Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Three weeks to Election Day 2018 🗳️. I wonder when I’ll get my absentee ballot so I can register my protest vote? Partly cloudy and 45 degrees in up here in Clay. ⛅ The sun seems to be clearing out. There is a west-southwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. Kind of chilly, especially with the breeze. Maybe today wasn’t a good day to go short-sleeved. I really need to get more long-sleeved shorts. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 5 am. ☃️

I wanted to get out for a morning walk, but that didn’t happen. 😲 I couldn’t get in the bathroom in time, the weather didn’t look all that well, and when I got in the office, I ended up having a cup off coffee or two and got kind of busy. ☕ But so be it. I’ll try to get out on my lunch break and do some walking. On Friday, I’ll probably come into work to do some hiking. Maybe back down to Labrador Hollow, I liked that hike the other day. I should also try to get down to Green Lakes at some point to see the autumn color, although honestly I’ve been there a lot lately, and it seems like at least in the Syracuse area color is pretty limited.🍂

Partly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny 🌞 , with a high of 53 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees below normal. West wind 11 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1947. There was a dusting of snow in 2009.❄ You know, I don’t remember that snow much. It must have been a while back — almost a decade has come and gone since 2009. Welcome to the future. It will be 2030 before you know it. That’s why it’s so important to save for the future, especially if the economy becomes more destabilized as we march towards a even larger quantities of carbon in the atmosphere, says the boy with the big jacked up truck.

The sun will set at 6:19 pm with dusk around 6:48 pm, which is one minute and 37 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies ⛅ and 49 degrees. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 58 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 44 degrees at 4am. Four degrees above normal. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had partly cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1940.

There are 21 days, 11 hours and 55 minutes until the poll close on Election Day in New York. 🗳It can’t come soon enough in my perspective. And heck, I am not even really following politics although I listened to the 538 podcast last night before bed, and I certainly hear from a lot of people who are a lot more passionate about politics then I am.

Did I mention that today is pay day? End of the day, though. Okay, that makes me happy. 💵 I have a certificate of deposit that is expiring in the next few weeks, and I will roll it into a larger higher-interest probably in the next few weeks. While I’m continuing to buy more index funds, I think things are still well overpriced, especially as some point values will depress for a while during the next recession.

Still thinking about what my November trip will be like. i am leaning towards visiting Chimney Point State Park as part of vacation, as it’s really a pretty good trip from Syracuse, and I want more time to explore it without being bothered by work stuff.🚶Probably would drive down to the Finger Lakes National Forest, although I really have to watch the clock, because that point the sun will be setting around 4:45 PM and I don’t want to drive in the dark, even though my headlights are much better on my truck then they used to be..

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Election Day 2018 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 4:49 pm with dusk at 5:19 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2017, we had rain, mist, cloudy skies and temperatures between 63 and 42 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 73 back in 2015.