Wait Wait!

If you are not already a fan of NPR’s weekly news show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, I encourage you to try it out. And in particular, I encourage you to click this link to yesterday's show and then click on the Singer-Songwriter Roseanne Cash Plays Not My Job segment. Hopefully you will be as delighted as I was. I won’t tell you why. I’ll only say that it’s nice to have delightful, thoughtful, and generous friends in high places – in this case, David’s running buddy Ian who is a producer of the show.

It took a couple of days longer than I expected, but my hair indeed is starting to fall out in a serious kind of way. My head has been tingling the last couple of days. Yesterday, if I tugged a few loose hairs came off. Today, the shower drain produced a hairball that rivaled my cat’s best efforts. So far, you wouldn’t really notice a difference by looking at me, but the hairs continue to fall and I bet tomorrow or the next day will be a different story.

I've had a nice couple of days with my sister Ellen. She's joined me on lakefront walks and whipped my garden into better shape, which is awfully nice of her considering that's kind of a busman's holiday for her. The best thing we did was to take the Chicago Architecture Foundation's boat tour of buildings along the Chicago River. What a lovely way to spend a Saturday morning! Even if we did have to run to catch the boat because our bus got detoured off the Drive. Ah well -- nice that I can run again, even for a short sprint.