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2024

2024.11.05 United States General Election
2024.10.09 Hurricane Milton makes landfall near Tampa Bay, Florida.
2024.09.26 Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Florida.
2024.07.21 Biden withdraws from 2024 presidential election and endorses Kamala Harris.
2024.07.13 Assassin shoots at candidate Donald Trump during Pennsylvania campaign rally.
2024.07.02 Supreme Court rules that former President Trump is above the law.

2024.06.06 I am jolted by an earthquake.
2024.05.30 Former President of the United States Donald J. Trump is convicted on 34 felony counts.
2024.04.08 Great North American Eclipse crosses North America.
2024.03.26 Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses due to container ship collision.
2024.03.05 California Primary Election
2024.02.04 Atmospheric river drenches Southern California.
2024.01.31 I test positive for Covid for the first time.

2023

2023.12.07 Orange County Health Care Agency stops publishing daily Covid testing data.
2023.11.07 Historic air hangars in Tustin, CA catch fire.
2023.10.07 Hamas launches surprise attack against Israel from Gaza Strip.
2023.10.03 House of Representatives votes to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker.
2023.08.23 Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead in suspicious plane crash in Russia.
2023.08.20 Tropical Storm Hilary reaches Southern California.
2023.08.08 Wildfires in Maui raze the town of Lāhainā.
2023.07.12 COVID finally catches Bob Wachter and nearly kills him.
2023.07.09 Intense rains lead to historic flooding across northeast United States.
2023.06.23 Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leads army toward Moscow.
2023.06.09 Former U.S. President Donald Trump indicted for mishandling classified documents.
2023.06.06 Smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets major cities.
2023.04.22 The Fantasmic dragon, Murphy, catches fire at Disneyland.
2023.04.18 Fox News settles defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million. A week later, they shitcan Tucker Carlson.
2023.03.21 Shohei Ohtani strikes out Mike Trout to win World Baseball Classic for Japan.
2023.03.09 There is a run on Silicon Valley Bank. (I would learn that SVB is my company's bank the next day.)
2023.02.28 California COVID state of emergency ends.
2023.02.06 7.8 earthquake strikes Turkey and Syria.
2023.01.22 Lunar New Year 2023. Also day I happen to complete Advent of Code 2022.
2023.01.13 Area CEO bricks several Twitter clients, including the one I've used for years.

2022

2022.12.30 CDC warns about new COVID Omicron variant XBB 1.5.
2022.12.26 I solve the final puzzle of the 2022 Advent of Code. (Still a few to do.)
2022.12.01 2022 Advent of Code begins. Let the memes fly!
2022.11.30 OpenAI releases ChatGPT.
2022.11.11 FTX files for bankruptcy, CEO resigns. Bizarre fortune cookies suddenly make sense.
2022.11.08 Democrats perform better than expected in 2022 General Election.
2022.10.30 I drop my vote-by-mail ballot for the 2022 General Election in my local drop box.
2022.10.20 Head of lettuce outlasts Liz Truss, who resigns as Prime Minister of Britain.
2022.09.09 Tropical Storm Kay ends Southern California heat wave.
2022.08.30 Intense heat wave hits California.
2022.08.09 I am granted DALL·E access.
2022.07.21 President Biden tests positive for COVID. He recovers without being helicoptered to Walter Reed.
2022.07.11 I complete the New York Times crossword 365 days in a row.
2022.07.03 Bob Wachter explains implications of spreading COVID BA.5 variant.
2022.06.26 I sign up for Open AI playground to play with GPT-3.
2022.06.24 Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade. Heather Cox Richardson puts the decision in context.
2022.06.21 I start a new job.
2022.06.08 I break down the COVID waves in Orange County, CA.
2022.05.24 Shooter kills 21 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX.
2022.05.20 While the second Omicron surge grows, media and epidemiologists getting worried about monkeypox outbreak.
2022.05.02 Leaked Supreme Court decision foretells Roe v Wade being overturned.
2022.03.07 I update my OC COVID immunity projections.
2022.02.23 Russia invades Ukraine.
2022.02.13 Los Angeles Rams win Super Bowl LVI.
2022.02.08 Eric Feigl-Ding warns about Omicron 2.0.
2022.01.15 Hunga Tonga volcano erupts.
2022.01.13 Stack Overflow announces that it is sunsetting Jobs and Developer Story.

