Good evening! Mostly clear 🌃 and 78 degrees waiting for the bus at the NYS Capitol. Calm wind. The dew point is 59 degrees. Not a half bad evening once I get home to sit out back.

I got out at five, went down to the waterfront and then to the Save the Pine Bush meeting. 🌲Not a bad evening but it ran long and I had to rush up the Madison Avenue hill to catch the bus. 🚍 Not really hot but huffing and puffing made me tired. 😴

I was a little discouraged after the meeting 😩but so be it I’m a volunteer and I’ll do what I can do. It would be nice to win for the environment 🌎 but I’m not going to loose sleep about it – but it’s a good fight. But I’m mostly concerned about my future which ultimately doesn’t involve the Capital Region.

The ice cream I eat when I got home was good 🍨 but I eat too much as that’s the problem with having it at home. I have absolutely no self control after a depressing night like tonight.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 62 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal. Maximum dew point of 59 at 9pm. Light and variable wind. One more night of pleasant sleeping but the humidity will pick up on Wednesday into Thursday. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 62 degrees. The record low of 47 occurred back in 1963.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 68% illuminated. The moon will set at 1:12 am. The 🌕 is on Monday night with partly cloudy skies. The sun will rise at 5:26 am with the first light at 4:52 am, which is 43 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 8 hours and 52 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 11 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny and hot ☀, with a high of 92 degrees at 3pm. 10 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 62 at 10am. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph. A year ago, we had sunny skies. The high last year was 92 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1936.

That Ravinewood Off Grid cabin 🏡 I posted earlier is super cool. Massive solar system, really well built to power essentially a modern home ten miles from electric lines. While I doubt that I’d ever own something that big and fancy – I’m more of a dirty hick – I do think it’s cool. 🐽 When you think about utility bills of all sorts by going off grid, growing and raising some of your own food, managing own trash, 🔥 forgoing internet, you can save a lot of money. 💵

I decided going forward to pull back a bit from investing in the markets – a little bit – because I have a feeling finally things are getting a bit over priced. 📉 I’m not timing the markets or pulling money out but I’m seeking more safety from an high interest savings account over stocks for future investments. It’s just a matter of percentage going forward. We might have some more growth but I’m sure a big drop is coming and it will take years to recover from the drop just like the 2008 recession. Maybe it’s a mistake but also I don’t know how much longer I’ll stay in New York and I want to not have things locked up too long in stock paper. 📄I’m getting old fast, although I’ll probably remain locally as long as I have family around.

In four weeks on August 6 the sun will be setting at 8:09 pm,🌄 which is 25 minutes and 18 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny, shallow fog and temperatures between 92 and 69 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 82 and 61 degrees. The record high of 98 degrees was set back in 1900.

Looking ahead, Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 is in 1 weeks, World Mosquito Day 🐞 is in 6 weeks, Constitution Day 📜 is in 10 weeks, October 🛥 is in 12 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 69 weeks.