{"id":51197,"date":"2024-05-02T19:50:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T02:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51197"},"modified":"2024-05-02T19:53:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T02:53:28","slug":"year-50-day-366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/05\/02\/year-50-day-366\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 50 Day 366"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/y50d366-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me, a white man, bald, with greying red beard, wearing glasses and a black t-shirt, against a white background.\" title=\"y50d366.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"1544\" height=\"1158\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 366: Oh, you thought this ended with day 365? It&#8217;s a leap year, so there&#8217;s an extra day!<\/p>\n<p>However, this does bring an end to my project of a photo a day for my 50th year. While as with any year, there have been both ups and downs, overall, it&#8217;s been a pretty decent one. Semi-randomly selected highlights of the year included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Celebrating my 50th birthday with <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/03\/year-50-day-1\/\">a trip to the Woodland Park Zoo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Getting <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/06\/16\/year-50-day-45\/\">stuck in a stairwell<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/06\/22\/year-50-day-51\/\">Hanging out with some goats<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Visting <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/07\/year-50-day-66\/\">MoPOP and the Laika animation studio exhibit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/16\/year-50-day-75\/\">Relaxing in the backyard<\/a> on a warm day.<\/li>\n<li>Heading out to a movie theater <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/21\/year-50-day-80\/\">to see Barbie<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The one and only day I forgot to take a photo and had to come up with <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/24\/year-50-day-83\/\">a suitable &#8220;penance&#8221; choice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Hanging out with con friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/06\/year-50-day-96\/\">the Norwescon summer volunteer appreciation picnic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Our summer vacation:\n<ul>\n<li>Taking Amtrak <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/13\/year-50-day-103\/\">from Seattle<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/16\/year-50-day-106\/\">New York<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>spending a couple days in New York, wandering through <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/17\/year-50-day-107\/\">Central Park and the Museum of Natural History<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/18\/year-50-day-108\/\">seeing <em>Six<\/em> on Broadway the night before boarding a really big boat<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>spending <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/19\/year-50-day-109\/\">a week<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/20\/year-50-day-110\/\">the Queen Mary II<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/21\/year-50-day-111\/\">a transatlantic voyage<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>spending four days in London, staying in a hotel with <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/25\/year-50-day-115\/\">a gorgeous view of Tower Bridge<\/a>, seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/26\/year-50-day-116\/\">Macbeth at The Globe<\/a>, visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/27\/year-50-day-117\/\">the Tower of London<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/28\/year-50-day-118\/\">Westminster Abbey<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>and finally <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/29\/year-50-day-119\/\">flying back home to Seattle<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/09\/year-50-day-130\/\">Starting to plan<\/a> for Norwescon 46.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/10\/02\/year-50-day-153\/\">Decorating for Halloween<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/07\/year-50-day-189\/\">Giving presentations on accessible technology<\/a> at work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/11\/25\/year-50-day-207\/\">Practicing my DJing<\/a> to prepare for Norwescon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/08\/year-50-day-220\/\">Decorating for Christmas<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/27\/year-50-day-239\/\">Visiting my mom<\/a> and getting her her holiday lobster.<\/li>\n<li>Realizing I had <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/01\/year-50-day-244\/\">a complete collection of Star Trek TOS novels<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Reading all six of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/01\/21\/year-50-day-264\/\">Philip K. Dick award nominated books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/29\/year-50-day-303\/\">Celebrating Leap Day<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally getting <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/15\/year-50-day-318\/\">a high-quality copy of <em>The Abyss<\/em><\/a> after years of waiting.<\/li>\n<li>Norwescon 46, including <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/27\/year-50-day-330\/\">arriving on Wednesday<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/28\/year-50-day-331\/\">DJing on Thursday night<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/29\/year-50-day-332\/\">hosting the Philip K. Dick award ceremony<\/a> on Friday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/30\/year-50-day-333\/\">enjoying the day<\/a> on Saturday, and <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/03\/31\/year-50-day-334\/\">wrapping things up<\/a> on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>Exploring <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/10\/year-50-day-344\/\">the Green River College campus<\/a> during a week of conferencing.<\/li>\n<li>And a whole lot of photos of me in my office at work or sitting on the couch at home, because most days are actually pretty routine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s it for year fifty! Now on to fifty-one!<\/p>\n<p>(Though without the photo-a-day project&#8230;I&#8217;ll still post photos, of course, but not daily. The real trick will be seeing if I can keep up blogging regularly without having this photo project to keep me going.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, you thought this ended with day 365? 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