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+title: "Dispatch #7 (September 2023)"
+date: 2023-09-04T22:38:04-04:00
+draft: false
+tags:
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+references:
+- title: "FunlandRehoboth"
+  url: https://funlandrehoboth.com/
+  date: 2023-09-05T03:33:17Z
+  file: funlandrehoboth-com-jrkd5r.txt
+- title: Storm leaves trail of damage across central NC; Thousands still without power Wednesday | WUNC
+  url: https://www.wunc.org/news/2023-08-16/storm-damage-durham-power-outage-closures-north-carolina-816
+  date: 2023-08-21T18:18:11Z
+  file: www-wunc-org-fstofo.txt
+---
+
+We were down at Lake Norman for the long weekend, and as I was pulling up the kayaks this morning, I couldn't help but feel like I was also sort of putting away the summer. What a summer though. The last few weeks of August were pretty wall-to-wall. I went up to the Eastern Shore in Virginia to spend a long weekend with some old friends; our rental was right on an inlet off the Chesapeake, and they had a stand-up paddleboard I was able to take out, certainly the most fun I've ever had on one of those.
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+The following weekend, we headed up to Rehoboth Beach in Delaware to spend the week with my family. We love it up there; it's different than the North Carolina beaches we're used to with an old-school board walk, [indoor amusement park][1], (...something...). We all brought our bikes up and were able to take them out to [Gordons Pond][2], which was rad.
+
+[1]: https://funlandrehoboth.com/
+[2]: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g34048-d1735243-Reviews-Gordons_Pond-Rehoboth_Beach_Delaware.html
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+We also recorded this little jam featuring my 3.5-year-old niece on the melodica:
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+
+From there, we drove 400 miles to Greensboro, and then onto Lake Norman to spend Labor Day weekend with Claire's family, a relaxing way to cap off an eventful summer.
+
+As one might imagine, this involved a lot of driving, and to pass the hours and miles, I tried something new: listening to audio books. I listen to podcasts fairly regularly, but with my running schedule being as it is, I'm running short on fresh content. At the recommendation of a friend, I wanted to read _The Left Hand of Darkness_ by Ursula K. Le Guin, and [my local library][3] had a recording of it available on Overdrive/Libby.
+
+* _The Left Hand of Darkness_
+* _With a Mind to Kill_
+  * The narrator, Rory Kinner, was great and has a [cool Bond connection][4]
+* _The Survivor_
+
+[I guess this guy records a lot of audio books.][5]
+
+[3]: https://durhamcounty.overdrive.com/
+[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Kinnear
+[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Guidall
+
+* [Storm](https://www.wunc.org/news/2023-08-16/storm-damage-durham-power-outage-closures-north-carolina-816)
+	* No power (28 hours)
+	* Wifi, phones, traffic lights, credit cards not working
+	* Chainsaw
+* Go
+	* Golong - Fantasy Draft App
+		* TOML
+		* SQlite
+		* Bubble Tea
+		* ChatGPT
+			* Refactoring
+			* Naming
+		* Does this get a standalone post?
+	* Forecast Report
+		* CLI App
+		* API Gateway / Lambda
+			* HTTP vs. REST APIs
+			* Basic Auth
+			* Parsing multi-part response body
+		* Testing
+			* [Testify](https://github.com/stretchr/testify)
+* Music stuff
+	* https://carillon58.bandcamp.com/album/the-whole-earth
+	* Build a workstation
+* Adventure
+	* Italy
+	* https://www.rosselbalepalme.it/en/glamping-lodge.php
+* Ending: Nev experiences
+  
+This month:
+
+* Adventure:
+* Project:
+* Skill:
+
+Reading:
+
+* Fiction: [_Title_][6], Author
+* Non-fiction: [_Title_][7], Author
+
+[6]: https://bookshop.org/
+[7]: https://bookshop.org/
+
+Links:
+
+* [Title][8]
+* [Title][9]
+* [Title][10]
+
+[8]: https://example.com/
+[9]: https://example.com/
+[10]: https://example.com/