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Well, I couldn’t let another month go by without positing so here it goes, one month of highlighted activities in a few poorly formed paragraphs.

Mark’s party was the best one yet, saw lots of old friends and made a few new ones. I managed to catch the annual Forrest park Balloon Race. If you’re in St. Louis, the Central west end is a fun part of town.

Brazil was fun, I’d go back on vacation, but I would no’t live there (even though you could walk 100 feet on the beaches without running into a volleyball court). Note to Mark: Scheduling a vacation that soon after your party is not recommended for the future, neither one of our livers could handle that much abuse.

There’s lots of stuff going on in the background. I’m switching from Radio Userland to Movable Type weblog content management. If all goes well I should be be able to import the 600+ posts from the past 2 and a half years into MT and keep radio generated static pages in place (keeping linkrot and my personal insanity level at a minimum ). When the MT based blog starts it will be an all XHTML/CSS design.

Writing: I’m halfway fisted with an essay entitled “The Quark Problem”. I’ll publish it right here probably around the time I switch to Movable Type.

Reading: I started From Beirut To Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman. right before the Brazil trip, I’m halfway through and now I am just beginnig to get a slight idea of the issues in that region of the world. Up next is [Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, I really can’t wait to start this tome, but it was released two days too late to make it on the Brazil trip (where I had plenty of time to kill while actual travel was taking place).