We spent our anniversary and Mother’s Day relaxing at home exploring the Altus Plateau.  Melody was not keen on revisiting Napa. So after dinner with my friend Yao and a visit to Communicare to discuss collaborations, I drove solo to our department symposium at our usual hotel in wine country. Our new case discussion panel was well received, which we celebrated over lunch with fellows at Hog Island Oyster. Unfortunately, my afternoon plan with Kareem to visit the Petrified Forest was foiled by a private event, but gave me us chance to catch up about life and career over ping pong and darts before dinner with the invited speaker at Tarla. Last week, we celebrated my Public Service Award at the Academic Senate presentation, as well as my student Sophie getting into an MD-PhD program. I also took advantage of my early finish in the OR on Thursday to watch John Wick Chapter 4 in the theater. The stunts and choreography were incredible as expected, and motivated me to promptly rewatch it again with Melody back home. Our Memorial Day weekend was fire – literally – when our barbeque brunch with the Dea’s was interrupted by a grease fire that necessitated our second fire extinguisher discharge. We shared the sizzling story with our in-laws on Sunday and my work friends over dim sum on Monday, as I prepared to do some serious cleaning of our poor grill.