Monday, Monday

Good morning from a very rainy Pittsburgh! After 21 days without measurable rain (the ninth longest dry stretch in history, according to the meteorologists), we finally had some come through late yesterday, and it looks like it will be wet here for most of the day. It has been so dry here that I don't mind the gloom or that I'll either have to put off my run by a day or get wet.

We had a pretty relaxing weekend here. We had a bar mitzvah to go to on Saturday morning and then walked up to a restaurant in our neighborhood for dinner, so I only did a bit of knitting for Worldwide Knit in Public Day (but then I knit in public all the time, so it's not such a big deal for me). And yesterday we got together with some friends at their parents' pool for a couple of hours before the rain moved in. Thanks to all that knitting time, I am more than halfway done with my mother-in-law's socks:

It's hard to see, but I've already started the heel on the second sock. Shortie socks are so good for instant gratification! I did wind off some yarn so I could start the second sock in the same place in the striping sequence, so I hope the two socks will more or less match.

Today should be a pretty typical Monday for me, aside from the rain. I do have a long weekend ahead of me, though: I'm taking a day off on Friday (one of my two annual personal days before it disappears at the end of the month) ahead of the Taylor Swift concert that evening, and then my office is closed next Monday for Juneteenth. At some point before Friday I have to do my annual self-appraisal for work, which is positively my least favorite thing to do -- I literally do the same thing, day in, day out, so I really don't have anything original to say each year; I always joke that one day I'm just going to write, "I found the mistakes and I fixed them."

Hope your Monday is a good one!