We're past the 500-day mark on Russia's invasion of Ukraine now. Wagner troops briefly rebelled but didn't push through to Moscow, so that civil war didn't happen, yet at least. Now, we're giving the Ukrainians cluster bombs, which I have to admire their resolve to use long-term-unpleasant weapons like that on their own territory. Outside of that, no major news on that front.
Here at home, we're entering my least favorite part of the year, the last two weeks of July and the first two weeks of August. Here in Spokane, we've had a couple of unpleasantly hot days already, but no extended heat waves, and also no significant wildfire smoke impacts to date. I expect both of those will change in the next few weeks, but I'll take what I can get until then.
On the EV front, I had cause to visit Seattle, so I got my first taste of the state of public fast-charging in the region. The verdict: eh, it's OK but not great. There was at least one charger option I steered away from due to reports of vandalism on the PlugShare app, but otherwise my only issue was that chargers were sometimes too popular - waiting for an hour for your car to charge is one thing, waiting almost as long again for a charger to free up is something else (especially in unpleasant weather).
Finally, on the games front, yes, Steam had their Summer Sale recently. Yes, I grabbed a couple of games from my wishlist at appropriate cheap-bastard rates. No, none of them are so amazing that I need to go into great detail about them yet. Although... on the off chance you haven't played The Stanley Parable yet, you could do worse than to pick up the "Ultra Deluxe" edition to have even more content to discover.
