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it&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#x267f;&#xfe0f; My wife&#8217;s healing has been going well, so this week I went back to heading into the office to work. Well&#8230;in theory. The Seattle area was having a bit of a heat wave (high 80s to mid 90s), which threw things off. Mondays I work from home, Tuesday I went in and the building was <em>really<\/em> warm, Wednesday I went in but we got sent home at noon because the A\/C was out, Thursday we were told to work from home while they worked on the A\/C, and we work on a 4-10s schedule during the summer, so I didn&#8217;t work on Friday. So my first week back in the office was a day and a half! My wife didn&#8217;t mind, though. :)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#x1f57a;&#x1f3fb; Saturday night a friend of my wife&#8217;s came over to spend the night so that I could have a night off from caretaking, so I got to head out to the Mercury for the first time in a couple months. It was a rather slow night (competing with the Capitol Hill Block Party and a Stabbing Westward concert), but picked up a bit towards midnight. No worries, though, as the music was good, and I got to hang out with a friend and chat about convention drama.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>&#x1f4f8; Photos<\/h2>\n<p><figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IDG_20250714_093011_977.jpg\" alt=\"A brown dragonfly with clear wings striped with brown, sitting on a fence post with blurry green leaves in the background.\" title=\"IDG_20250714_093011_977.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><figcaption>This dragonfly was hunting gnats in our backyard as I was watering our flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IDG_20250718_075229_320.jpg\" alt=\"A heron sitting on a dead tree branch behind some wetlands grass with trees in the background.\" title=\"IDG_20250718_075229_320.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"747\" height=\"276\" \/><figcaption>We spotted a heron to the side of the trail as we were off taking my wife on her first walk outside of our neighborhood in several weeks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><figcaption>Whoah-oh, Black Betty&#8230;<\/figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4582.jpeg\" alt=\"A grocery bin sign that says &#39;rambutan&#39;.\" title=\"IMG_4582.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"747\" height=\"276\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4584.jpeg\" alt=\"A sticker that says &#39;trans witches for Palestine&#39; stuck to a building on a Seattle street.\" title=\"IMG_4584.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"748\" height=\"276\" \/><figcaption>Seattle sticker graffiti doesn&#8217;t get much more Seattle than this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4593.jpeg\" alt=\"A small collectible card storage box that looks like a classic Star Trek Gorn, sitting next to a small gnome holding a sign that says &#39;welcome&#39; and standing near a small red door.\" title=\"IMG_4593.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><figcaption>When we got home from our walk on Sunday morning, we discovered that the &#8220;Welcome gnome&#8221; outside our front door was being menaced by a Gorn! Sort of. A nice surprise gift from a friend!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>&#x1f4da; Reading<\/h2>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/seattlein2025.org\">Worldcon<\/a> coming up in just a few weeks, I&#8217;m binging my way through the Murderbot series by our guest of honor Martha Wells. This week, I read <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/14\/the-murderbot-diaries-vol-1-by-martha-wells\/\"><cite>The Murderbot Diaries, Vol. 1<\/cite><\/a> (collecting <cite>All Systems Red<\/cite> and <cite>Artificial Condition<\/cite>), <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/15\/compulsory-by-martha-wells\/\"><cite>Compulsory<\/cite><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/16\/rapport-friendship-solidarity-communion-empathy-by-martha-wells\/\"><cite>Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy<\/cite><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/19\/the-murderbot-diaries-vol-2-by-martha-wells\/\"><cite>The Murderbot Diaries, Vol. 2<\/cite><\/a> (collecting <cite>Rogue Protocol<\/cite> and <cite>Exit Strategy<\/cite>), and <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/19\/home-habitat-range-niche-territory-by-martha-wells\/\"><cite>Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory<\/cite><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>&#x1f4fa; Watching<\/h2>\n<p>&#x1f596;&#x1f3fb; <cite>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/cite> is back with the first two episodes of season three! I enjoyed both episodes&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/tenforward.social\/@djwudi\/114882262822319504\">but with reservations<\/a> (which I posted behind a content warning on Mastodon to protect against spoilers).<\/p>\n<h2>&#x1f3a7; Listening<\/h2>\n<p>Two new albums this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/kpop-demon-hunters-soundtrack-from-the-netflix-film\/1820264137\"><cite>Kpop Demon Hunters<\/cite> soundtrack<\/a> for DJing the <a href=\"https:\/\/seattlein2025.org\/program-and-events\/schedule\/#EVE03\">Wednesday night dance at Worldcon<\/a> (with both &#8220;Golden&#8221; and &#8220;Soda Pop&#8221; being strong contenders).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Peter Gabriel&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/flotsam-and-jetsam\/1477618996\"><cite>Flotsam and Jetsam<\/cite><\/a> collection of rarities and remixes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>&#x1f517; Linking<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icggallery.org\">ICG Pat and Peggy Kennedy Memorial Archives<\/a>: Decades of costuming photos collected by the International Costumer&#8217;s Guild.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Kai James at <cite>The Conversation<\/cite>: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-was-the-wheel-invented-computer-simulations-reveal-the-unlikely-birth-of-a-world-changing-technology-nearly-6-000-years-ago-244038\">How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago<\/a>: &#8220;It has long been assumed that wheels evolved from simple wooden rollers. But until recently no one could explain how or why this transformation took place. What\u2019s more, beginning in the 1960s, some researchers started to express strong doubts about the roller-to-wheel theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Ari Daniel at <cite>NPR<\/cite>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/07\/17\/nx-s1-5469995\/stand-back-this-explosive-cucumber-is-bursting-with-seeds\">Stand back! This explosive cucumber is bursting with seeds<\/a>: &#8220;But what the squirting cucumber lacks in palatability, it makes up for in a feat of ballistic seed dispersal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week in the life of\u2026. 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