In no particular order:

• Identica took a nap for four days apparently
• The general practitioner set a minimum goal of losing a minimum of an additional 13 kilos beyond the 11 kilos I have lost in the last year.
  • This would put me at a total of 37 kilos down from my highest weight when I was a working civil servant.
  • I was not well when I was a civil servant.
  • She also did say that she did not recommend my returning to any gym until vaccinated
  • Ultimately the goal is to be at 70-73 kg at a height of roughly 173 cm
• Vaccination against the coronavirus for me is still a bit of a ways off. I am still not eligible yet in Ohio. My parents are thankfully already done with vaccination and got the Johnson & Johnson shot. My sisters will actually be eligible before me.
• The campaign for Ashtabula City Council is just weird.
  • In my party primary I am unopposed so I am considered to have won my primary by operation of law. I can’t start campaigning for the general election in November as people might get confused with the primary election in May. Since I am unopposed in May and there are no other party primaries in the ward in May the question about me won’t even appear on the ballot!
  • In the Democratic Party’s primary one of the candidates is starting putting out yard signs. The problem is that this is an economically distressed ward and is considered in the city to have more than a few “bad neighborhood” areas. Those areas are also high in minority populations. Oddly enough that candidate has yet to put any yard signs out in those minority areas but does have her signs in areas where mostly white people reside. That’s certainly not on brand for a Democratic Party candidate in this day and age.
  • Campaigning begins in earnest after May 4th for me, I think.
• The weather is improving slowly but surely locally
• The newspaper design project continues to be built at https://code.launchpad.net/~skellat/+git/auto-newspaper and is basically showing that something can be semi-automatically produced layout-wise in a 19th century style. If The Star Beacon doesn’t stop falling apart as a newspaper then it looks like that project has to move forward. For a daily newspaper they’ve apparently given up on reporting things on a timely basis now.
• Finance is a weird thing right now.