2021

2021.12.17 I receive my booster shot at Walgreen's.
2021.12.14 Storm drops about an inch and half of rain here in Orange County.
2021.11.25 Omicron COVID-19 variant makes headlines.
2021.11.24 Strong Santa Ana winds drops a heavy tree branch on our roof.
2021.10.24 Bomb cyclone drenches Northern California.
2021.10.01 Map visualizes spread of COVID-19 in the United States.
2021.09.17 I receive first ShakeAlert on phone seconds before 4.3 magnitude Carson earthquake.
2021.09.02 Supreme Court allows Texas anti-abortion law S.B. 8 to take effect.
2021.09.01 Three days after making landfall in Louisana, remnants of Hurricane Ida flood New York City.
2021.08.30 The American war in Afghanistan ends.
2021.08.15 Afghan president flees country as Taliban enter Kabul.
2021.07.30 Bob Wachter, Chair of the UCSF Department of Medicine, summarizes the new CDC announcement on the Delta variant.
2021.07.26 I start a new job. Also, it rains in Southern California in July!
2021.07.18 I complete the New York Times crossword 7 days in a row.
2021.06.27 I write a cheat script for the New York Times Spelling Bee game (but mostly avoid using it).
2021.06.26 Heat wave in Pacific Northwest makes the case for extreme climate change.
2021.06.24 Condo tower collapses in Seaside, Florida.
2021.06.14 I am returned to the office.
2021.05.11 I receive my second vaccination shot.
2021.04.30 Disneyland reopens after being closed over a year due to COVID-19.
2021.04.20 I receive my first vaccination shot.
2021.03.21 I estimate COVID immunity levels in Orange County.
2021.03.14 Updates data source for daily US COVID-19 export from Atlantic COVID Tracking Project to federal government.
2021.02.14 Winter storm devastates Texas.
2021.01.06 Trump urges right-wing mob to storm Capitol as Congress certifies Joe Biden’s election victory.
2021.01.01 The New Year begins with a new mild Santa Ana blowing through Southern California. Rose Parade cancelled due to COVID-19.

2020

2020.12.28 I start a new job.
2020.12.02 Santa Ana winds start the Bond Fire.
2020.11.07 Joseph R. Biden Jr. elected 46th President of the United States.
2020.11.03 America goes to the polls. (Or doesn't if, like me, they voted by mail.)
2020.11.02 I explain the different types of OC COVID-19 test data.
2020.10.27 Dodgers win World Series for first time since 1988!
2020.10.23 I am laid off.
2020.10.11 Los Angeles Lakers win 2020 NBA Championship.
2020.10.01 President Trump reveals he has tested positive for the coronavirus.
2020.09.07 I make the mistake of clicking on Universal Paperclips.
2020.09.06 Historically hot Labor Day weekend in California spawns (more) wildfires and smoke. (Real-time satellite view.)
2020.09.02 I review the COVID-19 numbers for OC in August and make a few predictions for September.
2020.08.23 Trump pushes emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 through FDA.
2020.08.22 I analyze the surge in COVID-19 cases in Orange County this summer.
2020.08.09 Hacker News comment introduces me to the world's only alpine parrot, the magnificent Kea.
2020.08.04 Massive explosion devastates Beirut, Lebanon.
2020.07.27 If you're a baseball fan and a covid fan, then do I have the Reddit thread for you: https://redd.it/hyrybi
2020.07.18 I share on Reddit my analysis of reporting times for OC HCA positive COVID-19 cases.
2020.07.13 I share my thoughts on Reddit about the Social Distancing Scoreboard for Orange County.
2020.07.03 Big swell and high tides flood Balboa Peninsula.

