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-ways to increase clickthrough rates: buy now link, link to products at the top.
-
-EPC earning per click, .10 is industry average. conde goes for .30
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+# Sketches
+
+Greetings Friends of a Long year Subscribers-
+
+In case you've forgotten, you signed up for this mailing list at [luxagraf.net](https://luxagraf.net/newsletter/friends/) and you can unsubscribe just as easily, no hard feelings, there's a link at the bottom of this email. 
+
+
+# Published
+
+## 001 - Cold, No Snow, Trees
+
+Greetings Friends!
+
+In case you've forgotten, you signed up for this mailing list at [luxagraf.net](https://luxagraf.net/newsletter/friends/) and you can unsubscribe just as easily, no hard feelings, there's a link at the bottom of this email. 
+
+Hello from the early days of December, where it is finally, genuinely cold. What we call cold around here anyway. 
+
+My desk is just to the right of the front door, which no one uses, and there's a window next to the door that I look out. But it's cracked and leaks cold air. It's 26 degrees F outside. There's a good chance it's colder wherever you are, but here in South Carolina, that counts as cold.
+
+It's strange how relative temperature is though -- there were days when I lived in Massachusetts when 26 F would count as warm. Cold depends on what you're used to. Most things depend on what you're used to. Habit is a force to be reckoned with. 
+
+I should really do something about the cracked window. The wafts of arctic air are terrible for the monthly electric bill. Right now though, I rather enjoy it. The cold keeps me more awake, gives me that slight discomfort that reminds you you're a human, in a body. Best not to forget that. 
+
+---
+
+<img src="images/2020/DSC03568_O1GZTQr.jpg" id="image-2526" class="picfull" />
+
+Earlier today I did something I have never done in my forty-five years of living: I cut down my own Christmas tree. 
+
+It was like temporarily living in a Norman Rockwell painting. We traipsed through the forest in search of an appropriate tree. There was no snow, but it was suitably cold at least. We ended up cutting down a tree much larger than we needed and then just using the top. Small trees turn out to be scraggly things, unless they're spruce or fir, neither of which grow around here. 
+
+It sounds simple enough when I write it, but imagine it would have been hilarious to watch.
+
+The only hand saw I have is a mitre saw, which is terrible for cutting down trees. It took an embarrassingly long time to get through a 6-inch diameter tree trunk. Then you'd have seen us dragging and pulling, grunting and sweating our way out of the forest and back to the house where we quickly realized it was still far too large. We have 12-foot ceilings here, but even with that I had to go back at it with the saw, taking off another foot or two from the base. 
+
+Then we dragged it in the front door and tried to stand it up only to realize it was still way too tall. I cut another foot off right in the living room, sawdust piling on the floor. Tried to stand it up again. Still too tall. Sigh. More sawdust.
+
+Eventually we got it down to size, but it's still so tall I can't reach the top of it.
+
+Somewhere in the midst of all that sawing I started wondering how it was we ended up cutting down trees for Christmas anyway. Rituals that involve destruction of the natural environment around you tend to make for short-lived civilizations. Just ask an Easter Islander. 
+
+It turns out Christmas trees are a relatively recent ritual. At least cutting them down. That habit was imported by the Germans about 150 years ago. Decorating with evergreen boughs -- a more sustainable approach -- goes all the way back to Greek times, possibly further. Of course the Greeks were celebrating the Winter Solstice, not Christmas.
+
+Massachusetts, place of bitter cold and, historically, bitterness, once outlawed any Christmas celebration other than a church service. A win for sustainability and trees, but a loss for, well, everything else. People were fined for hanging evergreens or decorating in any way. Because who wants all that joy around them? Not Massachusettians of days past. Christmas trees were too much fun for Puritans. Or maybe they just hated trudging out in the woods to get one. There were witches in those woods.
+
+We don't have any witches in our woods. So far as I have been able to observe anyway. Still, I wonder about these rituals we stumble through. I suspect they're far more important than we give them credit for. These stories we tell ourselves about ourselves shape us, they determine our behavior, our destiny to some degree, perhaps to a large degree. They feel like the kinds of things we should spend more time considering, but we don't. Or I don't. Not often anyway.
+
+That's what gives them their power. Those stories are there, shaping our existence whether we stop to consider them our not. For me it usually takes something to jar me into questioning my habits, like being tired of sawing. Why am I sawing again? What are we doing out in this forest full of witches in the (relative) freezing cold? 
+
+---
+
+Technical note: the software that I wrote to generate, mail, and archive these letters may be a bit rough around the edges, for which I apologize in advance. I am sending this a week late because I needed to fix some last minute issues. But if you see anything completely, bizarrely wrong looking. Or you get 300 copies. Please do let me know. 
+
+-s
+
+## 002 - Is This Water?
+
 Greetings Friends!
 
