Events

Today's Illinois State Climatologist report on June's weather confirmed what we expect from strong El Niño events. Generally, higher East Pacific Ocean sea-surface temperatures set up a cool, wet pattern for the northern part of the US and southern Canada. That's what we got last month:

Cassie and I joined two friends (one human, one canine) on a 6.4 km walk this morning, followed by treats. Then this afternoon my trivia team got destroyed by the last question (though at that point there was no mathematical way to win). So it's been a long day, after a long day yesterday that included almost 3 hours of walks with Cassie, the last of which in pouring rain. Yay us.

Started at Spiteful Brewing, Chicago; finished at Begyle Brewing, Chicago

Welcome to stop #141 on the Brews and Choos project.

So, this happened just now:

Welcome to stop #140 on the Brews and Choos project.

Yesterday, the Cubs got a week's worth of runs against the San Diego Padres, the second absolute destruction of an opposing team by Chicago teams in as many weeks:

I've once again released a version of this application, the third in as many days, because the previous two releases didn't quite fix a really irritating problem loading the Edit page. This didn't affect anyone but me, fortunately. But I could only create and edit entries by running the app in my development environment, which I can't really take with me anywhere.

Chief Justice of the US John Roberts (R) must have decided he's OK being second only to Roger Taney in presiding over a Supreme Court not just athwart history, but obviously on the wrong side of it. Taney had Dred Scott and Prigg; Roberts already had Citizens United and Heller, and now has Slaughter and too many others to name.

The National Weather Service issued a rare Extreme Heat Warning for Chicago this morning: