Rabbit

As I was taking a walk yesterday evening, I found myself walking behind a rabbit. (Fortunately for the rabbit, this wasn’t forty years ago, so I was not accompanied by a beagle.) He would scamper a bit, then freeze, which might have made him hard to spot in a meadow, especially in the late twilight, but he was on a sidewalk much lighter than his own fur. As I approached, he would would run a little further, and freeze again.

Finally, I spoke, telling him that I didn’t mean to chase him, but —

I don’t suppose that he understood, but this time, he scampered forward and to the left, slipping through a gap in a fence, and onto someone’s lawn.

I continued my walk without, so far as I am aware, further distressing any small herbivores.

The Red Queen’s Race

This is an early end to the workweek, since tomorrow I will take sick leave to go to the dentist for a third and, I hope, final round of gum surgery. No amendments appeared this week, and I didn’t work on any, so I still have two amendments on my Amended docket, and one Board decision on my Special Amended docket.

I worked on the same Regular New case I was working on last week, and didn’t finish it, so I turned to a different case, my current oldest Regular New. I should be able to get out an Office Action on this one by the middle of next week, and then return to the other new case I’ve been working on.