Wednesday: Doctor day.

It turns out I'm generally healthy.  Also that I can't get updates for some vaccines because it's not allowed with the medicine I take.  So that's fun.

I decided to just go home afterwards instead of driving back to work, since I can do things anywhere there's internet.

Except not when this asshole helicopter decides that it's just going to sit in the sky for a half hour.

Just sitting there, being a jerk, making all the noise.

Apparently it's some sort of traffic survey?  Wouldn't this be the kind of situation where a drone would make far more sense than sending up a helicopter?

I was able to get some emails answered, and since it didn't take much time to transfer images:

Some cool spiral galaxies.  Getting good color images is still tricky.

• Let's assume this summary is accurate (I'm too lazy to actually read court transcripts).  Hopefully this means we'll have real redistricting reform soon.
• The number of people in this article that should be in jail is astonishing.  "Doing things the right way is hard, so we send people to be slaves so 'Christians' can profit off them."
• I used to read this comic, and was so surprised when I learned that the Ian that drew it grew up to still be Ian Jones-Quartey.
• Part 1.  Part 2.