Weeknotes: 6/11/23-6/17/23

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This Week:

We welcomed over forty 4th graders from Valleyview Elementary School the Yager Museum. We haven’t had any school classes visit the Museum since I started in 2016, but many local community members have fond memories of visiting the Museum years or decades ago. Thus, it was really wonderful to start that up again. We had a great time, and the kids asked really wonderful questions about archaeology, native american life, and history.
At home, we did a lot of gardening, putting some more future-food in the ground, and trying to get part of our front yard closer to rewilding.
My wife and I watched Robert Eggers' “The Lighthouse”, a dark, strange and elusive movie about two men trapped with each other in ways both physical and psychic. I’m still pondering whether I liked the movie or not. It’s much more open-ended than “The Witch”, which I loved, but but so much of that open-ness was filled with violence and depravity that I’m not sure what I could take away. Maybe I need to watch it again?
I switched my Raspberry PI home music player from Runeaudio software to Volumio software. I’ve used Runeaudio for years, but have grown tired of it bricking the PI every time I have to update. Volumio does basically all the same stuff and promises to be much more user-friendly. Fingers crossed!
I sold some more comics on ebay. Here’s to making room for more!