Events

This weekend will be the first big push for packing, today being just 10 days from Cassie's nightmare. The goal this weekend will be to pull out everything I'm giving to charity (mostly from the kitchen) and make a big dent on all the books going into storage. I still have to live here, though.

University of Illinois at Chicago architecture professor Stewart Hicks had a cool video yesterday showing how house design influenced TV, until the relationship flipped in the early 1970s:

The vaccine-induced immune reaction from my Shingrix jab on Tuesday kept me from getting a decent sleep last night, again. My Garmin device even warned me that I apparently had a mild fever, with my skin temperature almost 1°C above normal. Fortunately I feel better now than I did even 12 hours ago, so I expect all this will pass by tomorrow.

I want to start with Anne Applebaum's complete takedown of right-wingers who say Victor Orbán accepting defeat "proves" he wasn't an autocrat:

I had a 10-minute appointment at my doctor's office yesterday to get my second shingles jab and a follow-up blood test to see how atorvastatin is working for me. It took until this morning for me to get all the data about how those things have affected me.

The premiers of Alberta and the Northwest Territories have announced in the last two days that they're done changing clocks:

The OAFPOTUS's unprecedented corruption has self-evidently made life worse for almost everyone in the world (except, notably, the Chinese), and his neck-deep involvement with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) president Gianni Infantino, a man almost as corrupt as he, has made the upcoming World Cup worse, too:

Apollo After Hours was last night, so today has been unusually slow for me. I got one of my couches sorted when a friend came to collect it this afternoon, which frees up space in my library for packing. Only 16 days left...better get started.