Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Sunny but cold, around 25 degrees at the bus stop 🚏next to the Valero. 🌞 There is a north-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️ Listening to John Denver as I head downtown on the local bus 🚍 , looking towards a potentially long day at work. But the money is good 💵 and I’m saving for a better tomorrow.

Nice sunny morning but cold. Reminds me of mid November which makes sense because that was six months ago. 180 degrees out of phase. The sun is rising earlier now we dawn around 6:20. ☀ Cold start to the day, I turned the heat on but I don’t think the heater is working hard today. Come Thursday it looks like I should be able to turn it off and maybe come Saturday open the windows up again. 🍃 I do like the fresh air. I shouldn’t rush summer too much as muggy hot summer days will be here before you know it.

I made up waffles this morning topped with frozen pineapple and red raspberry.🍍I do agree with that article that we don’t generally eat enough fiber. I know that I certainly eat too much pasta 🍲 as I’m always looking for affordable, easy to make calories when I get home from work late. I always try to increase the amount of inexpensive fruits and vegetables in my feed ration as they are so healthy. I probably eat too much frozen sweet corn 🌽 but I like it and it’s healthier than so much of the overpriced junk foods they sell. 🍬

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 42 degrees at 4pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 11th. North wind 6 to 11 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny in the morning, which became sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 74 was set in 1986. 6.1 inches of snow fell back in 1899.❄

80 hours until 5 pm on Friday. Each hour gets one closer to that point. In the context of this week that’s a pretty meaningless marker, but eventually it will be April 1st and trout season. 🐟

The sun will set at 7:14 pm with dusk around 7:43 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 36 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 28 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight is expected to be the last cold night in a while. ❄ I’m hoping that later this week if it’s not raining ☔ and I don’t get out too late from work, I’ll be able to sit out back. Certainly I should have all kinds of power at the truck cap as the solar panel is keeping the battery well charged with all the bright sunshine the past few days.

Tonight will be clear 🌃, with a low of 17 degrees at 6am. 13 degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical night around February 16th. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2018, we had clear in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 26 degrees. The record low of 11 occurred back in 1975.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 50 degrees at 4pm. One degree above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 28th. I’ll take it for a change. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny in the morning, which became sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 48 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1998. 6.7 inches of snow fell back in 1959.❄

Monday was a pretty good day, I was able to catch the express bus 🚍 and be home by quarter to six. No complaints there but I really had made no plans for the evening. Too chilly to go down to the park and honestly the sun still sets a bit early for going down to the park for any length of time after work. 🌇

I ended up staying home, laying in bed for a bit, doing what boys do, dreaming of a world to be.👍Then I got on the excerise bike, 🚲rode for about an hour and a half breaking a while for dinner while watching some YouTube videos I downloaded over the weekend. 🎥 I ended up watching a lengthy video from Mike Price’s farm channel, them firing up tractors 🚜, hauling manure and petting cows. 🐮 I don’t know why I like watching farm channel so much but I find them so interesting. Then I watched a video on processing racoon meat 🍖 and a Computerfile video on text encoding. 💻 I have diverse tastes.

Later on after eight when I like to stop riding the bike to avoid making noise for my neighbor 🔇 I worked on some new maps 🌐and GIS content for the blog and some new ideas I have for further blog posts. 💭 I really like the freedom of the blog, free of nasty comment and with full control over placement and styling. Plus it gives me a chance to dream about what my future will be when I live modestly today. I often find that the ideas put forward in the press aren’t always right 📰 so I like to express my thoughts and feelings.

I went for my evening walk a while after nine o’clock. 🚶 It was a pleasant walk but cool. Still there was a lot of stars ✨ and it was quiet. I enjoy the fresh air in the evening 🌃 always a good way to end the day. I just wish it was warm enough to sit out back but within a month we should regularly have days like that.

I did have a nice cold glass of water, actually two with some a drop or two of cider vinegar before bed. 🍷Such an economical drink and much healthier than milk or orange juice. 🍋 I mean I don’t think I’ve used more than a table spoon or maybe two of a modest sized bottle of cider vinegar I bought for two dollars. Any more than a drop or two in a glass of water makes the water very acidic and nasty vinegar tasting but a small drop gives a nice apple 🍏 flavor and a slight amount of acidity almost like cola without the fizzle.

Probably worse on the teeth than drinking milk although at the concentration I drink it I doubt it’s as acidic as ordinary soda and its sugar free as the yeast eats the sugar leaving only the acid. 🐮 I did have my favorite cow drink with dinner though.

That article I shared about climate change yesterday reminded me that we are living in the future 🔮 now and that 2030 is but a decade away and that the things that the smart people told us to do decades ago are finally coming to roost. 🐓 Climate change is already noticeable locally in the numbers and it’s going to be profoundly more noticeable in the coming years, especially for the colored and poor who don’t have the financial resources to escape a changing environment that puts their home and livelihoods at risk💥.

I think it’s foolish to think we can eliminate fossil fuels in a decade or even dramatically reduce emissions but our inaction is going to bite us hard in the next decade or two. 💣 I’m hoping I can protect myself from the worse impacts but many Americans will suffer and quite possibly lose their lives. Addiction to any chemical – be it drugs or fossil fuel – isn’t serious until it is. ⛽

Not a particularly nice weekend on tap. 😞 Saturday, a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 48 at 1pm. Sunday, a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 52. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Typical average high for the weekend is 51 degrees.

Figuring I’m just assuming I’ll have to work this weekend💼 or be dead tired 😴 I have no plans at all for the weekend. I’m fine with that, there is still a lot of snow up north, and I’d rather save up for the nicer weather next week.

In four weeks on April 23 the sun will be setting at 7:46 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 54 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had sunny and temperatures between 69 and 30 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 62 and 40 degrees. The record high of 87 degrees was set back in 2007.

Looking ahead, Primary Day 🗳️ is in 3 months, Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 is in 16 weeks, Constitution Day 📜 is in 25 weeks, October 🛥 is in 27 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 84 weeks.