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Good Morning – October 4, 2021

Good morning! Happy Last Sunset After 6:30 PM 🌆 !

On a rainy morning it’s particularly dark but then again the evenings are also pretty dark. Winter is coming. But first a Monday. My goal is to make it to work on time and duck everything up as I stumble around.

Rain showers and 60 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 58 degrees. More rain later.

It looks like I might be able to walk down to the express bus without getting soaked 🌧 assuming the rain hold off until I get to the office. For a while during the overnight hours it was absolutely pouring. But it at least wasn’t cold with the windows open. I refuse to close my windows at night, as I like the fresh air ⬜ although some mornings lately have been rather cold as the mercury has fallen into the upper 30s by morning a few days last week. But I sleep so much better with the windows open.

This was kind of a stay at home weekend, the highlight of the weekend was going to the grocery store 🍊 so that I had food in my pantry. Spent a lot of the weekend reading and learning, studying up on using Python for making graphs and charts, along with maps and GIS things. I did go for the evening walk on Saturday and down to the library, but Sunday rained a lot so I spent my focus on learning as much as I could. 👩‍🏫 A lot of Saturday wasn’t bad, but my gas tank is relatively empty, ⛽ and I don’t have any money, so that’s kind of a problem especially if Big Red’s suspension is getting fixed in two weeks and I’m spending $3,000 on tires and repairs for my truck this month. 💸 I don’t know what the alternative is — it’s a bad time to buy a new truck, and it’s not like my truck is that old, having less then 100,000 miles — and I’m not quite ready yet to give up motoring, although I do less and less of that lately. I just know that every time you get in your car, 🚘 it’s like smoking a cigarette 🚬, slowly killing yourself assuming you don’t crash and the environment one toke at a time, says the boy with the big jacked up truck who burns his trash rather then recycling. 🔥

After reading that book on personal finance, 📕 and crunching the numbers 📐 I think I am going to get away from saving much more in CDs and high-interest savings, and move towards bonds to balance my portfolio. Not planning any big bond purchases in the short term, until at least my CD expires and the markets go back up — better to buy bonds when the stock market is strong as it depresses bond prices — but I think I will replace a big portion of my ordinary paycheck-to-paycheck FDIC savings with bond fund purchases, as I think that’s a better idea on the long haul, and I have too much put into savings with so little interest these days. Plus, I will roll back the rate on savings, but I am lately just struggling so much to pay the bills lately. 📄 It just seems like everything is going up in price lately.

I am really trying to master the Python graphing and mapping 🗺 libraries, as I think being able to make quality graphics and maps on the fly is such an important skill to master – along with being able to process and make maps. I’m pretty good but there are still skills I could get better at. 🖥 It’s not about being a computer geek but just being able to effectively promote and manipulate data.

Good Morning – September 17, 2021

Good morning! Happy Constitution Day 📜 !

I heard the constitution is a good source of carbon to tie down the nitrogen and smell from urine and manure in a hog yard. And confounding politicians of the opposite political party and their poorly thought out plans.

Overcast and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 62 degrees. The skies will clear around 5 pm.

Kind of a muggy morning 😰 but at the same time it just has a very mid September feel to it today. Out for the morning walk 🚶 as I try to get to the 10,000 step goal 🥅 which turns out to be remarkably hard to despite all the walking I do. The air has the taste of rubber on it, maybe I some butyl leaking out of the plastics plant down the road. ☠️

Traffic hasn’t been so bad around the High School lately 🚸 although it certainly helps when I get a later start. At least there are fewer idling cars 🚘 most days but crossing the driveway on the crosswalk by the high school is a bit dangerous.

I am glad it’s a Friday ☺ as it’s been a long week as I’m out used to working downtown five days a week with the bus 🚍 and everything else. But in some ways the consistency of it is kind it is kind of nice, as is not being home all of the time. 💳

Tonight I’ll run to the store and get some supplies 🍔 and get packed so I can leave early in the morning for the Adirondacks ⛰. I haven’t asked for Monday and Tuesday off but I have no meetings scheduled and I can hand my duties off to some other people or get caught up on Wednesday. I have the time, I should take both days off – pushing my autumn trip off a few weeks means I’ll accumulate more vacation time by the time I take off that week in late October or early November. ⛺

I’ve working updating the graphing code on the blog 📊 to work with Chartjs 3.5 as I’m still using the 1.x version. I wrote a wrapper around the old code but I want to be generating 3.5 code for future graphs so that it’s more future compatible and I can do more gradients on the graphs.

