Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 50 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 3 am. ☃️

Long day and I’m tired 💤but I’m heading to bed shortly for a good night’s sleep. When I get this tired I’m often kind of achy. But I got done everything I needed today. Made a big pot pasta 🍝 for dinner used the last of the spaghetti sauce. I hate having to wash out those containers for recycling ♻. That’s why I usually buy it in plastic so in the summer I can use fire 🔥 to clean it up. When I own land, that will be a year round thing except during burn bans but then I can just stack it away from the house until the burn ban is done and then have a big bonfire after dark.

I went for my evening walk 🚶 and voted ❎. I bought some milk, 🐮 I’m tired 😴 now and are about to kill the lights and call it a night. I did wear my inappropriate shirt 🚫👚 for the polling place but I covered it up before going inside. 😉 Real nice evening for a walk for sure. Haven’t done my evening walk in a long time but I haven’t been home much lately. 🎑

Its funny how people get so wrapped up about voting⚠ but at the end of the day it’s just filling out a scantron firm and sticking a card in the machine. 🀄 Not a big deal, no matter how you vote, not likely to change your life. As I’ve said many times in the past, th best way to vote is with your feet and moving to a community that best reflects your values.

The new electronic poll books and ballot printers – aka generic laser printer was fast and worked well. 🐰 Real fast to sign in and print. There wasn’t even much in the way of choices this year for the election – lots of local races but few were opposed. I guess the GOP doesn’t exist anymore locally. 🐘 I guess Trump has killed local Republicans all off. Even though I’m a Democrat 🐴, I vote split ticket 🎫 and a lack of competition means a lack of innovation, corruption and rot. Incumbents sometimes dseerve not to get 80% of the vote decade after decade. Erastus Corning wasn’t a bad person but Theresa Cook’s criticism of the machine was valid. ✊

It’s actually funny, I ran into Theresa Cook many times with Save the Pine Bush 🌲🌲🌲 but I never knew her history in Albany until after her death. There are so many great, amazing people with stories to tell around you, but if you don’t know, they are just anonymous faces. So much history gets lost with people, as time passes by. So much is just plainly forgotten. 😢

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 49 degrees at 4am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 23rd. Southeast wind 3 to 7 mph. Mild enough it’s tempting to leave a window cracked open for ventilation. AIn 2018, we had light rain in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 42 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1969.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 5% illuminated. The moon will rise at 8:57 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Sunday night with a chance of showers. The Beaver Moon 🌝 is in 2 weeks. The sun will rise at 7:24 am with the first light at 6:55 am, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 So late this time of year. Even worse in Syracuse. Tonight will have 13 hours and 31 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 39 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 59 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 19th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 6pm. South wind 6 to 10 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 77 was set in 1946. 3.8 inches of snow fell back in 2011.❄

Kind of a boring day at work, 😕 lots of filling out forms and training. Signed up for the 401(K), which isn’t as good as working for the state, choosing the 12% contribution level with a 3% match. I was doing 20% deferred comp with the state. But now I’ll take the other additional money and buy mostly CDs and maybe some index funds, for mid-term goals like my off-grid farm. Retirement is great, but it’s a long ways off. Now that the paperwork stuff is mostly done, I’m looking forward to getting up and running 🏃 and into the meat 🍖 of things this week at work. But you take things one step at a time. But I am certainly tired.

In four weeks on November 25 the sun will be setting at 4:25 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 28 minutes and 23 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 52 and 39 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 44 and 29 degrees. The record high of 64 degrees was set back in 2004.

Looking ahead, Veterans Day 🇺🇸 is in 2 weeks, Thanksgiving 🦃 is a month away, Cyber Monday 🛍️ is in 5 weeks, First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 5 weeks, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 6 weeks, Festivus 🍖 is in 8 weeks and 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 2 months.