October 21, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Overcast and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Calm wind. The dew point is 60 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 3 am.

Definitely a nice mild evening for sitting out back. 💺 I went for my evening walk, 🚶🏻 it was quiet and pleasant. Earlier I walked down to the library 📚 and worked down on the bench there. Other than that I answered most of the emails 📧 and calls from my phone and used the laptop 💻 network card for some random little work things I couldn’t do from my phone.

Still having some issues getting my Post GIS databases 💽 and the mysql databases working now that I’ve upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04. Apparently I had to restore the mysql database from the dump file from before and fully reset the postgresql due to incompatibilities. It’s a good excuse to update to the latest version of the Open Street Map database for New York State. 🗺 I’ll do that tomorrow. Also having some issues with the built in sound card after upgrading although most of the time now I use an external Bluetooth adapter. 🔌

From time to time I’ve been noticing a smokey smell in my apartment midday while working at home. ☁️ I think something electronic is running too hot but I only notice it when I’ve been working for a whilem on my laptop. I doubt it’s the computer 🖥 and I hope it’s not a wiring problem in my apartment but I don’t know. It seems more noticeable when the windows are open. I’ll figure it out eventually.

Tonight will have a slight chance of sprinkles before midnight. Not the kind on your ice cream. 🍦 I did think about getting ice cream at Stewart’s today when I got milk 🥛 but decided it was unnecessary calories and expense. Mostly cloudy ☁️, with a low of 52 degrees at 6am. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 16th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 10pm. Light and variable wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1959.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 33% illuminated. The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Saturday, October 31. The darkest hour is at 12:41 am, followed by dawn at 6:48 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:17 am in the east-southeast (104°) and last for 3 minutes Sunrise is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:56 am with sun in the east-southeast (111°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 14 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 67 degrees at 4pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 29th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 8am. Northwest wind 3 to 5 mph. A year ago, we had mist in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 59 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1979. There was a dusting of snow in 2005.❄

Should be another really nice day. 😎 I’ll have to work out back so I can absorb as much sun rays as possible ☀ in late October. Soon I expect to be working back in the office a lot more so it’s better to enjoy the fall weather while I still can. I’m sure though that the landlord will be around soon – probably Thursday tomorrow – with the leaf blower 🍁 so I might have to go somewhere else to work.

I think I will stay in town this weekend 🏡 because I’m going to be so busy with work and once again, Albany will have the best weather in Upstate NY. 🌦️There talking about rain and clouds in Spectulator and Cazenovia, the two places 200 miles apart I considered going this weekend but sun back in Albany. Go figure.

I keep delaying putting my camping stuff away 🏕 but I’ll probably do it tomorrow. It’s all cleaned up and ready to go back in the crawl space but if I was leaving tomorrow morning I wasn’t going to put it away.

In four weeks on November 18 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (244°) at 4:30 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 33 minutes and 18 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had drizzle showers, cloudy and temperatures between 41 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 47 and 31 degrees. The record high of 71 degrees was set back in 1928.

Looking ahead, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 2 weeks, Veterans Day 🇺🇸 is in 3 weeks, Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 is a month away, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 7 weeks, Tea Party Day 🐍 is in 8 weeks, First Day of Winter ☃️ is in 2 months, Festivus 🍖 is in 9 weeks, Bacon Day 🥓 is in 10 weeks, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 12 weeks, Inauguration Day ✅ is in 13 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 16 weeks and Presidents Day 👴 is in 17 weeks.

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Warner Lake renamed Warners Lake | The Altamont Enterprise

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Warner Lake renamed Warners Lake | The Altamont Enterprise

The Warners Lake Improvement Association was successful in changing the name of Warner Lake, in Berne, to Warners Lake, a change that had to first be approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names, a subsidiary of the U.S. Geological Survey. 

The national board voted to approve the change at its Oct. 8 meeting.

Efforts to change the name officially began in August 2019, when the lake association voted on a resolution to change the name of the lake — named for the Warner family, which first settled the area around the lake in the 18th Century — to reflect colloquial usage.

Change is happening at the highest level of government in 2020 effecting local communities! 

October 21, 2020 Morning

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Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Next Wednesday is Average High is 55 🍂. Mostly cloudy and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 54 degrees. The skies will clear around 11 am.

Should be a really nice day but with the dark and gray morning before the time change, 🌫️ I woke up so groggy and struggled to get going. 😴 I don’t think I’m sick but I’m just kind of worn out about the go go go work schedule, although at least I’m still working remotely. No Zoom Meetings today so I’ll work at home using my phone or laptop. 🤓That said, if it’s really nice out, I might bring my personal laptop down to the library to work and play a bit. 💻

Pancakes 🥞 for breakfast today but it was kind of a working breakfast 🖥️☕ having my coffee while replying to work emails 📧. But it was totally my fault for staying in bed much too late 🛏 before getting started on my day. It’s going to tonight when I’m working at work every day.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 74 degrees at 3pm. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 12th. Maximum dew point of 61 at 12pm. South wind 6 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had mist in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 1979. 0.2 inches of snow fell back in 1926.❄

Tonight is the virtual Pine Bush Dinner 🦋 but the lasagna is never the same and I’m not a big fan of listening 👂🏻 to the program over the phone 📱. I guess I could get internet 💻 at home but so be it. I don’t mind driving 🚘 down to the library and many days I can just work using my phone if things aren’t too data intensive. 📶 And when the weather is nice, camp ⛺ and travel.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:41 pm with sun having an altitude of 36.5° from the due south horizon (-34.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:25 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (249°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (256°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:04 pm after setting for 3 minutes with dusk around 6:31 pm, which is one minute and 31 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (197°) at an altitude of 22° from the horizon, 233,099 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:06 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 72 degrees. The dew point will be 61 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 46 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers between 11pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 55 degrees at 6am. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 8th. Maximum dew point of 61 at 6pm. South wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1959.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 66. Maximum dew point of 57 at 10am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 52. Typical average high for the weekend is 57 degrees.

I am thinking maybe I should take a long weekend out of town 🤔 maybe leaving Thursday morning based on the forecast but I don’t know. I feel like I just was camping. Where to go next? Truth be told if I do head out of town I’ll probably spend more time fielding calls and doing work then having fun out in the woods although I had a good week last weekend.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Day After Election Day 🛀 when the sun will be setting at 4:44 pm with dusk at 5:13 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 51 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994.

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