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 <h3>Work</h3>
 
 <ul>
-	<li>Started a new role as an Engineering Manager at Azara Healthcare.</li>
-	<li>Rapidly upskilling in relational databases and Azure cloud offerings.</li>
-	<li>Findings ways to always leave code better than I found it.</li>
+	<li>Returned from two awesome on-sites with my team at Azara Healthcare</li>
+	<li>Trying to refine process and smooth out releases</li>
+	<li>Finding ways to make feature flags safer to use; also what really defines a SPA?</li>
 </ul>
 
 <h3>Hobbies</h3>
 
 <ul>
-	<li>Ol' Blue needs a new power brake booster <em>badly</em>. The fun never stops!</li>
-	<li>Staying creative by learning digital art and studying introductory drawing techniques.</li>
-	<li>(Continual) posting practical programming tutorials and Hudson how-tos to YouTube.</li>
+	<li>Ol' Blue got that new power brake booster; it's quieter and stops the car beautifully</li>
+	<li>Enjoying the wonderful world of TTRPGs playing Dungeons and Dragons for over a year</li>
+	<li>Dabbling with GameBoy Color game making as a form of storytelling</li>
 </ul>
 
 <h3>Life</h3>
 
 <ul>
-	<li>Amy and I are creating a chill backyard fire pit area.</li>
-	<li>Clementine can't wait to swim but would settle for fetching with no rain.</li>
-	<li>I'm getting pretty deep into Dungeons and Dragons now that I'm playing it for the first time.</li>
+	<li>The fire pit is done; it was back-breaking but worth it</li>
+	<li>All three of us are back from the Lake but the boating adventures continue (happy Clementine!)</li>
+	<li>Keeping up with the house seemingly falling apart around us (hooray for home ownership but where'd this water come from?)</li>
 </ul>
 
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-	<em>Last updated 2024-05-07</em>
+	<em>Last updated 2024-10-06</em>
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+<h1>Tunes for Flying</h1>
+
+
+<p class="description">
+	Each time I travel by airline I have a take-off/landing playlist. These three songs are always at the top of the list.
+</p>
+
+<h2>"Treat Her Right" by Roy Head - The Take-Off</h2>
+
+<p>
+I first heard "Treat Her Right" in Tarantino's <em>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</em>. It opens the movie with a bunch of cuts of a reimagine Sharon Tate on her way back to California. It's full of old fashioned flying with well-dressed stewards and classy dining on a Pan Am jumbo jet. It's a romantic vision of flight with 1960s rose-colored glasses. No waiting in a TSA line to get scanned as characters make their way through the airport and cruise along the highway. It's an idyllic way to travel that I never got to experience. I like to pretend that's the kind of flying I'm doing instead of reclining 2.5" in shorts and trying not to get airsick. <em>6/10 for imagined nostalgia, "treat her real gentle."</em>
+</p>
+
+<h2>"Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" by Anita Ellis, The Song Spinners, or The D-Day Darlings</h2>
+
+<p>
+I get to call flying a nuisance instead of a battle for survival. The carburetors on my '53 Hudson were rebuilt and jetted by Walt Mordenti, a WWII vet who served as a mechanic on B-17 bombers. I figure if he could keep a B-17 aloft he was the right guy to tune and set my carbs for my application. Anyway there's a pretty famous song from back in the day called "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer." The most popular version would probably be the one performed by the Andrews Sisters. Recently I discovered the D-Day Darlings' performance with more fiddle and swing. It tells the same story of a bomber crew making their way back to base "with one motor gone." It's incredibly catchy despite the over-processing and tells a good story. Always amps me up for some reason. <em>9/10 for the feels, "what a show, what a fight."</em>
+</p>
+
+<h2>"Promised Land" by Chuck Berry - The Touchdown</h2>
+
+<p>
+Back in California or rather on the arduous journey there, Chuck tells the story of a po' boy trying to get from Norfolk, Virginia to Los Angeles. The trip starts on a bus which breaks down in Alabama, transitions to a train running across Mississippi, and eventually to a plane over Albuquerque. It's the last verse that always gets me going:
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+...in thirteen minutes he'd set us at the terminal gate
+Swing low chariot, come down easy, taxi to the terminal zone
+Cut your engines and cool your wings, let me make it to the telephone
+Los Angeles, give me Norfolk, Virginia, give me Tidewater 1009
+Tell the folks back home this is the Promised Land Calling and the po' boy is on the line
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>
+Every time I land out of state these lyrics shoot through my head. I'm a Tidewater native and I always send word back thereabouts to Norfolk Virginia when we touch down. <em>8/10 my airport is best airport, "swing low chariot, come down easy."</em>
+</p>