It appears 2022 is still front-loaded with aggravations. This week, it’s the temperature roller coaster for the Midwest and Northeast. Monday is cold, Tuesday is much colder, then Wednesday we bounce back to normal or above. Remember that “weather knee” your grandfather had?

Welcome to 2022, especially for those still stranded in airports (or worse, stuck with in-laws) thanks to the triple-shot of overbooked flights, crew outages caused by COVID, and weather across the upper Midwest and Northeast. At least we're getting the worst of 2022 out of the way first, right?

Dreams of a white Christmas will remain unanswered for most of us this year, except for areas of the upper Northwest down toward Colorado, around Minnesota, and a little of the upper Northeast.

Time's Person of the Year, Elon Musk, received a range of reactions seldom seen by previous winners.

Excuse this interruption to Cyber Monday shopping, but now’s the time to plan out the rest of the year. Not the work, the important stuff: vacation time. There are three full weeks before the week of Christmas, so pick your days off quickly.

Run your private LoRaWAN The Things Stack network server on a Raspberry Pi with balena.

OK, here’s your official warning to do your holiday and end of the year business shopping (for the tax deduction) sooner, much sooner, than later.