Events

I'm almost done unpacking. By "almost" I mean there are only 5 boxes left to unpack and 5 boxes to remove to storage or charity. I should finish everything tomorrow.

Instead of being surrounded by full boxes, I am now surrounded mainly by empty ones. This hasn't prevented Cassie from having several mild freak-outs, including one right in the middle of a business meeting. And now she's staring at me and nudging me, and I don't know why other than she is uncomfortable in the new place.

My apartment is a chaotic mess and I still haven't found my silverware. But Cassie really likes all the new smells in the neighborhood, and so far today, the weather is lovely.

The move was very successful as far as these things go. I only need about 5 trips back to the old place because of some extra optimism regarding the effort to pack my kitchen.

The movers will be here in 24 hours. I really only have my kitchen left to do, plus the 3,642 other little things that no one remembers until the movers have actually started loading the truck and one of them asks, "What do you want to do with this?"

I got my library boxed up this afternoon, which took 7.3 hours including moving stuff out of the garage, making a quick trip to storage, and making a second quick trip to Staples for more boxes when it became obvious I'd run out after they closed.

Cassie and I walked over to Inner Drive Technology World HQ 7.0 (planned) yesterday to pick up the keys and get a sniff of the space. She even saw the dog wash station, but had no idea what it was. That will change next week.

It's a chilly but mostly-sunny spring morning on the first day of May, despite some gray clouds lingering to the west. I have one meeting this morning before walking Cassie over to the new building to pick up the keys. Then starts the Weekend of the Box, when I do the last bits of packing. "Last bits" is doing some heavy lifting there, as that includes my library and kitchen, and several trips to the local charity and used bookstore drop-offs.

Josh Marshall goes to town on the institutional decay and anti-historical bent of the Republican majority on the Court: