Just thinking about using flag icons to show "pride in your country" has me realizing that with our current government, that's not really true at the moment.

@th3j35t3r - any chance of getting a Cascadia "Doug Flag"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_flag#/media/File:Flag_of_Cascadia.svg

(Cascadia is the pseudo-independence movement for the Pacific Northwest, covering Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia - sometimes including parts of Idaho, Montana, Alaska, rarer sometimes bits of CA, YT, WY, NV.)

Worked from bed for the first few hours this morning. (East Coast sales guy called me in a panic at 6:30 AM my time "quick! <thing> needs to be ready by 10 AM!" (His time.)

Fine... Went to office in PJs, started task, realized it would take a while, so brought laptop back to bed. Cats joined.

Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway's daughter (who broke the news that Kellyanne had COVID) is now claiming that Trump is *NOT* doing better, that he is in fact "doing badly."

https://twitter.com/FilmCritHULK/status/1313241498859696129

Someone online commented that the White House is responsible for more new COVID-19 infections today than....

The entire country of Australia.

I shouldn't have laughed at this....

Um, yeah.... I'll pass....

Somebody’s being adorable. #CatsOfCoSo

*sigh* - the smoke has returned. Not *NEARLY* as bad - the sky is still mostly blue - but it definitely smells like smoke outside.

Apparently I live in an "anarchist jurisdiction" now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am not implying that this was a right-wing attack on #BLM. Nor am I implying this was a left-wing attack on right-wing anti-BLM protests. I have no idea. Just know that Rochester has had BLM protests. This could be a completely unrelated gathering.

News is light, but 13 shot, at least 2 fatal. At "gathering of hundreds of people". Multiple news sources don't say what kind of gathering, but there have been #BlackLivesMatter protests in Rochester.

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/09/at-least-12-people-shot-in-rochester-new-york-mass-shooting/

An earthquake in California and a mass shooting at some kind of "mass gathering" in New York.

Fuck all of 2020, but fuck this specific 24 hour span in particular.

So shall it be.

It's game night. I usually have a beer, sometimes two, during game night.

Should tonight be:

The sky is blue (and doesn’t smell heavily of smoke) for the first time in two weeks. I got all of five minutes feeling good about that…

The sun itself is still less-than-impressive. But it is too bright to look directly at. Unlike even yesterday.

THERE’S A SUNBEAM ON THE FLOOR!

I need a nap.

The August Complex Fire in California almost completely covers the area of Rhode Island:

Compare sizes of fires to your hometown: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/map-compare-west-coast-wildfires-2020-n1240011