Maya hosted an all girl Super Bowl and slumber party this evening. Most guests seemed to understand the rules of the game and for those that did not, clarification was offered. A play from scrimmage is described as the “two lines crashing into each other” in Maya-speak which helped her explain the concept of a “down”. As much time was spent on iPhones and pig-piling as watching the game. I watch primarily for the commercials and was not disappointed this year, especially when Sonos aired a well done spot which featured at least one product that was developed during my stint with the company.

Some of you may have noticed that this website was offline for the last 36 hours. Early Saturday morning, I set up a website for Nicolai on my hosting service. In so doing, I managed to overwrite nearly 9 years’ worth of daily entries and crashed the site. I was panic-stricken and spent several hours trying unsuccessfully to restore the site from backup files. Even the hosting service technical support folks were unable to restore the missing files and had to escalate to their 2nd tier experts. Fortunately, they were able to complete the restore operation and I was back online this evening. I have copies of all photos that appear on the site but would have been inconsolable had I lost all that I have written over these many years. In this digital age, one cannot be too cautious about backing up irreplaceable information.