Events

Despite fighting with Microsoft Azure Table Storage over whether the dev/test environment's tables support reading and writing (they haven't since 11:18 am today), I was able to release a new version of the Inner Drive Journal, the engine that The Daily Parker runs on.

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: