Updated September 5th, 2026 at 2:11pm MDT, at a Staybridge Suites… hotel? Or rather, the hotel industry’s answer to AirBnB. Multiple bedrooms, a decent-sized kitchen and a hot breakfast buffet for less than what you’d have to pay to live in someone’s home. No cleaning and service fees either.
The whole family is in an extended stay situation because we decided to rip out the wall-to-wall bedroom carpets and install hardwood floors to match the rest of the house. This means actual planks, an oil-based stain and several days’ worth of water-based finishing. Which is to say: stay away for at least a week (in a Staybridge!) lest you are a fan of volatile vapors.
This is the doing of the moment. As for the quarterly update:
- No longer an industry man, I am now fully a small-town hematologist/oncologist in a Denver-adjacent community hospital that has changed more corporate overlords in the last decade than a mid-sized tech company, and has a new one lined up for next year. Logos come and go, great teams stay.
- Well, not fully. My wife and I do some consulting on the side. We do have four other mouths to feed (five if you count the cat, but he would happily munch on neighborhood rodents and birds if we’d let him out).
- Year four of Introduction to Clinical Trials is up and running, with fewer students than usual due to America’s erratic educational visa policy. Thanks, Obama.
With all that, I still haven’t finished “Inventing the Renaissance”. At least I am further from Apple than ever, having recently switched to a Pixel 10a running Graphene OS.
Onwards and upwards.