Even more ridiculously warm weather

Last night's low temperature at Hanscom Field was the 65F reading at 9:51PM. Odds are pretty good we'll be breaking records today - and that's with partly to mostly cloudy skies.

ObWTF: WTF?

"Beyond the Brink"

This isn't specifically about COVID-19, but it's a scary story nonetheless. From the front page of today's Boston Globe, Mass. hospital emergency departments are beyond the brink:
( It's not like we are on the brink. It's like we are past the brink )

Yikes. Hospitals over 85% capacity can't get people out of the ER within four hours. Massachusetts hospitals are currently at 94% capacity.

And waiting for what's about to be a lame-duck Baker administration to do a damn thing is basically a recipe for waiting until the new Governor is sworn in.

Join the Federation?

I am still trying to figure out this whole Mastodon thing, as Elon Musk is apparently bound and determined to wreck Twitter for reasons of ego, and it would be really nice to still have working social media.

For the moment, I've got a shiny new account at @edschweppe@masto.ai - which, if I understand things correctly, is the magical string one pastes into the search box on a federated server running Mastodon in order to "follow" said shiny new account.