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April 10, 2019 Morning

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Good morning! What day is it? A fairly Groovy Hump Day, of course. All thanks to NPR at quarter to six this morning. Three weeks to May 🕊. I’m all for spring. Mostly cloudy and 38 degrees in Delmar. ☁ There is a northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 2 am. ☃️

I am off to work early this morning, as I expected to do a video shoot 🎥 but that got canceled. But I have a busy day ahead so I might as well get into the office 🏢 and git r dun. We keep inching towards the weekend. I have defensive driving on Monday which sucks but saves a lot of money 💵 but sucks. I will bring a notepad 📒 so I can draw pictures as I watch the same boring old films 📼 over again. I guess it makes me a better driver 🚙 but the truth is I try avoiding as much as possible especially in the urban areas.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 51 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 31st. Northwest wind around 11 mph. A cold, blustery spring day although the sun is helping a lot. A year ago, we had mostly sunny. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1922. 5.7 inches of snow fell back in 1961.❄ Six years before where talking about making mountains ring and angels sing. 🎶

The sun will set at 7:31 pm with dusk around 8:00 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 45 degrees. Last night definitely was a pretty sunset. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 10 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over yesterday.

I probably will do my evening walk tonight 🌃but I’m going to have to bundle up a bit. The stars ✨ and spring peepers last night were nice. Frof

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 27 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical night around March 21st. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 21 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1874.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until May 🕊 when the sun will be setting at 7:55 pm with dusk at 8:26 pm. On that day in 2018, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 74 and 43 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 2001.

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April 1, 2019 – Growing Corn Is A Major Contributor To Air Pollution, Study Finds – NPR

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April 1, 2019 – Growing Corn Is A Major Contributor To Air Pollution, Study Finds – NPR

That changed Monday with a study published in Nature Sustainability. It modeled how the production of a single crop, maize, contributes to air pollution in the U.S. The researchers found that corn production accounts for 4,300 premature deaths related to air pollution in every year. Ammonia from fertilizer application was by far the largest contributor to corn's air pollution footprint.

They always release the best studies on April Fools Day.  That said, I'm sure people will believe this and share it for the next ten years on the internet. 

This evening I went to Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace showing of Michael Moore’s latest film, Fahrenheit 11-9. I was surprised how much obcensity there was in the film, both the n word and f word are repeated.

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This evening I went to Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace showing of Michael Moore’s latest film, Fahrenheit 11-9. I was surprised how much obscenity there was in the film, both the n word and f-word are repeated. I though so much obscenity was not appropriate. But it was interesting to watch even if I didn’t agree with every part of it. Good to see the local activist types are still working for change, pushing for government accountability, even though the days of George W. Bush are long ago in history. I don’t personally get involved in political things any more beyond maybe helping out at Save the Pine Bush Dinner or hike, but it’s good to see there are concerned citizens still involved.

Pitch Pine Along Recently Cleared Area

I got an odd BIOS error about the fan not working in my laptop when I first started.

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I got an odd BIOS error about the fan not working in my laptop when I first started. The fan been rattling almost since I got it, I meant to clean it the last time I had it open. But I don’t know, I’ve been watching the temperature gauge on my laptop, and see no evidence of it malfunctioning. I guess if I notice things running hot on the gauges, I’ll turn it off, take it apart, see if I need to clean it or replace the fan. Fortunately HP parts tend to be quite cheap and easy to get on the Internet.

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