Today is October 30th which means the month is almost done. Tomorrow is Halloween. Cloudy and damp around 56 degrees in Delmar, NY. Light breeze but it’s expected to pick up later. Clearing out later today with a slight drop in the mercury as the day progresses. Very windy, especially midday.

The sun will set at 5:50 pm with dusk around 6:19 pm, which is one minute and 20 seconds earlier than yesterday. At sunset, look for partly clear conditions and 52 degrees. Breezy, 18 mph breeze from the west with gusts up to 31mph. Today will have 10 hours and 21 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 39 degrees at 6am. Four degrees above normal. Southwest wind 11 to 16 mph. In 2016, we had light rain in the evening, remaining overcast into the early morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of 18 occurred back in 1988.

So today Trump campaign chairman Paul Manaford surrender to the authorities for some kind of crime. Partisans will celebrate but it rather sucks for him and our country as a whole. It sucks if corrupt acts lead to the election of the president, it sucks if people got government favors they weren’t supposed to receive. Nobody wins if the Russians unfairly influenced the election. I remember watching those debates, chomping down on peanuts, trail mix  and beer. I had an uneasy feeling about both of the candidates. Hopefully what our country will learn leads to sensible and reforms.

The bus ride downtown hasn’t been too bad but I took the later local because I didn’t quite make the earlier one because I got looking at my budget from my road trip. I got the unspent cash counted and will return to the bank today. I think the trip was under $500 all things said and done. Not too bad although I think if I did the trip again I would have changed my plans on where I was going to go — like the New River Gorge Bridge and more of the southern Monongahela National Forest and more hiking at Dolly Sods.

Made my appointment for Wednesday for the State Inspection, Oil Change and Tire Rotation. I am going to hold off on getting the bolts torqued on the lift kit until next week. I am hoping it will pass with the lose bolt, I’m not going to draw attention to it. If it has to get fixed there to pass, so be it, if not I am going to the off-road shop next week and have them re-torque the bolts or replace whatever hardware needs to be. The off-road shop is on Central Avenue, so dropping it off it next week isn’t a big deal. I am not planning on going over any rough terrain or driving very far within the week.

This weekend my aunt is coming up from Arizona, so I will be staying in town and going out with my family for weekend picnic. Sunday again doesn’t look all that nice. Maybe the following week I will head out camping somewhere if the weekend looks nice. That is a long weekend, with Veterans Day Observed on that Friday.  Next Tuesday is the Election Day. Maybe I will help with a local campaign, although I haven’t been that involved with things this year.

Looking ahead, there are 8 weeks until Christmas when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:59 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2016, we had drizzle, then mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 43 and 21 degrees. It was fun camping that night on Irish Hill. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 1889.