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Summer vacation booked! I’ll be joining my parents and some of my extended family in the Azores. I’ll get to go see the little house my mother was born in. I can’t wait ✈️🏝️
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Small actions steps I’ve taken this week: I got a family Kagi plan and set the kids up, I found my town’s board meeting schedule so I can start attending (and voting 😏) and started moving my audiobooks over to audiobookshelf (open source).
Yard work
Today I woke up feeling dread. Bad news, in my experience, comes in waves and this whole year has been one wave after another. So I did what I tend to do when this happens… yard work. I hate yard work but I can’t deny that it makes me feel better. So when I had time during my lunch break I grabbed my work gloves and my wheelbarrow and went outside.

This November, it’s too warm and dry. It feels a bit alien. And yard work put me in close proximity to bugs, which I also don’t enjoy. And my yard is big. There is so much work to do.
The truth is, that this year I …
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