Events

The cold front that pushed through yesterday has moved north again, giving us this today: As you can see from this map, we're now in the warm sector of a classic continental low circulation: When the low pressure center passes over us later today, the temperature will plummet once again, and we might actually have a few snow flurries. Because, you know, it's March.

Welcome to a special stop on the Brews and Choos project. Brewery: Tennessee Brew Works, 809 Ewing Ave., Nashville, Tenn.4 starsTrain line: Wego Train, Riverfront Nashville Time from Chicago: 2 hoursDistance from station: 1.7 km Neither Tennessee Brew Works nor New Heights Brewing is a particularly pleasant walk from the WeGo station, but I would visit both of them again. TBW decided to give us two drink tokens each instead of worrying about pouring and distributing 40 flights. I chose two of their...

Good thing I was inside and could close the windows when the temperature dropped 8.3°C (15°F) between 3:35 and 4:35 pm: I got the dogs out around 2 (I'm dogsitting Butters again), and they have fur coats, so they did not mind at all. It's now just over 9°C outside with a forecast low of 5°C tonight, yet I had the windows open last night. Spring in Chicago continues apace.

Welcome to a special stop on the Brews and Choos project. Brewery: New Heights Brewing, 928 Rep. John Lewis Way S., Nashville, Tenn.4 starsTrain line: Wego Train, Riverfront Nashville Time from Chicago: 2 hoursDistance from station: 2 km I had the option to go to two breweries and get some good ol' Southern BBQ as the team-building activity during my work conference this past week. We started with New Heights Brewing, which I had already identified as a possible Brews & Choos destination before I knew...

But I must, must share this ad from Canada's Liberal Party. Wait for the end:

I completed two surveys related to my work conference this week. The first one included the question, "To confirm that you are still reading this, please select 'Disagree.'" The second one assigned point values to the multiple-choice questions, so that the three items I answered "Somewhat OK" instead of "Excellent" brought my grade down to a B-minus. These are the kinds of things that make one wonder how valuable the survey data really is. Meanwhile, I've got a ton of things to do today, including...

I've had a good conference. For a variety of reasons, today will be my busiest; usually Thursday has just one or two things and a flight home. Regular posting will resume tomorrow.

The Wednesday schedule for this work conference is always the fullest, so I don't have a lot of time to post. One of the teams I manage started the day at Nashville's best breakfast spot, Biscuit Love, which means I don't have to eat again until April. And since we met in the hotel lobby just 15 minutes after sunrise, I got to wake up to this: Again, kudos to the conference organization staff and the hotel for giving me exactly the room that I wanted. Meanwhile, Cassie seems to be doing all right: I am...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who you should remember as a Fox News presenter with no knowledge of the military, added Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat on the only-kind-of-secure messaging app Signal: On Tuesday, March 11, I received a connection request on Signal from a user identified as Michael Waltz. Signal is an open-source encrypted messaging service popular with journalists and others who seek more privacy than other text-messaging services are capable of delivering. I...

Having the morning free, and having a lot of cool air and sun, I took a quick stroll around Nashville. I'll have more later, but for now, here's the Tennessee State Capitol, apparently under construction: Of course, since the Tennessee General Assembly has a well-Gerrymandered 75-24 Republican majority, I would expect they're actually deconstructing the Capitol. But whatever. I also passed by Riverfront Station, the downtown terminus of Nashville's adorable little 6-times-a-day toy commuter train: It...