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How long has it been since your last confession?

The primary reason for my recent (4-month, agh!) silence is that I have been in school, learning ‘atmospheric physics’ (weather observation, analysis and forecasting) and I no longer spend the work day sitting at a computer. (Instead I scribble on charts with colored pencils and Sharpies.) That leaves me with little time to [...]

A Few Bits Before Our First Mardi Gras Parade

This blog is ringing all my bells. Tana Butler is pretty smitten with the small farms in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay area and she does a good job letting you know why with a few words and a beautiful picture here and there. Thing is, I absolutely loved the area when [...]

Indecisions, decisions, decisions.

I’m sure no one has been checking up on this site frequently enough to catch too many of the variations it has already been through, but it’s a good thing this isn’t a professional project or I would likely be fired for doing all my testing on a production system. Things are slightly more [...]

Here We Go Again on Our Own

With a typical weakness for the grandiose my first impulse is to try and sum up everything this is supposed to be about in one post. Having already attempted to make essentially the same summary in several letters and a lengthy forum post I know that any such effort is going to wind up being [...]