Good morning! Happy Thursday. Five weeks to Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄. I bet you can’t wait for that special occasion. I am sure the marketers will be pushing people to buy cakes and give presents for the darkest morning of the year. 🎂 People like getting up in darkness in Trump’s America. Partly cloudy and 35 degrees in Delmar. ⛅ There is a northwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. Bare ground with some snow piles around. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 8 pm. ☃️ The radio is playing Peter, Paul and Mary’s I Dig Rock and Roll Music. Groovy dude.💿

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 41 degrees at 1pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 1st. That’s Saturday. Northwest wind 11 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 56 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 2005. 3.3 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄ The sunlight will be nice, as of at least last night, they’ve not fixed the 277 volt feed into my office for the overhead lights.💡 Gets dark in the office, especially as the five o’clock hour approaches.

The sun will set at 4:23 pm with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 23 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 40 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 11 mph. Finally a good sunset? We will see. Today will have 9 hours and 19 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 29 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 27 degrees at 6am. Typical for tonight. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light. Without the breeze, it shouldn’t be so cold for walking down to the library or the evening walk. In 2017, we had clear skies. It got down to 18 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1875.

Passed my tooth cleaning. 😁 No cavities, probably because I don’t drink soda, don’t have sweets at home except for frozen fruits and drink like two gallons of milk a week. Never really liked soda but I’m a big fan of the beverage that comes out of teats of lactating animals that go moo.🐄 Yes, I should floss more. It’s just that I was out of town and floss can be kind of a mess to use especially when it gets all tangled up. Maybe I’ll make it a greater priority.

I was happy that Big Red passed his inspection, 🚗 not that I was that seriously concerned with him failing. I am glad that it was that easy — drop off in the morning, pick up after work, pay $21. The new registration sticker is on the windshield too, so I am good for everything with the state until November 30, 2019, and the registration is good until November 2020 now.

I went Staples yesterday and the $28 USB 3.0 7-port powered hub I was looking at online was an online only sale, but could order it online through Friday when the sale ends and pick it up in Glenmont. 🔌 I’m tired of swapping of cables all the time, and having 7 USB 3.0 ports would be handy, and with the power supply it should mean no risk to damaging the laptop. I do want to get something that complies with US safety standards like UL or Intertek listed, because a bad power supply feeding power the USB port could easily burn up a laptop when 120 volts goes flying places it shouldn’t be it. For cheaper things, I would be less concerned but I don’t want my laptop to burn up.🔥 I will have to continue thinking about that before the sale is done.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄when the sun will be setting at 4:34 pm with dusk at 5:06 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain, drizzle, freezing drizzle, mist, cloudy skies and temperatures between 37 and 31 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 61 back in 1913.