Michael Hanscom

Enthusiastic ambivert. Geeky, liberal, friendly, curious, hopepunk; trying to be a good person. (he/him)

Year 50 Day 155

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Me on our back porch, with lots of small orange lights strung across like a web.

Day 155: The other bit of lights we put up are these orange strings all across our back porch. Mostly only visible to us, but can just be glimpsed from the street if someone glances over at just the right time as they drive by.

Year 50 Day 153

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Me in front of our house with the halloween lights I put up yesterday glowing. There are purple and orange strings along one side, and glowing green, orange, and purple spiders along another.

Day 153: Since yesterday’s shot of me putting up our Halloween lights was taken during the day, I figured one taken after sundown tonight to show them lit up was in order. Much more impressive this way!

Spooky Season Redesign

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Just because I can, and I haven’t done anything like this in ages, I’ve given my blog a minor redesign for spooky season. Just color and font tweaks, nothing major, and this site is so low-traffic that I doubt many people other than me will notice, but hey — that’s okay too.

Screenshot of this blog, showing the design with pumpkin-y ornages and yellows, and headers using classic creepy fonts.

Enjoy spooky season, everyone! Less than a month until Goth Christmas! ;)

📚 The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

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54/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1991 Hugo Best Novel

Miles’s adventures continue, with all the twists, fun characters, double-crosses, and humor that make this series so enjoyable. The adventure is fun, but it really is the characters and how they relate to each other that impress the most. Four books in, and so far the only disappointment is that I didn’t find this series earlier.

Me holding The Vor Game

Year 50 Day 149

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Me sitting on a small outdoor stairway, with bushes and trees in the background, some of which are starting to turn fall colors.

Day 149: Sat and waited outside for a few minutes as my wife wrapped up her day. While we’ve definitely been getting the fall rains for a few days now, it’s nice to see the fall colors starting to come in around campus as well.

Year 50 Day 148

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Me on a running track, with a flock of Canadian geese snacking in the grass in the center of the track.

Day 148: Back walking on the track again, but this time, with company! The geese kept an eye on me, but didn’t seem terribly concerned. Probably because they know they can kick my butt if they want.

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