Good evening. Currently mostly cloudy and 32 degrees in Albany.

Tonight we have a Waxing Cresent Moon with 19% illuminated. Look west, it’s quite a pretty little sliver. It will set at 7:51 pm. Full moon on February 22nd.

Tonight we will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 4am. Cloudy, with a low around 23. West wind 8 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

In four weeks on March 9 the sun will be setting at 5:55 pm, which is 35 minutes later then tonight. There are 4 months, 6 days until Fresh Veggies Day. when the sun will be setting at 8:35 pm. Fresh veggies at the farmers market are something I really enjoy, along with those late sunsets.

Went out to City Beer Hall for one beer for the Albany County Young Democrats’ monthly happy hour. It was nice and I would have stayed for another drink but I was out of cash. I never got around to the ATM and was trying to save some money at any rate, because despite getting paid today, finances look tight due to an unexpected payment I had to make.

I was annoyed to discover that National Grid stopped my auto-pay and I owe them two months back pay and three dollars in interest. It’s paid now but it should have never happened in the first place. Their website is awful clunky, and was slow. The first try, it defaulted to an old bank account then the site wouldn’t reload. I finally paid it off with the right account, and I’m waiting for the money to clear, so I can be in good standing to be reinstated for auto-pay for the next eight years. My finances are so stressed and this isn’t helping it much at all. It was so damn frustrating.

Eventually when I move out of the city, I’m going to forgo grid electricity in favor of a low electricity lifestyle from solar cells, batteries, and a gas generator. Concrete floors, a wood stove and propane instant hot water heater, as I don’t need or want all that fancy obnoxious technology all the obnoxious suburbanite kids have now. I’d rather have land and no neat neighbors then a fancy suburbanite home.

Probably heading down to the library in a bit once I get home and have some dinner. I have some updates I’m working on for the blog. Maybe I should start doing my taxes too. We will see. I like being lazy and staying home but there are limits on what I can do with my Smartphone or non-wifi laptop.