Waking up this morning I got most of not all the vision back in my right eye but it’s still a bit sore so I’m wearing glasses, which I hate as they cause eye strain as I’m not used to them. But it was a bit scary loosing vision in my eye.
Good morning! Happy Sunday. Partly cloudy and 66 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 64 degrees. The skies will clear around 11 am.
I am moving kind of slowly this morning, as I really don’t like wearing glasses. 👓 I find it hard to focus out of them but I also want to give my eyes as much of a time to heal as possible. This morning though I am seeing a lot better then I was last night. I ended up putting my glasses on at 5:30 PM when I got home last night, cooked dinner — a bunch of chicken and hard-boiled eggs for the rest of the week — and then went to bed. 🛌 It’s good I caught up on a lot of sleep last night, and my eye feels better but for a while it was super red and sore.
Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny 🌧, with a high of 85 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 69 at 12pm. Muggy! Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 91 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1898.
It looks like this afternoon will be rather stormy ⛈ so I want to get my steps in early so I’m planning to walk 🚶 out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center this morning. Then head out to the folks house for Sunday dinner. 😰 Going to be a muggy day so I want to get a fairly early start. 👓 I’m not sure if I want to wear glasses all day or not though I admit it probably would be easier on my eyes 👀. I do want to get to bed relatively early 🛏 as sleep is so important for good health.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.8° from the due south horizon (-0° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today at one o’clock. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (297°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the southwest (227°) at an altitude of 38° from the horizon, 248,050 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look out for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 78 degrees. The dew point will be 69 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 21 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 14 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 66 degrees at 4am. Six degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 69 at 8pm. Light southeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies. It became humid as the night progressed. It got down to 61 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1979.
On this day in 1998, in Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional. ⚖ Too bad, it could have been a good way to reduce government spending.
Looking ahead, there are 3 weeks until Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:32 pm with dusk at 9:04 pm. On that day in 2022, we had hot, mostly sunny and temperatures between 88 and 60 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1900.
Midday before going up to Colonie to visit John Wolcott I noticed my right eye was kind of milky looking out of it. I thought my contact lens was dirty so I took it out, cleaned it and ultimately replaced it. But it seems like it’s my eye that is irritated and I especially notice it with the sun out. After getting eaten alive at Anne Lee Pond I decided to head straight home, take out my contacts and now I’m thinking of getting some shut eye to let my eyes recover. I’m hoping it’s not serious – I thought for a minute about seeking out Urgent Care but I think it best to let my eye rest overnight and get fully caught up on sleep.
I’ve given up or at least put aside my bicycle rebuilding project for now. I want to get back on the road sooner than later but I also don’t want to spend $800 on a new bike that gets stolen two weeks later or is shinny plastic chrome plated garbage that falls apart by the end of the summer from just ordinary use.
I did the buy a new brand name Gary Fisher bicycle “it will be great thing fit so comfortable has a great suspension” 20 years ago from Downtube and it turned out to be a complete lemon and a disaster. I don’t want to do that again. They insisted the new bicycles aren’t such crap but I don’t believe them.
