Good morning! The Monday after daylight savings time has come back around again. 🌅

With the clouds it seems darker than yesterday. ☁️ But it’s nice with so much extra daylight in the evening. For a day supposed to reach the fifties by evening, the morning is awful cool. Not spring yet.

🌹🌻🌼Only 6 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

Overcast and 25 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ There is a south breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️

Yesterday I went skiing 🎿 at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center for a while but by midday the snow wasn’t that great. Then I went out to the folks house 👪 for cabbage and corned beef 🍀 and skied a bunch more with the dog 🐶 out back.

It’s nice having that extra sunlight in the evening. 🌇 I went for the evening walk 🚶 with still some daylight to spare and did not have to drive home in the dark. 🌃 Looking forward to when I can go down to the park 🏞 again with a book 📙. Had the library not been closed on Saturday due to the snow storm I probably would have gone there. I’ll probably go more now that they’ve dropped the muzzle mandate 😷 as I don’t mind wearing a mask but not when I’m sitting down and working.

I don’t mind wearing the muzzle in public places 😷 like crowded elevators or buses but not while sitting down and working. I’m so used to at this point just wearing the muzzle and boiling then in soapy water 💦 every Sunday afternoon. It just becomes routine and if it keeps me from getting the COVID or a cold it’s worth it.

Besides the GIS class I’ve been taking 🗺, I’ve been lately doing a map atlas a day I post on Facebook. It’s fun because it gets me looking for interesting sources of map data each day and new techniques for presenting information. 🌎 There is a lot you can do with a combination of R programming language and QGIS with a python thrown in. Using R often makes complicated map joins quick.

Replaced the Microsoft building footprints with a combination of the NYSERDA building footprints and the NYC planning department footprints on my PostGIS database on my laptop. 🏢 The Microsoft building footprints aren’t bad and are far more extensive in rural areas than what was available in OpenStreetMap but had a lot of problems accurately displaying urban buildings. Then again, Microsoft building footprints was generated with machine learning while NYSERDA checked them against source photography. 🔎

Tomorrow I’ll probably wash my truck 🛻 and go store for suppliers. 🍏 Lots of little things I need – shoe rubber cement for fixing my ski 🎿 boots again, and fixing the trash can lid, toilet 🚽 cleaner and drain solvent to improve the bath 🛀 drain. Cheese 🧀 as I got to have my dairy 🐮 and more frozen fruit. 🍓 I have to work late tonight so it won’t happen today but going to be a mild week for a car wash. Then some point next month I’ll have to sand and paint over the rust again on Big Red.