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Amazing: "My son, Jack Anthony Nielsen, was born yesterday morning at 4:24 a.m..." Congratulations Erik and Elaine! and welcome, Jack. :)

"The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude."
- Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"What we are doing is making our way back to life, shattering with all our force the ice of the habitual and the rational which instantly congeals over reality and keeps us from ever seeing it, finding a passage back into the open sea."
- Marcel Proust

A look through my logs shows that a lot of folks are visitng today from Ev's essay about the demise of Pyra. (welcome!) I think it has something to do with slashdot. If you're curious, here's what I was writing around that time. I'm relieved that Blogger the application will be around for a while longer thanks to the Trellix deal. I'm proud of the work I did at Pyra, and I feel the enthusiastic Blogger community played a huge role in shaping its success. This deal will help ensure that their investment wasn't wasted.

Along the trail today I had a run-in with a bog. (I couldn't go without blogging about the bog. ;)

Now that's hiking.

I hiked up Sonoma Mountain with some friends today. (thus begins the Yosemite training.) What a perfect day. (I've done this hike before quite a few times and I never get tired of it.)

So the other day skp and I were working on the deck, and I put my foot right through it. You see, this section of our deck wasn't supposed to be a deck...it was supposed to be an extra room. For some reason, the extra room wasn't built. So we had a "deck" that was made out of plywood. When it rained, little puddles of water formed on this deck. I didn't know that would rot the wood away. Anyway, it did. Check it out:

That's a size 12 hole.

Up next: painting and nailing. I'll keep you posted.