2020.06.24 I host a tour of my virtual workspace for Vital Link's Orange Coast College NEXT Academy.
2020.06.14 I endeavor to explain WTF is going through everyone's head regarding COVID-19.
2020.06.07 I make a prediction regarding a COVID-19 milestone in Orange County.
2020.06.01 I share my confusion about OC Health Care Agency COVID-19 data reporting on Reddit.
2020.05.30 I add a COVID-19 wiki page.
2020.05.23 I try to organize my thoughts on the Orange County C19 data.
2020.05.20 For comparison (and because my company also has an office there), a C19 spreadsheet for Michigan Region 6.
2020.05.16 I create a spreadsheet to track C19 testing and cases in Orange County.
2020.05.01 Per NY Times, US ends April with 7-day average of 28,815 daily new C19 cases.
2020.04.18 Paul O'Neill dies. I don't have many business heroes. He was one of them. On his Keystone Habits.
2020.03.22 I discover Google Messages for texting on web.
2020.03.18 I start working from home full-time.
2020.03.11 NBA suspends its season due to COVID-19 outbreak.
2020.03.10 My last time going to the gym for a while.
2020.03.07 I adjust my home desk based on a wikiHow article to alleviate pain in back of neck and update this server's version of certbot.
2020.02.22 Clayton Kershaw threw 51 breaking balls/sliders in game 5 of the 2017 World Series and didn't get a single swing and miss.
2020.02.13 Joe Matthews explains why Real ID is a wasteful citizen-hostile anti-immigrant invasion of privacy by the Federal government.
2020.01.31 New York Times chart persuades me coronavirus fears are not all hysteria.
2020.01.11 I sign up for HBO NOW expressly to watch The Favourite.
2020.01.02 I am stricken ill with flu.

2019

2019.12.23 The Santiago Peak Live Webcam begins streaming on Youtube.
2019.12.22 My Goodreads Year in Books: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2019/64065710
2019.12.02 I watch Knives Out.
2019.11.27 Thanksgiving Bomb Cyclone skirts Southern California.
2019.11.25 I take train to San Diego for business meeting.
2019.11.18 I watch Ford v Ferrari.
2019.11.11 Boris Johnson's bizarre bus-making hobby explained.
2019.11.04 I visit Winston-Salem, NC on business.
2019.10.28 Getty Fire starts.
2019.09.23 Wiki is unavailable for approximately 18 hours due to MySQL outage caused by OOM error.
2019.09.13 In which I propose a new Comedy Central series involving Rock-Paper-Scissors.
2019.09.12 Hacker News asks, "Are you ok?"
2019.09.11 Daniel Johnston dies.
2019.08.29 Interview questions for an HR Director candidate.
2019.08.25 In which I ponder hypnosis.
2019.07.05 M7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake
2019.06.25 Presented Hiring in a Time of Cargo Culturalism to LearningFuze Web Development Bootcamp.
2019.06.15 Volunteered at Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.
2019.05.31 Released new wiki at wiki.klenwell.com.
2019.04.30 I share my Proof Point idea on Hacker News.
2019.04.26 Attended Doing Good 2019 Conference in Scottsdale, AZ.
2019.02.19 Presented Veni Vidi Wiki to 211OC for volunteer project.
2019.01.14 Presented World of Crudcraft at OUSD Innovation for the Future event.
2019.01.09 I score 72 points on Hacker News sharing a favorite passage from Kitchen Confidential.

2018

2018.11.14 Visited Melbourne, FL for Advisory Board meeting.
2018.08.13 I have a positive experience on a Stack Exchange site.
2018.05.07 Attended Doing Good 2018 Conference in Austin, TX.
2018.05.05 Sister's wedding in Maui, HI.
2018.02.02 Returned from 3-day trip to home office in Grand Rapids, MI.
2018.01.26 Started new Lead Engineer position at FormulaFolios.

2017

2017.01.29 Wrote congressional representatives in opposition to Trump Executive Order banning migrants and refugees.
2017.01.07 Enabled HTTPS with Let's Encrypt.

2016

2016.08.08 Started new Lead Developer position at Chapman University.
2016.07.08 Upgraded WikkaWiki to version 1.3.7.
2016.07.07 Moved blog to wordpress.com.
2016.06.16 Restyled home page.
2016.01.16 Signed up for Good Judgment Project.
2016.01.11 Dropped Verizon in favor of T-Mobile
2016.01.10 David Bowie dies / I leave First American Trust.