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                  It's the end of the month here, well, pretty much everywhere.
                  I guess there are some places not on the Gregorian calendar,
                  but I haven't been to them. Things are winding up for August.
                  The kids will be back in school soon. I've got more mountians
                  to climb, more employees to hire, and my Norsk to learn. Cara
                  will hopefully be starting her postdoc at some point if the
                  bureaucrats ever finish shuffling their paper. The kids have
                  just had their birthdays, and mine is coming up. I don't have
                  a race for August yet. I'm trying to get Cara to sign up for
                  something with me. We'll see how that goes. Maxwell has taken
                  up fishing around town, and he and Zara have been exploring all
                  the local spots as yet without success. I am cautiously
                  optimistic about August.
                 
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