Good morning! Happy November Twenty Two. 🦃

I like November especially if it’s free of snow and road salt. GIS Month, elections come and mostly go away, a lot of paid holidays and Thanksgiving. Cheesy Christmas music.

Rain and 57 degrees at the Exit 23 – Albany (I-787). ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 55 degrees. The skies will clear around 6 pm.

Traffic is moving a bit slow 🚙🛻🚚🚐🚌 on the Southern Boulevard due to the rain and people learning how to drive in it and the express bus is a bit late as the driver had to do the school 🚸 run first. But it’s not raining hard so I walked laps in the the parking 🅿 lot waiting for the earlier express bus which was only eight minutes late and the driver entered in the correct block number 🔢 so I could watch him approach.

Looking forward to the time change 🕒 when I once again can walk 🚶 in the morning in Delmar before work at 6:45. While it will get darker come December in the morning I’d rather walk closer home than the Plaza. 🏡 It’s an easier walk, 👣 and I get more steps in and no homeless people to yell at you for walking past them more then one. 😠

Started to work on the 30 Day Map Challenge. 🗺 I don’t know if I will participate all 30 days but it will be a fun way to improve my ability to make maps and plot data in R. I think there is a lot of interesting possibilities for maps, especially if I’m forced to come up with new concepts every day.

Thought about Early Voting 🗳 yesterday, as the line was short but I think I will wait until later on Election Day to vote, just because I’m undecided.