Elsa stepped breakfast way up.

Winner winner, chicken dinner

Clouds from Last Night’s Walk

😮 First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System around a Sun-like Star Captured by ESO Telescope

Image Credit: ESO/Bohn et al.

📚 Very excited to have received Incredible Doom.

Devastating, at Roosevelt Park.

Elsa’s favorite photo of me came up as featured today, so I may as well share it with the world.

Growing my stable of friends this week.

My current iOS 14 Home Screen.

Cannot wait for the third party widgets.

This dog.

Lest you think only Brandy is ridiculous, here’s Gracie from this morning.

While I was upstairs reading, Elsa rearranged our bookshelves. Easier to keep things alphabetical by type with space to add books interspersed throughout.

Day 0 of our new urban farming experiment.

My dogs have a hard life.

No chance I’ll regret this.

This griddle was a great purchase.

New pal

Huge office improvement.

In April of 2018, Elsa and I visited Hong Kong for the first time. It now seems likely that this will be the last time we will have visited Hong Kong. It’s certainly true that if we ever return, we will be entering a very different place.

Visiting the Hong Kong Museum of History was an important experience. I better understood the brutal conditions of colonialism in Hong Kong and the complexity of reunification with China. But I remember even then having the sense that the political situation in Hong Kong was untenable– how can individuals invest so massively in a place whose future, in a thirty year timeframe, was so uncertain? Why wasn’t there more demand for democracy or for a longer term resolution on Hong Kong sovereignty? Are people really just going to wait it out?

I recognize that these were privileged, WEIRD thoughts, and I did feel the subtle complexities that challenged my more simple confusion.

I don’t feel prescient that things have escalated to the violent, authoritarian extreme that it has in Hong Kong so rapidly from then. I feel sad.

Elsa made tofu stir fry and scallion pancakes (from scratch!) for our lunch today.

This is a look.

The rain situation in Baltimore this year has led to insane flowers throughout the neighborhood.