The Red Queen’s Race

This week, I found two cases on my Expedited docket, one of them a minor correction to an allowed application, and the other a new Information Disclosure Statement for me to consider after allowance; I dealt with both of them with celerity, and no longer have any Expedited cases. Another amendment appeared on my Amended docket; I completed and posted Office Actions on two of my older amendments and on the new one, so I am down from having four items on my Amended docket to having just two.

I also did some work on a Regular New case that may or may not be my oldest Regular New next biweek.

The end of the quarter and Fiscal Year approach, with less than two months to get my production up.

“Biscotti”

Emerging from the supermarket a few hours ago, I saw an older woman with a tricolor beagle, and asked if I might become acquainted. Although some of the local beagles do not reciprocate my interest in being friends, this hound, whose name is Biscotti, seemed to enjoy being petted, and climbed my left leg, scratching my knee a little before finding a better place for her paws on my shorts.

I told the lady about my childhood buddy Rex, also a tricolor beagle, and she said that Biscotti was a lab rescue, who had been used for breeding. I mentioned that we had adopted Rex from the Pennsylvania SPCA.