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Year 50 Day 323

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Me, wearing black t-shirt and hoodie, in a hallway at home, smiling.

Day 323: Got my “don’t forget you’re checking in for Norwescon in a week” email from the hotel today…not that I’d forgotten. It’s officially one week from con! (At least, it is if you’re one of the people who show up on Wednesday.)

Year 50 Day 322

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Me outside on a sunny day, walking around a sports track, wearing a light hoodie over a black shirt with daisies printed on it.

Day 322: I hope everyone had a good first day of spring! The weather here was great (sunny and 60° F), so I got back out on the track for a lunchtime walk, which I hadn’t done in far too long.

Year 50 Day 321

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Me on the couch with a goofy amused smile, and with my wife’s foot next to my head.

Day 321: What was going to be just another “me on the couch” shot was infinitely improved by the sudden appearance of my wife’s foot by my head. I’ve been foot-o-bombed!

Year 50 Day 318

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Me holding the 4K release of The Abyss.

Day 318: It’s Abyss day! The Abyss has long been a favorite film of mine (particularly the special edition cut), but the best quality release it’s had for years was the 2000 DVD release, which was a non-anamorphic presentation. Even at the time that was a disappointment, but as the years passed, and there was no word of an anamorphic release, and then no word of a Blu-ray release, it got more disappointing. As recently as 2020, many people figured that was all we’d ever get. So it’s quite exciting to finally have it released and in my hands!

Amusingly, it’ll likely be next weekend before I actually watch it. My only 4K drive is attached to my computer, and I use it to rip movies, not watch them directly. So before I can watch it, I have to get it onto my media server, and my particular process is, admittedly, somewhat time-consuming (rip both versions of the film in both 4K and HD, plus all the special features in whatever quality they are, extract the subtitles from all of them, OCR and correct the subtitles, compress the .mkv files to .m4p, and move everything onto the media server). I’ve waited 24 years for a better release, I can wait another week.

Year 50 Day 316

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Me standing in the sun outside, wearing a black jacket, in front of trees and a small hill.

Day 316: While still not as warm as I’d like, the weather has improved some. And while having to head to IT to get a Chromebook logged into our WiFi network wasn’t the most exciting way to spend half an hour, it did briefly get me out into the sun!

Year 50 Day 315

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Me on my work balcony overlooking trees and sports fields, with storm clouds in half the sky and fluffy white clouds in the other half.

Day 315: The weather today kept alternating between cold, windy, and rainy, and cold, windy, and sunny. I popped out on the balcony during one of the transitional moments.

Year 50 Day 314

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Me holding a can of Canada Dry Fruit Splash Zero Sugar.

Day 314: Y’know, if my birthday was on May 6, then day 314 of this project would have ended up on 3/14, and it would have been a double π day celebration! But that’s not the case. So instead, you get me with a can of Canada Dry Fruit Splash Zero Sugar, which we just found at the store, and it’s pretty good. Almost the same taste as Cherry 7-Up, but with the ginger base instead of the lemon-lime base.