{"id":26200,"date":"2025-11-10T17:34:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=26200"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:27:09","slug":"busy-weekend-quick-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2025\/11\/10\/busy-weekend-quick-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Weekend: Quick Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday I had a PCP (primary healthcare physician) appointment; an annual checkup, though they don&#8217;t use that word anymore. Insurance difficulties. Just a 10-minute chat. D Frey had already seen all my blood work. No problems.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we did a quick drive from Oakland down to LA, on the I5, to visit Y&#8217;s younger son Michael and his wife&#8217;s new daughter, Leila, for her 100-day party. A Chinese tradition.<\/p>\n<p>And Sunday morning we drove home, up the I5.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday afternoon we visited the Silverbergs, for a visit and take-out dinner. He had fallen and hurt his hip, and was house-bound. I had never been to their house before. This was a &#8230; thrill.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, while we were in LA, my contributor copy of the Gary Westfahl anthology with an essay of mine arrived. I posted about this on Facebook, since my own essay is fully visible via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Reimagining-Science-Fiction-Century-Authors\/dp\/1476690146\/\">Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;Read Sample&#8221; feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/westfahlri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/westfahlri-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday I had a PCP (primary healthcare physician) appointment; an annual checkup, though they don&#8217;t use that word anymore. Insurance difficulties. Just a 10-minute chat. D Frey had already seen all my blood work. No problems. On Saturday we did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2025\/11\/10\/busy-weekend-quick-summary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26200"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26209,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200\/revisions\/26209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}