Marco's Evening Report

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM ET · Cape Coral, FL
Tonight: ON · night 2 of 7

Night 2 of 7 at South Florida Baptist — Jessica on admits till 1 a.m., Cheryl on floor calls after. Nothing on your calendar conflicts with the shift tonight or this week, which is the good news. The one thing not to forget: a two-for-one trade offer has been sitting in Sleeper for two days waiting on you — Diggs and Hubbard for Kyren Williams — and your $14 waiver claim on Khalil Coleman processes at 3 a.m. while you're on the floor. Also worth knowing before tomorrow: the woodshop fan and its breaker are tagged out and the motor is gone, and you're in that room at noon.

1 · Tonight & Tomorrow

Tonight — Tuesday, Sept 22

Tomorrow — Wednesday, Sept 23

Class ends at 2 p.m., shift starts at 6 p.m. — four hours in between. No conflict, but it's the only sleep you'll get.

Next 7 days

Wed 9/23Woodshop jointer/planer/bandsaw 12–2p · shift 6p (night 3)
Thu 9/24Shift 6p (night 4)
Fri 9/25Shift 6p (night 5)
Sat 9/26Machine Shop Safety 9–11:30a · Let's Learn to Turn Pens 1–4p · AEW All Out 8p · shift 6p (night 6) — off shift at 6a, two classes, back on at 6p. No real sleep window.
Sun 9/27Shift 6p — night 7, last one. Plan the flip back to days.
Mon 9/28Off — block ends 6 a.m.
Tue 9/29EPIC Training, NCH Naples 8:30a–1:30p · Turn a Christmas Ornament, Tampa 6:30–8:30p — Naples to Tampa in the afternoon, tight but off-week.

No red conflicts with a shift start this week.

Next class: tomorrow, 12 p.m. Next first night: Mon Oct 5 — 13 days Next wrestling: AEW All Out — 4 days RV due items: none logged

2 · Hackerspace

Shop status — read this before tomorrow

Paul Henley, #woodshop, today 1:01 p.m.: "The woodshop fan is tagged out as is the breaker. Do not mess with these. The fan motor has been removed." Your jointer/planer/bandsaw class is in that room tomorrow at noon — expect no big-fan ventilation, so the rollup door and your own dust mask are doing the work.

Class reminders

Worth a look

Nothing addressed to you needs a reply — the Activity inbox has had nothing new since Paula Sandusky's 3DP slide deck on 9/18. Registration is always at member.tampahackerspace.com, never in Slack.

3 · Ring Report

SAT26SEP
AEW · Pay-per-view
All Out: Chicago
8:00 PM ET · NOW Arena, Hoffman Estates, IL
HBO Max · Prime Video · PPV.com · YouTube
card & poster
4days

Main event: Will Ospreay (AEW World Champion) vs. Jon Moxley, 60-minute time limit, the rest of the Death Riders allowed at ringside. Also on the card: a three-way ladder match for the tag titles (Cope & Christian Cage vs. FTR vs. The Young Bucks), Okada vs. Ciampa for the International title, and a Chicago street fight for the women's tag straps. Thekla vs. Willow Nightingale is for the women's world title shot — Mercedes Moné isn't medically cleared, so the winner gets her at WrestleDream in October.

You're on shift that night, night 6 of 7, and it's your stacked hackerspace day. Bell is 8 p.m. ET; plan on the replay.

Nothing else inside 14 days. Next up after All Out: WWE Money in the Bank, Sat Oct 10, 7 p.m. ET, Smoothie King Center, New Orleans — card TBA.

4 · RV

The maintenance log is still empty — no odometer, no generator hours, no "last done" dates — so there's nothing to compute against. Fifteen minutes with rv-maintenance.md on a day off would turn this section on permanently: the rig header, the odometer and generator-hour readings, and the date of the Sept 8 generator work (carburetor, injector, oil and filter), which is still the only entry in the Planned table and still unlogged two weeks later.

No RV events on the calendar in the next 14 days. Hurricane season note: nothing in the Gulf or eastern Caribbean tonight — no storm-prep check needed.

