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title: "Dispatch #7 (September 2023)"
date: 2023-09-04T22:38:04-04:00
draft: false
tags:
- dispatch
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/