Today I began a re-build of the Flash Photo Album application, with an eye on using it as a CDROM presentation tool, among other things. So not much in the way of new and interesting stuff.

This is a sea otter we woke up in Prince William Sound during a glacier cruise:

Sea otters have the densest fur of any animal. The average human head has 100,000 hair follicles. There are 300,000 hairs in a single square inch of sea otter pelt. Sea otters do not have blubber, but instead, when cleaning themselves, blow air into their fur, where it is trapped and acts as insulation.

Boy, sorting through hundreds of photos takes more time than you would think.

It is official: Though the last two years have been wondrous fun, and I may have the most well-located apartment in the city, it is time to move on. Somewhere around the end of the month I will be moving three blocks to a house on a quieter street. Perhaps then, finally, my time will be a little more my own.

Nah, who am I kidding? That will never happen.

After being up for 40 hours, I slept for twelve. I was initially, as the song says, too tired to sleep, but Daredevil put me out like a light.

So: Alaska. Amazing place. We had, apparently, unusually good weather for this time of year; 60s and sunny in Fairbanks and Denali, 70s and partly cloudy in Anchorage.

Thunderstorm’s a’brewin, so I need to unplug. I will continue after the weather clears. In the meantime, look at this:

And Boy, are my arms tired!