Events

Georg Frederic Händel, Messiah

The delightful late-autumn weather continued this afternoon, giving Cassie one of the best days in her memory. Kelsey's mom decided to come up to the Montose dog beach right before noon, so both she and Cassie got some time in the lake:

Whoo, boy, Canada's time zones are going to be a mess. Now that the western provinces have voted to stay on permanent daylight saving time, it seems Quebec plans to stay on permanent (or maybe permanent DST, we don't know), which will either begin on Sunday or in March. Seriously, we've been through this before, but OK, dumb people gotta FAFO.

I pushed a bug fix to this application yesterday afternoon. The deployment included an update to Blazorise, so if things look weird, just hit <Ctrl>-<F5> to refresh the page.

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I have cast my ballot for next week's general election, which took less than two hours including reading up on the candidates I didn't already know, walking to the polling place, and pushing all the buttons. Living in bright blue Chicago, the only really difficult votes were for school board. In my district, my choices were (a) the corporate-backed candidate with kids in private school, which is absolutely disqualifying for public school board in my opinion; (b) the Chicago Teacher's Union candidate who...

As threatened promised, here are a couple of photos from the weekend. First, sunrise yesterday:

Cassie and I recorded 19.73 km (12.3 mi) of walks over 4.67 hours this past weekend (thanks, Garmin!). This was only part of me getting 131,451 steps and 109.9 km (68.3 mi) of my own last week. That's a lot of steps.

The Daily Parker patch release is (probably) ready for deployment to Production, but I'm going to let it stew in the dev/test environment for a few hours. This is mainly because it's 21°C on the last Sunday in October (shout out to everyone else in the world who changed their clocks today!), so Cassie and I want to go to the dog park. The dev/test environment isn't the only thing that's cooking: I have a batch of pasta sauce in the slow cooker.