Before I learned about Never Graduate Week, I scheduled this
week for some hardware hacking. Specifically, hacking this hardware out of my knee:

Surgery on Monday went well. Recovery is off to a mostly good
start (I’ll spare the RC community some gory details). And I’m
less dependent on painkillers than expected so I should be able
to keep going on projects (my brain isn’t in a fog).
I’m looking forward to getting some reading done and then getting
back to RC for the next 6 weeks of my batch.