5 · Training

No training on the calendar this week.

6 · Fantasy Football

LordHaveMRSA · Daily Report →

Week 2 final: lost 74.52 to 102.28 against chaseelson30. You're 0–2. Week 3 is Free Jacobs (@Rjay25, 1–1), projected 92.29 to 103.60 — Sleeper gives you 39%.

Decision waiting on you: UndisputedGiant offered a 2-for-1 two days ago and it's still open — you get Stefon Diggs (WR-WAS) and Chuba Hubbard (RB-CAR) for Kyren Williams (RB-LAR). Kyren is your RB1 and projects 13.02 this week. He's accepted; it's sitting on your side.

Lineup problem: D. Moore (WR-BUF) is OUT and still in your starting WR slot — locks Sunday 9/27 at 1:00 p.m. ET, which is right when you'll be asleep after night 6. Nacua is also OUT on the bench. The live swaps are W. Robinson (WR-TEN, 8.83) or R. Shaheed (WR-SEA, 8.38). Make that change Saturday evening before you leave for the shift.

Waivers: clear tonight at 3:00 a.m. ET, mid-shift. Your claim is already in — Khalil Coleman (WR-BUF) for $14, dropping N. Harris. Anything else has to be submitted before you walk out the door. ~$94 FAAB, priority 9. Still no QB2 behind Maye, whose bye is week 11.

Trending in-league: markc1281 has Rico Dowdle (RB-PIT) on the block; chaseelson30 still has Bo Nix and Matthew Stafford listed. Neither touches your roster.

7 · Medicine Desk

The FDA gets a confirmation hearing Thursday

What happened: The Senate health committee hears Heidi Overton's nomination for FDA commissioner on Thursday, Sept 24; three former commissioners published a piece today arguing she has a chance to steady the agency.

Why it matters to you: The agency has lost more than 3,000 staff in a year and has been without a confirmed head since Marty Makary resigned in May — that's the shop signing off on the drug approvals and shortage notices you work around at 3 a.m.

STAT, Sept 22 · Senate HELP notice

Epic's death-prediction score, and whether it works on old people

What happened: STAT's health-tech desk took apart Epic's mortality-prediction algorithm today and what it says about using AI scores in older adults.

Why it matters to you: You start Epic training at NCH a week from today. Those scores surface in the chart as a number next to a patient's name, and a model tuned on a general inpatient population behaves differently in an 86-year-old with six comorbidities than the display suggests.

Do this: Ask at the Sept 29 training which predictive models NCH has switched on, and what the nursing workflow does when one fires overnight.

STAT Health Tech, Sept 22 (subscriber-only; headline and framing confirmed, body not read)

The weight-loss drugs may sit out the Medicaid pricing pilot

What happened: Reporting today says the GLP-1 weight-loss drugs look likely to be carved out of the Medicaid pilot under the administration's drug-pricing plan — a better deal for Novo Nordisk than expected.

Why it matters to you: Coverage rules on this class decide whether a discharge med list survives contact with the patient's plan, and half your Medicaid admissions are already on one of these.

STAT, D.C. Diagnosis, Sept 22

8 · The Debate

Should the United States follow Australia and the U.K. and bar under-16s from social media?

Why it's live: Australia's under-16 ban took effect in December 2025 and Indonesia followed; the E.U. is barring under-13s outright and personal accounts under 15; the U.K. has set spring 2027. Meta agreed in August to pay up to $18 billion to settle U.S. claims that Facebook and Instagram harmed children. And Florida is already running the experiment: HB 3 — no accounts under 14, parental consent at 14 and 15 — has been fully enforceable since the Eleventh Circuit stayed the injunction in November 2025, with the merits ruling still pending. A first three-month evaluation of the Australian ban landed in the BMJ this month.

The case for

Legislatures aren't waiting for a perfect trial because the harm is already priced in — an $18 billion settlement is a number a company pays when discovery is going badly. Age limits are how every other regulated product for minors works, and platforms only built age verification once a government made them. Florida's legislature targeted the specific design features — infinite scroll, autoplay, visible like counts — rather than speech, which is why the Eleventh Circuit let the law take effect while it thinks.

