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title: "Dispatch #7 (September 2023)"
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date: 2023-09-04T22:38:04-04:00
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draft: false
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tags:
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- dispatch
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references:
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- title: "FunlandRehoboth"
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url: https://funlandrehoboth.com/
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date: 2023-09-05T03:33:17Z
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file: funlandrehoboth-com-jrkd5r.txt
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- title: Storm leaves trail of damage across central NC; Thousands still without power Wednesday | WUNC
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url: https://www.wunc.org/news/2023-08-16/storm-damage-durham-power-outage-closures-north-carolina-816
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date: 2023-08-21T18:18:11Z
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file: www-wunc-org-fstofo.txt
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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.
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[1]: https://funlandrehoboth.com/
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[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.
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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.
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* _The Left Hand of Darkness_
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* _With a Mind to Kill_
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* The narrator, Rory Kinner, was great and has a [cool Bond connection][4]
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* _The Survivor_
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[I guess this guy records a lot of audio books.][5]
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[3]: https://durhamcounty.overdrive.com/
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[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Kinnear
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[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Guidall
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* [Storm](https://www.wunc.org/news/2023-08-16/storm-damage-durham-power-outage-closures-north-carolina-816)
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* No power (28 hours)
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* Wifi, phones, traffic lights, credit cards not working
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* Chainsaw
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* Go
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* Golong - Fantasy Draft App
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* TOML
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* SQlite
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* Bubble Tea
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* ChatGPT
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* Refactoring
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* Naming
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* Does this get a standalone post?
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* Forecast Report
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* CLI App
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* API Gateway / Lambda
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* HTTP vs. REST APIs
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* Basic Auth
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* Parsing multi-part response body
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* Testing
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* [Testify](https://github.com/stretchr/testify)
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* Music stuff
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* https://carillon58.bandcamp.com/album/the-whole-earth
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* Build a workstation
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* Adventure
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* Italy
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* https://www.rosselbalepalme.it/en/glamping-lodge.php
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* Ending: Nev experiences
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This month:
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* Adventure:
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* Project:
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* Skill:
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Reading:
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* Fiction: [_Title_][6], Author
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* Non-fiction: [_Title_][7], Author
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[6]: https://bookshop.org/
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[7]: https://bookshop.org/
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Links:
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* [Title][8]
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* [Title][9]
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* [Title][10]
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[8]: https://example.com/
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[9]: https://example.com/
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[10]: https://example.com/
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