It’s not going to discourage me from riding in. I’ve been looking through my phone and noticing how much I’ve been saving on bus fares by riding in – not as much since the time change – but still riding in one direction saves and it’s good exercise. Truth be told though I end up spending more though when I end up stopping to buy groceries mid week on my commute but I guess it’s important to have healthy eats.

Good morning! Snow flurries and 28 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ There is a north breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at around noontime.

Figure ride to work today 🚲 as time is limited. Not much time left in the year or daylight left to do this, especially as I move to that new office 🏢. I’m treasuring that view of the Capitol and the Hudson River as I know soon I’ll be forgoing it for the suburbs but admittedly better pay, more responsibility and a better sounding job title for experience and the future resume building. 📄 Plus it’s a way to use my skills better 👨‍💻 and expand my knowledge.

Noteworthy, 25 days remain until the end of the year. 🗓 I hope you’ve worked to maximize this year to the best of your ability. ⛺ Hoping to get at least one more adventure out in the wilderness maybe two before the end of the year. 🎄 Maybe Madison County in the days leading up to Christmas, but it all depends on how much snow and cold they have. Rensslaerville State Forest is another easy option, though I’d rather to NYE there.

After feeling kind of sick after work 🤮 yesterday evening and cleaning up after changing my pants 👖 💩, feeling better this morning. Too much stevia and cranberries yesterday with the oatmeal for breakfast followed by rice and lentils I guess or maybe I should have cooked the kale better. I have a lot of trouble with cooked oatmeal though fried or baked with bananas or eggs I’m good. I don’t know, I got washed up and showered and it was fine. 🚿 It’s like the pissing and farting problem, a matter of tweaking what I eat 🍽 to meet nutrition goals 🥅 while not destroying my digestive tract in the process.

I think a lot of the problem lately as I’ve gotten out of the habit of soaking lentils overnight 🥘 before cooking them, though I do wash them. I heard that can make them easier to digest. 🤰 Plus I am trying to drink more water with meals, eat slower, and mix things up. I want to include lots of fiber and protein in most meals, but I need to be careful about how many beans and alike I use for cooking. 👩‍🍳 I don’t have as many problems digesting the pea soup, when I make sure to add water and lots of balmastic vinger and not eat too much.

It was probably better to miss the talk by Miko Peled, Israeli-American human rights activist, as he’s really controversial and I didn’t want to go to the event and get caught on TV 📺 by the news 📰 attending it. The thing is if I’m interested in such alternative perspectives I can always watch on my phone 📱. I really try to stay away from controversy today, especially outside of the blog. Nothing in this world is quite as third rail 🚈 dangerous ⚡ as the Isreal 🇮🇱🇵🇸 conflict. Best to keep opinions to yourself. Not that I don’t know what really to believe which is why I kind of wanted to see controversial Miko Peled. Just to hear another view. 🎤 👤

Today will have snow showers. Mostly cloudy 🌨️, with a high of 33 degrees at 1pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around January 5th. North wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light rain. The high last year was 54 degrees. Going to likely be that warm come Saturday. The record high of 68 was set in 2001. 12.5 inches of snow fell back in 2003.❄

I was in bed 🛌 by around 7 PM last night, though I did more study of the Udemy course. 📱 Continuing to learn more about machine learning. 🤖 Woke up around 5 AM and started out with a cold glass of water with some apple cider vinger and ginger. Then frying sweet onions, peppers, adding stir-fry vegetables, mushrooms and corn. 👨‍🍳 Then turmeric, red peppers, two eggs scrambled, some corn starch and topped with nutritional yeast. 😋 A delicious meal complemented by coffee with skim milk, cinamon and ginger. ☕ Yum. Power to ride to work and make it through the day.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:47 am with sun having an altitude of 24.9° from the due south horizon (-45.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:38 pm with the sun in the southwest (232°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (240°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:23 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 22 seconds with dusk around 4:53 pm, which is 8 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:30 pm. At sunset, look for snow 🌨 and temperatures around 31 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 7 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 13 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 3 seconds over today.

Spent too much time yesterday trying to figure out what was wrong 😕 with the maps and graphs of landfills vs social deprivation. I realized that the issue was I should be comparing against state-wide numbers and as such have made up graphs and maps of income and race. I will have to revise the Messer deprivation maps later on when I have time. 🗺 At any rate, it’s been an interesting thought and coding experiment. 🤔 Also I am continuing on with my machine learning class, as its gotten further along and more technical, most of the stuff I’m learning is totally new to me.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌫️, with a low of 20 degrees at 3am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 25th. Maximum wind chill around 13 at 3am; North wind 6 to 8 mph. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of -7 occurred back in 1901.

Been enjoying grapefruit for breakfast or as a snack. 🍊 I never thought I’d like grapefruit as I thought they were awful as a child. But at first I was kind of mixed on it, then learning that my mom can no longer have grapefruit being on statins, I learned to treasure the fruit even more. I should enjoy it, as there might come a time I won’t be able to enjoy it. Healthy to boot. Grapefruit and statins is an interesting topic, the chemical interaction is fascinating. The good news is unless you are on certain statins like Liptour for high blood pressure, grapefruit is healthy and delicious.

Continuing to look at houses and land on Zillow. The thing I find so frustrating is there isn’t a lot of tiny houses with a lot of land — everybody seems to be listing the big house in the suburbs. 🏘 I’d like less then 1,000 feet with lots of acres, to have fires 🔥 and have pigs 🐷 or other livestock. I guess there just isn’t as much rural property out there, but it is fun to browse and see what is out there. I’m not serious, I’m just browsing. 🚜

Today in 1902, a coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.🚂 And in 1953, Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita. 📙 More uplifting is Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States in 1967. ♥

Mild this weekend but rather gray.☁️ Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 48. Sunday, a chance of rain after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Remember it’s mid December. Typical average high for the weekend is 40 degrees.