Good evening. Currently partly cloudy and 15 degrees in Delmar. Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low around 12. North wind 7 to 9 mph.

Tonight is January’s Full Wolf Moon. Definitely a big beautiful moon tonight. Tomorrow’s sunrise will be at 7:16 am with first light at 6:46 am, which is one minute and 48 seconds earlier then today.

Tonight I taught myself how to program in Python and write Quantum GIS plug-ins to further automate things in QGIS. Python is a fairly straightforward language, it’s kind of nice how free form and simple it really is. Read an ebook for about it for two hours and I already feel fairly competent in the basics. QGIS scripting is remarkably easy to automate loading layers, apply styles, and so forth. QtGui turned out to be fairly straightforward for creating dialogs too. I’m not a real programmer but I know a thing or two about data structures and programming logic. Great skill to learn, I figure.

Other than that, a pretty quite Saturday. Didn’t do much besides walk down to the library. I haven’t started Big Red up since I went to Walmart on Thursday. He’ll be fine though. Gas is down to $2.02 locally which is shockingly cheap, especially by New York high tax standards. Oh, well.

I hope you had a Saturday. Sleep well!