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The stuff about me and my life. The “diary” side of blogging.

Year 50 Day 202

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Me outside our front door, crouching next to a corner with a number of fall-themed gnome figurines gathered around a couple plastic pumpkins. There is one figurine of Santa, holding a tree and with a hat that looks like a mushroom.

Day 202: We’ve had the fall-themed gnomes out front since just after Halloween, but this weekend they were joined by a new figurine — a new gnome who is a little more excited about the next major holiday following Thanksgiving.

Year 50 Day 201

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A wide-angle shot of me, wearing black pants and a grey t-shirt with a design of a pixel art sheep plugged into an electrical socket, standing in front of four bookcases packed to overflowing with books and knickknacks. A skeleton sits in a chair to one side.

Day 201: As with many Sundays, an uneventful day at home, so here’s a fuller view of the wall of my home office that often appears behind me in photos. From left to right, the bookcases are: comics, graphic novels, nonfiction and non-genre fiction; two cases of Star Trek (with my Star Trek video collection stored on top); and two cases of non-Trek science fiction and fantasy. The skeleton is a Halloween decoration that will eventually get tucked away, but for now sits in that chair and startles me every time I walk into the room.

Year 50 Day 200

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Me with a goofy smile and raised eyebrows, holding a piece of Tortino's pizza.

Day 200: Science still hasn’t determined the cause of the occasional craving for the tasty tasty cardboard goodness of a Totino’s Party Pizza, but when it hits, it hits.

Year 50 Day 199

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Me in front of our living room window, with light in the sky and the sun setting through the trees.

Day 199: We actually made it home while the sun was still up today! It wasn’t a bad week, but it was a long one, and we’re both happy to be at the weekend and looking forward to the long weekend next week.

📚 Uncanny Issue 55 edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Monte Lin, and Betsy Aoki

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63/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️

My favorites this issue were Naomi Kritzer’s “The Year Without Sunshine”, Cecil Castelluci’s “We’re Looking for the Best”, and John Scalzi’s “Speed Racer’s Long Road”, which actually has me thinking about rewatching Speed Racer, which I haven’t seen since it first hit video.

Me holding Uncanny Issue 55

Year 50 Day 195

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Me holding a bit of candy shaped roughly like a person, red, and dusted with a white powder. I have a slightly skeptical expression on my face.

Day 195: We continue to work our way through treats we brought back from London. Today’s experiment: Jelly Babies. We’ve decided they’re weird. Not bad, but definitely on the weird side of things. They look like a gummy candy, but then the outside is a little tougher than expected, and the inside is quite a bit gooshier than expected.