Day: May 19, 2016

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May 19, 2016 Night

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Good evening. Down to 55 degrees although quite a bit warmer inside. Partly cloudy. The spring peepers are singing their song. Watching the PBS Newshour.

I’m going camping tomorrow. I went to the store and bought some groceries. I got all the gear packed that I could tonight. Probably heading up to the Southern Adirondacks tomorrow. Not bringing the kayak with me as I don’t think the weather is going to be that great but it’s still two nights in the wilderness next to the campfire. No rain expected but kind of cloudy. But warm enough to sit by the campfire late into the evening. Probably go hiking on Saturday and or fishing.

It’s getting late.

Sunrise tomorrow at 5:26 AM, for a day that will be sunny and 76. Good night.

May 19, 2016 Evening

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Good evening. 69 degrees and partly clear this evening. Not a particularly notable or nice evening on the weather front. Kind of bleh in my opinion.

Tonight I had to stay late for work and because of that I got caught in the traffic clusterfuck known as the Corporation Challenge. I am pretty sure the main challenge was for the bus drivers to navigate the narrow back roads and for bus riders to walk to relocated bus stops.

I don’t know about the weekend. In the past 24 hours the weekend forecast has slid steadily downhill. I guess I’m going to stay in town. Maybe Memorial Day Weekend will be nicer. At least as we head into summer, the days will be getting warmer.

It’s been a rough week. A very rough one.

May 19, 2016 Morning

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Good morning. Happy Thursday. Today I got to use my CDTA Navigator card. It’s like an EZ-Pass for the bus. It deducts $1.30 from the account you have with CDTA. Like EZ-Pass, it has an auto refill option with a credit card. Seemed to work okay, although I wish the proximity card reader was a bit stronger as the card needs to be right up against the machine to be read.

Cloudy or if your optimist, mostly cloudy this morning. 54 degrees this morning. Looking at 68 degrees with a chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon.  Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and 75 degrees.

One month until Father’s Day. Certainly it will be a lot warmer for dad’s day then mom’s day. The typical high is 79 degrees and dusk holds off until 9:11 pm in Albany.

The Corporation Challenge race is tonight. It’s an excuse for obese state workers to legally tie up traffic. Judge William Carter won’t be able to bitch out David Soares for refusing to prosecute the runners like he did with Occupy Albany when they tied up rush hour traffic downtown. To make matters worse I have to work late tonight, so I’ll end up having to walk a few blocks to make the bus while those runners interrupt the regular routes.

Today in 1780, a combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M. This event, said to be something out of the Bible, became known as New England Dark Day.