The U.S. government shutdown continued this week. John, along with his colleagues around the world, continues to work, albeit without pay for now. The goats that came through the neighborhood on Wednesday did not seem to care. Nor did Flavia.
The week was pretty normal. As I did my daily walk around the neighborhood, I started listening to “Careless People,” by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Subtitled “A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” it’s a behind-the-scenes story of Facebook in its infancy by an employee (and former diplomat from New Zealand).
I had a fun catch-up call with Stacie in Paris on Wednesday. I worked on planning a trip to NYC in the spring, as well as a trip to the Amazon. John and I watched “The Woman in Cabin 10” this week, plus the old Inspector Linley series on PBS. Tonight we had a fun and tasty dinner at the Brazilian steakhouse near our house with Chris and his wife Mariella. I finished reading Hampton Sides’ captivating “In the Kingdom of Ice,” about the USS Jeanette and her ill-fated attempt to get to the North Pole from the Bering Strait in 1879 – 1882. It was fascinating and haunting.
