Good evening. Currently 51 degrees with scattered clouds and long shadows of the evening hanging low over downtown. Tonight’s sunset is at 5:58 PM, next Monday after the time change the sunset will be at 4:48 PM making for a dark evening commute. Forty degrees and clear at 9 PM tonight.

Nice evening, you have to enjoy the evening commute while you still have light. But I will also appreciate having an earlier sunrise as getting up in pitch black to go to work is no fun at all.

I am quite excited about the release of QGIS 2.12. The new labeling feature should greatly improve the visual appearance of maps, one of the current weakness of QGIS is overlapping labels. I haven’t tried it out yet but blogs documenting it looks very encouraging. I will install the update later this evening at the Bethlehem Public Library.

Probably going to get a refurbished Mr. Heater Big Boy propane camp heater next week. I’ve been studying my options and will probably use it with the 20 lb propane tank adapter and a larger propane tank. The reviews are good and the hunters I ran into in the woods really liked these units. It’s not real economical to operate a full blast but apparently throws a lot of heat on this setting to warm up a tent or lean-to quickly. Beats having to build a campfire right away on a below zero morning. Plus if I lose power midwinter I can put the heater inside and tank outside and keep my apartment warm. I really want to do more winter camping.