I often don’t want to change but the world keeps changing around me. Not only are things different with my new job out in the suburbs, I may likely have to move now that my landlord sold the apartment. It’s really falling apart and I’ve been rough on it over the past 16 ½ years and maybe it’s time to move on. I knew this day would come some day.

Good morning! Happy Thursday. Clear and 15 degrees in Delmar. 🌅 There is a northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 3. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️

That doesn’t sound like the warmest morning ever for the ride into work 🚲 but at least it won’t be quite as windy. The gloves 🧤 mom got me for my birthday 🎂 definitely help with the winter riding. Should a bit warmer once the sun rises.

Somehow I thought my evening commute last night would be cold but by the time I had climbed out of the gorge I was sweating. 😰 Felt great with my heart pumping as I reached out to the summit climbing out of the gorge. 💓 Now that I’m riding back and forth to work in Menands, my bicycle commute is 17 ½ miles total. 🏞 And that doesn’t include if I decide visit the Riverfront, Albany Rural Cementary or random back streets in North Albany at lunch time.

Today will have a chance of snow, mainly after 5pm. Increasing clouds 🌞, with a high of 36 degrees at 1pm. Typical for today. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 64 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 2006. 9.0 inches of snow fell back in 1894.❄

Breakfast this morning was red onions, peas, corn, eggs and corn meal 🥚 and an apple 🍏 for dessert. Dark and chilly when I first awoke but the sun is rising. 🌅 Drinking coffee ☕ chewing over the bombshell 💣 that was last night. It’s not a big deal, I have options but a lot to think 🤔 about in the coming days. Last night was sweet potatoes and onions fried with spinach and corn with turmeric and other spices. Then too much mango as I was stress eating. 🫦

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:11 pm with sun having an altitude of 34.6° from the due south horizon (-36.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:47 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (247°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (253°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:27 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 1 seconds with dusk around 5:55 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (206°) at an altitude of 64° from the horizon, 232,122 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:29 pm. At sunset, look for snow 🌨 and temperatures around 34 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 39 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 42 seconds over today.

It is what it is, 🚚 I have options when it comes to moving or deciding to stay. My apartment has a lot of issues I’ve been rough on it but also not super demanding on the landlord when things wore out. I keep trying to patch the air leaks around the door 🚪 but that’s falling apart like so many other things. Maybe it’s a sign to start anew. My lease could change at any point, I’m sure rent will go up with the new landlord but how much is the question. Where to move to next, it would be nicer to be closer to my office 🏢 in suburban Menands but also I wouldn’t mind moving back to the country 🐔 but I don’t really love driving 🚘.

I fret the additional costs of moving on, 🏡 but I’ve been saving a lot and I do have options. Really if I had to I could find quite a bit more money 💵 in my budget but I fret to spend what I want to go towards my future 🔮. But maybe now is the time to cash in some of those stocks and bonds – or just cut back on my investing. 📊 It all depends on what I decide to do. I’d love to move back to the country and have land but being single in many ways that’s hard to do. I’m so jealous of my friends and colleagues that have land while I’m still in the apartment I’ve been in since a few months after graduation 🎓 from college and my first real post college job. But I’ve been saving end investing towards this next step though I’ll probably end up paying a lot of capital gains taxes should I end up having to sell a lot of stock to finance this next big step. 👣

Tonight will snow, mainly before 1am. 🌨 Low of 28 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 21st. Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 19 mph becoming west 20 to 25 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 43 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. In 2023, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 40 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1943.

I am really getting up to speed at the new job, 🕴🏻 it’s just such a cultural shock 🤯 and different from when I worked downtown. Mastering all the particularlities of the job is a challenge 📄, it’s still so paperwork based. So many procedures to learn – as the manager your expected to wear any hat 🎩🧢🤠 depending who is out on a particular day. The money is good, I often complain about that but it’s because I see so little of it because I’m investing. And the technical skills I’m practicing, refining and building into my life and resume in a professional manner really will push me forward to the next step in life.

Cloudy and windy for the weekend. ❄ Saturday, a chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33. West wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 34. Typical average high for the weekend is 36 degrees.

I was hoping for a nice weekend in Madison County 🐮 but it’s going to be cold, cloudy and windy. It’s President’s Weekend and that’s to be expected. I should chew over my options going forward about where I should move, looking at apartments and houses. I hate to change but time marches on. 🕰️ I remind myself I moved to this apartment when I was 24 years old back when my salary was $27,500 and I’m 41 now and significantly more. Time marches on.

One month 📅 from now will be Ides of March ✝ when the sun will be setting at 7:03 pm with dusk at 7:30 pm (Daylight Savings Time). The average high temperature is 44 degrees, with a record high of 75 in 1946. Hello, friendly strangers in a black sedan. 🖤