Quiet and not-as-cold weekend ahead

A weak La Niña has already started affecting the weather in the United States, as this week's cold snap demonstrates. Weak La Niña events typically cause cooler, wetter winters in Chicago. Last night's temperature got down to -12.8°C (9°F), just a few degrees above the coldest December 5th on record. Normal for today would be 4.3°C (39.8°F); this godawful cold is 5°C below the normal low for the coldest day of the year, January 24th.

Fortunately the forecast this weekend calls for more seasonable temperatures near freezing, but it'll come with some more snow. Joy.

As I haven't got a lot going on until Monday, I hope to make more progress on the replacement for BlogEngine.NET I've been working on for a while. Over the last week I got it to the point where it shows blog entries and imports them from this version. Next up: image uploading and resizing. Right now it shows images at full size no matter how wide your screen is. That's sub-optimal, especially on mobile devices.

I'm not ready to release the link for the work-in-progress yet. Let me get a few more features done first. Next week, Monday through Sunday, will include two full Messiah rehearsals and two performances, but after that I should have lots of time through the beginning of January to work on the new project.