🐸 First spring peepers of 2018! 🐸

Broke down and bought a $18 transistor radio today. Probably a good thing to catch the news every once a while.

Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 48 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Every day this week I’ve been catching an earlier bus home.🚍 I’m driving to work tomorrow with a box of five hour, so I read what you want into that. Albany is an insane or maybe an asinine place full of coyotes. You can quote me on that.

The sun will set at 7:17 pm with dusk around 7:45 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and46 degrees. There will be a calm wind.

Tonight will have patchy fog before 1am, then patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 37 degrees at 5am. Six degrees above normal. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2017, we had light rain and mist in the evening, remaining overcast into the early morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 0 occurred back in 1923.

The heat is off in my apartment, hopefully for the year and I decided to the cooler but less comfortable poplin and narrow brown tie look for work.👔Not the most comfortable shirt, I’ll probably go back to Oxford cotton tomorrow. Maybe that pink one if it’s not too wrinkled.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 93% illuminated. The moon will set at 5:58 am. The Blue Moon 🌕 is on Friday night. The sun will rise at 6:42 am with the first light at 6:14 am, which is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 11 hours and 23 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be scattered showers between 9am and 1pm, then a chance of rain after 1pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy ☔ , with a high of 52 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees above normal. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 85 was set in 1946. 5.6 inches of snow fell back in 1984.❄

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 55. Sunday, a chance of rain and snow showers before 11am, then a chance of rain showers between 11am and 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 41. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 51 degrees.

In four weeks on April 25 the sun will be setting at 7:49 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 53 seconds later then today. In 2017 on that day, we had rain, mist, cloudy skies and temperatures between 56 and 45 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 63 and 41 degrees. The record high of 89 degrees was set back in 2009.

Today the AliExpress sale starts. For the most part it’s only a few pennies off each electronic components, but every little bit helps. 🔬 Ordered a few things to finish building out my electronics kit, like some 555 timers and more LEDs, as I never got the big box I ordered a month and a half ago.:idea: I want to make signs, and I need lots of LEDs for those purposes. But other then that, I’ve been pretty happy with AliExpress. The components arrive, they seem to mostly be up to spec and working, and are much cheaper then Amazon or eBays. Will they last forever? Maybe not, but I should be able to repair and replace things that fail.

While I was on AliExpress I found this great little transistor radio that had great reviews on YouTube, and was under $20 shipped from America. My current smartphone has a radio chip built in, but it only works with the headphones and not over the Bluetooth to my Bluetooth speaker.📟 This transistor radio I bought is pocket sized but has a built-in speaker and headphone jack and a key pad for typing in the radio stations, along with believe it or not an SD card slot for recording radio stations. But the big selling point for me is it has a Micro USB port for charging, so I can charge it easily at home or at camp. No need to pull the batteries out for charging. Doesn’t have Bluetooth but the built-in speaker is supposedly pretty good, at least for listening to the news.

Finished my taxes yesterday. I usually don’t procrastinate so long as it puts you are risk of identity theft, but I’ve been busy. My income sources were less this year than last, so it made the filing a bit less. 👷Took in somewhat more on the investments and somewhat less on payroll. Most of the investment income is dividends which I pay tax on even though I reinvest them and don’t take them.💹 This year will be better I hope.

I owed the state $400 but I’m getting a $500 refund from the feds. 🤑I end up owning money because I don’t pay taxes upfront on a quarterly basis on my dividends and interest. That’s fine. I’d rather have the government give me a loan rather than me loaning the government money. I wonder if Cuomo will use my $400 bucks to buy himself a turkey gun. Spring turkey only about a month away.🦃 You can quote me on that.

Clipped away at the Spider Plant in my office which had gotten a little out of control with all the baby spiders it was kicking up. 🌾It had gotten so long, it was regularly getting tangled up in the coat hanger and I kept knocking it over. It had grown to the point where it was on the floor. So I trimmed it way back. I took the baby spiders I cut off home, I might do another basket of plant or maybe not. If not, I’ll compost them.

Looking ahead, Average High is 60 🌼 is in 3 weeks, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 7 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 2 months, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 14 weeks, Halloween 🛥 is in 31 weeks, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 32 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 39 weeks and Inauguration day 2021 👴🏻 is in 147 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 57 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Did you find a directing sign on the straight and narrow highway?
Would you mind a reflecting sign?
Just let it shine within your mind
And show you the colors that are real.

It’s very bad idea to enter any command that involves sudo and wget. 💻

Saturday will be by far the best weather of the long weekend, with lots of sun and fairly warm. Rain showers both on Good Friday and Easter, and much cooler come Easter.

Holiday Weekend Summary
Good Friday.	Scattered Showers 🌦and	56 degrees	,	7:19 sunset.
Friday Night.	Partly Cloudy ⛅and	32 degrees	,	6:37 sunrise.
Saturday.	Mostly Sunny ☀and	55 degrees	,	7:20 sunset.
Saturday Night.	Chance of Showers then Chance of Rain/Snow 🌦and	35 degrees	,	6:36 sunrise.
Easter Sunday.	Chance of Rain/Snow then Chance of Showers 🌦and	41 degrees	,	7:22 sunset.
Sunday Night.	Partly Cloudy ⛅and	25 degrees	,	6:34 sunrise.