I had my podiatrist appointment today. Really nice doc, great exam room manner. After talking and poking my foot (no pain, no pain, OWWWWWWWWWWWWW), he diagnosed it as an inter-metatarsal neuroma, aka a pissed off nerve bundle. So a cortisone shot later and things are improved. I even went to karate after - just punched things. I go back to the doc in 3 weeks but he said it should be "back to normal" by this weekend.

it was maybe a law-jargon thing rather than a regional thing?

I would have thought so, but the two people asking me were law librarians too

There's a baby bird in the nest under my deck! I think it might be a robin, cause there was an anxious robin hanging around yelling at us. I always thought the nest was empty from last year, but Pumpkin was sniffing predatorily on the deck just above it, so I peered down in there and sure enough! Doesn't even appear to have fuzz yet. Gonna see if I can get a picture.

do you know what the term "burner phone" means

Yes, but I hang out with people who are active in social justice things and are hackers of one sort or another.

Is softcopy an electronic copy

It's a commonly used term at every tech company I've been at.

Dead groundhog found on a path at work. Flies buzzing all around it.

Except.

It wasn't actually dead. So Ed director and I went out to move it with a wheelbarrow and a very large shovel, and a very little shovel.

Ed director felt compelled to put it out of its misery.

Now, I'm of the mind to let things die like they would if not happened upon by humans. And I told her that if she had nightmares, it was all her fault.

She brained it, I scooped it, tossed it deep in the woods. We pinky-promised to not tell the environmental educator, who was appalled that she was killing the 17 year cicadas in their death throes on the driveway.

I bet that's it. It's a tech term, which the Silicon Valley lawyers here adopted.

Considering that hard copy means paper, I would deduce that soft copy meant digital, whether or not that was a familiar term (which it's not).

TWO baby birds. And definitely robins, I just saw one fly up under there with a worm and heard peeping, No pictures, can't reach it without a ladder from below. Exciting!

I can see them through the slats, so I put an old sign over the gaps so they don't get dripped on.

Yeah, I would've guessed soft copy back formed from hard copy, but I've never ever heard it used.

Juliebird, yay raise!!!!

There's a baby bird in the nest under my deck!

I read this as under your DESK, so I was a little confused at first.