John Boyd Thacher State Park, is situated along the Helderberg Escarpment, one of the richest fossil-bearing formations in the world. Even as it safeguards six miles of limestone cliff-face, rock-strewn slopes, woodland and open fields, the park provides a marvelous panorama of the Hudson-Mohawk Valleys and the Adirondack and Green Mountains. The park has volleyball courts, playgrounds, ball fields and numerous picnic areas with nine reservable shelters. Interpretive programs are offered year-round, including guided tours of the famous Indian Ladder Trail. There are over 25 additional miles of trails for summer hiking and mountain biking, and winter cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, and snowmobiling.
Ever wonder what causes traffic jams on expressways? Too many cars at any particular time. 🚘
An expressway can carry 67 cars per lane mile (or 78 feet per car), without delays, but after that traffic slows because there isn’t enough space between cars, and to maintain stopping distance, motorists must reduce speed.
So a 6-lane expressway can carry 200 cars per mile at any particular time in one direction, smoothly. Any more then that, and traffic slows to maintain distance between cars and crashes become much more likely. Crashes tend to take lanes completely out of service for several hundred feet, which cause cascading reductions in capacity.
At 185 cars per lane mile (28 feet per car, or 20 feet plus 8 foot buffer), traffic comes to a complete stand still, as no more cars can fit on the highway until some motorists are able to exit the highway or move to another mile point.
My endless fascination with the COVID-19 Vaccination Advertising 💉
I’ve been identified by the internet advertising algorithms as being an anti-vaxxer. I post a lot of diagrams and maps about COVID, in part because the government puts out so much raw data about. I’m friends with and members of many homesteaders, farmers, off-grider types many who aren’t thrilled by government mandated vaccinations although many who aren’t that afraid of needles or science because they use it every day to keep their land producing. Even though the pandemic has largely burned itself out for now, big government money and private foundation money keeps the COVID-19 Vaccination campaign going.
I’m just so fascinated by how the ads try to convince me to get vaccinated. I’m not sure how effective they are at this point as people already know the pros and cons of the vaccine. Maybe it’s because I’m a communications professional by trade, I study messaging, polling and focus groups. But I also know how hard it can be to move partisans. And hell, I’m kind of stuck in my ways. I’m sure most of the ad spend is a waste, then again most advertising is a waste.
I got vaccinated over a year ago and then boosted in December. Come autumn I will probably get my second booster with my flu shot. Not because I love Joe Biden or my cesspool community but because I hate the racketeering medical community and don’t want to get sick and have to deal with snooty medical doctors and nurses who think they are better than their sick patients. I value my independence and I know most medical facilities are looking to make a buck by scamming patients and their insurance. Getting vaccinated so you don’t get sick is a plenty good reason for me.
I think it’s actually a pretty effective message to tell people, get vaccinated so you don’t get sick. Not because you want to protect your community. Vaccination may not be fun, it may make you feel awful the next day, but it’s good to protect yourself from high medical bills, misery in a hospital, and all the other things that come from getting COVID-19 without being protected by the vaccine.
Beach weather by Upstate NY assuming that you are a member of your polar bear 🏊♂️ club. Winter has to break at some point. Things are starting to continue to green up as far as grass is concerned in Delmar but not a lot of tree action.
Today. Feels like …
April 11th.
Patchy drizzle with a chance of showers before 11am, then isolated showers after 4pm. Mostly cloudy.
Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
57 degrees
,
7:30
sunset.
Tonight. Feels like …
April 21st.
Isolated showers before 7pm, then a chance of showers after midnight. Mostly cloudy.
Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
39 degrees
,
6:22
sunrise.
Saturday. Feels like …
April 4th.
Showers likely before 1pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1pm and 5pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Mostly cloudy.
Light and variable wind becoming northwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
and
53 degrees
,
7:31
sunset.
Saturday Night. Feels like …
April 11th.
A chance of showers before 8pm. Mostly cloudy.
Northwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
35 degrees
,
6:20
sunrise.
Sunday. Feels like …
March 24th.
Isolated showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy.
Northwest wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
I guess it was still a Friday when I drive home from work last night and it still Friday, Part 2.
Rain showers, clouds and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear around 1 pm.
Got home at 12:30 last night 🌃 and after seven odd hours of sleep 🛏 I’m up for my morning walk 🚶. Obviously no evening walk last night. Hundreds of earth worms on the pavement after yesterday’s heavy rain ☔.
