I fully expect to be declared Democrat of the year for getting the shots (flu and COVID boosters), have a fireworks display in my honor and a highway overpass renamed in my honor. And I’ll be such a patriotic American and Biden supporter helping the geriatrics and mentally retarded immune suppressed children not die. Heck I might even vote for Bobby Kennedy Jr for President. But mostly because it doesn’t seem like much fun to get the flu or the COVID after all these years. I’m selfish son of a bitch and I’m even going to pharmacy to get my shots that is subject to a labor strike, mostly because I didn’t know when I made my appointment.

Good morning! Happy Cold Start to the Thursday. Free battery 🔋 test day coming to a driveway near you. I fully charged up the lights on my bike this morning. Mostly clear and 26 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌅 Calm wind. Things will start to thaw out at around 8 am. 🌡️First freezing day of the year for Albany though it was colder then that first morning I was in the High Country of West Virginia. Definitely wearing gloves 🧤 when I ride to work this morning.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 48 degrees at 3pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 18th. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 82 was set in 1950. 0.1 inches of snow fell back in 1911.❄ They got more than that in the High Country of West Virginia last night.

Biking to work and home again today. 🚲 Really today and tomorrow are the last real opportunities to do this with the time change 🌇 come Sunday. 🧤 I’ll probably continue next week to ride to work on nice days but will be busing it home in the evenings. 🚍 Not riding through the South End or the unlit bike trail after dark. Or local streets with all the traffic. 🚘 Wearing the gloves yesterday definitely helped on the ride as it’s getting cold out.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 32.7° from the due south horizon (-38.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:08 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (244°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (251°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:49 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 5 seconds with dusk around 6:16 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:51 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 46 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 6 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 17 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 30 seconds over today.

So the big thing today is getting my shots 💉 after work. I’ll probably have a sore arm 💪🏻 after it and might even feel a little sick 🩹 but I figure it beats the alternative of the COVID or flu which I’ve heard from others really sucks. I should be able to walk there 🚶 which is one of the reasons I’m not canceling with the labor strike 🤜 but also because they have it in stock and not all pharmacies do ⚕. I’ll let you know tomorrow if I catch autism from the vaccines, and start pounding my chest with a steak knife 🗡 or better yet, go crazy 🤪 and donate $1,000 to Sandy Hook Promise. I might not speak right, but I know what I’m talking about.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 29 degrees at 5am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 23rd. South wind 3 to 5 mph. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1980.

Fresh bread 🍞 and 15 pea soup today has been cooked. 🍲 It will be lunch and dinner. Soup has carrots and beans, somehow I forgot onions but it tastes good. 😋 Last night I also made a soup, 🥣 that was a tuna fish soup with whole wheat pasta, carrots, onions and obviously tuna fish. 🐠 Surprisingly delicious!

The weekend has improved somewhat but I’m still on the fence about heading out of town. 🤺 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 57. Southwest wind around 5 mph. Set your clock 🕒 back one hour or else you’ll be an hour early to church ⛪ shivering your ass off staring at that steeple like a sheeple 🐑 come Sunday which will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 57. Typical average high for the weekend is 54 degrees.

Looking towards turkey day, there are 3 weeks until Thanksgiving 🦃 when the sun will be setting at 4:28 pm with dusk at 4:57 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 49 and 24 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 46 degrees. We hit a record high of 72 back in 1931.