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Sunday at the co-op, I got whacked in the eye by a falling carton of sour cream. The top carton of a stack of two. I was trying to get it down from a high shelf in the cooler, without stepping on the edge of the cooler opening like I usually do. Don’t know why I was shy about it. Somehow I thought I could pull the bottom carton forward and the top would fall, and I would catch it before I got hit. Didn’t work nearly as well as I thought it would. I think it kinda bent my glasses, and my nose is a little sore on that side, but I’ve been meaning to go get the glasses adjusted anyhow. This is my new pair, plastic on top, metal on the bottom, that has the little nose pads that the people at Warby Parker recommended to keep my glasses up on my narrow nose. I think the right one needs to get bent back into position.<\/p>\n

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PS, on Monday I went and got my glasses adjusted and they’re all fine now. Even my nose isn’t sore anymore. <\/p>\n

I think I have a bunch of stuff I’ve been forgetting to tell you.<\/p>\n

We’ve taken two trips to Chicago since I last wrote. A week ago Sunday we went down for a symphony concert and before the concert met John and Megan for lunch at Handlebar<\/a>. It was kind of a light concert for the last Sunday in May.<\/p>\n

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CSO May 31, 2026<\/p><\/div>\n

I only took one picture on this trip, coming in a minute. Not my food at Handlebar, but we sat outside, where it’s a lot quieter than inside, and I had a sandwich with smoked mushrooms and a hunk of grilled pineapple in it. And hibiscus tea. It was all good.<\/p>\n

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Somebody else’s photo of the patio at Handlebar<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the one photo I took, a sign advertising Lurie Children’s Hospital, with a white doctor and a Black kid. It bothers me. It seems like Lurie Hospital does not know about the golliwog<\/a>. I mean I expect they were going for a picture of a cute kid, but to me it does not look like that. But it seems to be just me; I don’t see anything in Chicago news or reddit threads or anyone complaining about the signs. <\/p>\n

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Lurie Children’s Hospital ad<\/p><\/div>\n

We also went to Chicago last Friday, the first Friday in June. We had lunch at Gotham and I had a non-cardiologist approved BEC, on a whole wheat bagel, but I don’t suppose that helped much. AND I ate the pickle – another no-no.<\/p>\n

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Gotham Bagels bacon, egg, and cheddar<\/p><\/div>\n

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We rode in one of the newer train cars on the way down, and the windows are much less blue. I thought about taking a better picture of the Lurie ad when it went past again, but didn’t do it<\/p><\/div>\n

The closing symphony of the season was with Wynton Marsalis’ Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Maren Alsop conducting<\/a>. It was a great show and quite full for a Friday matinee. We were a lot closer than we’d been when we saw them last January<\/a>, but I couldn’t see Wynton at all. He was in the back with the other trumpets. And I didn’t realize it at the time, but the encore we got, the June 5 show, was by the (recently) late Sonny Rollins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the way home, I took pictures of rays of sun filtering down over Hwy 14.<\/p>\n

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Last week was also different because I had Jasper Tuesday and Thursday, after nursery school, instead of Wednesday. Emma’s parents were out of town, so not only did I have him two days, I had the awesome responsibility of picking him up on the last day of school.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, I didn’t take any pictures, but on Thursday both Emma and I did, and school gave us the beginning of the year photo back, too. <\/p>\n

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Emma’s shot of him running to school that morning<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jasper’s beginning of the school year picture from his nursery school<\/p><\/div>\n

My pictures from when we got home. I packed a picnic and went with the bike trailer to get Jasper, but he didn’t want to go to the park, so we moved our picnic to the porch. Later we went to the pool and got ice cream on the way home. <\/p>\n\n\t\t