September 9, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Mostly clear and 71 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 64 degrees.

I went over to John Wolcott’s house 🏡 for a while and continued looking at his files 📂. Nothing really exciting was found this time, a few letters ✉ from the Fort Orange Dig ⛏️but nothing really substantial. Some days we find gold 🥇 and other days just a lot of Dutch documents that are hard to read 📖 at least for me. Sometimes the old maps are quite interesting though.

I did a Zoom Meeting down in the park 🏞 under a tree and it made a good background and was a very nice place to work. 💻 I will have to keep this in mind for the future 🔌 although I have to make sure that the laptop is charged first as there is no place to plug in.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌃, with a low of 64 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 10pm. South wind 3 to 5 mph. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 34 occurred back in 1978.

Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon with 52% illuminated. The moon will rise at 11:08 pm. The Harvest 🌽 Moon is on Thursday, September 24. The darkest hour is at 12:54 am, followed by dawn at 6:02 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:30 am in the east (82°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:07 am with sun in the east (89°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 15 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 80 degrees at 4pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 23rd. Maximum dew point of 68 at 11am. South wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 77 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1931.

In four weeks on October 7 the sun will be setting in the west (263°) at 6:26 pm,🌄 which is 49 minutes and 25 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 67 and 55 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 63 and 43 degrees. The record high of 89 degrees was set back in 1963.

I ordered a new battery 🔋 for my personal laptop as it’s not holding charge well. Replacing the battery shouldn’t be hard, I actually pulled the battery a while back when I installed the SSD drive into it last winter. Or was that two years ago? I don’t know but I don’t expect any issues installing it and then hopefully my personal laptop won’t go dead so often. 💻

Looking ahead, Average High is 55 🍂 is in 7 weeks, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 8 weeks, Veterans Day 🇺🇸 is in 9 weeks, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 3 months, Tea Party Day 🐍 is in 14 weeks, Festivus 🍖 is in 15 weeks, Bacon Day 🥓 is in 16 weeks, Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 is in 4 months, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 18 weeks, Inauguration Day ✅ is in 19 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 22 weeks and Presidents Day 👴 is in 23 weeks.

Reeds Pond

Remembering Attica

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Remembering Attica

On the eve of what would become the US’s�most famous prison uprising, the inmates of Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York endured�deplorable�conditions. Their infections went untreated, their teeth fell out due to negligible dental care — they even lacked adequate access to soap and toilet paper.

On September 9, 1971, these pent-up�grievances simmered over when roughly�1,300 inmates took over the prison. For four days they were effectively in charge. They made demands on�the state (better medical care, fewer limits on their�freedom of expression, immunity from prosecution for rebelling), negotiated with mediators brought in at their behest (including, briefly, Black Panther leader Bobby Seale), and generally asserted their worth as�human beings.

But whatever the prisoners�gained in those few days was quickly pulverized�by the brute force of the state. Seeking dignity, they instead unleashed the wrath of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller.