Livestream Benefit Concert Sunday Evening

Gwyndyn and Jonathan are a couple who have suffered a series of misfortunes lately, and money is being raised to help them pay their bills and make their next mortgage payment. I admit that I cannot testify of my own knowledge to the accuracy of what has been posted, but I have chipped in some of my own money to help. Beth Patterson will be giving a livestream concert Sunday at 7:00 PM, so I thought I would post the link.

If you would like to hear some music (I don’t know just what kind), or are willing and able to spare a few dollars for a couple who are down on their luck, see the link. Money is also being raised on GoFundMe, so you can read about the case, and donate if you are moved to do so, there.

The Red Queen’s Race

This past week, two new amendments showed up, so I now have three amendments on my Amended docket.

I didn’t do much with any of these amendments, but I did post an Office Action on my oldest Regular New application Monday. I also found two cases assigned to my Special New docket, and last night, I finished and posted an Office Action on the higher priority one of them. This brings the second quarter to a successful close, in the sense that my production for the second quarter is good, and my production for the combined first and second quarters, the first half of Fiscal Year 2024, is adequate to let me keep my job.

This called for a bit of a celebration, so last night I ate dinner, which comprised black bean chili with guacamole (I had made it Wednesday evening, and this was the third and final serving of it), a salad, and then thin mint Girl Scout cookies. In celebration, I poured a glass of tawny port (almost the last of the bottle, which I have had for years), and drank that as a dessert wine. I wonder what some well-to-do eighteenth or nineteenth century Englishman would have thought of port wine with Girl Scout cookies.