Dawn in Southern Indiana, and there isn't a cloud in the sky. And Hoosiers football remains amazing.

It is still possible to navigate your plane in some areas using NDBs—non-directional beacons. Most have vanished in the age of GPS, but the great William Hepburn keeps a list.  Of related interest: Low Frequency Radio Range and Adcock antennas. I know this is boring shit, but not to me—and maybe not to a few readers. Less boring (especially after last week's spectacular auroras seen as far south as Florida): NASA's Space Weather Prediction Center.

Orgeny is one of the ways the Earth's crust gives rebirth to itself.  That's boring too, except for geologists and wannabes such as myself.

Interesting (for a few of us) that US federal agencies no longer carry notices about "the Democrat-led government shutdown" and other political digs.