Weeknotes: 6/18/23-6/24/23

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This Week:

At the Museum, we had a week of half-day fun: craft events and activities during the afternoons after early dismissal at local schools.
My son finished up the 4th grade. What a trooper!
I finished Nick Mamatas' excellent conspiracy thriller “The Second Shooter”. It’s a fun, energetic conspiracy thriller, with a little bit of Marxism and situationism thrown in for good measure. Recommended!
My wife and I watched “American Born Chinese”, a Disney series based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, which delightfully mixes together teen drama, immigrant anxiety, Chinese mythology, and martial arts. The beating heart of the show is the friendship between Ben Wang and Jimmy LIu, but the show has wonderful and entertaining cameos by Michelle Yeoh as Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, Ronny Chieng as the Mad Monk Ji Gong and Ke Huy Quan as a a Chinese actor playing a racist caricature from a fictional in-show 80s sitcom.
We went to Gilbert Lake on Sunday, and let the kids splash in the ridiculously chilly spring water.
Father’s day was a delight. Thanks fam!
I did some work on moving a repatriation case forward to completion.
My wife and I watched “Last Action Hero” which I had never seen, but enjoyed a lot.