(Posting this one a couple days late and backdating it….)

• ♿️ My wife’s healing has been going well, so this week I went back to heading into the office to work. Well…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 really 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’t work on Friday. So my first week back in the office was a day and a half! My wife didn’t mind, though. :)

• 🕺🏻 Saturday night a friend of my wife’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.

📸 Photos

📚 Reading

With Worldcon coming up in just a few weeks, I’m binging my way through the Murderbot series by our guest of honor Martha Wells. This week, I read The Murderbot Diaries, Vol. 1 (collecting All Systems Red and Artificial Condition), Compulsory, Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy, The Murderbot Diaries, Vol. 2 (collecting Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy), and Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory.

📺 Watching

🖖🏻 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is back with the first two episodes of season three! I enjoyed both episodes…but with reservations (which I posted behind a content warning on Mastodon to protect against spoilers).

🎧 Listening

Two new albums this week:

• The Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack for DJing the Wednesday night dance at Worldcon (with both “Golden” and “Soda Pop” being strong contenders).

• Peter Gabriel’s Flotsam and Jetsam collection of rarities and remixes.

🔗 Linking

• The ICG Pat and Peggy Kennedy Memorial Archives: Decades of costuming photos collected by the International Costumer’s Guild.

• Kai James at The Conversation: How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago: “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’s more, beginning in the 1960s, some researchers started to express strong doubts about the roller-to-wheel theory.”

• Ari Daniel at NPR: Stand back! This explosive cucumber is bursting with seeds: “But what the squirting cucumber lacks in palatability, it makes up for in a feat of ballistic seed dispersal.”

Mirrored from Eclecticism.