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My wife's cousin sent a wedding invitation last April inviting us to the Grand Canyon for the nuptuals.

I'm several days behind schedule, but I did read a book or two in September.

I've struggled to write recently, so I'm writing now just to get things out of my head.

I finished five books in August.

I'm teaching an intro computer science course again this year and I knew I wanted to revamp how to introduce kids to writing code.

This summer, I got to do a one-night camping trip to Van Buren State Park outside of South Haven, MI.

The garden is producing in overdrive right now.

My kids have been obsessed with this little thrift store find.

Books books books.

Yesterday, I spent the day participating in the Amishland and Lakes ride in LaGrange, IN.

I was looking over my ride history for this year and I noticed that today I passed my 2024 riding total.

I've been using Strava for a couple of years and it's always felt a little bit...not right.

I was thinking about my trip last year to the Boundary Waters and I remembered that I had done a small sketch of Fourtown Lake from our final campsite.

I finished two books in June during my first month off of school for the summer break.

I've gotten back into riding a lot this year and I'm tracking rides with Strava.

I rebuilt my blog last winter during the school break and since then, it's kind of just sat.

May was a failure for books.

Chemistry students are finishing this year with redox reactions (very basic redox) in the context of electrochemical cells.

This weekend, we celebrated our 17th year married.

Since I haven't written in a couple weeks, here is a simple list of things happening in life in no particular order.

I can't believe it's already May.

We're nearing the end of the year and this is when I do my simplified acid-base unit with first year chemistry students.

Original link This Ars Technica article has been breezing around the Internet for a couple days and I finally had some time to sit and read it this morning.

I've got a small app I use to keep track of student progress toward learning goals.

Only one book finished in March, but it was almost 600 pages long, so there's that.

I've thought some more about the human.json protocol meant to make site authorship more transparent.

I took 20 minutes this afternoon and added my own human.json file to this domain.

We finally had a nice Saturday where we could spend some time outside and get things ready for this growing season.