We get pretty sunsets this time of year:
I attended an event last night at Chicago's Old Post Office. It was a lovely night in (and on top of) a lovely building:
That's all, just some pretty photos.
Just clearing my photo backlog. From the 23rd:
And from yesterday:
Today we're trooping out to Suburbistan for a walk with Cassie's old friend Kelsey. Updates as conditions warrant.
Today is Cassie's 7th birthday, and it breaks my heart that she has to spend it in the Cone of Shame:
(I'll clean this photo up before the end of the day.)
She has adapted to the cone just fine, of course, and it'll come off on Wednesday. I could potentially take it off today, but I think it's important to wait until her stitches come out. I just don't want her to hook a suture and open up the incision.
Also, to further ruin her birthday, I'm at the office downtown until just after noon. We'll have plenty of adventures this afternoon when I get home.
Photo updated from original post.
Cassie enjoyed some couch time with me yesterday evening:
Eventually she decided on a full-bagel nap:
One of my work projects has a monthly release these days, so right now I'm watching a DevOps pipeline run through about 400 time-consuming integration tests before I release this month's update. That gives me some time to catch up on all this:
The New York Times has a long explanation of how the Clown Prince of X took over the federal bureaucracy.
All right, the build has finished, so I can now deploy. And for no reason other than I like it, here is a photo of Cassie watching TV with me last night:
Cassie didn't like how I came home late (8pm!) last night, but she forgave me. She really is the sweetest dog:
I happened to be on the 40th floor of a downtown high rise at just the right moment yesterday:
We had our coldest morning since February 17th today, cold enough that Cassie didn't want to linger sniffing her favorite shrubberies. The temperature bottomed out at 7:45 am, hitting -8.6°C at IDTWHQ, a cold we haven't experienced since 8:25 am on February 17th. O'Hare hit -10°C at 8 am, also the first time since 8 am February 17th. Tonight, going into the first day of astronomical winter, the forecast predicts it'll get even colder before warming up a bit on Monday.
Unrelated to the weather are these two things I liked from the past week. Yesterday I went over to a friend's house to help her set up a new computer and back up her old one. It turned out she was fostering this little guy, Hayes:
She texted me last night to say thanks and also that she's going to fork over the $495 adoption fee for him. Because of course she will. He's a sweet Lab-something mix whose pregnant mom got rescued from the side of the road in Arkansas. He'll have a much better (and longer) life with my friend than he would have otherwise.
I also liked the way the sun played around with the Civic Opera Building and 110 North Wacker (the mirrored building behind the Civic Opera) on Tuesday afternoon:
My new office is farther west than my old one, but still facing north, so it won't get any direct sunlight, ever. That said, on Tuesday I discovered that the mirrored windows at 110 North Wacker will give me pretty intense reflected sunlight, which is almost as bright. I'm still only going in once a week, but it's a nice perk.
Winnemac Park, 3:39 pm:
Spiteful Brewing Tap Room, 7:08 pm:
