Year 50

Year 50 Day 104

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Me in a sleeper cabin on a train. An Amtrak station flying a Montana flag is visible through the window behind me.

Day 104: Our train has made it to Glacier Park, Montana. Sitting in our private sleeper cabin and watching the country roll by outside the window is proving to be an incredibly pleasant and relaxing way to travel.

Year 50 Day 103

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My wife and I, both masked, standing in Seattle’s King Street Station train station, all old white marble and ornate white ceilings. Behind and above us is an Amtrak departures board.

Day 103: It’s adventure time! We’re heading off for our summer vacation. Where to? You’ll just have to wait and see. First step: Seattle’s historic King Street Station, so I suppose it’s a little obvious that we’re getting on a train….

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Year 50 Day 102

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Me standing in front of an in-ground pool on a sunny day. On the far side of the pool is a sheltered area decorated for a party. People can be seen chatting, standing or sitting near the pool, some in the sun, some in the shade.

Day 102: Got to have a very pleasant afternoon with friends at one of those very rare locations: A Seattle-area home with a private outdoor, in-ground swimming pool! Didn’t hop in for a swim, but it was really nice to sit and chat while dabbling my feet in the pool.

Year 50 Day 101

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Me sitting on a grey couch, processed to look like comic book artwork.

Day 101: Another one of those days where we spent the day puttering around at home, doing nothing particularly interesting or photogenic, so I resort to finding a filter to give yet another shot of me on the couch some small level of interest.

Year 50 Day 99

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Me sitting on a couch, looking down and concentrating on sewing a button onto a shirt.

Day 99: Sewing isn’t a particular skill of mine, or something I do very often, but I did manage (with some instruction from my wife) to sew a wayward button back onto a shirt. A small triumph, perhaps, but a triumph!

Year 50 Day 98

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Me standing in a strip mall parking lot in front of Rose Bakery, holding a small container of cake.

Day 98: Over the weekend when running errands we saw a local bakery that we hadn’t noticed before, so today on my way home from work I stopped by to pick up a couple pieces of cake for dessert. Verdict: tasty! We’ll likely go back sometime when they have a larger selection, as it was a bit sparse at 5 in the afternoon.

Year 50 Day 97

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Me sitting in a chair in front of a bookcase, with boxes for Star Trek glassware and a pizza cutter in the shape of the original Enterprise in my lap, holding the pizza cutter.

Day 97: At yesterday’s Norwescon picnic, I got a couple fun gifts from one of my friends. A full set of Star Trek glassware, with four glasses representing different planets and a shot glass representing a Borg cube, and a very cool but terribly impractical pizza cutter in the shape of the original NCC-1701 USS Enterprise. My friends know me well!