Good morning! What day is it? A pleasant Get Away Hump Day, of course. Four weeks to 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️. Partly sunny and a bit cold with a temperature around 48 degrees. There is a north breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. The breeze does make it feel a bit chilly.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 61 degrees at 5pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 22nd. North wind 8 to 10 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 77 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1936. There was a dusting of snow in 1977.❄

The sun will set at 8:03 pm with dusk around 8:35 pm, which is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 54 degrees. There will be a north-northeast breeze at 6 mph. Tonight I might try to get down to the park after work for a while. Today will have 14 hours and 23 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 18 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 38 degrees at 5am. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 18th. Northeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1956.

Last night I was pointing out how poor people’s understandings are of modern switch mode power supplies and buck and boost converters. 🔌Even people who are aspiring off girders and those who care about climate change have a poor understanding of electricity today. Most switch mode power supplies could care less about the AC sine wave 🌊 although I guess you could argue that transient voltage spikes from the switching transistors in cheap inverters lacking sufficent filtering could strain the input capicators on switch mode power supplies. Electronics are a big part of modern life, people should be informed how they work.

I was hearing that May is Natural Composting month. 🌽🍅 I’m always surprised how little of that happens in the cities. Municipal composting programs have kind of fallen behind the wayside after the pig farms stopped collecting municipal waste in the 1970s. Right now I tend to mix the small amount of food waste I have with my non recyclable paper trash I burn up in camp but when I own land I’ll probably mix it with manure and compost it. 💩 Food waste doesn’t burn well, especially in a burn barrel, and in landfills is a big source of carbon emissions.

I’m continuing to study car insurance options 🚙. I’m starting to wonder if my plan lacks glass coverage, I probably should add it if it somehow got dropped. I might reduce my liability insurance a bit, I’m starting to think it’s a worthwhile risk to take within reason, right now I’m a fair bit above commonly issued amount and it might be a risk worth taking. I’ll have to think about it some more. Not replacing Big Red in the 2020s is an option worth considering seriously if it gets me closer to saving money 💵 to buy land and move out of New York. A lot depends on my financial situation at that point and if it seems necessary to own a car then.

I am increasingly unsure about my weekend plans. ☀ Saturday still looks nice but I’m concerned with all the rain lately the ground will be so soft. Black flies are probably out now in many places. I kind of don’t want to set up in the pouring rain on Friday night even if Saturday will be cold but sunny. Maybe I could stick in town. But if I do that I wouldn’t be able to head out of town for another two weeks for Memorial Day Weekend. It would certainly save gas ⛽ to stay in town and I might need a few extra supplies.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ when the sun will be setting at 8:30 pm with dusk at 9:04 pm. Doesn’t seem they close as so many spring evenings have been cold, dark and rainy and I’ve only been to the park a few times this year. 📖 On that day in 2018, we had partly sunny skies, with a few rain showers and temperatures between 64 and 48 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 75 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1925.