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.

I told everyone this “grass” was going to flower and it finally did!

Taking up fully 1/3 of the couch, bundled up.

Scene from the neighborhood on the evening walk.

One day I will look up the history of this building instead of just wondering what it was.

Aww, yeah.

Breakfast was pretty good.

Didn’t even make it to the sun spot.

Same hex color, three different browsers, looks completely different.

From top to bottom:

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Safari

WTF

This week is not going well.

I just spend 2 hrs walking through the woods and now I’m home watching the US return to human space flight. Everything is awful, but I feel a bit better.