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I'm home. I have a post from yesterday that celebrates heading home, but the CMH airport wifi was not cooperating at all.

I read a very good science fiction e-book on the way home: Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5). The first part is a short story, and then the narrative grew. The sample of the omnibus includes Wool 1 in total, and that got me hooked. It's gritty and dark, but also hopeful. The characters are intense people, dedicated to their work and their loves, noble and yet imperfect.

We spent the morning speculating on a trip up to Seattle to see the Gauguin exhibit. You must imagine me stumbling over the pronunciation of that name, over and over. Christine has tried coaching me, but French vowels and i are not friends.

We found a bit of time we could squeeze in a trip between concerts, classes, my business travel, her conference and family travel. A Saturday midday flight up, a stay in a nice down town hotel chosen particularly for the airport shuttle and the likelihood they could keep our luggage for us after we checked out, exhibit tickets. That came to $750.

Which we could do, but really doesn't fit in our goals. Instead, i've pre-ordered the catalog from Amazon, found a bunch of Polynesian recipes to make a fish, rice, and yam meal, put together a Youtube playlist that includes the Seattle museum curators talking about the exhibit, and found a 2001 biopic of Gauguin.


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ETA: Friday's Post actually *did* get posted.

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Photos from the deck today

Here's the squirrel looking directly at the camera in an intense close-up.

Other photos from the deck, the rest of birds, as i practiced with the telephoto.


I took over 130 photos, 2.3 GB, and culled them down to these six.