Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. I expect a busy week this week and next. Two weeks to the Latest Sunset of the Year, which is a few days after the first day of summer 🌆. Partly cloudy and 65 degrees in Albany, NY. ⛅ There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 47 degrees.

Big Red is at the shop getting his oil changed and tires rotated. 🛢I drive so few miles, especially over the past winter, and with that synthetic oil, the last time the oil was changed on Red was either late August or early September. And I still had life left on the oil monitoring system, although I do like to do it a bit early, and honestly that oil been sitting in the truck for like 10 months now, getting heated and abused climbing up and down mountains and on dirty roads. Plus the tires needed to be rotated. I’d like to avoid replacing the tires and doing an alignment until at least next year — 2020.🚗

Today will have showers likely, mainly after 5pm. Mostly cloudy 🌞, with a high of 75 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 6th. I’d rather drive straight home.Maximum dew point of 56 at 6pm. South wind 7 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 78 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 2008.

I am really hoping the showers hold off, 🌧because I don’t want to be walking up to Wolf Road to pick up my truck in the pouring rain from the oil change. I thought about going there mid-day, but then I would have to catch a bus there, get my truck, park it somewhere, and then catch a bus downtown.

The sun will set at 8:32 pm with dusk around 9:07 pm, which is 34 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 71 degrees. The dew point will be 60 degrees. Probably won’t be sitting out back tonight. There will be a southeast breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, an increase of 44 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain, with thunderstorms also possible after 10pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. 🌧 Low of 62 degrees at 5am. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 61 at 9pm. 🏖️ A tad bit of mugginess tonight with the rain coming? Southeast wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1980.

Probably when I get home with my truck, I’ll ride the exercise bike, 🚲 as it will be too wet to go out for my walk. Tomorrow will be a late night at work, followed by the work picnic, so I won’t have much of a chance to walk tomorrow, except maybe down to the bus stop. I’ll probably take the bus or ask a colleague for a ride home, as I hate parking in that tight parking lot, and I might want to have a drink or two, and I don’t drink any alcohol if I plan to drive anymore.🍺 It’s just a rule, because I seem to have enough trouble with aggressive drivers and everything else going on road.

I am continuing to have some problems with the bathroom sink drain. 🚽 It was moving well then got stuck again today. I put some more drain cleaner in it this morning and it’s moving again. After it drained out, I dumped some extra in it. I might try removing the trap next, if I have more problems. Probably all the damn hair from shaving, and the plumbing has always been a weak spot in my run-down apartment. Hoping I won’t have to call the landlord about that, although he’s pretty good about fixing things.🛠

On this day in 1964, United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill’s passage. After they “broke” the air conditioning on a muggy Washington DC heat wave, and made people sweat out the heat.✊ Sometimes you just got to sweat it out for progress to make things move forward.

I really doubt I will get out of town this weekend, but the following weekend, depending on work schedule and weather, I **might**  (emphasis on the uncertainty) take a long weekend up to the Potholers/Lily Lake/Little Falls. I ordered more wire (yes, I know), to make the connection between the second accessory battery and the low voltage disconnect, 🔌 then also hook up the other USB charger and shunt for the panel meter. I swear, that will be the final wiring project for my truck. I’m literally running of places to run wires. But everything should be a lot more stable for camp power.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Latest Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain and temperatures between 76 and 61 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1943.