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Just checking in.  I’m still alive, and even happy usually.

On the health front it’s been up and down; the battle with Meniere’s has been hard recently.  In late spring and fall when the temperature (and more importantly it seems, the barometer) swings up or down rapidly I can still have a multi-hour attack and need to sleep it off.  Attacks nowadays now feel more like I’m not seeing things properly and it’s hard to concentrate on any task versus the old straight up room spinning, but it still doesn’t feel great especially for several straight hours.

For any other Meniere’s sufferers out there, if like me you find white-on-black text easier on the eyes, I might suggest the  InvertColors extension for Firefox.
I have had some time (and desire) to work on nano with previous maintainer David Lawrence Ramsey’s departure last year, and after reading some random person complaining about nano not having a real undo.   It turns out adding an undo implementation to an editor that really never intended to have one is hard to get right.  Especially in spaghetti C-code.  But I added some other fun things recently, being able to read from stdin like a pager.  Nano will actually be 10 years old in November 2009, party time.

Being a father of three (and second guessing every decision I make as a dad) is taking up the remainder of my time.  That, and trying to be thankful for my blessings in these times: a wife, three beautiful kids, a good job at a company I love 3 years in, a house, and good enough health that I can get myself to work and back every day without assistance.