Good evening! Partly cloudy and 71 degrees in my backyard. 🌃 There is a west-southwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 65 degrees. The muggy weather ends around 2 am. 😓

I guess it’s still a tad bit muggy outside 🍃 but the breeze helps a bit. Tomorrow is expected to be cooler and less muggy. As we head into August on Saturday the average temperature is expected to drop but they’ll still be many more warm days remaining. Back from my evening walk 🚶, listening to the crickets 👂 and soon its off to bed. 🐮 Definitely smelled like barnyard when I went for my walk.

Another fairly busy and at times frustrating day. 😣I ordered a new phone, I deleted a really obnoxious email, fixed blog problems, talked to clients and submitted another big report for work. 📝 Still haven’t found the flash drive 💾 that has a bunch of work files 📂 and all my driving music 🎶 on it. I shouldn’t complain the money’s 💵 good and I’m able to save a lot for retirement and my off-grid property in an era when so many people are unemployed.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 60 degrees at 5am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 14th. Maximum dew point of 65 at 9pm. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had thunderstorm in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 49 occurred back in 1978.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 86% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (166°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, some 232,496 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by January 23^rd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Strugeon 🐡 Moon is on Monday, August 3. The darkest hour is at 1:03 am, followed by dawn at 5:14 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:46 am in the east-northeast (64°) and last for 3 minutes and 13 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and one second later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:27 am with sun in the east-northeast (71°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 29 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 8 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 83 degrees at 3pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 26th. Maximum dew point of 63 at 10am. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was sticky. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1917.

I got a bunch of new books 📚 out of the library on homesteading, sustainable farming and off grid living. 🚜 I started to flip through them, I’ll probably spend more time reading when I’m up in the woods. 📖 I thought about going to the park to read but it looked like rain ☔ and I had a conference call at seven o’clock to go to.

Today I got really frustrated 😤 with some issues I’m having with the blog but after much fuming over my stupidity I was able to get them fixed. I’m not going to let myself get bullied too much by the email 📧 and complaints when things aren’t always perfect 👌. I try to express my thoughts but sometimes I have my critics – who usually start off emails saying, in the like your blog but…

I have a pretty good life, besides the minor annoyances of the truck, my rundown apartment and the headaches of the blog. 👥 I do spend too much time on social media and that’s an endless source of frustration. And my broken phone. 📵 More on that later. I try to use Facebook less and I’ve quit Twitter but it’s always so tempting to open. 💥But I really need to stay off it – I avoid most politics as much as I can. I just feel like I disagree 👎 with so much on how our country is going on both the state and federal levels. But the pay is good.

Now that the pandemic is starting to wind down a bit locally 🙊 I really should take the step and seek out some counseling. My new job has much more of a supervisory role and responsibilities so it’s important I remain level headed at all times and can think 💭 clearly about the advice I’m giving. 💼 I’m finally having a level of professional success and the ability to really save for the what I hope is a better tomorrow.

I got busy and forgot about calling about the oil change. 🔧 I’ll call tomorrow about scheduling an appointment next week. Shouldn’t be a big deal. I’d do my own but it’s a pain in the ass to get the filter off.

In four weeks on August 27 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (284°) at 7:37 pm,🌄 which is 39 minutes and 54 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 75 and 53 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 79 and 58 degrees. The record high of 97 degrees was set back in 1948.

My phone 📱 has been having a lot of problems charging lately, and it’s been dead a lot of day this week 📞 when I need it for work. I broke down and bought another phone and case. Maybe that’s another source of frustration. I’ve been quite happy with this LG phone until the end when the USB charging port died, 🔌 so I ordered another one, alas a newer model with more memory and a better screen. Not the fanciest one, and a generation behind the Moto phone I looked at but I’ll take a slower phone for a more reliable one. 🐢 Working remotely 📶 a good phone is my lifeline. Plus remember, I don’t have internet home so I depend on my phone as my primary source of internet.