Events

The remnants of Hurricane Polo made it to Chicago yesterday, so we've had nearly non-stop rain for 30 hours or so. I did manage to give Cassie a couple of modest walks this morning, but then I got sucked into a project that I am just coming out of.

We have 34 days until the 2026 midterm elections in the US, and whoo boy is it shaping up to be historic.

The weather forecast predicts I won't see a sunrise like this until next weekend, so I enjoyed it this morning:

I had a lot going on this weekend and didn't have time to offload my phone's photos until this morning. Here are three.

As of last night, both Chicago teams have made it to the post-season as wild cards. The Cubs and Sox both got to 2nd place in their divisions with just enough of a lead over the 3rd place teams to sneak into the wild card race. So while the White Sox and Cubs were fighting for second place, the entire AL West are below .500, meaning we will have a division winner this year with a losing record.

This morning, I woke up to this:

Includes:

I released a version of the Inner Drive Journal (the software running The Daily Parker) on Wednesday evening and immediately found some usability issues that I spent yesterday fixing. As I'm not in the habit of releasing software right before going to bed, for the same reason I try not to release software at 5pm on a Friday before leaving the country, I pushed the bits this morning.