My old Cornell ID was not swiping properly at the fitness center so I went to the Registrar's office and got a new one, with a new photo, on June 4, 2019. And yes, I'm increasingly using those drugstore reading glasses.

The raised bed that I made in June 2014 with recycled scaffolding planks is replaced with a new cedar structure at the end of the growing season, Oct. 2019.

I'm working from home as of March 13, 2020—the COVID-19 virus has changed everything. More than two months later, still working from home, I write this love song for a pandemic.

In a "Golden Notebook" moment, I consolidate my various webpages into a single secure and ADA-compliant domain (jonochshorn.com) and bite the poisonous Twitter apple, July 2020, which I deactivate in Nov. 2024, switching to Bluesky.

I publish two books, a third (free) edition of my structures textbook (Sept. 2020) and Building Bad, a monograph on architectural utility and architectural theory (June 2021).

My mother dies on April 8, 2022, exactly one month shy of her 97th birthday. Born and raised in Brooklyn, except when her mother moved the family (sans father) to Tucson and Miami, she taught 4th grade for many years in New Rochelle, was a talented artist, and played the harmonica.

I retire from Cornell, moving into emeritus status effective July 1, 2022, and transfer many of my office books to an upstairs bedroom at home where I've been working since the pandemic (I had built the bookshelves originally for my mother's house and retrieved them when she moved into assisted living).

I finish my critique of Milstein Hall and publish it open-access in September 2023; the beautiful cover photo is by Susan Schwartz. In October 2023, I publish a paperback edition of Building Bad, also open-access, after negotiating an agreement with Lund Humphries, publisher of the hardcover edition.

I pass both of the Phius (Passive House Institute US) consultant certification exams — an online exam based on the "Phase I" technical material, as well as a design exam based on the "Phase II" in-person (Zoom) lectures — and become a Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC), effective Nov. 27, 2024.

After years of abstinence, brought on in part by the pandemic, I returned to Barton Hall at Cornell to shoot some hoops; shortly thereafter finding a group of "older" players (i.e., 25+ years old) who organize lunchtime pickup games. Real sore after the first full-court match, Dec. 6, 2024.