I’ve always been pretty careful about self-censoring my blog. I haven’t had to worry about being expelled from Sudan, but these days you can’t be too careful. And from here on out I have to remember that MY FAMILY could be reading this. My brother Rammy (hi, Ram!) stumbled across this blog a couple of weeks back, and then my mom mentioned it on a call (hi, Mom!), and then my nephew Ariel (hi, Air!) told me in an e-mail that he’s seen it, too. So my plans for a serialized, autobiographical, familial tell-all will have to be put on hold.

In today’s local news, it’s relatively cold (52F/11C) here, and it’s been raining pretty much all day – the upside of which is that Em and I are, at this moment, cozied up on the couch, each of us gazing lovingly into our respective notebook. Such is modern life. Em’s doing work-related stuff on her notebook, and I’m taking a break from doing the same to get a blog post in. I still haven’t gotten around to uploading any pictures from our honeymoon in Kauai, but until I get around to it please enjoy this little video clip that I shot on the water slide at our hotel. Note the cameo by Em at the very end of the clip. Oh, and we’d both just had a Hawaiian Pedicure at the hotel’s Anara Spa, which is why my toenails look so good – blue is definitely my color.