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I've finally returned to my home in Knoxville.

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Today Carole and I board a train for the trip from Denali National Park to Anchorage.  We'll spend one night there before returning by plane to Atlanta tomorrow.  While the trip to Alaska has been wonderful, it will be good to get back home again as it always is after a vacation.  Next post here will probably be from Carole's house in Lula, GA, and it will probably be on Tuesday morning.  Talk to you then.

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I am writing this from an Internet cafe in the Denali National Park, an awesome site to visit by the way, and this the first entry I've been able to make since the 17th of May because Internet access has been both slow and costly.  Aboard ship, the connection speed was 110 Kbps maximum (about twice the speed of a 56 Kbps modem) and the cost was $0.75 per minute. My itinerary didn't permit me to locate shore-based Internet access, so I have been suffering withdrawal symptoms for the last week.  Though I have felt out of touch, it is good to take a break from being so constantly on the Internet.  Normal posting will begin again soon, once I have returned to my home and the comfort of my own computing system.  I have taken a large number of pictures (more than 500) and I'll be posting some of those to Flickr once I've been able to go through them and cull the wheat from the chaff.   

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On Friday of this week, Carole, my ex-wife, and I will leave Atlanta for Vancouver and then embark from there on a cruise up the inward passage to Anchorage, Alaska. This is a trip that Carole decided last year she wanted to take, and she was kind enough to invite me to accompany her. While I'm not looking forward to the travel required to get there, I am looking forward to seeing the scenery before it all melts and to being able to check off one of the last three states that I've never visited. Just for the record, the other two are Hawaii and North Dakota. I can envision going to Hawaii, but I'd guess the only reason I'll ever have occasion to travel to North Dakota is just to complete the circuit of the 50 states.

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As any of you regular readers know, I've been using Flock as my primary web browser since back in November of 2005, despite the fact that it is only a «developer's pre-release» version. I've commented on its features, its family and even its failures. And I have also admitted that, in recent weeks, I've been installing a new build each morning. A progress report is now in order, I think.

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Moving your residence from one house to another is one of life's more difficult and unpleasant tasks, despite the joys associated with the new location to which you are moving. Only slightly less unpleasant is having to move your email address from one place to another. Yesterday, I began that process as I decided to retire p_nelson (at) vic.com, an email address I have had for the last eleven years.

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This will be my last post at this location.

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Given that many of us now have the ability to capture video with digital cameras or camcorders, a problem of how to share them has arisen because such files tend to be very large.

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Today is an especially appropriate day for me to pay tribute to mothers, mine and those in my life, and to my father because today, May 14th, is also my dad's birthday. Had he lived he would have been 96 years old today. The title of a song by Fred Fisher from around the beginning of the 20th century, «Daddy, you've been a mother to me,» enables me to tie today's holiday celebrating mothers with the fact that it is his birthday, and I can reflect on them both and their contributions to my life.

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Today is an especially appropriate day for me to pay tribute to mothers, mine and those in my life, and to my father because today, May 14th, is also my dad's birthday. Had he lived he would have been 96 years old today. The title of a song by Fred Fisher from around the beginning of the 20th century, "Daddy, you've been a mother to me," enables me to tie today's holiday celebrating mothers with the fact that it is his birthday, and I can reflect on them both and their contributions to my life.

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