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Dispatch #7 (September 2023)	2023-09-04T22:38:04-04:00	false	dispatch	title url date file FunlandRehoboth https://funlandrehoboth.com/ 2023-09-05T03:33:17Z funlandrehoboth-com-jrkd5r.txt title url date file Storm leaves trail of damage across central NC; Thousands still without power Wednesday | WUNC https://www.wunc.org/news/2023-08-16/storm-damage-durham-power-outage-closures-north-carolina-816 2023-08-21T18:18:11Z 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, (...something...). We all brought our bikes up and were able to take them out to Gordons Pond, which was rad.

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We also recorded this little jam featuring my 3.5-year-old niece on the melodica:

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 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
• The Survivor

I guess this guy records a lot of audio books.

• Storm
  • 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
• 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

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