The two terms best describing the nightly news: “Asinine and sardonic”

Good evening! Partly cloudy and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Breezy, 18 mph breeze from the west-northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 32 mph 💨💨💨. That wind makes it feel chilly outside. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 11 pm. ☃They might apply road salt once again tonight but hopefully it will be gone by the weekend. 😀 Freezing temperatures only occur on below average nights at this point in April.

The sun will set at 7:25 pm with dusk around 7:54 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies ⛅ and 43 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 32. ☃Blustery, 🌬 with a stiff breeze at 33 mph the west with gusts up to 55mph.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain showers before 9pm, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 9pm and 10pm, then scattered snow showers after 10pm. Mostly cloudy ☔ , with a low of 27 degrees at 6am. Six degrees below normal. Windy, with a west wind 28 to 33 mph decreasing to 18 to 23 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 60 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2017, we had light drizzle in the evening, remaining overcast into the early morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 14 occurred back in 2016.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 78% illuminated with the moon rising at 11:50 pm. The moon will set at 9:48 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Saturday night. The Pink Moon 🌝 is on Saturday, April 28th. The sun will rise at 6:30 am with the first light at 6:02 am, which is one minute and 43 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 11 hours and 3 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be scattered snow showers, mainly before 9am. Mostly sunny 🌞 , with a high of 42 degrees at 5pm. 12 degrees below normal. Breezy, with a west wind 18 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 53 degrees. The record high of 82 was set in 1928. 1.1 inches of snow fell back in 1914.❄

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of rain and snow before 2pm, then a chance of rain between 2pm and 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 42. Typical average high for the weekend is 55 degrees. Going to be mad cold this weekend but maybe with the clouds the fishing🎣 will be good after I run to the transfer station.

Last night I went to the car wash and cleaned the salt off of Big Red.🛀 I am hoping winter is pretty much done now and they won’t keep applying road salt. Then it’s just back to washing the mud off after my adventures.🌳 I will probably put another clear coat over the few little rust spots that are popping up on my truck in a few weeks.

Then I went to Wally World picked up some contact solution and supplies. 👀I found a small sample bottle of contact solutions that I had gotten the last time my eyes checked but I knew that would quickly run out.👖 Also bought another pair of jeans and more food to make it through the week.

I like those self service check out lanes at Walmart. 💸 I know people complain they are taking away jobs but there is never a line, they are fast and easy and you can know which bag the food was put in. I’ve never had a problem with the machines. Technology is the future, so we shouldn’t be luddites.

Returned a bunch of plastic bags for recycling. I tell myself I probably should use the reusable bags but I always forget them.♻ In the summer the plastic bags are great for holding camp food and storing the day’s garbage before its burnt. They aren’t really that much plastic in the grand scheme of things.🔥

Started working on building a sign with Styrofoam board but quit after getting frustrated on how difficult it is cut cleanly. It’s a nice soft material to work with and it’s cheap but the edges always come out so ragged and not straight. ✂ The material side of things is the most difficult part of building electronics and working with micro-controllers. I guess Styrofoam board isn’t environmentally friendly but not much with electronics is except to fact you can keep things out of the landfill longer by rebuilding. 🌎 Says the boy with the jacked up truck who uses styrofoam plates while camping. 😂 I wish I could find better, easy to work with, nicer materials for use at home. Been exploring clear PETE pipe for the message signs, but that can be hard to buy at an affordable rate.

Continuing to research credit cards that offer a cash back rewards. I’m thinking about canceling my LL Bean card in favor of one that is actually more useful for my needs. I buy nearly everything on plastic, so it would actually earn me maybe $50-100 a year. 💳Which isn’t a lot of money but it’s better than pissing away rewards. One card I applied to offered a $25,000 limit which I declined because I feel like that kind of limit invites fraud and its not worth it for some marginal bump in my credit score, which is a bit shity because I don’t have a credit history and I paid my electric bill late one month by accident. Damn autopay. 😒I don’t care. It’s not like I’m planning to buy a home or anything in credit in the near future. When I buy land for my off grid cabin 🏡 eventually I’ll hopefully be able to pay cash. I don’t want to deal with banks and a small off grid cabin is likely to be less expensive even if owning a lot of land in rural areas that is low cost.

Traffic on the way home wasn’t too bad. 🚌 I don’t really know, I was reading the news on my phone. I’ve been making this commute for ten and a half years now, so it all blends together as one. 🚍Old NOVA from 1999, the wind it was getting pushed around on the road.

Cooked up one of those frozen pasta mix with chicken and vegetables which was good for a change. 🍜 It was a nice dinner, fairly affordable and not a lot of packaging to dispose of or dishes to wash.

Now listening to the Marketplace on NPR, with my new transistor radio. 📻It still works pretty good and I feel like I am a lot more informed about the news. Market news is important to me even though the day to day news doesn’t really effect my future.

I am going to head down to the library in a bit then I will build another USB warm white led, 💡 maybe to keep in my office for when I work late🔦 and illuminate the area behind my monitor.

In four weeks on May 2 the sun will be setting at 7:57 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 48 seconds later then today. In 2017 on that day, we had rain, mist, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 64 and 49 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 65 and 43 degrees. The record high of 88 degrees was set back in 2001. It’s hard to believe that May is less than 30 days away.

Looking ahead, Average High is 60 🌼 is in 2 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is a month away, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 6 weeks, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 3 months, Halloween 🛥 is in 30 weeks, Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥 is in 7 months, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 31 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 38 weeks and Inauguration day 2021 👴🏻 is in 146 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 50 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