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\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>Like rain on my cousin’s wedding day, July has been a month of irony. After lunch with Brenda’s family and fireworks at the Davis Community Pool Party<\/a>, we took advantage of July 4th sales at the Hyundai dealer<\/a> to lease a new Ioniq 5<\/a> for Melody, only to find the driver’s door handle needing replacement the very next day. My i4 also needed a tire swap<\/a> just two years in. Beside car issues, I dealt with a gltichy e-mail migration<\/a> at work and my grad student getting hospitalized, just as we were receiving notice of our new R01 grant<\/a> on gene therapy. News traveled fast as I received congratulatory remarks from friends at the ASRS<\/a> conference in Long Beach<\/a> last week. Aside from my talk on genetic testing using AI<\/a> and a half-day ad board<\/a> that ended with a tsunami advisory<\/a>, I spent the rest of my time meeting industry partners and colleagues, including seafood with Genentech<\/a> at Parker’s Lighthouse<\/a>, kebabs with Apellis<\/a> at Ammatoli<\/a>, tofu stew with my classmate Brian at Sura<\/a>, chicken-n-waffles with my co-fellows at The Breakfast Bar<\/a>, and stir-fried lobster and grilled oysters with my friend Dan at A&J Seafood shack<\/a>. I returned in time to join Melody’s division for an 80’s-themed Murder Mystery Dinner Theater<\/a> at the Old Spaghetti Factory<\/a>, where we placed of course, dead last. With Melody out of town for two work trips, I had bonus time with Westley. Between his UCD<\/a> and Davis<\/a> summer camps, we battled yaoguais<\/a>, built a model castle<\/a>, and preserved a dragonfly using isopropanol and acetone. He also had a playdate with his friend Albert, where they tried to sear an oak gall with a magnifying glass and sunlight. Beside preventing arson, I kept busy pruning backyard plants, patching irrigation leaks, installing bonsai spotlights, hanging a German gear clock<\/a>, and brewing my first espresso. With fresh beans<\/a> from Temple Coffee<\/a> and my new Barista Impress Touch<\/a>, I learned to craft my own latte, flat white, and cappuccino, which hopefully will power me through to wrap up loose ends at work before our upcoming travel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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