Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Mostly sunny and 13 degrees in Delmar. Calm wind. I don’t know your opinion on this weather, but in my book it’s pretty darn cold for March. Just waiting for God to flip the giant relay switch and with a loud clunk it like the relay in my truck it will be eighty degrees. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Friday around 1 pm. 🌡️ Seems legit, by then the average high is supposed to be in the forties.

It was a cold start this morning I turned up the heat 🔥 before bed last night but with the cold it never caught up. I’m ready for winter to be done so I can shut off the heat and recover the $50-60 in my budget each month. ☺Plus I look forward to the fresh air this morning and hearing the birds chirping. 🐦

Today will have increasing clouds ☁, with a high of 26 degrees at 2pm. 14 degrees below normal. West wind 3 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1964. 8.6 inches of snow fell back in 1917.❄

The sun will set at 5:50 pm with dusk around 6:18 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 25 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 6 mph. It was a nice sunset last night at work but I don’t expect such nice weather for tonight. 🌅 Today will have 11 hours and 27 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers before 2am, then a slight chance of snow showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 10 degrees at 5am. 12 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 0 at 6am; West wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. I do not approve. In 2018, we had cloudy in the evening, which became mostly sunny by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 23 degrees. The record low of -21 occurred back in 1948.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of snow showers after 7am. Mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 21 degrees at 1pm. 19 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 9 at 1pm; West wind 7 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1974. 10.5 inches of snow fell back in 1887.❄

Tomorrow is pay day which I’ll leave it to you Google former NYC councilman Dan O’Halloran most famous quote that I have posted in my bedroom. 💰I wish I made sacs of money 💵 but my budget is always so tight after I invest and save both for retirement and to eventually become a landowner in a freer state then New York. Got to pay the bills in the meantime. I discovered this morning ironing my shirt that the cuffs are getting worn out. More expense, grr. 👹I’m going to have to look at look at getting more dress shirts at JC Penny maybe this weekend. I’m annoyed about ordering all those pants 👖 and the blazer now. I guess it’s only going to be about $50 for two dress shirts but I’m facing a serious fiscal cliff in my budget come late March and early April. Maybe I’ll try to scrimp on groceries next week, only buying the most basic supplies and try to fully use up what I have in the pantry. If I only spend $10-15 on food 🍲 next week I can probably make things work.

I anticipate a bit of a financial pinch come April as I have to pay my car insurance, rent, utility bills and taxes all in about a two week expanse. 💸It’s going to be tough with all those bills due at once, especially as I have fairly big tax bills as I don’t make quarterly tax payments. I’m going to have to do that soon though or I risk getting fined for underpayment of taxes. I’ll figure it out, I might have to dip into the rainy day fund or savings to make my bills but I’ll figure it out. Investment gains are good even if it means paying a lot in taxes.

Today in 1970, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. 🚀In 1933, during the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday”, closing all U.S. banks and 🎊 freezing all financial transactions.

Definitely got cold ❄ as the day progressed yesterday although honestly once I got moving on my evening walk, it wasn’t too bad. Sure I’d like it be warmer out so I could get a break on my heating bills but so be it, spring is just around the corner.🌿

Got out of work around 7:30, bus 🚍 had me home by eight. I’m still really surprised they’re running the articulated bus in the evening. Maybe it’s going back to the depot. Who knows. I had too much for dinner because I was hungry when I got home 🏡, played on my phone 📱 for a bit then went out for my evening 🌃 walk.

Not a half bad walk but kind of chilly and cloudy ☁. Certainly better evenings for a walk. Farm 🚜 down the road definitely was a bit pungent with manure tonight 🐮, they must be spreading it now after they got done with the spoiled silage. No deer out in the field tonight, I think the snow is too deep for them to graze plus it was pretty cold out.

Continuing to research hand drills for drilling holes in boards for building LED signs. I wanted to just get a basic one 🔨 at Lowe’s the other day but they didn’t have one. I thought 💭 about trying Delmar hardware. Maybe thats my best bet, I feel like they would have one probably cost competitive to what I’d find online. I don’t want an electric drill so I can work late at night without disturbing the neighbors.

I got the two ACS 712 amperage metering boards I ordered from AliExpress. ✉ Terminals on the board are a bit tiny in my opinion for wires designed to carry up to 30 amp but they may work okay for monitoring the output of the solar panel and other loads in the truck cap. I’m just a little bit concerned about voltage ⚡ drop. I’ll have to experiment more.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 39. Sunday, rain and snow likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Typical average high for the weekend is 41 degrees. I’m trying to save money so I’ll probably stay home on Saturday but I might walk 🚶 to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. I probably should figure out some time to continue working on that history project I’m working on, and some time to work m some of the various electronics projects, ⌚ to say nothing of riding the exercise bike 🚲 more.

I know it’s still early March but I’m definitely ready for camping ⛺ season to get underway but everywhere still there is a ton of snow. I certainly don’t expect the Adirondacks to be completely snow free until late April or even early May. 🌸 Maybe a bit sooner in lower elevations but most places where I like to camp have snow much longer than Albany. Hopefully by then I’ll be over the financial cliff but if not, I guess the bills won’t come due until a few paychecks later on the credit card. 💳

In four weeks on April 2 the sun will be setting at 7:22 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 32 minutes and 34 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 47 and 28 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 52 and 32 degrees. The record high of 77 degrees was set back in 2010. So who knows what the weather will be like for the second day of trout season. 🐠

Looking ahead, Cinco de Mayo 🤠 is in 2 months, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 3 months, Dog Days of Summer 🌻 is in 4 months, Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 is in 19 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 87 weeks.