{"id":754,"date":"2017-04-19T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2017-04-19T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:10:16","slug":"update-for-4162017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/update-for-4162017\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 4\/16\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Life maintenance<\/strong> &#8211; Last week was mostly spent catching up on life from the week before&#8211;grocery shopping, laundering, library book returning, and napping.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Easter<\/strong> &#8211; Easter was good.\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Friday<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I had Good Friday off work, as usual, and I picked up my brother from the airport, had we had lunch at a Greek diner and went to our usual Taiz\u00e9 service, during which I caught up on a little sleep. Afterwards were frozen Chinese dinners at home, accompanied by my long and rambling summary of the plot of <em>Arrow<\/em> to explain the episode we were trying to watch, and then I dropped Michael off at another Good Friday service and spent the time watching streams because I was slightly too tired and lazy to do anything productive.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Saturday<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; In the morning we slept in and took a slightly long walk before kidnapping Jeremy for a very long lunch at Potbelly, after which was a short stop at Target and then dinner accompanied by the rest of our rather eventful <em>Arrow<\/em> episode. Then it was time to drop Michael off at another long church service, which gave me a chance to finish my taxes, which I did with a bit of help from Michael when he got back.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Easter morning I was in a good mood, I&#8217;m sure helped by having my taxes done but also by the energy of the service and by visiting a church I like after a long absence, and I found the homily unusually moving and helpful. After church we hung out at Starbucks until it was time for lunch with some friends of mine from church, where I continued my tradition of overstuffing myself with food when the food is Indian, made by Indians, and eaten in their home. When we arrived and met the other friends they&#8217;d invited, it turned out one of them lives in my apartment building a few doors down from me, so maybe we&#8217;ll run into each other again sometime in her last few weeks here. After a fairly wide-ranging lunchtime conversation from which I took the location of an Indian grocery store and some Indian movie recommendations, I drove Michael back to the airport and then had dinner with Tim and finished the movie we&#8217;d been watching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meetups<\/strong> &#8211; On Saturday I&#8217;m fulfilling my long-held goal of attending a pop culture convention, heading to Chicago for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c2e2.com\/\">C2E2<\/a> with people from my geek meetup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Public coding guide<\/strong> &#8211; I wrote some more but didn&#8217;t post any updates, which I&#8217;ll try to do this week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nostalgia box<\/strong> &#8211; Either this week or next week I&#8217;ll open April&#8217;s folder, probably this week to give ideas from this month&#8217;s content a chance to mix creatively with things I see at the convention.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Movies<\/strong> &#8211; The movie Tim and I finished was <em>Ip Man 3<\/em>, part of a series about Bruce Lee&#8217;s martial arts teacher. This one had plenty of combat, but it was really about his relationship with his wife, and I thought its treatment of that theme was interesting and compelling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life updates Life maintenance &#8211; Last week was mostly spent catching up on life from the week before&#8211;grocery shopping, laundering, library book returning, and napping. Easter &#8211; Easter was good. 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