Good Morning – August 6, 2021

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Foggy Friday! 🌫

And I complained about how fast summer vacation came and went 🐇but August seems to be speeding along but maybe it’s because I’m working downtown more. 🏢

Modestly foggy 🌁 and 65 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. Already it seems like the fog is burning off and it’s going to be a hot day although nothing like later next week. ☀

I checked and it looks like somehow I got the auto renew to work on bus card 💳 again which is good as I am riding the bus 🚍 a lot more these days. That said, I kind of like how they have Wi-Fi at the office which I can use with my laptop 🖥 when I have down time. That said it will be nice how my smaller pre pandemic phone 📱 plan now includes Hotspot data when I occasionally want it at home 🏡. But come September the library is open seven days a week including until 9 pm on Friday nights. And I’ll be back to working downtown five days a week.

Today though I’m working from home 🏡, although I’ll probably I will need to go to the library for several Zoom meetings. 📹 Normally I do most of that stuff with my phone but it gets harder with my cracked screen and it’s pain to move files back and forth to the computer as I don’t currently have hot spot service.

Been learning more about using PANDAS 🐼 with the FRED economic data 📊 and also ArcGIS REST/Services. It’s just so much easier and faster to type a few lines of chained python commands into a Jupyter Notebook then manually manipulate the data in a Spreadsheet or QGIS. Sure those programs are good for doing some final formatting or outputting actual maps by are so much bloat for basic data wrangling. 🗺