{"id":7126,"date":"2026-07-15T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:29:49","slug":"black-clouds-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2026\/07\/15\/black-clouds-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Clouds &amp; Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve had a black cloud on call, but the past two weeks brought it all back. I spent most of July 4th weekend repairing retinal detachments and surprisingly no firework injuries. Fortunately, I had just enough time to grocery shop and host our lab BBQ despite having to bail before the fireworks began. Back home, we hired <a href=\"https:\/\/arkroofingco.com\/\">roofing experts<\/a> to repair our roof leak while we troubleshot our own irrigation, which turned out to involve a broken solenoid in the front yard and a punctured line in the backyard that was caused by my over-enthusiastic maple tree staking. Westley returned to his summer routines of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofdavis.org\/city-hall\/parks-and-community-services\/camps\">Davis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/campusrecreation.ucdavis.edu\/recreation\/youth-programs\/summer-camps\">Aggie<\/a> camps, completed his quest to save Arcadia in the <a href=\"https:\/\/outerworlds2.obsidian.net\/enter\">Outer Worlds 2<\/a>, and embarked on a path of vengeance as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playstation.com\/en-ca\/games\/ghost-of-yotei\/\">Ghost of Yotei<\/a>. He was too sick to enjoy the resident welcome BBQ, however, and vomited all over Melody&#8217;s car just before her workgroup meeting in Florida. He eventually recovered over the weekend so we could spend time together cleaning mom&#8217;s car, playing ping pong, building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=021aDbMjXrA\">beadbots<\/a>, and watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/ca\/title\/81435684\">Arcane<\/a> &#8211; a beautifully-animated steampunk adventure series set in Riot&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leagueoflegends.com\/en-us\/\">League of Legends<\/a> universe. After a few consecutive late nights of NIH grant reviews and editing travel photos, we were ready to drive to SFO to kick off our second visit to Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve had a black cloud on call, but the past two weeks brought it all back. I spent most of July 4th weekend repairing retinal detachments and surprisingly no firework injuries. Fortunately, I had just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2026\/07\/15\/black-clouds-mistakes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","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=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}