Good morning! Happy Friday. It’s Clean Off Your Desk Day. It is currently overcast and 28 degrees in Delmar. Not the nicest morning but it is expected to get nicer as the day progresses.

Later it will be partly sunny, with a high near 42. Calm wind becoming southeast around 6 mph in the morning. Sunset will be at 4:47 pm with twilight at 5:18 pm which is one minute and 11 seconds later then yesterday. It’s nice that we are picking up a minute or so of daylight every evening.

These dark and dreary mornings are tough and lately I’ve been in a fog at work. I bought some dark French Roast Coffee and put in three scoops for six cups of coffee. That gave me a much needed jolt of caffeine. I look forward to sunrises before 6:30 or so.

Today is Clean Your Desk Off Day. Not a bad idea, because I don’t know about your desk but my desk always gets pretty covered with papers and miscellaneous junk as the week progresses. Organization makes Mondays go by much smoother. Do you want to come back after a long holiday weekend to a messy desk?

There are 3 months, 10 days until Arbor Day. Arbor Day is April 22nd. Depending on how early spring comes, things may start to green up a bit in the city. Every year is a bit different but I’m recent years except last, spring has been coming earlier then in the past.

A few notable things happened on this day in recent history. This day in 2001, Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online. It’s hard to imagine the Internet without Wikipedia. Also this day in 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive. I remember that day well. It was the first day I got on Twitter or shortly thereafter when people were posting pictures of wreck on the new social media service