Finally made it to both Common Decency and Cara Cara Club. Many reasons I love living in Logan Square, but high up that list is that you’ll never want for a good drink.

Thankfully watching the latest round of return to office mandates from the sidelines. Oxide and Friends’s latest episode has a good roundup.

At the end of the day, whatever: just tell me where to work and I guess that’s the deal. The thing that’s been truly baffling is the laziness of the sales pitch: “Come on back! We sublet two-thirds of the space, you can’t have a little plant or a keyboard anymore because you don’t have an assigned desk, we got rid of all the food and coffee, and none of your teammates are here. Or you’re fired 😊”

iPhone 16 Pro, One Week Review: I keep forgetting the camera button is there. I hope I remember it eventually, because it seems like a nice idea. I am glad I am not a case manufacturer who got blindsided by it. Otherwise: I can report that it is a phone™.

One thing they don’t tell you about having a yard is that sometimes you will need to drive to the hardware store and pay like $50 for a bunch of bags of dirt. Like dirt from the ground. And you put the dirt in your trunk and you drive the dirt home and just pour out all over the place. You will do this several times a year.