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We’re home, returned from our journey to the SF Bay area. We visited Kia’s mother and step-father (I met them for the first time), saw her father, met her friends Cheryl and Shane, and got to hang around in the area for a few days. It was absolutely great. I absolutely loved the north bay, where we hiked early on “black friday”. No shopping was done that day, but I did get to see my first redwood. Wow… what magnificent trees. It’s the early part of salmon spawning season, too, but there were none that we saw in the river that morning.

The weather was cooperative all weekend, though the unusually clear sky revoked the normal insulation and left things quite chilly.

Obviously things are quite busy right now with the wedding in less than 2 months, but I would absolutely love to move there as soon as possible. February? March? I’ll take it. It was great.

Alright, the hard drive running the old site COMPLETELY died, and the guy who ran it didn’t have any good backups. So that’s that.

Now I’m setup for 2 years of hosting with DreamHost, and it’s a happy new day. The site is just barely coming up and running, but I’m planning to do it right this time. The original vision for cabeen.net was a sort of community where my family can come together, meet, and keep in touch in a virtual way between actual visits. Now that I’m at least 1000 miles from any of my family, this goal is more relevant than ever.

In the near future, I will be setting up a shared blog where family members can do exactly what I’m doing right now: say whatever is on their mind for anyone else to read. Then other family members can do what I’m hoping you’ll do now: comment on those entries to share your own feelings and thoughts.

There will be more intresting additions that will also come with time. I want to include a better way of sharing photos, for instance. The blog entries can include a file, but it’s not a very robust solution, and could easily get really ugly if really large photos are attached, or if multiple photos are attached. I’m not sure if that’s even possible. There is much testing to do before I setup the shared blog. If you’re feeling anxious, though, you can let me know in the comments!