Good Morning – September 14, 2021

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. All I can think about is those gigham dressers they had prominently displayed at Walmart last night 👗

I think it takes white trash to a new level. I’ve been known to buy abs wear Wrangler shirts and jeans from Wally World but I can’t imagine the purpose of such a dress – they look terrible and aren’t very good if you are milking a cow, shoveling manure, riding an ATV or anything else a country gal would be doing. Except maybe if you are emulating Ed Koch and drive a big jacked up truck and kind of like the Chinese food in Canastota.

Partly cloudy and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 52 degrees.

Nice morning today, ☀ cool but sunny. Very autumn like. 🍂 Running 🏃 a bit late on my morning walk but either I’ll catch the earlier bus 🚍 or not downtown. This hour is a bit better for air quality as there are fewer cars idling around the high school 🚸. I’ll have to take a quick shower 🚿.

I went to the store after work yesterday 🏪 got coffee ☕ and a few other needed supplies. 🥣 I washed my truck. 🛻 I recommend avoiding US 9W and Glenmont Road, especially at night because there are long delays at least at night.

As I was mentioning last night 🖥, I feel like I am running up a bit against a wall trying to figure out how to produce those really nice charts and graphs 📊 in Python and R, but I know it’s powerful technology if I can master it.

Today I need to make some calls about my truck 🛻 or maybe at lunch time catch a bus up to the off road shop to see about ordering the tires and talk to them about the alignment. If I want to do vacation in four weeks it needs to get done, especially ordering the tires. ⚫ I’m not sure I want to be driving 70 mph in rural Pennsylvania with dry rotted tires plus I think by the time I get the new tires put on I’ll be down to the wear bands on all four. Winter is coming, traction isn’t optional. ❄

Good Morning – September 7, 2021

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. ☀

Except for the muzzle, everything is pretty much back to normal for a September day after Labor Day, although I think tomorrow will be the day when the worse of the heavy traffic peaks with the kids back in school tomorrow. 🚗🚐🚕🚗🚑🚚🚛🚓🚗🚌

Mostly sunny ☀ and 58 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 54 degrees.

It seems like everything is oddly normal for this September day, 🍂 except it’s not with the muzzles and still only a single bus om the half hour and no express buses downtown. 🚍 It’s a sunny, deep blue September day, much like September 11th two decades ago when I was a freshman in college 🎓.

Twenty years is a nice round number ✌️ and this cool blue September brings me back to those days in college. There was such a world of possibilities ahead of me, it was a time of change. Maybe I should have explored more options, although I like my current job because I can take the bus to it and it pays well – even if we live in inflationary times and money goes quickly – and I got a nice view of the mountains. 🗻

Been doing a lot of reading 📖 about the R language this weekend, the programming language of statistics analysis. I am not sure if R language is really that much better then Python data science packages but I think it’s good to know both and supposedly R makes better graphics. 📊 Charts and graphics are so important in the era of social media. I installed R studio last night on my laptop 💻 even though I already had R language installed.

I keep seeing ads for data science classes 👩‍🏫 trainings and certifications but my interest in data science primarily is as a hobbyist – to process data and make graphics for my blog and social media – and support my GIS and map making projects. 🗺 That said, I can think of many uses of both R and Python data science for things at work nowadays and it’s a good skill to have – if I practice and use it daily I will get good at in a few years – and if I decide to get some kind of certification in the future – if you a master at it will be an easy thing to do. Plus I can imagine making good charts and manipulating data is a good skill to have, even in a non data science position.

I need to run to the library 📚 tonight and return some books. I don’t think I’ll bring my laptop down there, it’s mostly going to be in and out. I don’t like working inside the library with the required muzzles these days. 😷 I also need to get to the store this week 🛒and I should get my flu shot. 💉 I don’t want to get the flu for sure.

November 17, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Two weeks to December 🎄. Cloudy and 30 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ There is a south-southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear around 5 pm.

This is the middle of November 🦃 so cool and cloudy weather is to be expected. 🌥 Out for my morning walk 🚶🏻, and it’s cool and gray but generally pleasant for the second half of November. A week from today will be the Tuesday before Thanksgiving 🦃. Listening to Simon and Garfunkel’s Cloudy.

Not AN ILLEGAL! At least when it comes to my truck. I got my new registration sticker on my truck 📜 and my truck passed inspection but I have to go back to the shop for the sticker later in the week. Annoying that they haven’t gotten the stickers after the November 3rd rush but they said it would take two minutes to get the inspection finished later in the week but everything looked good. At any rate, it buys me time ⌚. At some point I’ll have to make a decision about the tires and probably the worn struts and the wheel bearing that I think is going although it might just be the wear noise of the tires.

Been doing a lot of research on internet options for January should the pandemic continue along for remote work 💻 from home. I am thinking if I can reduce my data service on my phone 📱 I can cover at least some of the cost. I just don’t think it’s practical to work in my truck from the library when it’s negative 20 out and I don’t want to screw up my good job because I’m so damn stubborn about technology. 🙄My phone plan expires in December, so I could cut down the data plan to save money there. I’ll probably have to reduce my monthly savings goals but I don’t want to kill the golden cow 🐮. At any rate, I would get the most basic and cheapest plan if I had to get it.

