Good Morning – August 6, 2021
Good morning! Yeah, it’s Foggy Friday! π«
And I complained about how fast summer vacation came and went πbut August seems to be speeding along but maybe it’s because I’m working downtown more. π’
Modestly foggy π and 65 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. Already it seems like the fog is burning off and it’s going to be a hot day although nothing like later next week. β
I checked and it looks like somehow I got the auto renew to work on bus card π³ again which is good as I am riding the bus π a lot more these days. That said, I kind of like how they have Wi-Fi at the office which I can use with my laptop π₯ when I have down time. That said it will be nice how my smaller pre pandemic phone π± plan now includes Hotspot data when I occasionally want it at home π‘. But come September the library is open seven days a week including until 9 pm on Friday nights. And I’ll be back to working downtown five days a week.
Today though I’m working from home π‘, although I’ll probably I will need to go to the library for several Zoom meetings. πΉ Normally I do most of that stuff with my phone but it gets harder with my cracked screen and it’s pain to move files back and forth to the computer as I don’t currently have hot spot service.
Been learning more about using PANDAS πΌ with the FRED economic data π and also ArcGIS REST/Services. It’s just so much easier and faster to type a few lines of chained python commands into a Jupyter Notebook then manually manipulate the data in a Spreadsheet or QGIS. Sure those programs are good for doing some final formatting or outputting actual maps by are so much bloat for basic data wrangling. πΊ