If you are reading this blog and you live in the State of Maryland, please go to elections.maryland.gov and register to receive a mail-in ballot.  Hogan declared that everyone who wants a mail-in ballot can have one, but the state is not automatically sending them out to you.  You must put in a formal request and send it to the Maryland Board of Elections.

Although I would vastly prefer to go out and vote in person, I requested my ballot.  While Maryland might be fine in the Fall, I’m not sure anywhere else will be.  I see no real movement by the Federal Government to even attempt to fix anything. I do see attempts to make things actively worse.

So please, go request your ballot.

Sigh.

I’m working on my Mom’s quilt store website on-again off-again and I’ve been stumped for weeks on the store and inventory requirements.   Dumb thing is, I probably could have written the PHP for the store against the Woocommerce API in a long weekend, but I’m trying very hard not to write any code because my availability to long term support anything is near nil.

You’d think a long arm quilt shop would be a fairly simple and straight forward store to build but no, it turns out to be the single most difficult thing to do on the Internet.  Who knew?  I’ve gone through, I think at this point, every WordPress “thing” there is and I’m just banging my head against wall.  I’ve even, god help me, asked for help.  And now I am roaming the Internet like some weird Internet gunslinger with the requirements in nice, neat bullet point form.  And the answer I’m largely getting is: “I’m stumped, too.”

I’m just complaining because I’m stuck and I don’t like being stuck.  I’ll keep exploring and see if I find any solution. It’s like the algorithmic problem no one can ever solve.  And it’s just a store, and stores should be a solved problem now.

Also, I’ve been reading Venice’s Secret Spies and now I have some fresh new Eversink Ideas:

  1. The Postal Guild (will get written up soon as I get two hours to rub together.)
  2. Eversink Diplomatic Embassies — how do they work abroad?  How do they work in Eversink?
  3. Prophets in the Eversink Intelligence Network.
  4. And the ever-present “how does crypto work in a world of magic?”  (An old canard of mine — I still haven’t completely solved it except with one time pads.)

The guy most likely to get time is to write up a quick splat for the Eversink Post Office Guild and its rival, the Eversink Package and Post Delivery Guild, and let them fight it out in my head and in text.  But it needs for me to have a slug of time and, weirdly, except for baking, there’s been no slugs of time.  Just none.

Weird.

Maybe I should watch less Star Trek.

Stats:

  • 51,491,494 tests completed.
  • 4,239,754 cases found.
  • 149,091 dead
  • 84,306 cases in MD with 3,541 dead
  • 1 in 97 people has it here in Howard County

We’re definitely about to hit a new mark with 150,000 dead.

I’m super bored of COVID-19 and I want to see people again.  But it won’t happen until people stop being selfish jerks.  Which will never ever happen.