Bill Roper's Journal

Sam and Bonnie came by for lunch today and to meet the new puppy. Then we went out to grab lunch and get them a spare house key that they can use while helping Julie out over the weekend during OVFF. I got new keys cut and gave one to Sam. When I got home, I looked to my left and found the missing spare key. Oh, well. More keys are still a good idea.

Gretchen urgently needs to renew her driver's license, but when she went online to try to grab an appointment at 6:30 AM, the system crashed out from under her. This may or may not have had something to do with the AWS outage today. I am getting up early tomorrow and will try to make the appointment for her, because I would like her to have her driver's license for OVFF.

And I have to get up early anyway, because I am off for two days of client meetings in the Loop. This will be my first time doing this since before COVID, so I am reacquainting myself with the current versions of the train schedule and paying for parking.

And then I will walk from Ogilvie Station to a building that I've never been to before.

This is perhaps a bit more chaos than I needed leading up to OVFF. :)

The chaos is at work. The as-yet-unfinished Dodeka taxes are at home.

Since I'm at home, I think I'll work on the latter.

And once I'm caught up on life, I'll start working on posting MP3s. :)

If you're looking for your Chicago Tribune today, you may be out of luck:

Business and Classified? Where are the comics?