I was totally sure that the rain would be done for my morning commute. Unfortunately it wasn’t so I had to run back upstairs and get the umbrella. Still a pretty dreary morning with the mercury at 39 degrees. Maybe it will climb another ten degrees by afternoon with more sun. I made the bus in time, but it was a bit close, with the extra time I needed to run back upstairs and grab my umbrella from the closet — and the bus was running early.

Today is Wednesday, and as I like to say, Deja Moo. You spend enough time in Albany things just become more predictable. I can’t believe it is only Wednesday, maybe because I’m dreading the second half of the week. I’m sure the weekend is coming quickly. At any rate, the bus is making good time downtown on this rainy morning. The big blizzard of a few weeks ago is quickly melting away. I’m hoping we have a fairly wet and warm spring going forward, as I look forward to getting out camping as soon as a few weeks from now.

The sun will set at 7:18 pm with dusk around 7:47 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 12 hours and 38 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 29 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal. Northwest wind 6 to 13 mph. In 2016, it got down to 27 degrees under partly clear skies. The record low of 7 occurred back in 1970. Nights aren’t as cold as they once were now that April is nye.

Watched the PBS Newshour and made Marconi and Cheese for dinner last night. Lots of vegetables and meat and anything else I could find to put in the pot.  The Donald’s views on climate change are just disgusting, as are most of his policy proposals he has put forward. I don’t even know why I watch the news this day, except in disdain for such an idiot. We are just setting our country back, and we are going to spend millions if not billions undoing the damage our elected president has done, the next time a Democrat wins back the office. He’s done some stuff, but he’s not even been all the great on the Second Amendment or protecting our public lands from those that want to declare them all as wilderness.

Got to bed before 9 PM last night, and while I spent some time playing with my phone, I think i got good nights sleep. I intentionally left the window blinds open, hoping for bright blue skies and sun to wake me in the morning, but that was not to be. I hear the weather is going to be quite a bit nicer come Thursday though.

Today marks the late Eugene McCarthy’s birthday, the 1968 anti-war presidential candidate, and also 44 years since the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War, a bitter point still to this day for many on the political right who still blame those dirty hippies for ruining America. I’m pretty sure when the Donald talks about Making America Great Again, he is still trying to attack the long-hairs who have long cut their hair. Politicians should stop obsessing over something that ended nearly a half century ago.

Looking , there are 3 weeks until Average High is 60 when the sun will be setting at 7:42 pm with dusk at 8:12 pm. On that day in 2016, we had rain and temperatures between 65 and 44 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 60 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 1976.