Good afternoon! Cloudy and 35 degrees in Delmar. ☁ Finally warmed up and things are melting. We are in the second half of winter now, that the Ground Hog say his shadow and said early spring. There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 4 am. ☃️ I guess I won’t have to worry about icy roads tonight.

This morning I slept in and did a fair bit of cleaning and working on some code on my laptop. 🚿 Been so dang busy lately that I’m enjoying my day off. I’m also really digging the warmer weather and being able to cut the heat while remaining quite comfortable.

Today I have to go to the store and return my beer cans and buy some groceries. I should also take out the trash and recyclables as the bucket is getting full and something us starting to rot. 🍐🍌I have enough room for now to store the recycling before I have to go to the transfer station. ♻Probably won’t need a lot of groceries but I want to have enough food and supplies so I won’t have to go anywhere this week. I’m expecting a less busy week this week but still a lot of late nights.

Lunch is next onmy agenda. 🍗 I was thinking about going out cross country skiing today at Partridge Run but the skies are already pretty dark and depressing. 🙁And honestly I’ve been so busy so I need some time to clean and recover. Yesterday I reglued and clamped my boots so hopefully they’ll hold up well skiing. I should work on the tips of my skis next as they are coming apart a bit too. 👢Imaybe it wait to next weekend and let the boots dry more and also glue the tips of the skis, assuming there is snow come next weekend. 🏂

This afternoon will be cloudy ☁, with a high of 39 degrees at 4pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 1st. South wind around 6 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy. The high last year was 29 degrees. The record high of 57 was set in 2016. 6.1 inches of snow fell back in 2004.❄

The sun will set at 5:11 pm with dusk around 5:41 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 39 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 5 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 25 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 31 degrees at 5am. 16 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around March 29th. South wind around 7 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 27 degrees. The record low of -13 occurred back in 1978.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 48 degrees at 2pm. 16 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 24th. Not a great day but it will save on the heating bills, and whatever, I’ll have to work. South wind 7 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1991. 15.5 inches of snow fell back in 1926.❄ That was a big one.

I was happy I could easily replace the broken sound jack in my laptop. Easy fix once I stumbled upon how inexpensive and easy to access part it was to install when I was upgrading to the SSD drive.🔧 The broken headphone jack was annoying even if the external USB audio dongle worked just fine, and indeed when I’m home I’m sure I’ll just use my computer speakers powered by that device🎧.

I got my hair cut and that came out nicely but I may need to adjust my sideburns slightly.💈 Had a nice breakfast with my parents at Jake Moons Cafe. After visiting my niece for a while, I went down to the library for the internet, then came home watched some short YouTube videos I had downloaded, while riding the exercise bike, worked on some code on my laptop, went for my evening walk around the super block pass the school, then came back home.🚶 Fish sticks again tonight, I still have a lot left in the mega bag I bought.🍤 They’re not the most favorable fish sticks ever but with good fries, ketchup and lots of frozen sweet corn they’re pretty good and not a lot of packaging.

I’m continuing to work on my new LED driver. With the more power processor with the esp32 microprocessor and growing skills at programming the processors and use of the Bluetooth communication protocol, I’ve been working on a complete rewrite of the code. ♋I finally got the code to the point of having the sunset and sunrise modes I enjoy to remind myself of when I need to get up and go to bed,🌆 and I’ve started but not completed the hooks for the timer so the virtual sunset and sunrise happens automatically. Hopefully I’ll have that part working by the time I get up on Monday morning. I’ve also been working on various improvements to the color models and switching between colors to make them less jagged🎢. I haven’t started on the updated smartphone app, I’ve just been using the Arduino Bluetooth app to send plain text codes to operate things for now. Eventually it will be a full app with the ease of point and click, probably finished by spring time when I’ll be spending more time in the wilderness.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Daylight Savings Time 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:56 pm with dusk at 7:24 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2018, we had mostly sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 38 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 42 degrees. I bet we might even have warmer weather by then too. We hit a record high of 72 back in 1977.

Looking ahead, it’s going to be fairly cool but sunny next weekend. 😕 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 23. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees. Not totally sure what I will next weekend.

Next weekend is the Adirondack Outdoorsman show in Johnstown.🌲 I might drive up there next weekend and then maybe head up to NY 8 for a night in the wilderness depending on how much snow there is. That said, I don’t know. It’s kind of a long trip for one night and it’s quite a ways north. I’ll have to think about it some more. It’s a fun little show but it’s a bit of a trip especially for just the show or even just one night of camping. Trying to save money so I have more money for my summer adventures. ⛺

In four weeks on March 3 the sun will be setting at 5:47 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 51 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 42 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 39 and 21 degrees. The record high of 64 degrees was set back in 2002.

I’m glad the Ground Hog saw his shadow and warmer weather is promised. 🌷It’s been much too cold lately and it’s sucks with the heating bills and not being able to get out and walk as much as I would like. That said I went for a pretty pleasant walk tonight. 🚶But I do look forward to being warm enough to sit out back with a cold glass of orange juice or water, 🍊and obviously to spend nice evenings in the wilderness up at camp, having a cold beer next to the fire.🔥

Looking ahead, Daylight Savings Time 🌆 is in 5 weeks, St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 is in 6 weeks, 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 9 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 10 weeks, Easter 🐰 is in 11 weeks, Cinco de Mayo 🤠 is in 13 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 14 weeks, Fathers Day 👨 is in 19 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 21 months.