My week-long vacation begins in just over an hour, and boy am I thrilled. Andy and I will start things off right with a free concert of Mahler at Millennium Park this evening. There’ll be a nice bottle of chilled rose and a picnic basket from Pastoral. Tomorrow I’ll do some writing work so that the week ahead is all clear. Sunday afternoon we pick up the rental car, and Monday we’ll drive to Saugatuck. Return on Friday with a swing through the IKEA in Bolingbrook. 

There’ll be some changes made by this time next week. But I can’t write about that yet.