Events

I'm working from home today because I had a cable guy here for two hours, and because winter has finally arrived. The rain and sleet is also a problem because my Fitbit numbers have been off for four straight days. I did get a lot of sleep this past weekend—but that also could be a factor today, according to new research into weekend lie-ins. (tl;dr: sleeping in on Sunday makes it harder to wake up on Monday.) I'll have more later today. Now I have to figure out how to get a custom Microsoft Dynamics...

It turns out, my Fitbit doesn't make me sad, but the numbers I get when traveling sometimes do. Despite a 3.5 km walk around Springfield yesterday, it was the second day in a row and the 4th in 10 days for which I missed my 10,000-step, 10 km goal. On the other hand, last night I got almost 9 hours of sleep (according to my Fitbit), through several trains and a thunderstorm. Yes, there was a thunderstorm in December in central Illinois. That's just weird. And in future, probably a lot more common.

It turns out, our neighbor to the west has a better-looking capitol building than we do. I mean, gilded roof? On a hill? We have none of these things. But we also don't have Steve King, which makes up for it and then some. That's from October 2004. I've tried to correct what the original camera did to it, but it only provided so much data.

Apparently we have two. The old one: And the new one: And as a bonus, here's a squirrel: