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Thursday night we had a huge wind storm here in Seattle and the power has been out in our neighborhood for
a day and a half now. Since my email server has been hosted out of my house, it is down at the moment and
presumably my email is bouncing. I’m going to try to move it somewhere hosted as soon as possible-
for now I haven’t heard any solid predictions of how long it will take to get the power back. Oh, and its
getting pretty chilly at home too. At least the stove works and we have a ton of candles.

I went and installed the Fast Carrot server at
GridZones last night. With the power out it wasn’t doing any good
and this way maybe I can make a push to get the site ported over to it over the weekend.

Update: My email appears to be working now. I’ve moved it to a hosted service so that should be safer.

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Today is the last day of school, both for the Seattle’s public school system as well as for the baby birds that hatched
a couple of weeks ago on a statue in front of our front door. Some local robins built a nest on top of the status
by local artist Steve Jensen. I hope he approves, but I think its a great testament to how cool the statue is that
the birds thought it was a perfect spot.

The four chicks had been growing quite a bit and yesterday they didn’t even fit in the nest anymore.
This morning as we headed out the door for Fen’s last day of school they were standing up and one of them
flew, clumsily but without incident to a nearby tree. Graduation! Another pilot is born.

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