Plus it would be a heck of a lot easier than using the USB cable 🔌 to transfer files 📂 between my phone 📲 and the laptop 💻 whenever I need a file between the two. It works but it’s kind of cumbersome to say the least. Plus then I could build smart 🧠 devices using microprocessors to pull data from the internet. On the other hand, I would miss my walks to the library and the park 🏞 to get podcasts and other files.

I am working on a new chart 📊 uploader for the blog that will allow me to directly upload CSV files saved from Open Office or Microsoft Excel and use them as graphs on the blog. That means I can create new graphs directly from my phone or any other computer 🖥 I may be on.

Those Kinzua and Allegheny Reservoir aerial photos 🗺 I’ve been going through are quite interesting, I am going to do some more work on them and eventually post some historical comparisons. 📚 Neat stuff.

Today will have a chance of rain and snow before 10am, then a chance of rain between 10am and 5pm, then a slight chance of rain and snow after 5pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 42 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 29th. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 73 was set in 1928. 2.8 inches of snow fell back in 1992.❄

Today I decided to do the virtual meeting route from the library 💻 rather than go downtown in part because I feel a bit congested in my nose. 👃🏻 I’m sure it’s just allergies now that windows are closed but everybody else will believe it’s the Corona 👾 even though I haven’t been drinking 🍻 at all lately and have been mostly anti-social. 🗣️

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:41 am with sun having an altitude of 28.3° from the due south horizon (-42.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:49 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (237°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (245°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:32 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 13 seconds with dusk around 5:01 pm, which is 50 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (218°) at an altitude of 13° from the horizon, 231,656 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:37 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 39 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 40 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 4 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 23 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 10th. Northwest wind 8 to 10 mph. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of 10 occurred back in 1972.

Tomorrow is going to be bitterly cold ❄. I am not prepared for winter ☃️ but I have to admit that for the morning walk and evening walk 🧣I wore my heavy Carhartt. I will have to leave the heat turned up tonight before bed so things don’t get too cold by mid night.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 53. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 55. Typical average high for the weekend is 46 degrees.

This weekend I will probably stay in town, 🏡 just because next weekend after Thanksgiving I might do a three day Buy Nothing Weekend trip to the Adirondacks. Sure I could probably work remotely from the library on that following in Speculator but the sun sets early this time of year. And I don’t want to drive home from the Adirondacks during the rut in the darkness.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until December 🎄 when the sun will be setting at 4:23 pm with dusk at 4:54 pm. On that day in 2019, we had snow and temperatures between 28 and 17 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 41 degrees. We hit a record high of 67 back in 1934.

Morning At Camp

November 14, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Happy Saturday. Its the weekend in Biden’s ‘merica! No malarkey allowed. Working from home it doesn’t seem like that big of a change but I don’t have to check my work email as much on Saturday. 📧 Next Saturday is Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌. Pow! Pow! Overcast and 39 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 10 pm. ☃️

Had a nice big ol pile of pancakes 🥞 for breakfast, and coffee ☕. Breakfast was good. I’ve been having a lot of eggs and cereal 🥣 lately so pancakes topped with frozen cherries 🍒 is a good change. Lately frozen cherries have been my snack of choice – fairly healthy and they help reduce achiness now that I’m cooped 🐔 up in my apartment with November underway.

Trimmed my hair 💇🏻‍♂️ up again. I like being able to keep my hair a consistent length without the barber 💈and then I can also compost or burn the waste hair. I don’t like when my hair gets too long and curly or gets matted from mud and sweat especially in the woods – and these days working remotely I don’t shower as much. 🚿 Last shower I took was Tuesday. 👃🏻Bathing 🛀 is nice, start to smell after a while.

I survived Friday the 13th in 2020 and both went for a morning and evening walk. Yesterday wasn’t a terrible day but it was cloudy and boring 💤 working from home. I haven’t been on the Wi-Fi since Tuesday so I’m out of podcasts and videos to watch 📺 but I guess that’s a good thing. I’ve been finding and downloading Coronavirus data and using it to make maps 🗺 and charts for the blog.

Been trying to get up and around more to avid getting so stiff and sore from my uncomfortable home work chair. 💺 My neck and back have been feeling a lot better 💪🏻 since I’ve been making stretching activities during the work day more of a priority. At times now I stand at work or kneel on my knees at the desk to improve my posture.

