Marco's Evening Report

Thursday, September 24, 2026
Tonight: ON · night 4 of 7

Night 4 of 7 — Admit Jessica, floor calls Cheryl. Havana's got her English lesson tonight at 8, nothing on your plate for it. Saturday's the heavy one: Machine Shop Safety and Pen Turning back-to-back, then AEW All Out kicks off right as you're heading in for night 6 — replay it. Set your fantasy lineup Saturday evening too: Nacua's questionable and projects better than anyone else on your bench, and he doesn't lock till 8:20 PM Sunday.

1 · Tonight & Tomorrow

Tonight — Thu 9/24

6:00 PM – 6:00 AM — ACH Night Shift, South Florida Baptist Hospital, Plant City. Admit: Jessica 4p–1a · Floor calls: Cheryl 1a–6a.
8:00 – 8:50 PM — Havana's Preply English lesson (hers, not yours — no conflict).

Tomorrow — Fri 9/25

6:00 PM – 6:00 AM — ACH Night Shift, night 5 of 7.
5:30 – 6:20 PM — Havana's Preply algebra lesson (hers — wraps just as you're leaving, no conflict).

Next 7 days

Fri 9/25 — Night 5 of 7.
Sat 9/26 — Machine Shop Safety 9–11:30a · Let's Learn to Turn Pens 1–4p · Night 6 of 7 · AEW All Out 8p (you're on shift — watch the replay).
Sun 9/27 — Night 7 of 7 — last one, plan the flip back to days. NFL Sunday; your lineup locks at 1:00 and 8:20 PM.
Mon 9/28 — OFF. Block ends this morning.
Tue 9/29 — EPIC Training (NCH onboarding), Naples, 8:30a–1:30p · Turn a Christmas Ornament, Tampa Hackerspace, 6:30–8:30p. Busy day, but no shift to collide with — you're off this week.
Wed 9/30 — OFF. Fantasy waiver clears 3 AM ET — no shift collision this time.
Next class: Machine Shop Safety — 2 days Next wrestling: AEW All Out — 2 days Next first-night: Mon Oct 5 — 11 days RV: nothing due — log's still empty

2 · Hackerspace

3 · Ring Report

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AEW · Pay-per-view
All Out: Chicago
8:00 PM ET · NOW Arena, Hoffman Estates, IL
HBO Max · Prime Video · PPV.com
2days

Main event: Ospreay (c) vs. Moxley, 60-minute time limit, rest of the Death Riders ringside. Also a three-way ladder match for the tag titles (Cope & Christian vs. FTR vs. Young Bucks), Okada vs. Ciampa for the International title, and the trios and women's tag titles on the line. You're on shift that night (night 6 of 7) and it's your stacked hackerspace day — this one's a replay watch.

4 · RV

The maintenance log is still empty — no odometer, no generator hours, no intervals logged yet. Whenever you get a few minutes, jot down where the rig stands and this section will start doing real work for you. Nothing on the calendar this week, and NHC has nothing brewing in the Gulf or eastern Caribbean, so no storm-prep flag tonight.

5 · Training

No training on the calendar this week.

6 · Fantasy Football

LordHaveMRSA · Daily Report →

7 · Medicine Desk

Nursing homes may stop having to report COVID and flu case counts

What happened: The administration is moving to scrap the weekly requirement that nursing homes report COVID (and flu) case counts and give staff vaccine education, calling it duplicative paperwork.

Why it matters to you: When you're sending a frail patient out to a nursing home for rehab, you may lose one of the few real-time signals of whether that facility has an active outbreak.

Do this: Nothing tonight — it's a proposal, not final — but it's worth asking a receiving facility directly about current cases when you're arranging a placement.

AI coding tools are quietly driving up hospital bills

What happened: A new study tied to Blue Cross insurers found hospitals' AI coding tools added nearly $1 billion in extra insurance costs over two years by nudging bills toward higher-paying codes, without more care actually being delivered.

Why it matters to you: Expect more insurer pushback and chart audits on notes that were AI-assisted or AI-coded — including yours.

Do this: Document what you actually did and saw, not what a coding assistant suggests, so the note holds up if a payer challenges the bill.

8 · The Debate

Should the Senate take FDA nominee Heidi Overton's word on vaccines and the abortion pill, or demand more before confirming her?

Live today: at her Senate confirmation hearing, Overton said plainly that "every vaccine that is on the market has been determined to be safe and effective" — a direct break from President Trump's claims that the MMR vaccine is "quite lethal." But on mifepristone (the abortion pill), she declined to repeat her own past comments calling mail delivery "dangerous for women," saying only that it has met the FDA's safety and efficacy bar and that she won't "prejudge" an ongoing review.

For confirming her

Overton's vaccine answer was about as clean a break from White House rhetoric as a nominee can give, and the FDA has been without a confirmed commissioner. Her defenders argue she should be judged on the commitments she made under oath, not on hypothetical future pressure from the president.

Against, or not yet

Senate HELP Chair Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a physician, said he was burned by "guarantees" from the last HHS pick that didn't hold, and pressed Overton on whether she'd hold the line under presidential pressure. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) called her mifepristone answer a dodge: "The FDA has said this is safe. We need someone in FDA to make sure this is done by science."

Where it lands: no verdict here — a confirmation vote hasn't been scheduled, and Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski could be the swing votes given their record on abortion access. (Local10)

9 · World & Screens

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