Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday is First Sunday of Advent ✝️. Rain and 39 degrees in Voorheesville. ☔ There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 4 am. ☃️

Today will rain, mainly before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 44 degrees at 1pm. Typical for today. Not great weather but so be it. West wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 2004. 21.8 inches of snow fell back in 1971.❄

The sun will set at 4:25 pm with dusk around 4:56 pm, which is 33 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 andtemperatures around 43 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 25 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 42 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 32 degrees at 5am. Three degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around November 16th. Light and variable wind. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of -11 occurred back in 1938.

Yesterday, I went for a nice walk to Voorheesville via the rail trail. 🏃Walking is healthy and it avoids motoring. I try to drive as little as possible, especially in the winter. Gasoline is expensive, no sense in wasting it when there are places to walk to locally. I’m trying to save money wherever possible avoiding unnecessary trips and making affordable meals, turning down the heat and lights off.

I want to get up to woods and camp and maybe hunt next weekend but not until big game season is over and I can have the woods to myself. Or mostly over in the sense of the northern zone. ⛺I don’t like sitting on a ridge looking across the way to other hunters. I guess if I didn’t live in the suburbs and did deer I’d feel another way. The forecast looks nice for Saturday but again I’m concerned about the Sunday forecast. It’s possible that I don’t get away until spring time. 🌄

I built and tested on a breadboard the Bluetooth control for the light over my bed. It works well, :idea:although when I build the final version I want to use thicker wire with less resistance as this will provide more power to the LEDs and more brightness. Using the thin Dupont cables to power it cut both power consumption and brightness in half. Took several tries to get the code right and eventually I would like to write a custom Android app to control everything from my phone. But for now the Android Bluetooth Controller app works fine.

I still haven’t attempted to disassemble my laptop 💻to see how truly difficult it will be to access the M.2 slot for adding the SSD drive. I’m very low on disk space and while I could delete files I think an SSD drive is a good thing to speed up my laptop as a midlife overhaul. Once I get my laptop opened successfully I’ll keep an eye out on Cyber Monday to see if there is a good price on a one TB drive.

As previously noted, next Sunday is First Sunday of Advent ✝️ when the sun will be setting at 4:22 pm with dusk at 4:54 pm. On that day in 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 41 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 41 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 1998.