Today will be cloudy ☁️, then gradually becoming sunny 🌞, with a high of 46 degrees at 1pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 20th. Northwest wind 9 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 1973. 14.4 inches of snow fell back in 1972.❄ I heard maybe some snow flurries today but no big snow storms right away.

I am hoping it will clear out soon ⛅ so it’s nice when I walk 🚶🏻 out to Five Rivers 🐦. I know I need to leave relatively early today as it gets dark, early. Plus my battery 🔋 bank is low on the truck so I want it to be topped off before I start my truck on Sunday to go out to the folks house. I haven’t driven anywhere since Monday at this point – which used to be the norm for me most weeks but since the pandemic started I’ve been driving 🚘 down to the library more to work with the Wi-Fi. 🦉

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:41 am with sun having an altitude of 29° from the due south horizon (-41.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:52 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (238°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (246°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:35 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 11 seconds with dusk around 5:03 pm, which is 55 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:39 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 44 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 47 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 10 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 27 degrees at 2am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 30th. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of 14 occurred back in 1939.

Cold but not unreasonable tonight. 🚶🏻 I am sure I’ll probably go for a nice walk late this evening and maybe listen 🎧 to podcasts I downloaded while I’m at the Five Rivers Wi-Fi.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Small Business Saturday 🛍️ when the sun will be setting at 4:24 pm with dusk at 4:55 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 47 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 43 degrees. We hit a record high of 68 back in 1990.

NY 280

August 6, 2020 Night

Good evening! Partly clear and 70 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 58 degrees. 🌃 Another quite pleasant mid summer evening with the crickets 🦗 singing their song. 🎶

Called the forest service today 🌲 to confirm that camping 🏕 was still open after the earlier Coronavirus closure. It is.. Did some packing but the first half of the day I was super groggy for unknown reasons. 😴 Didn’t do the laundry 👚 as I figured do it all on Friday while I work before heading out in the evening. Assuming tomorrow evening isn’t a complete washout.

I discovered I had accidentally deleted the code that allows me to display charts 📊 and history comparisons today but if you hit refresh 🔄 that should be good now. Also uploaded a few other new things. Then it was a busy afternoon at work, getting things lined up before vacation. 🏖 Went to the Town Park and worked on the blog for a bit.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 58 degrees at 3am. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 58 at 9pm. Light north wind. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies. It was sticky. It got down to 69 degrees. The record low of 46 occurred back in 1994.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 88% illuminated. The moon will rise at 10:08 pm. The darkest hour is at 1:02 am, followed by dawn at 5:22 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:54 am in the east-northeast (66°) and last for 3 minutes and 9 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 3 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:33 am with sun in the east-northeast (73°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 45 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 20 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have isolated showers, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 76 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 5th. Maximum dew point of 63 at 6pm. Light and variable wind becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became rain by afternoon. It was very sticky. The high last year was 84 degrees. The record high of 102 was set in 1918.

I started packing this evening and doing some cleaning during the downtime today. 🧹 The beer 🍻 is in the fridge being chilled, I started packing clothes 👖 and the water containers are loaded in the truck. I’ll do the kayak 🛶 and propane tomorrow.

I am thinking of leaving tomorrow after work for Madison County 🐮 but I might not leave until Saturday morning early if Friday night is going to be a real washout. While I’d rather be farther west and break the trip up going out there not if it means camping the first night in the pouring rain. ⛈️ I don’t want to get soaked my first night of camping. Still thinking about the mid state route via NY 13 and Cortland.

Weather looks pretty good for next week 👌based on the at least some forecast models but others show more clouds 🌥 and rain. It’s summer and it’s a crap shoot but if the weather is too bad I’ll just stay in camp and read 📖. Nice thing about the National Forest is you can camp for up to two weeks, no permit needed.

Been drinking a lot more water 🥤 with lemon juice in it. 🍋 Much healthier than all that apple 🍏 juice I’ve been drinking lately. No sugar in it although I’m sure the acid ain’t great for the teeth but I still drink plenty of milk. 🥛Plus a whole lot less plastic trash. ♻

In four weeks on September 3 the sun will be setting in the west (281°) at 7:25 pm,🌄 which is 43 minutes and 17 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny, shallow fog and temperatures between 79 and 55 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 77 and 56 degrees. The record high of 100 degrees was set back in 1953.

Looking ahead, 6:30 Sunrise 🌇 is in 5 weeks, Constitution Day 📜 is in 6 weeks, October 🛥 and Harvest Moon 🌕 is in 8 weeks, Average High is 60 🍂 is in 10 weeks, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 16 weeks, First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 4 months, Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 is in 4 months, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 18 weeks, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 20 weeks, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 21 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 23 weeks, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 25 weeks, Save the Pine Bush Turns 43 🦋 is in 6 months, Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 is in 27 weeks and National Drink Wine Day 🍷 is in 28 weeks.