21 Chemos, No Castle

June 25, 2026

21 Chemos, No Castle Chemo #9 is done — June 4th — which brings the grand total to 21 chemotherapy treatments. Going into #9 I had a lot of muscle pain in my neck and back. So in a strange way, I was looking forward to it — the steroid pills come with the treatment. They felt great for about five days, then wore off the following week, right as we drove to Spain. The Spain trip started back in January, when Soren said: Dad, will you look up the Ludovico Einaudi concert tour? Who? Ludovico…

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Cubicle Boycott, Rebooted

April 30, 2026

Most of you know Tina, and I spent a year traveling the world in 2005–2006. Nobody knew the word "blog" yet. But I was a web developer, so instead of mass-emailing updates, I built a simple admin page where we could log in from internet cafés and post travelogues. I already owned craigandtina.com — originally our destination wedding site from Playa del Carmen in 2003. We'd done a coin flip to decide whose name came first. I repurposed it before we left in February 2005 and renamed it Cubicle…

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Iowa Unplugged

April 26, 2026

I'm back. Did you miss me? I missed this — the process of blabbing about my life. Some of you I talk to in real life; we discuss these posts over coffee or a walk. I've intentionally kept comments off the site. Two reasons: I built this thing from scratch and only code features when I need them, and I have zero interest in spending time blocking bot spam. So. Where have I been? My brother-in-law passed away unexpectedly in late January. We chose Easter break to fly to Iowa, be with family, and…

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