Daily Update – June 1, 2022

Good morning! The heat has broken. ⛈

That of course means more clouds and rain are coming, but once we are through this mess on this hump day, the hope is for much nicer weather come the weekend, assuming that I survive this week from hell and are a awake enough to remember the weekend.

Mostly cloudy and 64 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 58 degrees.

Last night was a late night at work. 👨‍💼 I am glad I went home and got my pickup truck 🛻 as I didn’t get released until 11:30 PM after the last bus of the night had left. Got home around midnight, tried to get in 8 hours of sleep but it’s hard to sleep in when you are so used to getting up at 5:30 or 6 AM each morning and doing your walk. 🚶‍♀️ Evidently no walk last night or this morning. 😫

I also forgot my umbrella ☔ which is likely going to be a problem later, although maybe if I time when I get my truck in the evening, I can avoid getting soaked. I will need to get fuel, and I’ll even safe a few pennies thanks to state suspending gas tax for a few weeks. ⛽

I am continuing to learn more about Geospatial Data in R. 🗺 While I feel like I am getting really good at working with Vector data in R, there is a lot more I can learn about Raster data in R. There is a bit of a learning curve, because some of the Geospatial libraries in R are a bit young and in transition — while SF is fairly mature, raster is being replaced by terra, and terra isn’t fully compatible with sf. Plus the documentation is often spotty and out of date. But I am sure that R is a much more powerful and better way to work with Geospatial data then working in QGIS or even worse spreadsheets.

I am thinking about the Nature Bus possibly on Saturday to Thacher Park 🏞 although truth be told I might be up too late on Friday for work, so that might not be a realistic option. Plus the buses to Thacher Park run far less frequently this year, and no more pick up from Five Rviers.