeric are supposed to reduce pain and aches. But I’ll be pissing like a cow in a pasture today. But then again tomorrow I’ll be heading to Madison County where they have a lot of them. ๐Ÿฎ

Had a mouse ๐Ÿ making a ton of noise last night after I got up to take a piss ๐Ÿšฝ in part because I drunk extra water ๐Ÿ’ฆ yesterday after getting vaxxed as recommended by the CDC to help with symptoms. I’m going to have to try the bucket trap again ๐Ÿชค or get more sticky traps as the spring trap isn’t working well as they keep picking the peanut ๐Ÿฅœ butter off it. Plus my arm ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป started to hurt a bit after waking up. Annoying as hell but I made up for it by sleeping into six. โฐ No need to rush as the rice ๐Ÿš doesn’t take as long as many of the soups I cook makes.

Got the space heater out yesterday. โ™จ And also the heating pad and electric blanket though the later is not yet on my bed. ๐Ÿ› Only used the heating pad and space heater briefly the other night when my fingers were cold from riding home. Need to work on using some sealant tape around the door ๐Ÿšช to stop air leaks and put the storm windows ๐ŸชŸ back in and lock the other windows for the winter. โ„ I think the cold season is back but just wait and we’ll have a heat wave ๐ŸŒŠ during this El Niño winter. โ˜€ Holding off on the central gas heat for now, as it’s not so cold plus the cooking each morning warms things up.

Today will be mostly sunny ๐ŸŒž, with a high of 55 degrees at 3pm. Not as cold mercury wise but it might feel colder with the wind. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 2nd. South wind 8 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Going to feel that wind riding home past Ezra Prentiss one last time before the time change. ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ ๐Ÿšฒ A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with sunny skies in the afternoon. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1990. 0.9 inches of snow fell back in 1951.โ„

Why can’t we have such nice weather for the four 4โƒฃ days election weekend? ๐Ÿ—ณ I stuffed my split ticket ballot ๐Ÿ—ณ into the box so I’m free to head to Madison County to camp โ›บ and ride trail ๐Ÿšต assuming that I can get the day off but it doesn’t look like a problem from the work calendar ๐Ÿ—“.

Solar noon ๐ŸŒž is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 32.4° from the due south horizon (-38.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour ๐Ÿ… starts at 5:07 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (243°). ๐Ÿ“ธ The sunset is in the west-southwest (250°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:47 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 5 seconds with dusk around 6:15 pm, which is one minute and 15 seconds earlier than yesterday. ๐ŸŒ‡ The best time to look at the stars is after 6:50 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies ๐ŸŒ„ and temperatures around 54 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze โ›… from the south. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 31 seconds over today.

Got Udemy Business installed on my phone ๐Ÿ“ฑ which allows you to take free online classes on a wide variety of technical โš™ and computer ๐Ÿ–ฅ classes online with your library card ๐Ÿ’ณ at least those libraries that offer it ๐Ÿ“š which looks like mostly just the Bethlehem Library locally. I’m enrolled in a class on the basics of remote sensing ๐ŸŒŽ which is about using satellites ๐Ÿ›ฐ to detect what is happening on earth’s surface. Interesting stuff so many great classes offered. ๐Ÿง‘‍๐Ÿซ

I survived my vaxxing ๐Ÿ’‰ and while I noticed my shoulder was a bit sore ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿปcome the middle of the night it was worth it to know I’m significantly protected from the latest in the COVID and flu strains. Took both shots to the left arm. It was a nice walk ๐Ÿšถ to the pharmacy, and no I didn’t become autistic and stab myself with a knife ๐Ÿ—ก or go crazy ๐Ÿคช donate any money ๐Ÿ’ต to Sandy’s Hookers Promise. Honestly the only side effect I’ve had feels like an afternoon at the range with the kick of a shotgun. With ammo I bought down at West Virginia, lol ๐Ÿ˜‚. Don’t tell Governor Hokey that. She should be just proud that I got my jabs and now the geriatrics and mentally retarded immune suppressed children won’t die, or so we’ve been told. Actually at this point the pharmacy โš• isn’t even filling out the COVID cards ๐ŸŽด and it was quick in an out, no crowds or this fake bullshit vaccine patriotism of a few years back.

It was a pleasant evening for that walk. ๐Ÿƒ‍โ™€๏ธ As I won’t be riding home after tonight, I should plan to start doing more evening walks. I think I got out of the habit after riding home and being tired, after having a good meal and wanting to retire to bed with a book. ๐Ÿ“– But I really need to start doing more steps if I’m riding less. Got home and shredded some apples in the food processor ๐ŸŽ with cinnamon and ginger, had a good glass of water ๐Ÿฅ› and some yogurt in hope of avoiding the worse effects of the flu and COVID vaccine.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy ๐ŸŒฅ, with a low of 38 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 27th. South wind 8 to 13 mph. In 2022, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 46 degrees. The record low of 17 occurred back in 1951.

Normally I wouldn’t head out of town right after vacation ๐Ÿ›ปbut it’s November and rifle season starts in two weeks and it might be cold and wet next week though the forecast has improved recently. The other director is off around Thanksgiving ๐Ÿฆƒ so that makes it difficult for me to extend that weekend plus I wouldn’t want to miss turkey day and we may have snow by then. Who know, winters coming. โ˜ƒ๏ธ

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy ๐ŸŒฅ, with a high of 56 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 31st. South wind around 7 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with sunny skies in the afternoon. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 76 was set in 1994. There was a dusting of snow in 2006.โ„

Looking ahead to Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 55. โ˜€ Calm wind becoming northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. Definitely an improvement from a few days ago but maybe not quite as nice in Madison County That said if I can’t get Monday off its not the end of the world. Typical average high for the weekend is 54 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Buy Nothing Day ๐Ÿ›๏ธ when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:57 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2022, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 49 and 24 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 46 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 2014.

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