Events

I'm at my downtown office today and tomorrow because some of my co-workers have flown in for unrelated meetings. Then starting Friday afternoon, it's a full-on sprint to the move on Tuesday. Yay.

I'm down to only 3,642 small tasks (not counting the kitchen and library—yikes!) before moving next Tuesday. Cassie continues to spend much more time in the office than she ever has before, and much more time poking me from under the desk. Is she anxious? No, but maybe she just needs a little more reassurance right now.

Cassie did, in fact, get a half-hour walk around 2:30, but as I have a 3-hour rehearsal tonight, she won't get another one until about 10:30. Pauvre chienne, je sais. Elle souffre.

Cassie's lunchtime walk will be a bit late this afternoon. My guess is we'll go out around 2:30:

Historian and political pundit Amanda Nelson posted on social media this morning that she "kinda " about the incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night:

This weekend will be the first big push for packing, today being just 10 days from Cassie's nightmare. The goal this weekend will be to pull out everything I'm giving to charity (mostly from the kitchen) and make a big dent on all the books going into storage. I still have to live here, though.

University of Illinois at Chicago architecture professor Stewart Hicks had a cool video yesterday showing how house design influenced TV, until the relationship flipped in the early 1970s:

The vaccine-induced immune reaction from my Shingrix jab on Tuesday kept me from getting a decent sleep last night, again. My Garmin device even warned me that I apparently had a mild fever, with my skin temperature almost 1°C above normal. Fortunately I feel better now than I did even 12 hours ago, so I expect all this will pass by tomorrow.

I want to start with Anne Applebaum's complete takedown of right-wingers who say Victor Orbán accepting defeat "proves" he wasn't an autocrat:

I had a 10-minute appointment at my doctor's office yesterday to get my second shingles jab and a follow-up blood test to see how atorvastatin is working for me. It took until this morning for me to get all the data about how those things have affected me.