Good evening! Overcast and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Calm wind. The dew point is 60 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 3 am.

Definitely a nice mild evening for sitting out back. 💺 I went for my evening walk, 🚶🏻 it was quiet and pleasant. Earlier I walked down to the library 📚 and worked down on the bench there. Other than that I answered most of the emails 📧 and calls from my phone and used the laptop 💻 network card for some random little work things I couldn’t do from my phone.

Still having some issues getting my Post GIS databases 💽 and the mysql databases working now that I’ve upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04. Apparently I had to restore the mysql database from the dump file from before and fully reset the postgresql due to incompatibilities. It’s a good excuse to update to the latest version of the Open Street Map database for New York State. 🗺 I’ll do that tomorrow. Also having some issues with the built in sound card after upgrading although most of the time now I use an external Bluetooth adapter. 🔌

From time to time I’ve been noticing a smokey smell in my apartment midday while working at home. ☁️ I think something electronic is running too hot but I only notice it when I’ve been working for a whilem on my laptop. I doubt it’s the computer 🖥 and I hope it’s not a wiring problem in my apartment but I don’t know. It seems more noticeable when the windows are open. I’ll figure it out eventually.

Tonight will have a slight chance of sprinkles before midnight. Not the kind on your ice cream. 🍦 I did think about getting ice cream at Stewart’s today when I got milk 🥛 but decided it was unnecessary calories and expense. Mostly cloudy ☁️, with a low of 52 degrees at 6am. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 16th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 10pm. Light and variable wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1959.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 33% illuminated. The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Saturday, October 31. The darkest hour is at 12:41 am, followed by dawn at 6:48 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:17 am in the east-southeast (104°) and last for 3 minutes Sunrise is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:56 am with sun in the east-southeast (111°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 14 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 67 degrees at 4pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 29th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 8am. Northwest wind 3 to 5 mph. A year ago, we had mist in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 59 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1979. There was a dusting of snow in 2005.❄

Should be another really nice day. 😎 I’ll have to work out back so I can absorb as much sun rays as possible ☀ in late October. Soon I expect to be working back in the office a lot more so it’s better to enjoy the fall weather while I still can. I’m sure though that the landlord will be around soon – probably Thursday tomorrow – with the leaf blower 🍁 so I might have to go somewhere else to work.

I think I will stay in town this weekend 🏡 because I’m going to be so busy with work and once again, Albany will have the best weather in Upstate NY. 🌦️There talking about rain and clouds in Spectulator and Cazenovia, the two places 200 miles apart I considered going this weekend but sun back in Albany. Go figure.

I keep delaying putting my camping stuff away 🏕 but I’ll probably do it tomorrow. It’s all cleaned up and ready to go back in the crawl space but if I was leaving tomorrow morning I wasn’t going to put it away.

In four weeks on November 18 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (244°) at 4:30 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 33 minutes and 18 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had drizzle showers, cloudy and temperatures between 41 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 47 and 31 degrees. The record high of 71 degrees was set back in 1928.

Looking ahead, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 2 weeks, Veterans Day 🇺🇸 is in 3 weeks, Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 is a month away, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 7 weeks, Tea Party Day 🐍 is in 8 weeks, First Day of Winter ☃️ is in 2 months, Festivus 🍖 is in 9 weeks, Bacon Day 🥓 is in 10 weeks, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 12 weeks, Inauguration Day ✅ is in 13 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 16 weeks and Presidents Day 👴 is in 17 weeks.