Events

Glen Hansard, the musician and actor best known for The Commitments and Once, died early yesterday outside Dublin, Ireland, after crashing his motorcycle. He was 56. Gardaí (the Irish national police) will conduct a routine inquest to determine exactly what happened.

I think I've hit a good balance today between working and not. Cassie and I have walked 9½ km so far today, spending 1¾ hours outside, and I've squished three bugs that were in the way of releasing a new version of the Inner Drive Journal (aka the software you're looking at right now). About 90 minutes ago I set Claude Sonnet to analyzing a pretty vexing bug that sometimes causes the index of posts to fail in a very specific way, and then while Sonnet did its thing, Cassie and I walked down to Belmont...

Book 2 in the John Dies at the End series

I missed all the fun yesterday:

Just sharing a couple of photos from the weekend. I didn't actually take that many, mainly because I was too busy having a good weekend. My friend and I spent way too long at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, for starters:

Once again, TSA's Touchless ID program sped me right through the security checkpoint, getting me from the BART station to the other side of security in just 19 minutes. That included waiting for the airport tram. Some aspects of this timeline really are fun.

As longtime readers know, when I travel on short trips, I typically stay on Chicago time. This is a lot easier to do in California than in Europe, of course. But it does mean I get out of the house pretty early. Both today and Saturday I walked up the hill and back down right at dawn to get steps and, importantly, caffeine. And yesterday, after returning to Millbrae from my adventures in Santa Cruz County, I walked to the adorable little library they have here. (Thanks, Proposition 13!)