{"id":4405,"date":"2020-03-01T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2020-05-07T20:05:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:05:12","slug":"going-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2020\/03\/01\/going-forth\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Forth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>We celebrated Westley’s birthday weekend by taking advantage of our new Sac Zoo<\/a> membership, where Westley backed out of the giraffe encounter, but Melody finally got to see the anteater in action. Per his request, we celebrated Westley’s 4th birthday with Korean BBQ<\/a> and a homemade chocolate cake, although he was more excited by the new Lego kits from grandma and grandpa including a space shuttle<\/a>, dinosaur<\/a>, and police van<\/a> sets. The following week, we took advantage of our parents’ day out for some Uniboil<\/a> action, then shared more spicy hot pot at home with my friend Ala’s family. We spent the remainder of February conferencing, with me attending Macula Society<\/a> in San Diego and Melody attending APGO<\/a> in Orlando afterwards. Still catching up on work I had put off for my recent R01 submission, I spent my entire meeting at the conference hotel<\/a>, with only a quick ramen stop at Menya Ultra<\/a> and seolleongtang at Woomiok<\/a> on the way to and from the hotel. I would’ve liked to scout out the city ahead of our family trip this summer, but I was glad to also relax a little by the pool between working and networking. With Melody away this week, I tried to carry out daddy duty by taking Westley to his new swim lessons<\/a>, neighborhood bike rides, Spiderman<\/a> gaming, and Lego<\/a> building, while also building a shiny white PC for my wife to accompany her new white desk. The patio at Taqueria Guadelajara<\/a> was perfect for the spring weather, although fears of coronavirus<\/a> meant sparse crowds at 99 Ranch<\/a>. Melody returned on Leap Day to partake in Westley’s first official experience with Vietnamese pho,<\/a> followed by a play date with a friend over Italian ice<\/a>.  It’ll be interesting watching Westley’s social life develop, as we keep losing our own. <\/p>\n\n\n

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We celebrated Westley’s birthday weekend by taking advantage of our new Sac Zoo membership, where Westley backed out of the giraffe encounter, but Melody finally got to see the anteater in action. Per his request, we celebrated Westley’s 4th birthday … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}