Good Morning! Happy Wednesday. It’s hump day out there. Hopefully a calm hump day, although I doubt that will be the case as today is the State of State Address, and that is sure to bring in shapes and sizes of protesters, from the 2nd amendment types to those who don’t like fracking. I guess it’s a good thing that people can get their views out in the process.

Finally Starting to Warm Up. With no wind and temperatures around 10 degrees, it seems warm out there at the bus stop. I left the bathroom door closed last night, to keep the bathroom warm. That helped to keep the bathroom toasty, but the temperature sunk down to 50 degree sin the rest of the apartment, once I had turned the electric heat off for the night, and was relying entirely on the much cheaper gas to keep things warm. Yesterday, despite the cold, it was very clear out . Today the skies are starting cloud up with those high but relatively light clouds you often see in the late fall.

83 Days Until April 1st. That’s the latest news on that front. I guess it’s good that it’s far off, because I have a lot of work to do before that date. But I look forward to the warmer weather. Probably now looking at taking my trip to the Finger Lakes during Easter Week, which is like the 3rd week of April. Probably go up there for 4-5 days, and visit the gorges that are open this time of year, and maybe visit Sugar Hill Firetower, etc. I might go camping more locally earlier on depending on the snow – but that’s to be decided.

Albany Was Chaotic Last Night. Joe Biden came to town yesterday, to talk about disaster recovery at the Capitol. That necessitated closing down the streets that his motorcade was driving on, because he’s the president. That made the buses late mid-day, and tragedy lead to somebody getting struck by a speeding bus, probably trying to keep his or her schedule. Because bus accidents were there are serious injuries have to be federally investigated by NTSB, they had to keep Washington Avenue closed past the Capitol for almost four hours after the accident.

It turned traffic into a clusterfuck, including rerouting all of the bus traffic. The bus re-routes were poorly documented, and I almost missed my bus, because all the CDTA 22/224/719 etc were going over Eagle Street rather than South Swan St – while all the Central Ave and Lark Street buses were taking South Swan. I got out to the bus stop around the normal time, and found out from the CDTA Supervisor that I would have to catch the bus in like 1 minute at the stop on Eagle Street. I barely just caught the 719, and the process, managed to accidentally pocket-dialed my boss. Go figure.