Events

I had a maddening experience last week in this app's dev/test environment: Azure Table Storage stopped working. But it only stopped for table storage, and only in one storage account. I tried everything I could think of to reach it, but it stubbornly refused all read and write requests, even though it allowed me to list the tables. So I could see the tables but not what was in them. This seemed a lot like an authorization problem both to Google's and Anthropic's AIs, and I could find nothing by...

In a happy coincidence with my activities yesterday, it turns out that today is the 150th anniversary of the first cross-country express train, which pulled into San Francisco on 4 June 1876 after a 4-day trip from New York City. Tickets cost $40 for third class (about $1,245 today) up to over $100 in first class ($3,112 today).

As promised, here are some photos of Big Boy 4014 from yesterday:

I had planned today to see the Big Boy locomotive, visit two new Brews & Choos locations on the same train line, and end up at Aba for their transcendent tamarind BBQ pork belly bites.

Stephan Pastis toots Tuesday to start the day as well. Elsewhere:

This is the MV , a 306-meter (1,004-foot) bulk carrier steaming south on Lake Michigan:

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.