Anthony Ciccarello
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  1. Been thinking about potential new places to travel to this year and beyond. There are so many amazing options. Hawaii Alaska Glacier National Park Yosemite National Park Oaxaca Mexico Iceland Argentina/Patagonia New Zealand Netherlands South Africa Scotland

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  2. TIL there are lots of groundhogs predicting the weather https://groundhog-day.com/

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  3. I find it funny how often NPR uses instrumental versions of Taylor Swift songs for interludes. I heard it twice today!

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  4. I’m very intrigued by the idea of a calendar reform. What would it look like if we had 13 months of 28 days or some other arrangement like the World Calendar with fixed weekdays? Obviously switching systems would be a nightmare but I find the potential for consistency appealing. First...

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  5. I added a new page to my site this week. You can now preview some of the posts I have in progress on the /drafts page! Beware, I don’t plan on redirecting those old URLs though so I don’t recommend linking to draft posts.

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    • site changes
  6. Always nice when you can see the sun setting behind Catalina Island (visible to the right). I’m glad we could end the weekend this way.

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    • ocean
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    • sunset
  7. Birding in 2021

    Typically I do a year-in-review of my birding, but I fell behind posting 2021. Before I share about my birding in 2022, I wanted to give a quick update to fill in the gap. Despite the continuing pandemic and being busy with a new house and foster care, I still...

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    • travel
    • birds
    • birding
  8. Felt like posting a photo today. This was a fun one from the San Diego Safari Park. It’s a Great Blue Turaco.

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    • birds
    • nature
  9. Found out today that a elderly woman we know from Liberia passed away. She spent most of her life caring for children in Nimba county, many of whom lost family in the country’s civil war. Her godly spirit had a profound impact on my wife and me despite being a...

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    • personal
    • Liberia
  10. There are a lot of reasons I historically haven’t liked the beach: the sun burning my skin, the wind and water leaving me cold, sand getting on everything, social pressures from crowded beaches and exhausted people. But one of the gifts from this past year has been learning to enjoy...

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  11. How I built a live edge table

    An excessively detailed description of my plans and failures taking on an ambitious woodworking project

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    • personal
    • woodworking
  12. Today I learned that 12 days before the Three Mile Island accident, the movie The China Syndrome came out in theaters describing a nuclear meltdown that “could render an area the size of the state of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable”.

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