{"id":51974,"date":"2025-03-30T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51974"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:24:46","slug":"weekly-notes-march-24-30-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/03\/30\/weekly-notes-march-24-30-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Notes: March 24\u201330, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#x1f60e; Best part of this week was a nice little mid-week mini-break for the spring break lull. We drove up and spent a couple nights at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythingtulalip.com\/properties\/tulalip-resort-casino\/\">Tulalip Resort Casino<\/a>. We&#8217;re not casino or gambling people, but very much enjoyed some time away in a nice hotel room!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#x1f680; Very busy on both the <a href=\"https:\/\/norwescon.org\">Norwescon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/seattlein2025.org\">Seattle Worldcon 2025<\/a> front, with the first just a couple weeks away, and the other further out but with behind-the-scenes stuff helping with digital accessibility matters. Feeling a little behind on everything, but I don&#8217;t think i&#8217;m actually as behind as it feels.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#x1f504; Once again, this is being posted on Monday but backdated to Sunday. Starting to wonder if I should just admit that Sunday evenings aren&#8217;t the best time for me to try to post these, but we&#8217;ll see\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>&#x1f4f8; Photos<\/h2>\n<p><figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4009.jpeg\" alt=\"Life-size sculptures of an orca pod, with three showing fins and one leaping, in the fountain in front the Tulalip resort hotel, visible through light fog in the background.\" title=\"IMG_4009.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"747\" height=\"276\" \/><figcaption>A foggy morning walk to explore the grounds of the resort was really nice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>&#x1f4da; Reading<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Finished Neal Stephenson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/03\/26\/polostan-by-neal-stephenson\/\"><em>Polostan<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Started Lois McMaster Bujold&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/3b3e4d46-1207-4d0c-9c5b-fc27fe8295da\"><em>Diplomatic Immunity<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>&#x1f4fa; Watching<\/h2>\n<p>Just the usual mindless evening stuff: <em>NCIS: Origins<\/em>, <em>Drag Race All Stars<\/em>, and <em>Scrubs<\/em>. <em>Scrubs<\/em> &#8220;My Musical&#8221; is still an <em>excellent<\/em> episode.<\/p>\n<h2>&#x1f3a7; Listening<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mostly just continuing to listen through the new stuff picked up over the past few weeks for Norwescon.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Was happy to see that VNV Nation&#8217;s new album <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/construct\/1802932027\"><em>Construct<\/em><\/a> is coming out soon, and they just released the first song. Have to admit, I&#8217;m not a big fan of the cover art, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VQ24b6RG9Ww\">the song is good<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>&#x1f517; Linking<\/h2>\n<p>No links this week; too much of what I&#8217;ve read has been about the political idiocy, and, well, you can find those stories absolutely everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week in the life of\u2026. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035,2043,2049],"tags":[6859,2368,6033],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}