Day 290: “Let’s cuddle and talk about Star Trek”. What better way to spend a Friday evening? ;)
Michael Hanscom
Year 50 Day 289
Day 289: An unexpected work conversation:
“Michael! My computer’s on fire!”
“What?!”
“I can’t touch it and it smells like burning!”
The computer hadn’t gone to sleep properly when unplugged and closed before being dropped into its computer bag to sit for an hour while class was being taught…so it just sat in its bag and overheated itself.
Thankfully, after a couple hours of cooling off, it booted, apparently none the worse for wear (or, at least, not enough worse as to prevent it from working).
I’m used to being the office ad-hoc “so we don’t have to call IT” IT person. But I certainly wasn’t expecting to hear “my computer’s on fire” when I came in to work today.
📚 Aftershock by John Vornholt
15/2024 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A few years after the first book in this TOS Starfleet Academy trio, McCoy is at the Academy’s medical program and ends up being paired with cadet Spock for a disaster relief mission. But somehow these earthquakes don’t seem to be entirely natural…. Not bad, though both McCoy and Spock perhaps felt a bit too much like their adult selves rather than less mature versions.
Year 50 Day 288
Day 288: Got a number of compliments on both my shirt (X’s and O’s and the occasional heart) and shoes (bright, all-over pink Converse) today. Just right for Valentine’s Day!
Year 50 Day 287
Day 287: I got asked today if the design on my shirt was donuts or bagels. It’s definitely donuts. Nothing against bagels! I like bagels. But as a fashion choice, I definitely go for donuts.
📚 Crisis on Vulcan by Brad and Barbara Strickland
14/2024 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A short YA book set in Spock’s teenage years, as he joins Sarek on a diplomatic mission that becomes more dangerous than expected, and Spock finds that there may be a different path for him than the Vulcan Science Academy.
Year 50 Day 286
Day 286: Just lounging around between the end of the workday and dinner. Got lots done today, but as with many workdays, it wasn’t terribly photogenic.
Year 50 Day 285
Day 285: Y’all can have your superb owl. We woke up, had breakfast, went back to sleep for a while, and then after some minor home chores, made ourselves some treats by dipping things in chocolate (Ritz crackers and pretzels, to be specific). Now we’re going to find something non-superb owl-ish to doze in front of for a while.
📚 Clarkesworld Issue 209 edited by Neil Clarke
13/2024 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Standouts this month are “The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin” by Zohar Jacobs, “Kardashev’s Palimpsest” by David Goodman, “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim, and “Lonely Ghosts” by Meghan Feldman.
Year 50 Day 284
Day 284: Back at the DoubleTree for today’s Norwescon planning meeting. In addition to much better weather than last month, we had heat in the meeting room as well! Much more comfortable all around. And since we usually meet on the top floor of the hotel’s tower, the elevators have a really nice view of the hotel property.