Family

Our Minecraft server is called Monkey Island. It has a website now, monkeyisland.fyi, because of course a family Minecraft server needs a website. It also has an AI doing most of the administration. I ask for changes, question the results, and decide what we actually want. The agent inspects the server, researches plugins, changes configuration, reads the logs, and works through the fixes. It keeps the project context in Gorchestra so we can come back to it without starting over every time. ...

The whole reason for our trip to South Dakota was Uncle Steve’s 70th birthday. He and Aunt Laurie had no idea that all of the kids and grandkids were coming, and we built a pretty packed Black Hills vacation around the surprise. Mount Rushmore at dusk, a few hours before the mountain was illuminated. Friday, July 31 — Getting to South Dakota Lily, Dylan, and I flew out of Fort Lauderdale on Friday and connected through DFW. ...