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A flight, a fish, a storm, a tree

12jun2008: We flew out to California last weekend for Cristyn's family reunion. A distant cousin rents a place in Monterey and hosted the festivities. Here are some snapshots from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Our trip was fortuitously timed to miss most of Albany's terrible heat wave. A thunderstorm rolled in last night, cooled things off, and flipped a birch tree into my front yard. The direction of the wind meant that the tree didn't fall on anything important, although the mailbox was a near thing. A goodly part of today was spent cutting up said tree, which is now bundled up at the street for disposal.

Cristyn and I played several games of Quincunx in the airport, plus a few games with my brother-in-law over the weekend. We have played it enough to have settled on a stable version of the rules, which I've posted.