Good morning! The rain is done and it’s mild. 🌥

It’s not expected to last but I think it’s warm enough that I can leave the heat off until I get home after work.

Mostly cloudy and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌥 There is a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 31 mph 💨💨💨. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 11 pm. ☃️

Yesterday wasn’t a half bad day though it rained hard in the afternoon. ☔ In the morning though wasn’t too bad, hiked around the town park 🏞 and then up Bennett Hill. 🍲Went out and saw the folks, came home 🏡 and read for a a bit and explored some code. Lately I’ve been doing more analysis of the National Land Data Cover dataset with R. Some neat things you can do in code.

In addition, I’ve been doing a lot of listening 👂 to the marathon length Free Code Camp videos. 🖥 While despite all the ads I now see on the internet for paid college 🎓 classes, I’m mostly interested in learning just some theoretical and formal stuff I don’t already know from learning by doing. There are some free online classes on their website, where you can get a free certificate, I might do some of them. And also look around for online lectures. Not formal classes, but things I can listen to and learn. 👨‍🏫

I did that Free GIS course last spring 🗺 and it was fine but a lot of work doing shit I already knew. The idea 💡 of going back to school for a formal education program that I pay for and then doing unpaid homework assignments just seems kind of revolting to me. 🤮 I like learning but formal education really doesn’t interest me at this point. Maybe a trade class like welding, 🥽 wiring 🚧 or truck driving 🚚 but not computers. But not sitting in a classroom then going home and doing homework. Plus I just find online learning to be so weird.