Record temperature warning

Chicago set a new record high temperature for February 16th officially at 11:51 when the temperature at O'Hare got up to 15°C (59°F). That was also 4°C warmer than just an hour earlier, and at the moment it's 2°C above the record. By the way, 17°C is the normal temperature in Chicago on April 25th.

Inner Drive Technology World HQ is a lot closer to the lake, but the southwest winds have still pumped the temperature here up to 15.8°C. It was last this warm here on November 15th, 93 days ago.

In other news:

• Matthew Yglesias makes a Presidents Day observation: "Presidential democracy was a mistake."
• Josh Marshall proposes rethinking the Federal holiday schedule to get rid of Presidents Day and Columbus Day in favor of Freedom Day in June and a true Indigenous Peoples Day in the fall.
• Artist Judy Chicago quit the Google HQ project in Chicago after Google management repeatedly made the kinds of decisions that only a mega-corporation suffering from late-stage Peter Principle can make.

I'm sure other things happened over the weekend, but I've got some work to do and I want to make sure Cassie gets as much time outside as we can manage today. Right now she's soaking up the sun on my tiny deck.