“Monday mornin’ feels so bad
Ev’rybody seems to nag me
Comin’ Tuesday I feel better
Even my old man looks good
Wed’sday just don’t go
Thursday goes too slow
I’ve got Friday on my mind”

Good Monday evening! Going home time. Drive safely. No, the weekend isn’t here yet. Nor is summer. Partly clear and 51 degrees in City of Albany. There is a south-southwest breeze at 11 mph. Those shadows from the buildings are hanging low overhead. I do like that evening sun. It will be nice when the time changes a week from Sunday. Tomorrow is final day of February 2017, in Trump’s America. 

The sun will set at 5:43 pm with dusk around 6:11 pm, which is 1 minutes and 15 seconds later than yesterday. At sunset, look for partly clear conditions and 47 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 11 mph.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low of 35 degrees at 1am. 14 degrees above normal. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light southeast after midnight. In 2016, it got down to 32 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1950.

Waxing Crescent Moon tonight with 12% illuminated. The moon will set around 8:53 pm. The First Quarter Moon is on Sunday night with mostly cloudy expected. The Full “Worm” Moon is on Sunday, March 12th. The sun will rise at 6:31 am with the first light at 6:03 am, which is 1 minutes and 36 seconds earlier then yesterday. Tonight will have 12 hours and 47 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers before 7am, then a slight chance of rain showers after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high of 54 degrees at 2pm. 18 degrees above normal. Southeast wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies and a high of 57 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1903. 9.7 inches of snow fell back in 1948.

I thought it was a pretty good day for a Monday. Not too crazy, the calm before the storm. Things that needed to get underway happened and got the information I need to set up a dental appointment. I hope to get my teeth checked out in the next few weeks. I need to find out how much damage has occurred by deferred maintenance, because honestly I’ve not been to the dentist in a decade and a half because I didn’t have dental insurance for a while and it’s generally not a pleasant experience for me. I drink a lot of milk and a eat shit ton of vegetables so hopefully they won’t be that bad. I don’t eat that many cookies or sweets except at parties and when camping. 

All together I am feeling better today. That ear ache went away last night by morning. A little achy this afternoon, so I might be coming down with a cold. It’s the damn weather of recent. 

A nice weekend coming up with seasonable temperatures. Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 32. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 47. Typical average high for the weekend is 40 degrees. I know that seems cold compared to recent days, but it’s still the first weekend of March. And I like sunny weather after all the cloudy crap of late. 

My new wallet works well with the bus RFD card but I find even just storing my hunting and fishing license in the center fold blocks it from operating. Those businesses card readers aren’t very sensitive. I guess it prevents accidental reads. 

In four weeks on March 27 the sun will be setting at 7:16 pm (Daylight Savings Time), which is 1 hour and 33 minutes later then today. In 2016 on that day, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 58 and 40 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 49 and 30 degrees. The record high of 78 degrees was set back in 1998.

Looking ahead, Patriots Day is in 7 weeks, May Day is in 9 weeks and Memorial Day is in 13 weeks.

Enjoy today’s beautiful weather, as it’s not going to last. Much cooler, early March weather is expected come for second half of the week, once we get past the rainy but mild first day of March on March 1st. Sunset keeps getting later, as in a week from Sunday, we will be setting the clocks ahead an hour,

This morning in Albany, we are up 39 degrees under fairly sunny skies and nice weather conditions. There is a southwest breeze at 10 mph with gusts up to 21 mph. Looking at 56 degrees later, which ain’t bad for February. 18 degrees above normal. West wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. A year ago, we had snow and a high of 39 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1997. 3.6 inches of snow fell back in 2013. Winters aren’t as cold as they once were. That said, we are going to have a big cool down later in the week (scroll down on the blog to see the new interactive graph that gives you all the details). Less sun by mid-week.

The bus I am taking downtown smelled like burning brakes, but it made it downtown without a fire or the brakes failing. I still think the brakes are dragging a bit on the bus. It’s one of CDTA’s oldest Bus Rapid Transit-style Gillig Hybrids, I think they bought as a pilot bus for testing prior to introdocuing Bus Plus.

The sun will set at 5:43 pm with dusk around 6:11 pm, which is 1 minutes and 15 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 11 hours and 11 minutes of daylight, an increase of 1 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low of 34 degrees at 1am. 13 degrees above normal. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. In 2016, it got down to 32 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1950.

While right now I’m running the old method of sharing blog posts, I did fix the broken new method, which only was broke because I forgot to comment out the save_posts action in WordPress, causing many draft posts to be accidentally shared.

Still hoping to get the car wash today after work, assuming the weather remains decent. I don’t want leave the mud and salt on the truck, and hopefully the issues they were having at the car wash will be resolved come this evening. I wish we had more light in the evening, although that will change a week from Sunday, when the time changes. 13 days until the time change, for those keeping track of such things.

March 1st is Wednesday. Before you know it will be camping season. After disconnecting the solar conntroller, which I rarely use, the accessory battery is charging and holding it’s charge much better. That said, once the battery protection relay is installed, I will probably replace the battery so I have maximum charge for the summer.

Thirteen weeks from now will be Memorial Day. I know I can’t wait for the warmer temperatures this summer. I shouldn’t be as busy, so I hope to take more road trips this summer and into the fall. It will be nice to go back to the summer and spent some serious time at the poolside at Watkins Glen, and enjoy nice long evenings next to campfire, listening the soft mooing of cows in the distance at Finger Lakes National Forest. Plus many good trips to the Adirondacks.

Not sure what my plans are for Memorial Day Weekend; I might go to Vermont or maybe the Adirondacks. Moose River Plains to be a rather muddy mess during Memorial Day Weekend, and not all of the roads are open, so I may avoid that. I don’t think I will go to North-South Lake either — that place is a zoo on Memorial Day Weekend, and honestly, I don’t like being that close to other campers and the lake is less fun to paddle then you might think being a reservior with a very rocky bottom.

As previously noted, there are 7 weeks until Patriots Day when the sun will be setting at 7:40 pm with dusk at 8:09 pm (Daylight Savings Time). Almost spring time at that point — especially in city — if we have mild temperatures in April. On that day in 2016, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 76 and 36 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 59 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 2002.