September 23, 2015 evening

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55 degrees tonight and clear with a Waxing Gibbous Moon. The bright moon is making it easy to walk in darkness but hard to see most of the fainter stars. Moon sets at 1:30 AM and between then and 5:09 AM is your best chance to see the stars. After that dawns first light will reduce visibility. Sunrise tomorrow at 6:44 AM. Low of 44.

Tomorrow’s forecast is about the same as today, with a high around 76 and sunny. Another nice fall day. Somewhat more seasonable and cooler for Friday and the weekend but continued sun with a few more clouds.

Tonight I went to the car wash and cleaned off the mud from my truck, especially focusing on the underbody and lower panels. My goal isn’t so much to make the truck pretty but retard rust and damage caused by accumulated mud and dust. I didn’t polish it or do anything fancy, just got as much mud and dust off it as possible. Because of my ankle hadn’t done this in a while; it was badly needed. Once salt season is upon us, I’ll do this weekly. Ten minutes in the car wash is only $6. At 7 PM on a Wednesday there was no wait at the big car wash bay to clean up my big jacked up truck.

Also picked up some groceries and went for the evening walk. This has to be the first time I did the entire walk with no pain at all. That certainly made me happy. At Tractor Supply bought another hat as I can’t find my other one. They didn’t have winter jackets yet – I need to get another Carhartt winter coat as my old one has a broken zipper and is failing apart.

September 23, 2015 afternoon

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78 degrees and sunny as the evening shadows cast over the autumn afternoon. We won’t get this warm again for a while, but it will still be above normal by 4 or 5 degrees and remain sunny. 6:51 PM sunset, a loss of two minutes daylight over yesterday. Not much of a sign of the trees turning at this point.

Drive time traffic as usual heading out of the city, which means gridlock with congestion and rush hour traffic. Relax time, as no more work for the day. Put on some music and let the traffic float by you. You can’t control traffic but you can control your attitude.

I need to go grocery shopping this evening, and will probably give my truck the long needed car wash. It will be dark out before you know it but so be it.