Good Monday Morning! Two weeks to Presidents Day 👴. Or as the federal government calls it, Washington’s Birthday. Only New York celebrates president’s day in its laws. Partly cloudy and 40 degrees in Delmar. ⛅ There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground, melting fast with the warmer weather. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 8 pm. ☃️ Assuming the unlikely case I get out of work at a reasonable hour, it will be nice for my evening walk.

I was running a bit late this morning, 🚌 but I checked my phone and so was the bus. 🚏Worked out fine. I just fell behind a bit by the time I got out of bed and my shirt ironed. But it wasn’t too bad, and the bus driver made pretty good time, so I wasn’t in that late. All worked out on this increasingly sunny morning — it started out gray but is changing and is expected to be quite nice by afternoon.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 52 degrees at 1pm. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 1st. No fooling around about today’s weather, for sure. Hazy though. South wind around 6 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy in the morning, which became snow by afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1991. 15.5 inches of snow fell back in 1926.❄

The sun will set at 5:13 pm with dusk around 5:42 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 51 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 28 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be scattered showers, mainly after midnight. Increasing clouds 🌧, with a low of 40 degrees at 5am. 25 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 22nd. South wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had light freezing rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 12 degrees. The record low of -15 occurred back in 1918.

Tomorrow will have isolated showers before 10am. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 50 degrees at 11am. 18 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 28th. South wind 8 to 15 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy in the morning, which became snow by afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1890. 10.4 inches of snow fell back in 2014.❄

Another weekend came and went. I’m a bit relaxed and caught up on sleep on Sunday morning but now it’s back to the grind on the Monday morning. 💼 Since it warmed up Big Red has worked well, although I wish I had given him a bath but I figured it would be covered with salt by the time I got home from my parents house after Sunday dinner.🚗

Did a bunch of cleaning yesterday, got the paper and scrap clothing to the recycling center at the park and ride, compacted the recycling and got that outside, bought some ant spray and sprayed down well where they are coming from.🐜 Didn’t see any ants this morning. I’m hoping with the spray, the bait, and my cleaner kitchen the ant problems will be done. It’s unusual that they became a problem mid winter, I must have tracked them in, maybe with a shopping bag or something. That’s were I first found them. I’m sure the spray is pretty toxic but I’m careful where I spray it, I followed the label and believe in science.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Presidents Day 👴 when the sun will be setting at 5:31 pm with dusk at 6:00 pm. On that day in 2018, we had partly sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 40 and 23 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 35 degrees. We hit a record high of 63 back in 1981. I am hoping for a nice weekend, as that might be good for getting out and doing some camping and traveling.

Cool but sunny this weekend. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 26. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 30. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees. Maybe I will get out and skiing. I might go up to the Adirondacks, although at this point, I am thinking more about doing a trip during the three-day weekend for Presidents Day two weekend out. I will re-evaluate as the weekend approaches.

In four weeks on March 4 the sun will be setting at 5:49 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 45 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had snow showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 38 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 40 and 22 degrees. The record high of 59 degrees was set back in 1919. Looking forward to much warmer weather now that spring is only 45 days away.🌼🌺🌹🌷

Finally muted those obnoxious indicator lights in my bedroom. Painted the LEDs with black paint on the various development boards 🖌 that I have strung in my bedroom powering the various lights I have around.💡 I didn’t find the tiny red LED indicators to be that annoying but the blue LED power indicator on the buck converter was obnoxiously bright. The buck converter saves power but the blue light pollution it created in my bedroom was obnoxious. The black paint I got at the store made it much darker.🔦

I’m continuing to work on the code for my new LED light controller. The sunrise and sunset modes are working well, although I’m still trying to smooth the color transitions. 🌌 The hooks for firing automatically are basically done but I need to do some more debugging as things are not firing always correctly. Things would be much simpler if I had just used my old one source file code but I wanted to make the new system much more modular and object oriented code and make it possible to create many more color and light modes then was possible using an IR remote and the old 8 bit microprocessor of the Arduino Nano.♋

The other day I was thinking how nice it was to have that longer 6 ft micro USB cable to hook up to my development boards that I use for my projects. It means that I can leave my laptop in its normal place and just run a wire. But unfortunately a wire on that cable broke. 🔌 Then I accidentally bought a 6 foot USB C cable rather than a micro USB cable at the store. Before I realized my mistake, I had already disassembled the packaging for recycling, so I don’t think I can return it. But I don’t think it’s a big deal, because I’m sure a phone or some other technology I buy eventually will be USB C, as it’s the future.

Looking ahead, Presidents Day 👴 is in 2 weeks, Average High is 40 ☀️ is a month away, April Fools Day 🤡 is in 8 weeks, Tax Day 💰 is in 10 weeks, Earth Day 🌎 is in 11 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 3 months, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 16 weeks, July 🏊🏿 is in 21 weeks, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 5 months and Last Sunset After 8 PM 🌆 is in 27 weeks.