Year 50

Year 50 Day 185

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Me with a skeptical expression, next to a painting of a man who looks very much like, but is not, Teddy Roosevelt, smoking a cigar at a bar, with a drink and a gavel in front of him.

Day 185: We ran away to the Elks Temple McMenamins in Tacoma to celebrate my wife’s birthday (and my half-birthday). This gent graces the wall in our room, and, despite appearances, is not Teddy Roosevelt.

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Year 50 Day 184

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Me standing outside in front of a large tree with orangey-red fall leaves, with other trees in fall colors in the background, and lots of leaves on the ground and scattered across the wet pavement of a walkway.

Day 184: It was quite the rainy and blustery day today. Calmed a bit by the time we were leaving, but I’m glad this was a day when I didn’t have to go running around campus.

Year 50 Day 183

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A black-and-white selfie of me, a white man with very short cropped hair and greying beard, wearing silver half-rim eyeglasses and a black t-shirt, looking off to the right of the photo with a neutral expression.

Day 183: Nothing of particular interest today, except that an evening throwaway “gotta post something” picture turned into one I actually kinda like. Might want to try to remember what I did for this and try again after I’ve done my usual monthly trim and de-scruffing.

Year 50 Day 180

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Me at the foot of a bed with several small piles of folded and unfolded laundry; I have my arms outstretched and am in the midst of folding a large purple fitted sheet.

Day 180: While we share laundry duties, folding sheets is always my responsibility. Partly because my arms are long enough to do it more easily, and partly because I have, if not mastered, at least approximated the dark art of folding fitted sheets.

Year 50 Day 179

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Me sitting in front of a black metal free-standing fireplace in the corner of our living room; logs are burning in the fireplace.

Day 179: With this cold snap hitting the Seattle area, it was the perfect morning to build our first fire of the season and relax with books while listening to the crackle and pop of the logs as the living room warms up.

Year 50 Day 178

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Me in my work office, wearing a black short-sleeve button-up shirt with orange jack-o-lanterns printed on it.

Day 178: My final week-before-Halloween work shirt has Jack-o-lanterns, some wearing witch’s hats. The skeletons and skulls from earlier in the week are shirts that I wear year-round, this one is one that I’ll likely only wear close to Halloween.

Year 50 Day 177

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Me in a hospital examination room, masked, and wearing a black button-up short-sleeve shirt with large cute cartoon skulls on it.

Day 177: Back at the hospital again, but for entirely mundane reasons: time for my annual physical. I continue to be medically unremarkable. Everything looks good, all tests in normal range, nothing to report, you’re healthy, go home, come back in a year. Sounds good to me! Also, today’s pre-Halloween week work shirt: big cute (and sometimes beribboned or beflowered) skulls.