John Boyd Thacher State Park 📍

Good morning! Happy Saturday. The weekend after the snowstorm 🧤

After all the hype about Friday’s snow storm, we got like half a foot of snow, and by afternoon the roads were just salty and wet. I worked from home, and truth be told I haven’t been outside since Thursday, but it’s already rapidly fading away. With temperature above freezing most of the coming week I don’t expect much of it to last.

Mostly sunny and 6 degrees in Delmar, NY.  🌤 Calm wind. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 10 am. 🌡️

Yesterday was the much hyped snow storm, 🌨 that was more like whatever. I worked from home, so I guess I can’t have that much of an opinion, staying safely inside from the weather. If that hadn’t closed the Albany offices, I probably would have gone in even if other people worked remotely. 👨‍💻 I just don’t like using too much bandwidth with my hotspot which only provides 5 gigs a month, with the ordinary $45 plan that I have. 📱

In the end, I’ve learned how to disable images in Firefox and other ways to save bandwidth, 🔌 and do a lot of things on my phone, so I didn’t use much data. 🧐 Plus the offices were officially closed, so it was a pretty quiet day at work outside of the ordinary Friday business. 🏢 But I like my office, especially now that I have that swanky private, corner office with the brass lamp. 🛋 No sofa, but several comfortable chairs for those wanting to visit.

I do need to go outside and clean off my truck, 🛻 which I’ve been avoiding doing as my snow shovel is broken. Fortunately though we didn’t get too much snow. ❄️ I can probably brush it off my truck. 🧹 I should get a new shovel — the one I have now for 12 years is trash — it cracked and then the handle broke, but I hate buying new stuff. 🎁I will need one though if we get more snow, or I decide to go camping. As much as I hate to say, I do need to go to the transfer station to get rid of a lot of accumulated crap 🗑 — no way in hell am I going to burn a plastic snow shovel in woods. 🔥 👃 Maybe if I had acreage and a big pile of brush to burn, I’d feel differently.

I need to finish up my GIS class map 🗺 and make one more as I am supposed to submit two different maps with different features. It’s kind of fun, I learn new skills every week even if a lot of things are very basic.

I also want to try to get that bulb in my truck tail light. 💡 It was kind of cool I found the bulb I need in my drawer. It seems like it will work.

Then maybe I’ll go down to Five Rivers. 🐦 I don’t feel like driving so I won’t bring my skis, only hike out and there do some of the road hikes. I wonder how many birds I’ll see? They’lll probably be quite active after the cold and snow of yesterday. Sometimes I just like walking out to Five Rivers and watching nature. Then maybe Meads Lane to take in the scenic views and look at the cows. 🐮