Pre-Retirement Fridays - Boring financial geekery

I am once again reveling in how much I can accomplish with my "pre-retirement long weekends." I posted about Friday's accomplishments already. Saturday was all about getting the vegetable beds set up and the tomatoes planted. Plus harvesting another bushel of Seville oranges, because I want to make a batch of "Heather's Retirement Marmalade" as give-aways at my work retirement party. (Previous instances of giving away Produce of My Estates have been very well received.)

( Boring Financial Geekery, but check back later because I will have an Interesting Announcement this afternoon )

So...that Interesting Announcement? I'm a Hugo Finalist!

Back over a year ago, when the voting statistics came out on the 2023 Hugo Awards, I was one of the people who said, "Huh, that looks realy weird." So I threw myself into data geekery and wrote a couple of analytical essays on my Alpennia.com blog about the "cliff" phenomenon that was a clear sign that there had been shenanigans.

SFF blogger Camestros Felapton invited me to include it as a co-author in a more expansive analysis he was working on, and the result was published as "Charting the Cliff: An Investigation Into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics" (Charting the Cliff).

And today, it was announced that our essay is a finalist for the Best Related Work Hugo Award.

I had already planned to attend Worldcon in person this year, so this will be a wild ride.