Quentin's Weeknotes 5/22/22-5/28/22

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This Week:

I did a LOT of inventory at the Museum. We have about 20,000 objects, and our policy is to check the status of each of them once every five years. You would be surprised at how not-at-all straightforward of a job this is.
I finished reading “Mycroft Holmes” aka Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s Sherlock Holmes novel. It’s not bad. What I liked about it was that it located the Holmes stories in the broader history of British colonialism, slavery and conquest, set as it is on Trinidad during the British occupation, not long after the end of the US Civil War. I can’t say it was the most well-written book I’ve ever read, but Jabbar and co-author Anna Waterhouse clearly love the Sherlock Holmes stories and know the history of African-descended peoples, and both come through enthusiastically in a rich and entertaining novel.
On Saturday, I took my son and a friend of his to Robot City Games in Binghamton, NY, as a belated birthday treat.