Good morning! Happy Work Like a Dog Day 🐩! Well for me, it’s drill, baby drill into my cavity day then into work. I survived the first part, I think. It didn’t hurt much although my gum is still a bit num. Honestly getting bit on the lip by the deer fly at Moose River Plains was much more obnoxious. Next Monday is Last Sunset After 8 PM 🌆. Sunny and 76 degrees as I take the bus to work. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 54 degrees.

So many tooth cavity is patched. ☺ I was thinking this was my first filling but I think after the procedure 💭 I may have had a cavity filled as a child. 👶 It didn’t hurt much, as I noted that deer fly bite on my lips 💋 at Moose River Plains or the previous week at Perkins Clearing was much worse.

The weekend that was wasn’t bad although it passed by much too quickly. ⛺ Pisceo Powley Road was nice, pretty quiet and I enjoyed my hike back to Big Alderbed. It was kind of nice to just hang out at camp and leave the truck parked on Saturday although I wish I had spent more time at the Potholers cooling off as they were the perfect 👌 temperature and water 💦 flow. Maybe the air temperature could been a bit warmer up north but it’s hard to complain.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 83 degrees at 3pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 26th. Kind of like those summer days gone past minus the humidity. Maximum dew point of 56 at 6pm. Light and variable wind. Should be nice a nice day. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was humid. The high last year was 90 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1955.

The sun will set at 8:10 pm with dusk around 8:41 pm, which is one minute and 16 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 57 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 14 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 19 seconds over yesterday.

I need to go grocery shopping tonight although it might wait until tomorrow. I think I have something I can make for dinner and breakfast for the next few days but I probably should go shopping soon. 🍎🍉🍖 I’m going to need to get garbage bags as I used a lot of them up camping for the bucket shitter 💩 and just because in the summer I take out the trash more. 🔥

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 60 degrees at 5am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 14th. Maximum dew point of 59 at 6am. Light south wind. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It was very sticky. It got down to 69 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1994.

I have kind of a busy week on tap. 😅 More work on the Pine Bush stuff over the next few days 🌲plus I have stuff scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday I’ll be over at John Wolcott house. 🔍Friday I might head out camping. I just see summer fading away so quickly as it’s already August.

Cool but definitely sunny and pleasant this weekend. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Maximum dew point of 57 at 7am. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 79. Maximum dew point of 57 at 4pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 81 degrees.

Not sure what my weekend plans will be 🗻 but I think hiking might be fun in the cool and sunny weather. 🚶 Maybe if I decide to head out of town, it will be down to the Western Catskills. Maybe do some of the Mine Kill pool 🏊 although it might be a bit cool for swimming.

I heard Dave Orapello from High School passed away. 😔 He was always a kind of odd character, I used to hang out with him a lot in High School along with some of the aggies. 🚜 Smart kid, valedictorian, but he kind of drifted around after High School getting various degrees and working many odd jobs. I’m actually surprised he stayed locally and didn’t move out west but maybe he liked the more suburban life of Upstate. I had been meaning to get a hot dog 🐶 from his family business by the Capitol but he hadn’t worked there in recent summers, so I never stopped about. I didn’t hear anything about it until mom showed me the obituary. 📰 I haven’t seen anything on social media, I’m debating about going to his celebration of life event – I probably should go but I’ll end up missing more work.

I am continuing to work on my software for parsing the local tax rolls into useful spreadsheets that I can import into my GIS program. 🌐There is so many interesting uses of that data and I’m continuing to parse it for more data. Geocoding is one of many uses. All of the local tax rolls are in the same format so what works for Albany also works for Birdsall in Allegany County. 🐦 Property valuation is an interesting topic as is figuring out people’s tax bills and how they compare.

As previously noted, next Monday is Last Sunset After 8 PM 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:01 pm with dusk at 8:31 pm. On that day in 2018, we had humid weather, partly sunny and temperatures between 79 and 67 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 81 degrees. We hit a record high of 99 back in 1944.