Year 50

Year 50 Day 255

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Me on our couch, wrapped up to my chin in a black-and-white plaid blanket.

Day 255: Seattle’s having a bit of a cold snap, and it’s currently just 18° F outside, which is not nearly enough degrees. We need more degrees. Can we have our degrees back, please?

Year 50 Day 254

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Me on the balcony outside my office, overlooking trees, athletic fields, and water in the distance, all well lit under a bright blue sky with wispy white clouds.

Day 254: After a week of panic and dire predictions, the first expected Snowpocalypse of 2024 appears to be more of a Snowpoca-whoops. Grey skies in the morning gave way to a gorgeous (though cold and windy) afternoon and evening. Of course, now that I’ve mocked the weather, that will probably be the trigger event, and I’ll wake up tomorrow morning to find myself trapped under a ten-inch blanket of snow….

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Year 50 Day 251

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Me sitting in my home office, with a green screen curtain to my right and shelves of books behind me, looking at my computer.

Day 251: Just a quiet Monday working from home. Today’s the first day of classes for the quarter, so there was plenty to do, it just all pretty much looked like this.

Year 50 Day 250

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Me kicked back on our living room couch.

Day 250: While I’m still quite good with going out for a night dancing at a club, it is nice to be fine with taking the next day to be far less active than I would have done in my 20s. After a few morning errands, the rest of the day was devoted lying around and watching a dumb movie and the silly TV shows we like.

Year 50 Day 249

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Me, in red/pnk/purple lighting, sitting on a booth in a goth club, wearing a t-shirt with a parody of the Joy Division ‘Unknown Pleasures’ art that says ‘Nimoy Division’ with the squiggles forming the Vulcan salute.

Day 249: Day 249: Out at Seattle’s goth club the Mercury with friends for their Caturday night of musical randomness – my first time since June? July? Something like that. Madonna and Lady Gaga got the evening off to a good start, later followed by Pet Shop Boys, Apoptygma Berzerk, Justin Timberlake, VNV Nation, Wreckx-N-Effect, Debbie Gibson, ABBA, and much more bouncing between stompygoth and random silliness. Good night out!

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Year 50 Day 248

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Me standing outside in front of the new front entrance sign for Highline College, a large sign in the center of a roundabout with just-planted plants around it.

Day 248: The new main entrance to Highline College isn’t quite done yet, but is looking much better! One of the weird things about this campus has always been that it didn’t really have an obvious main entrance, so this is going to be a very nice change when it’s done. (Even more so once the new light rail station across the street goes into operation sometime in, um, 2025, I think?)

Year 50 Day 247

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Me in my work office, wearing a retro bowling shirt style button up in TOS Starfleet gold, with the delta shield logo on the breast pocket, and three black stripes running down the right side.

Day 247: Our department leadership team took a group photo today, so I made sure to dress in my usual subtle and understated manner. Also, while the black stripes work for the retro bowling shirt design style, on the TOS gold background, I look like a Starfleet Academy PeeChee folder.

Year 50 Day 246

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Me on our living room couch, wearing a t-shirt that says 'something wicked this way comes'.

Day 246: It’s another “forgot to take a picture until I was at home flopped out on the couch” day. But hey, I’m wearing a cool shirt that I got at The Globe in London during our trip over the summer!