Year 50 Day 10

Me standing on an outside balcony wearing a grey cap, black short-sleeve button-up shirt with thick grey stripes, a black utility kilt, black socks, and black Converse.

Day 10: One definite benefit to working in academia is a more permissive dress code than many corporate jobs allow. And as the temperature approaches 80° F, I’m quite happy to take advantage of that.

📚 Cast No Shadow by James Swallow

24/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Set seven years after the events of Star Trek VI, this does a good job of fleshing out Valeris and exploring the motivations and rationale behind her actions. It also follows up on some of the practical and political fallout for the Klingon empire of the events in the film. Definitely one of the stronger Trek novels I’ve read.

Me holding Cast No Shadow

Year 50 Day 6

Me, slightly smiling, standing in front of a bookcase and wearing a black Back to the Future t-shirt.

Day 6: Definitely feeling better than yesterday. Getting a full night’s sleep helped. As did not having to file a police incident report. (And I know it’s mean to tease, but that’s as much of the story as you’re getting right now.)

Year 50 Day 3

Me in front of a rack of AV gear wearing a dark green short-sleeve button-up shirt with cartoon frogs as the pattern.

Day 3: A long and tiring day of running around making sure captions work and doing impromptu tech support for professional development day at work. The frog shirt is another birthday addition.