Good morning! Chocolate Cake Day. Yum. It is partly cloudy and 37 degrees in Delmar. January thaw. Partly sunny, with a high near 40. Breezy, with a west wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of occasional snow showers is 30%.

Sunset will be at 5:02 pm with twilight at 5:32 pm which is one minute and 18 seconds later then yesterday. Pretty nice with the clearing later. Keep an eye out for a nice sunset.
Tonight we will have a Waining Gibbous Moon with 74% illuminated. It will rise at 8:47 pm. The Last Quarter Moon is on Sunday and the New Moon is on February 8.

There are 2 months, 19 days until Tax Day. I still have to finish my taxes, by they are mostly done. I love the free-file option. This day in 2006, Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. “Western Union man, now you have gone away, dot-dot-da-da-dot, telegram had to say you learned you way the hard way, Western Union, oh Western Union….” Or something like that the Five Americans sung a long time ago. That said, I’m too young to remember the heyday of telegrams but then again neither do my parents, which by the 1960s were mostly only used for official pronouncements.

Today is Hump Day and the weekend is rapidly approaching.. I’m undecided about going up to the Adirondacks. I might head up north or not. It depends on the weather. Gas certainly is inexpensive these days.

I stayed up too late last night and woke up early. I feel well rested this morning but I don’t know if my energy levels will crash later on. I expect a quiet day at work, which ensures a crisis will happen this morning. Smooth and easy days are rare to happen.