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Another adventure for Cassie
Like yesterday, today I took Cassie somewhere she'd never been before, giving her an amazing array of new smells and rodents to chase. We went up to the Green Bay Trail in Winnetka, covering just under...
View ArticleUnpardonable corruption
The OAFPOTUS is blatantly selling pardons now:[Paul] Walczak, a former nursing home executive who had pleaded guilty to tax crimes days after the 2024 election, submitted a pardon application to...
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Quick Cassie update
Cassie spent yesterday morning at the local veterinary oncology clinic getting poked. The ultrasound looked good, so we're just waiting for results from her spleen and lymph cytology. They said she was...
View ArticleSix hours of meetings
On some days, I have more meetings than others. Today was a more extreme example, with meetings for 6 of the 8½ hours I put in. Somehow I also managed to read some documentation and get some other...
View ArticlePutting "No Meetings" on my work calendar
First, an update on Cassie: her spleen and lymph cytology came back clean, with no evidence of mast cell disease. That means the small tumor on her head is likely the only site of the disease, and they...
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First Summer Sunday
Two photos this morning. First, Cassie tried to convince the other patrons at Spiteful Brewing yesterday that no one ever pats her:She was pretty successful with the ruse. People stopped to pat her...
View ArticleAll meetings all day
I have had no more than 15 consecutive minutes free at any point today. The rest of the week I have 3½-hour blocks on my calendar, but all the other meetings had to go somewhere, so they went to...
View ArticleJoni Ernst's re-election campaign kicks off
Really, this post is just a list of links, but I'm going to start with Dan Rather's latest Stack:US Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) started her 2026 re-election campaign last week by telling constituents not...
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The atmosphere in Chicago today
We had a lovely double rainbow yesterday:But this morning, we had something else entirely:Canadian wildfire smoke raised the air-quality index in Chicago to well over 150 this morning. This is the...
View ArticlePerspectives on various crimes
A smattering of stories this morning show how modern life is both better and worse than in the past:A criminologist at Cambridge has spent 15 years working on "murder maps" of London, Oxford, and York,...
View ArticleGood, long walk plus ribs
Cassie and I took a 7 km walk from sleep-away camp to Ribfest yesterday, which added up to 2½ hours of walkies including the rest of the day. Then we got some relaxing couch time in the evening. We...
View ArticleLots of coding, late lunch, boring post
I've had a lot to do in the office today, so unfortunately this will just be a link fest:I agree with Jeff Maurer that "I hate that when some dickhead sets a car on fire, we have to talk about it for a...
View ArticleLyin' in bed, just like Brian Wilson did
The music legend has died at 82. Barenaked Ladies popped into my mind when I read the story.Meanwhile, I've got a meeting in 10 minutes, so let me also add just small note how the OAFPOTUS has affected...
View ArticleThose who don't study history...
Historian Timothy W Ryback outlines how the Chancellor of Germany used manufactured crises to take over the Bavarian State in 1933. If you hear an echo from the past coming from California this week,...
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Summer hours on a summer-ish day
I just finished 3½ hours of nonstop meetings that people crammed into my calendar because I have this afternoon blocked off as "Summer Hours PTO." Within a few minutes of finishing my last meeting, I...
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