Interesting day today.

First up, heavy weather is on its way to Louisville. Real heavy. High winds, inches of rain overnight, a lot of lightning (again), and a 15% chance of tornadoes. While I love big storms, I hope this one blows through without hurting anyone.

Next, today was Convict Donny’s “liberation day”, the day he imposed minimum 10% tariffs on pretty much every country. Some much higher. These actions are guaranteed to raise prices on the goods Americans buy – just what we need. Dumb, unnecessary, and ill-advised. Right on message for MAGA.

Also today, I broke down and accepted an offer to do some paid consulting work on a hyperscale AI datacenter project. While I enjoy being mostly retired, working for clients brings a focus and a purpose that certainly feels good. Familiar. It’ll be interesting to see how some structure in my week feels. And the extra money will come in handy given what Donny is doing to the economy.

Yesterday, a home improvement project to hang a door in the KY house completely defeated my brother and me. We were organized, we had all the right tools, we weren’t in a hurry…but in the end it was Door 1, Brothers 0. In our defense, nothing in our project was at right angles or level. Not the door, not the doorframe, not the floor. We kept cutting and fitting based on assumptions of right angles, and that just didn’t work. We also put the hinges on wrong a time or two, and that’s on us. Time to hire a carpenter.