Day 150: This is what happens when a coworker is cleaning off their shelves and comes to the office with a box of free-for-the-taking DVDs.
Year 50 Day 149
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
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.
Year 50 Day 147
Day 147: Managed to catch a few minutes at the end of my lunch between bouts of rain to head out and take a few laps around the track. I discovered a while ago that walking down the three floors from my office to the building entrance, down the hill to the track, three laps around the track, and back to the building and back up the stairs ends up just under 1.2 miles. With my headphones on and listening to my “quick” exercise mix (songs between 125 and 130 BPM), I can generally get that done in just under 20 minutes. Not a bad mid-day exercise break at all.
Year 50 Day 146
Day 146: Mondays are my work-from-home days, which don’t always lend themselves to terribly interesting “here’s what I did today” photos. So, well, here’s what you’d see if you were hanging out in my home office watching me work. Except for the times when I’m turning around, looking at you quizzically, and asking what the heck you’re doing in my home.
Year 50 Day 145
Day 145: Got lots of chores and housework done, and still managed to spend a very pleasant amount of my day curled up with a good book. Great way to spend a rainy fall day.
📚 The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
53/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This series continues to surprise and satisfy me. Lots of adventure that’s somehow both ridiculously improbable and entirely believable within the story, and characters that feel much more real than in many other books. There’s an underlying humor throughout, but also manages to handle resolving one troubled character’s fate in a way that respects their past and the present they had built. I’m increasingly glad my Hugo reading project started me reading these books.
Year 50 Day 144
Day 144: Munching on some of the candy we brought back from England. These are Squashies, raspberry-flavored marshmallow chewy things. Pretty tasty!
Year 50 Day 143
Day 143: My part of the last day of opening week: campus cleanup duty! Last year, my most interesting find was what appeared to be a full suitcase’s worth of women’s clothing. This year, it was a full dozen 22-oz. Heineken beer bottles in the same basic spot; apparently someone in the apartment building on the other side of the fence has a pretty serious “drink it dry and chuck it over the fence” habit going on.
Year 50 Day 142
Day 142: Stopping by my wife’s office in one of Highline’s older buildings. While it’s in poor shape and is scheduled to be demolished and replaced in the next few years, I really do like these funky old ’60s buildings. It’s definitely ready to go, and not worth trying to renovate to modern standards, but I’ll be a little sad to see some of the old character of the campus disappear.