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MAS Happenings – September 30 2025
Happenings this Week It's Cake Week! Well, not yet. But it is that time of year when I binge too many baking shows and start issuing myself ridiculous culinary challenges. Case in point: I just promised my coworkers a vegetable-flavored cake—with alternating layers of lettuce and tomato—that actually tastes good. No idea how I’m going to pull that off, but...
MAS Happenings – September 23 2025
Happenings this Week Welcome to the Dark Side! And no, I don’t mean that Happenings readers have ALL become imagers. I mean the actual dark side of the year. The autumnal equinox was yesterday, and that means the Sun has finally gotten our collective memo to hightail it out of the northern hemisphere. Darkness continues to fall earlier with every passing...
MAS Happenings – September 16 2025
Happenings this Week I've been reading (and re-reading) The Expanse series—highly recommended if you like smart, gritty sci-fi. (The TV show holds up, too.) Since it was my birthday yesterday, I decided to calculate my age on various solar system worlds—ones the series characters inhabit. On Mars, I’d be a spry 29. On Ganymede, barely 4. You can...
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