{"id":5656,"date":"2023-03-26T07:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T07:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2023-03-26T07:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T07:50:38","slug":"preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2023\/03\/26\/preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride, Preparations, & Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>We had little time to unpack before Melody had to leave for her redeye that same evening, leaving Westley and me to fend for ourselves for several days. Fortunately, I was able to make the Pioneer School<\/a> assembly to watch him get the Perry’s Pride<\/a> award for reading the most books in 1st grade during their recent Read-a-thon. Still overcoming jetlag, I spent the past few weeks editing the plethora of photos and videos from Australia, while also preparing for our upcoming trip to Japan. We went to Davis High School’s<\/a> Japan Day<\/a> event and practiced origami and hiragana to get us hyped up for the trip. Unfortunately, we could not book some attractions in time, like the Ghibli Museum<\/a>, despite our efforts using a Tokyo VPN<\/a> and recruiting a local friend to get tickets.\u00a0At work, I was excited to learn that we got both the FFB<\/a> Translational Research Acceleration Program<\/a> and USDA NIFA<\/a> grants on our second attempt. Between preparing manuscripts, talks, and posters, I met with many eager students looking for summer research opportunities while juggling busy call nights and clinical trial shenanigans. I found some respite on weekends disappearing into Liurnia of the Lakes<\/a> while Westley\u00a0worked on Legos and his Mega Cyborg Hand<\/a>. I also started season 2 of the White Lotus<\/a>, which with a mostly new cast, felt refreshing like a new vacation. At home, we finally completed our new SunPower<\/a> project and Wallbox<\/a> installation, just in time for my i4<\/a> that was assigned a production number today. After waiting nearly 6 months, I’m looking forward to finally getting the new car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had little time to unpack before Melody had to leave for her redeye that same evening, leaving Westley and me to fend for ourselves for several days. Fortunately, I was able to make the Pioneer School assembly to watch … 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-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","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=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5681,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions\/5681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}