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For Mike Sayre’s birthday, a bunch of folk got together and went to a local park to play uber-competetive Olympic sports like bocce ball and croquet and ladder golf. Two person teams competed, adopting countries to represent. Ben Newton & I came in second to last overall, competing as Brooklyn. “What?! Brooklynn’s a country! If Ice Dancing counts as a sport, then Brooklynn counts as a country!”

Congratulations to Nick & Tania (in the turquoise jerseys at the back), who took the ultimate prize as Khazakhstan. But with the amount of fun and beer we had that day, every one of us were winners! The only losers were the children whose parents had to scurry them out of the park when we arrived.

Well, this was actually from yesterday morning, but it looked just the same today. Except there was a large barge in the Sound. Anyway, how about them mountains… pretty, huh?

And can this really be the five-day forecast?

Finally, a big, special thank you to Ernesto Lopez & Brian Williams for the lovely mural they drew on the white-board yesterday for my birthday. (The other guy drawn is Mike Sayre — his birthday is this Sunday.)

The “street view” of Google Maps has always blurred faces, license plates, etc. to alleviate privacy concerns. In this shot, it seems they’ve taken it a bit further. Compare the woman to her reflection…