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Andy Arthur

After getting COVID at the end of 2024 and sleeping through much of the holiday season, 🛌 it's good to be up and back at my game again. It's cold and dark this time of year, 🥶 but I figure focus on learning and working, while counting down the days until Punxsy sees or does not see his shadow. 🐻

Black Mountain Loop

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Black Mountain Loop

Black Mountain is a three mile hike from Pike Brook Road via a snowmobile trail. The snowmobile trail is a nice hike or ski and follows an old woods road to the summit. The summit contains an old firetower this is fenced off for DEC radio equipment, along with a picnic table, outhouse, and old ranger's cabin.

If you take the steeper trail down the mountain you will arrive at Black Mountain Pond with a Lean-To and Outhouse, and loop around to Lapland Pond, an older lean-to and outhouse on the shore of the lake. Trail blaze color underlays the trail routes on the map.

https://andyarthur.org/black-mountain

https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/53165.html

Cold and blustery Tuesday ☃️

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I was on the fence but I decided to do my morning walk and it was worth it. Crisp but with the face mask it’s refreshing.

Good morning, Happy Tuesday. ☀️ I almost thought about riding in this morning but I think with the wind 🍃 and the issue with the brakes I’m going to bus 🚍 it in this morning. It is still early January after all. Plus I have a Save the Pine Bush 🌲 Zoom.

It’s actually not that cold out, the wind is a bit misleading 🌬️ though the full face mask helped as did planning my route so most of the walk I wasn’t directly in the wind. 🚶 Time to shower 🚿 and get ready to catch the bus. Keep hearing an occasional loud clicking noise downstairs though it’s near the fridge but I don’t think it’s the fridge. I’m thinking it’s a mouse 🐁 but I can’t find it.

Been continuing to study slots and signals in Qt6. 🔁Truth is I’m not totally unfamiliar with the concept – I’ve written Qt for nearly a decade on and off in python for QGIS plug-ins but I’ve never really understood the concept fully especially as it applies to the C++ library. 🖥️ I think becoming good at Qt can teach me a lot. Now is the time to learn in the cold and dark of winter. 🌨️

Morning folks

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I was listening to the wind this morning and wasn't going to walk but it's actually quite refreshing out. 

Taken on Tuesday January 7, 2025 at Delmar, New York.