Delmar is a hamlet in the Town of Bethlehem, in Albany County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of the neighboring city of Albany. The community is bisected by NY Route 443 (Delaware Avenue), a major thoroughfare, main street, and route to Albany.
A census-designated place (CDP) has been established since 1980 by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating the population of what the census has defined as the boundaries of the urbanized area in and around Delmar. The population was 8,292 at the 2000 census, but it was not included as a CDP in the 2010 census.
In 2005, CNN/Money Magazine named the Delmar ZIP Code (an area larger than the Delmar hamlet or CDP) as one of the “Best Places to Live” in America, rating it the 22nd best place to live among what it called “Great American Towns.
It seems like the weekend ended before it began. Then again time is always that way. The delights of Friday night become the horrors of Monday before you know it.
Partly to mostly cloudy this evening. At times you can see the stars pretty well. Other times, like driving home, the windshield was wet from rain showers. The wind has died down and it’s about 50 degrees. Going to be a cold night for the second week of May, with a low around 40. Normal low is around 45. Tomorrow should be a nice spring day for a Monday. Sunny with a high around 59. A bit below average – we normally run around 67, but I’ll take it. More seasonable warmth for the second half of the week.
Sitting out back, sipping on a bottle of Corona that’s not nearly cold enough with a lime that is not fresh enough. I just turned the temperature down a bit in the refrigerator. I turned it up a few weeks ago, as I hate listening to the crappy old refrigerator compressor burning through those expensive kilowatts unnecessarily. I should put the beer in the freezer in advance to get it ice cold. At least it’s nice enough to be out back. Coyotes are howling in the distance. For a Sunday evening I’m content.
I should go inside as I need to make my bed and put away my clothes. I finally did my sheets in the washer although to be fair, last week I was out of town. I always shower in the morning so they don’t have to be perfect. Bought extra milk as earlier in the day I bought the super big box of knock off Cheerios. Going to have cereal with fresh fruit and honey this weekend. I don’t like sugary cereals but heck yeah to adding honey and fresh or frozen natural fruits. I like frozen fruit as they are relatively cheap and come in relatively little packaging. I Iike things that has minimal packaging as its less I have to take to the transfer station or burn up in the woods. Healthy too. Once the farmers market has fresh fruit, I’ll buy it locally but from the supermarket, I’d rather just have it frozen where it’s ready out of the bag without washing.
This morning I discovered that my work email on my phone was consuming a lot of data. Some kind of glitch started Saturday. It burned through nearly 200 MB of bandwidth on its own in 24 hours. Fortunately, I have 5,000 MB a month and after disabling push data in the program in favor of pulling data every 5 minutes it acted fine. I never run over my data cap these days with 5 GB a month and WiFi throughout the building I work plus WiFi at the park and library. Plus I plan to camp places without data service, which means days with no or minimal data use.
The fact that I checked the oil, coolant and brake fluid along with belts every Saturday is evidence that I suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder. That or otherwise I would forget. I guess I’m not perfect. Dang!
Good morning. Happy Mother’s Day. May 8th is the earliest Mother’s Day can fall on the calendar. Rainy start to Mother’s Day but already the rain has stopped with rapid clearing expected midday. 52 degrees now, heading up to 60 degrees and blustery later. But ample sun from this afternoon through at least Thursday.
Today will feel cool, especially with the wind. Average temperature for Mother’s Day is 67 degrees. Sunset tonight at 8:04 pm with dusk around 8:34. At 8 pm expect temperatures to be around 55 degrees but with a breeze to make it feel cooler. We are rapidly approaching the longest days of the year in Albany which is the first day of summer. After sunset look for a slender Waxing Crescent Moon in the west, setting around 10 pm.
Happy Birthday to Harry Truman. It’s a state holiday in the State of Missouri. For the Traveling Man, wish the late Ricky Nelson a Happy Birthday. I hear Missouri is a nice state to travel to.
Today in 1973 the 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
Going to make breakfast, shower, make some maps up and run to the grocery store. Then I may go out hiking locally somewhere in the afternoon then out to Mom and Dad’s house for Sunday dinner.
Good evening. 57 degrees. Mostly cloudy. Rain by morning then blustery and a quick change over to blue skies. Nice weather expected from Sunday afternoon through Thursday. Good night.
After getting the new version of the blog up, I managed to break it. It worked perfectly for a while, but then I noticed my internal weather webpages weren’t working, in an enabling them I broke everything else. But now it’s up and working again — along with a half dozen other bug fixes and improvements I implemented this evening.
In case you aren’t on the blog, check out the fresh, very quick loading blog at andyarthur.org. It puts the stuff that 90% of people come for the blog up top. No links were broken, and actually, it automatically fixes a lot of mistyped and old URLs to the proper one with the updated code.
Currently as my internal weather station on the blog says, it’s 60 degrees and mostly cloudy down at the town park. Some blue skies up there in between the big rain clouds, but still pretty cloudy. Midday we had quite a bit of sun, but not so much now. The wind is picking up this evening and by late night it will be quite blustery. Now Mother’s Day doesn’t look as nice weather-wise but the work week looks quite warm and sunny. Not hot but typical warmth for the second week of May.
Good morning. Continued cloudy, damp, cool conditions today but not much rain expected. It’s 49 degrees now and we expect to reach 57 later. The average high for today is 66 degrees. Not exactly a nice day for sitting on a patio sipping a cold one on this Cinco de Mayo. The wet conditions and warmer nights have really made the leaves start to pop. Getting pretty green outside.
Uploaded some new maps to the blog including an Albany County population density map for today. It shows population density in persons per acre which is kind of interesting to look at the city versus surrounding areas.
Tomorrow is Friday. That makes me happy as its been a long week. I left my headphones home, so I don’t have music to entertain me on the bus ride. That sucks but I made the bus in time.
On Cinco de Mayo in 1866, Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York. Now that area is primarily known for the Seneca Meadows landfill, which actually dwarfs that small city.