Events

As promised, Cassie got a long walk in the woods yesterday, then hundreds of pats from strangers when my friends met up with me at Sketchbook Brewing in Skokie. The weather cooperated magnificently, without getting either too hot or too cool, though my sunscreen appears to have lost some of its oompf later in the day. And I discovered that Sketchbook has two charge ports, so I was able to recharge my car for—not kidding—72c.

With sunny, relatively cool weather on the penultimate day of spring yesterday, Cassie got over 2½ hours of walks covering 14.9 km (9.3 miles), followed by lots of pats and snoring on the couch. (Her snoring, not mine.) Today we're heading out to the North Branch Trail before meeting up with some friends for beer and tacos. I expect we'll both sleep pretty well again tonight.

Sometimes I read fun stories that don't make me want to move to a cottage on the west coast of Ireland:

It's another gorgeous day in Chicago thanks to a blocking pattern keeping non-gorgeous weather well away from us. Unfortunately, that also means we're back in drought conditions, which the warm weather will exacerbate. And don't forget, summer begins Monday.

I've been here for three weeks and until a few minutes ago hadn't gotten around to taking any photos with my real camera (which apparently is 11 years old now? Sheesh). Until now:

One of my colleagues has released an application that can help teachers generate content, particularly in subjects where lots of variations on similar problems are helpful—like computer science:

...and very happy about it.

It's still a lovely spring day in Chicago, but crap keeps happening regardless of the weather:

Now that I live only 800 meters from Lake Michigan, I get to experience lakefront cooling on otherwise hot days. For instance, right now it's 26°C at O'Hare and 21°C here: