Re-tagging

A whole pile of assisted content tagging here

Author: offbyone

content/old/amazon-expedition/an-expedition-up-the-amazon.md

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 title: An Expedition up the Amazon
 slug: an-expedition-up-the-amazon
-date: "2011-06-01 01:46"
+date: 2011-06-01 01:46
 category: amazon
 tags:
-  - amazon
-  - emigration
-  - seattle
+- amazon
+- char
+- emigration
+- matt
+- seattle
 author: offby1
 status: published
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@@ -18,4 +20,4 @@ I've been on the ground here for three weeks, now; today was work day 22 as an A
 
 It's a good thing, I think, and once the major problems that face us due to the move -- selling our house without losing our shirts, finding a nice place to live here -- get out of the way, I think we'll have no trouble finding new friends and common interests. That said, it's not going to be the same. I may, if I'm truly, truly fortunate, find friends that will come to be as important as those I've left behind, but I will never replace them.
 
-I'm hoping that, like the period I spent in school (that spurred the creation of this mode of expression in the first place) I will write more often in this space. I suspect that I've got no readers left, but I'll be trying to remedy that the old-fashioned way. Please, comment often; knowing that people read these -- and having a conversation with them -- will force me to keep writing. And to keep in touch. I need both of these things.
+I'm hoping that, like the period I spent in school (that spurred the creation of this mode of expression in the first place) I will write more often in this space. I suspect that I've got no readers left, but I'll be trying to remedy that the old-fashioned way. Please, comment often; knowing that people read these -- and having a conversation with them -- will force me to keep writing. And to keep in touch. I need both of these things.

content/old/amazon-expedition/july-and-august-and-beyond.md

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 title: July and August (And Beyond)
 slug: july-and-august-and-beyond
-date: "2011-08-24 10:20"
-category: amazon
+date: 2011-08-24 10:20
+tags:
+- char
+- seattle
+- simon
 author: offby1
 status: published
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@@ -14,4 +17,4 @@ We've been back and forth to Vancouver twice in the last three weeks, once with
 
 Isolation is a big thing in my mind these days, actually; I'm cut off from a lot of what used to sustain me. I've been finding myself paranoiacally parsing every tiny communiqué from friends, wondering if they're writing me off. It's not helping that I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what I want to write to all of the awesome people I've left behind. I've always been an in-person sort of person, and that's really biting me in the ass right now. I have drafts of emails to four people in flight right now, and I feel awful that I have not written them. I've talked on the phone with a few people, but not often enough. I just worry about interrupting or being overbearing or... Well, let's just say that I am not immune to neurosis, despite having a couple fewer than most of the people I know.
 
-In other news, Char and I are going to New York in October, to see a taping of The Daily Show!
+In other news, Char and I are going to New York in October, to see a taping of The Daily Show!

content/old/amazon-expedition/picking-up-the-reins.md

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 title: Picking up the reins
 slug: picking-up-the-reins
-date: "2011-06-09 11:18"
-category: amazon
+date: 2011-06-09 11:18
 tags:
-  - details omitted to protect the innocent
-  - workflow
-  - AWS
+- AWS
+- details omitted to protect the innocent
+- school
+- workflow
 author: offby1
 status: published
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@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ All of which means that the tools I get to use are light years beyond the tinker
 
 But, I'm getting to the point where a decent fraction of my time is now spent doing my *job*, which is developing my team's product and designing the next iteration. It's a lot more satisfying than figuring out how to do the plumbing work that underlies it.
 
-I'm getting there. It's a hell of a trip.
+I'm getting there. It's a hell of a trip.

content/old/amazon-expedition/taking-my-finger-off-the-pulse.md

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 title: Taking my finger off the pulse
 slug: taking-my-finger-off-the-pulse
-date: "2011-06-04 08:10"
-category: amazon
+date: 2011-06-04 08:10
 tags:
-  - lifestyle
-  - reading
+- lifestyle
+- reading
 author: offby1
 status: published
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 I'm an inveterate blog reader, which must come as a surprise to precisely nobody. I read blogs by authors, programmers, and random joes who seem to have something interesting to day. To augment that, I also read community weblogs (Metafilter being the most prominent of that lot).
 
 I read these blogs... too much. I've traced this down to a desire to always be abreast of the latest developments in the part of the world that interests me. I don't want to miss anything. And, what ends up happening is that I miss a lot... just nothing online. What I miss most is being a reader of books. I rarely read books any more because, well, where would I find the time?
 
-To that end, I'm going to try scale back my consumption of blog content. Specifically, MetaFilter and Slashdot -- which I don't follow much any more. I'm not going to stop reading them, but I'm going to avoid discussion threads, and stick to reading the articles. I'm going to pick up more books. And hopefully I'll find the version of myself that loves reading again. We have a nice back yard coming to us... It'd be a shame to waste it.
+To that end, I'm going to try scale back my consumption of blog content. Specifically, MetaFilter and Slashdot -- which I don't follow much any more. I'm not going to stop reading them, but I'm going to avoid discussion threads, and stick to reading the articles. I'm going to pick up more books. And hopefully I'll find the version of myself that loves reading again. We have a nice back yard coming to us... It'd be a shame to waste it.

content/old/amazon-expedition/the-factory-is-in.md

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 title: The Factory is In
 slug: the-factory-is-in
-date: "2011-07-03 21:28"
-category: amazon
+date: 2011-07-03 21:28
 tags:
-  - beer
-  - seattle
+- beer
+- char
+- seattle
 author: offby1
 status: published
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 C and I have landed in our new place. It's an older place in an older neighborhood, and holy shit do we have lots of stuff. It's especially obvious when it's all packed into a house that's a bit smaller than we started with.
 
 So, the layout is sweet, in my opinion. It's got a tiny kitchen, though, which is likely not to thrill \@DarwinsMom. For now, though, it's home. Darwin's room is just bloody adorable. I'd take pictures, but he's sleeping like, well, a baby. Another time, perhaps.
 
-Right now, Char and I are chilling out with some local beer (Red Hook IPA -- Char considers it a pale shadow of a good Lagunitas) and Netflix.
+Right now, Char and I are chilling out with some local beer (Red Hook IPA -- Char considers it a pale shadow of a good Lagunitas) and Netflix.

content/old/amazon-expedition/tick-tock.md

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 title: Tick, Tock
 slug: tick-tock
-date: "2011-06-25 08:52"
-category: amazon
+date: 2011-06-25 08:52
 tags:
-  - home
-  - nightlife
-  - socializing
+- char
+- edmonton
+- home
+- matt
+- nightlife
+- seattle
+- socializing
 author: offby1
 status: published
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@@ -24,4 +27,4 @@ Next Friday we are having all of our possessions dumped unceremoniously in our n
 
 It's a lovely place; smaller than we're coming from, but we've learned to purge already, and I can't see any reason for us to stop doing so now that we've moved. The big concession -- and I hate to do it -- is that I'll probably do a book purge. Some Seattle second-hand bookstores are going to get a bolus of nerdy literature in the near future, I think. I'll probably filter for books that I can replace digitally.
 
-A later post may talk about work. Or maybe not.
+A later post may talk about work. Or maybe not.

content/old/amazon-expedition/urgh-boxes-heavy-house-full.md

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 title: Urgh. Boxes Heavy. House full.
 slug: urgh-boxes-heavy-house-full
-date: "2011-07-17 15:03"
-category: amazon
+date: 2011-07-17 15:03
+tags:
+- amy
+- char
 author: offby1
 status: published
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@@ -14,4 +16,4 @@ It turns out that we had a lot of stuff. Who knew? I mean, we knew we were going
 
 Yep, six bookcases. In a case of amazing coincidence, just as [mayttvw](https://twitter.com/#!/mayttvw/status/91935205018963968) was tweeting about this, I was cataloguing and boxing 2/3 of our book collection for eventual resale. Char and I are converting to digital, slowly but surely, and this was a necessary step. I've kept the best parts, in my opinion, and packed up for sale a lot of chaff. However, it's still hard; I've loved the written word for as long as I can remember, and the physical fact of *The Book* is a difficult one to let go of.
 
-Honestly, I'm going to miss most the times that Amy and I wandered each others' bookcases getting ideas; I'm missing that anyway because of where I am, but it's all the more poignant to know that even if she was here it'd be harder, if not outright impossible.
+Honestly, I'm going to miss most the times that Amy and I wandered each others' bookcases getting ideas; I'm missing that anyway because of where I am, but it's all the more poignant to know that even if she was here it'd be harder, if not outright impossible.

content/old/amazon-expedition/wallingford.md

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 title: Wallingford
 slug: wallingford
-date: "2011-06-01 22:06"
-category: amazon
+date: 2011-06-01 22:06
 tags:
-  - home
-  - seattle
+- home
+- seattle
 author: offby1
 status: published
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 I think -- and I'll know by the time many of you read this -- that we may have found a home, at least for now. It's a compromise (we'll have to store the dining room set, which makes me ... sad) but I think it's a good one.
 
 The neighbourhood is awesome. We're a 10-minute walk from shopping; farmer's markets, groceries, and bookstores. Plus, [BottleWorks](http://bottleworksbeerstore.blogspot.com/)... which is not necessarily a *good* thing, per se; that is one hell of a beer store.
 
-It suffers from not being perfect; no houses really are. But, my heavens, the location is so good. It's even right beside an urban garden.
+It suffers from not being perfect; no houses really are. But, my heavens, the location is so good. It's even right beside an urban garden.

content/old/appreciation/aaron.md

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 ---
 title: Aaron
 slug: aaron
-date: "2004-08-21 13:33"
-category: Appreciation
-tags: appreciation
+date: 2004-08-21 13:33
+tags:
+- aaron
+- appreciation
 author: offby1
 status: draft
 ---
@@ -23,4 +24,4 @@ Aaron is one of the class of friends that I have that I wish I saw more of. Due
 
 I guess one last thing -- I owe Aaron a huge debt of gratitude (and dinner! Let us not forget dinner!) for helping me out when the basement flooded. Since I was phoning in order of proximity, he came up relatively early, and took time out of his own plans to help out.
 
-What more can a guy ask for in a friend?
+What more can a guy ask for in a friend?

content/old/appreciation/and-five.md

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 title: And... Five!
 slug: and-five
-date: "2006-03-31 07:49"
-category: Appreciation, Events, General Thoughts
+date: 2006-03-31 07:49
 tags:
-  - appreciation
-  - events
+- appreciation
+- char
+- events
 author: offby1
 status: draft
 ---
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ It's been five years, now, arguably the best five of my life.  We've had our up
 
 I wish you could be here, but even more, I wish I could be there.
 
-Anyway, to whom it may concern, this woman is my woman, with whom I am deeply and passionately in love.  Five years is only a start.
+Anyway, to whom it may concern, this woman is my woman, with whom I am deeply and passionately in love.  Five years is only a start.