It was a late night at work 🏢 and I miss those years gone by but so be it. I’ll catch the bus in today 🚍 so if I’m a bit sleepy I won’t be driving home. Take a nap under my desk if I miss the last bus home and catch the first bus home in the morning. Probably won’t make it to the transfer station but I can always smash bottles down more. ♻
This weekend looks relatively mild 🌧️but rainy. I am probably going to be recovering from the past few days and next weekend is Easter 🐰 and a three day weekend assuming the budget is done and Good Friday is a holiday.
Still hoping to get out of town next weekend ⛺, maybe exploring Moss Island and camping up at Stewart Landing although I wonder how soft the road will be up there back to the campsites. The DEC did improve it a few years back. I know Piseco-Powley is still gated.
I keep seeing ads that say that Wi-Fi is essential 💻
The thing is since the pandemic has come and gone, and my smartphone plan now offers unlimited data aka 60 GB a month, plus a 5 GB hotspot, I find that harder to believe. It’s hard to use that much data on a phone. The thing is the modern, basic smartphone can do nearly as much as laptop can do, at least as far as social media, web browsing, Youtube and email. 4G seems plenty fast to me.
I don’t particularly enjoy sitting at a desk — especially after a day at work doing that, and would rather have my phone where I can take it wherever is comfortable. My phone uses a lot less power then my laptop, easier to lug around, and works wherever I have cell service. And not having WI-FI on my laptop means when I’m using it, I don’t have distractions of social media or email pings, or the ability to wander off into the vast space of the inter-webs.
Hello rain, at least you held off for most of the morning walk ☔
Things are going to be quite wet at least today and showers through the weekend. But warmer weather and sunny next week. Not sure about the second half of the week though if I want to get out of town. I’m hopeful. If not the weather only gets better as spring approaches bar the blsck flies.
Today. Feels like …
April 5th.
A chance of showers before 1pm, then periods of rain, mainly after 1pm. High near 54. Southeast wind 8 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
and
54 degrees
,
7:29
sunset.
Tonight. Feels like …
April 29th.
Rain before 1am, then showers, mainly after 1am. Low around 42. Southeast wind 5 to 9 mph becoming north after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
and
42 degrees
,
6:23
sunrise.
Friday. Feels like …
April 15th.
A chance of showers before 11am, then scattered showers after noon. Mostly cloudy.
West wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
59 degrees
,
7:30
sunset.
Friday Night. Feels like …
April 24th.
Scattered showers before 11pm, then scattered showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy.
Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
40 degrees
,
6:22
sunrise.
Saturday. Feels like …
April 4th.
Showers likely, mainly between 8am and 2pm. Mostly cloudy.
Southeast wind 9 to 13 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
and
53 degrees
,
7:31
sunset.
Saturday Night. Feels like …
April 16th.
Scattered showers before 8pm. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
The real question is whether or not I get home by 7:30 pm. My feeling is probably no but who knows the way things are going lately, odd seems like it will before six.
Rain showers and 47 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear tomorrow around 2 pm.
It’s not raining that hard that I’m out for my morning walk 🚶. Actually clearing a bit to the east although I expect more rain before I get home.
I have no idea what this weekend or next week looks like. 🤷♂️ I went to the shitty laundromat mid week because my usual one was closed. I figured I wanted to have enough dress clothes should I be working through the weekend 👨🏻💼. I haven’t asked for any time off next week because everything is so up in the air with work. Heck of it is my division isn’t particularly busy with budget stuff.📊
Went to Hannaford and got groceries. 🛒just a lot of miscellaneous things that the pantry was low on 🥪 🧀, as it’s been a week and a half since I’ve been to a store bar Stewart’s for milk 🥛. I was going to buy vegetable oil for crisper pancakes 🥞 but I got sticker shock 🤯. The interwebs say that vegetable oil is way up in prices due to the Ukraine 🇺🇦 and sunflower 🌻 oil being a big part of the mix. Now I’m a bit jealous of my hog farming 🐽 friends that have freezers full of lard. That said, cutting out some fat from my diet isn’t bad, I’m chubby enough. 😸
I’ve continued to go through the refrigerator ♻ looking for bottles to clean and recycle, and also cutting down plastic bottles so they take up less room for recycling now that they are charging by the bag. I plan to clean out my camping gear ⛺ in my truck and then make my yearly trip to the transfer station. Now at a higher price thanks to inflation.📈
