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Dolphin entertainment

I have been swimming a couple miles a day during our vacation. I typically head out about 100 yards, follow the beach until I get tired, and then turn around and head back. After about 10 minutes I often get flanked and followed by a couple dolphins. They don’t ever come closer than about 50 [...]

No sleep for the Sandpiper?

We had a great moon last night so I sat out on the beach for a couple hours. After about an hour a group of about 20 Spotted Sandpipers nestled together about 10 feet from me at the waters edge. They would huddle together for about two minutes at which point one of them would [...]

This or that?

I’ve been chatting with Chris a bit over email about Blogger vs. Typepad. He presents some compelling reasons for switching over to Typepad. He made the switch after using blogger for what looks like a few weeks. I created a trial account (on top of the guest account I have for soundbytes) and everything looks [...]

Fancy schmanzy airline clubs

Chris paints a fantastic picture of the Admirals Club. It is odd to read because you immediately think, “wait, I was in this same club!” only to realize, as he points out, they are all the same. My parents are lifetime members of Northwest World Club (yes, I said lifetime members) and from my visits [...]

Panther X-ING

This was a new one on me

Threads of parents

When I was young I thought of my parents as very separate people from me. I thought of myself as a “new person” different from my parents (arrogantly sometimes better) and unique in my own way. It was only as I got older I started to see threads of them in me. When I first [...]

Input Only

I generally can’t stop talking about blogs. I talk about them at work. I talk about them to my family. I talk about them to my friends. I tell people on airplanes. I imagine it must be annoying. One comment I get a lot from people who have heard of blogs before is “Man, I [...]