For the second time in the last few weeks, a loved one posted pictures of my son online without my permission. Neither person involved thought anything of it but that they love my son and wanted to share happy memories with their friends. Unfortunately, our culture has embraced technologies without understanding them, and there is *huge* social pressure not only to share intimate details of our lives online, but to think nothing of sharing others' info.

In other words, everyone assumes it's not a problem because everyone else assumes it's not a problem.

Sandisk has finally created an MP3 player that I can buy my son. The only improvement I can think of would be the ability to play Ogg Vorbis in addition to or instead of MP3s.

Today was an awesome day. A good friend and her grandson took my son and I out on her sailboat this afternoon. There was no wind, so we ended up motoring around Budd Inlet (part of Puget Sound) for a while, which was plenty of fun. The weather was beautiful.

After a couple of hours ride, we moored the boat and returned to dry land for sandwiches and a round of ice cream cones at the marina. I'll post a couple of photos in the family gallery later tonight if they are any good. I spent so much time trying to keep up with the three year old boating wonder that very little photography happened.

Life is good.