"Almost half of all mental health problems emerge by the age of 18." — Camilla Iannone, Wellcome

The case against

The first hard look says it isn't working. The BMJ evaluation found little evidence of a substantial drop in use three months in, and Australia's own eSafety watchdog reported more than 80% of children still on a restricted platform. Leonardo Bursztyn's group found teens keep using because they believe their peers still are — a ban doesn't touch that. And Judge Robin Rosenbaum's dissent names the cost: enforcing an age rule on children means age-verifying every adult too.

"Social media can be an important source of community." — Iannone, on restrictions landing hardest on isolated and marginalized teens

Where it lands: Both sides are arguing past a hole in the evidence, and the people closest to it say so. Wellcome consulted teenagers on how to study the U.K. ban and the teenagers reframed the question: don't measure screen time, measure what fills the hours — sleep, friends, hobbies, or boredom and unregulated corners of the internet. That study doesn't report for years. Meanwhile Florida, Australia and the E.U. have each picked a different rule, which at least means we'll get a natural experiment out of it.

Sources: Camilla Iannone, STAT First Opinion, Sept 22 · BMJ evaluation · Reuters on the Meta settlement · AEI on the Florida ruling and the Rosenbaum dissent

9 · World & Screens

Iran / Gulf — the pause is over. Tehran today condemned a new U.S.–Israeli strike as "cowardly," citing civilian deaths, and warned the "geography of the war" would widen. That follows Sunday's warning from Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters that it had information the U.S. was preparing to resume strikes. (Day 207 of the war. I could not open Al Jazeera's own item to confirm the scale — treat the casualty picture as unconfirmed.)

Cuba — Trump used his U.N. General Assembly address this morning to call Cuba "an absolutely failed State" and say "freedom will be coming to Cuba." The Cuban delegation walked out of the hall. Reuters, Sept 22

Puerto Rico — GFR Media is ending print. Primera Hora's last paper is Sept 24, El Nuevo Día's is Sept 27 — the island's two biggest papers going digital-only after more than a century between them. Fortune, Sept 22

Tropics — Tropical Storm Fay is still spinning several hundred miles southwest of the Azores with no threat to land, and a wave coming off West Africa tomorrow has only a low chance of developing. Nothing in the Gulf or the Caribbean.

Screens — Brothers drops on Apple TV+ tomorrow — Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, half-hour comedy, the kind of thing that survives a post-shift brain. And Backrooms, the standing pick since Sept 8, finally has a streaming date: HBO Max, Friday Sept 25.

Background / already covered

Published just before tonight's window, carried once because it never made a report: STAT (Sept 21, 4:30 a.m. ET) — addiction clinics are seeing a sharp rise in kratom and 7-OH dependence. At one telehealth clinic, kratom users went from 3% of new patients in September 2025 to 14% last month. Recovery Centers of America went from about one kratom admission a week last year to 10–20, and a medical director there says they now treat the withdrawal "as if it's fentanyl or oxycodone or heroin." Worth knowing when an otherwise-well adult shows up overnight with agitation, sweating, anxiety and diarrhea and denies opioid use — the product was bought at a gas station and marketed as wellness.

Dropped as stale on the freshness check (4): (1) Orange and Osceola County measles cases and the "Florida hits 132" figure — the Osceola case was March and the Orange County pair was May 2026, surfaced by a search engine as if current; (2) the Par Health dexmedetomidine recall, announced Sept 18, outside the window; (3) the CDC Respiratory Illnesses Data Channel showing COVID activity rising with hospitalizations still low — that's the Sept 18 refresh, already reported Sept 19; (4) Florida's confirmed dengue death, reported here Sept 21.

Wrestling calendar: not refreshed tonight — last_refreshed is 2026-09-19, inside the 7-day rule, and All Out has a confirmed date, time, venue and card.

Havana's SAT is Saturday, Oct 3 — 11 days out. Next mention is the 7-day marker on Sept 26.