Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Cloudy and 67 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west breeze at 7 mph. The dew point is 55 degrees. Not the nicest day but will get progressively nicer as well the day progresses. The skies will clear around 2 pm.

Today will be partly sunny, with a high of 75 degrees at 3pm. 11 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 55 at 10am. Breezy, with a west wind 7 to 12 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 31 mph. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies and a high of 59 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1888. 1 inch of snow fell back in 1885.

The sun will set at 7:54 pm with dusk around 8:24 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. At sunset, look for partly cloudy conditions and 70 degrees. The dew point will be 47 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 31 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 46 degrees at 5am. Four degrees above normal. West wind 6 to 11 mph. In 2016, it got down to 44 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. The record low of 25 occurred back in 1874.

Went down to the park for a while last night and read a library book for a while. I’ve had too much screen time lately and I needed to do more reading. The Internet is fun and its nice they have a high speed network at the park but sometimes reading an actual book and learning something new is good too. I promise myself I’ll do much more reading come the summer. 

I thought I might have lost my wallet at the park but I left it home. It was getting dark and I couldn’t find my wallet. I huried home and found it where I left it on the dresser. I’ve been doing that more by accident in the evening because I usually take it out of my pocket before sitting back and watching the news. 

Sat out back with my laptop first working on the dashboard camera code then watching the PBS Newshour. I went back in when the neighborhood turned on her light and it was bright especially without any trees. I was annoyed. 

Wrote a new script to take video off my dash cam and archive it. I had been doing it manually first with Openshot Video Editor then with ffmpeg command line but both methods required a lot more fiddling then I would have preferred. I can never remember all the ffmpeg of command options. I wanted to make it as easy as possible for me to store the most interesting clips that my dashboard camera captures, especially now that I’m taking more road trips to the Adirondacks and other scenic locations. For best reliability of the dash cam and to ensure valuable content isn’t lost, I try to reformat it daily which means I regularly have to archive the sections I want to keep. 

Still I’m bit annoyed that over the past few years the landlord has removed all of the trees in the yard. I knew it would be bad but I was hoping he’d spare at least one in the backyard. I understand the trees up front had damaged the plumbing but it seemed silly to remove both trees in the backyard, especially one that I thought was fairly healthy. Maybe because it was an elm they were concerned it was starting to get sickly. Without the trees it will reduce the shade and make things hotter in the summer. It also increases the road noise a bit, especially for the people up front. Hopefully it won’t be too bad and the landlord will at least replace some of the trees up front. It ugly with just the stumps. Still it sucks. Hopefully I won’t have the move over the stupid trees making my apartment too hot. At least I won’t have to worry about trees falling on my truck. There are no more trees anymore in the general area where I park. It will though make things hot in the truck come the summer though. 

Tonight I’m probably going to go down to Henry Hudson Park with a book, my camp stove and grill, some of those hamburgers I bought last week and my fishing pole this afternoon to relax. I don’t usually catch that much in the river that I would want to keep but I like sitting down on the river and watching the barges and boats go by. I have to get some stuff at Glenmont at any rate. If I’m in town, I want to at least be having fun. 

I’m looking forward to getting out camping in a future week. Right now I’m looking at Mother’s Day Weekend because the lupine festival is the following weekend. I’m not doing the Tulip Festival booth because we have other people doing that. While most of the the Adirondack roads won’t be open at point there are still places to go if the weather is decent. Maybe lower Pisceo Powely Road? This would have been an okay weekend if we only had more sun. 

Got my explanation of benefits from the insurance company for my dental visit. Makes absolutely no sense to me but I’ll see if I get a bill from the dentist. I believe regular dentist visits are 100% covered in network and the dentist office over bills the insurance and they negotiate the rate, because they didn’t ask for a copayment. I just hate how confusing insurance really is. Insurers and healthcare providers should work closely together and provide legible, human understood bills. There shouldn’t be so many negotiated mark downs that are confusing to the patient, followed by a  bill asking for $20, like as happened the last time I went to the doctor. 

One month from now is Memorial Day. I hope we have nice weather and not too many black flies. Well we will see. Summer is always nice as long as one doesn’t get eaten alive.