While the rain was pouring down around 4 AM this morning, it has stopped and it’s going to be fairly sunny and mild by mid-day at least by December standards. All goes well, this might be my first chance to ride into work since the month got underway. It’s been tough with the snow, cold, and then loosing my bike lock. Plus I need to repair the front brake on my bike which is low on the brake fluid and needs new pads.

I got say I certainly do ride a lot of miles. 🚴 At this point, I am around 13,000 to 15,000 miles on my bike. All that commuting plus riding around town adds up. I don’t ride as much in the winter, but certainly in the summer I’m all around. That 17 mile commute round trip to work, igoring all side trips adds up, though this past few weeks it’s been a lot less. 🤷‍♂️ December is tough for riding, the trail is often wet or covered with ice and snow ☃️ not to mention it’s real cold out.

Installed both the state voter file and property tax database on my phone. 💾 Between the two, it’s like two gigabytes of data, which really isn’t that much as the Parquet file format compresses very well, and is so fast. I did it primarily for work – – I often get asked for data when I’m out of the office, 🏢 plus I’m always thinking of interesting ways to query and summarize the data. Did you see that NYS GIS is now posting a statewide shapefile of all election districts in state? Too bad it doesn’t quite match up with the state voter database for field names, and there still isn’t a statewide database of ED by ED election results, though Benjamin Rosenblatt has been collecting and aggregation such information. ❎

Went to Walmart and got groceries last night. Only $70 worth of groceries, so not a lot when you consider prices these days. 🍌 Still may want to run to the store before heading up to camp most likely on Thursday, 🏕️ I particularly want to get nuts 🥜 for roasting. I am thinking of heading out of town for Thursday to Saturday, before it gets too cold, though Sunday I’m planning on doing a family Christmas event 🎄 🎅 but that’s fine, it’s going to be cold come the weekend. 🌬️