 In case you've forgotten, you signed up for this mailing list at [luxagraf.net](https://luxagraf.net/newsletter/friends/) and you can unsubscribe just as easily, no hard feelings, there's a link at the bottom of this email. 
diff --git a/guides/coffee.txt b/guides/coffee.txt
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-A good cup of coffee is less a thing than a collection of things. There's the taste, but also just as important the sound of the brew, the gurgle of the pour in your mug, the sight of the heavy black liquid, the smell,at least have the "taste" of coffee actually comes from the smell, the tang like creosote, the dark smoky richness reminiscent of chocolate.
+A good cup of coffee is less a thing than a collection of things. There's the taste, but also just as important the sound of the brew, the gurgle of the pour in your mug, the sight of the heavy black liquid, the smell -- much of the "taste" of coffee actually comes from the smell -- the tang like creosote, the dark smoky richness reminiscent of chocolate.
 
 Coffee is also a state of mind. Or a way of establishing a state of mind. I mean beyond the strictly biochemical action of caffeine. Coffee implies a readiness. It's an open gesture for the day. For those of us that love it, a great cup of coffee is as necessary and reliable a thing as the rising sun in the east. 
 
+
+
 The hissing boil of a mokapot as it finishes brewing.
 
 The metal click of the stove grating heating up. 
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-Greetings Friends!
-
-In case you've forgotten, you signed up for this mailing list at [luxagraf.net](https://luxagraf.net/newsletter/friends/) and you can unsubscribe just as easily, no hard feelings, there's a link at the bottom of this email. 
-
-Hello from the early days of December, where it is finally, genuinely cold. What we call cold around here anyway. 
-
-My desk is just to the right of the front door, which no one uses, and there's a window next to the door that I look out. But it's cracked and leaks cold air. It's 26 degrees F outside. There's a good chance it's colder wherever you are, but here in South Carolina, that counts as cold.
-
-It's strange how relative temperature is though -- there were days when I lived in Massachusetts when 26 F would count as warm. Cold depends on what you're used to. Most things depend on what you're used to. Habit is a force to be reckoned with. 
-
-I should really do something about the cracked window. The wafts of arctic air are terrible for the monthly electric bill. Right now though, I rather enjoy it. The cold keeps me more awake, gives me that slight discomfort that reminds you you're a human, in a body. Best not to forget that. 
-
----
-
-<img src="images/2020/DSC03568_O1GZTQr.jpg" id="image-2526" class="picfull" />
-
-Earlier today I did something I have never done in my forty-five years of living: I cut down my own Christmas tree. 
-
-It was like temporarily living in a Norman Rockwell painting. We traipsed through the forest in search of an appropriate tree. There was no snow, but it was suitably cold at least. We ended up cutting down a tree much larger than we needed and then just using the top. Small trees turn out to be scraggly things, unless they're spruce or fir, neither of which grow around here. 
-
-It sounds simple enough when I write it, but imagine it would have been hilarious to watch.
-
-The only hand saw I have is a mitre saw, which is terrible for cutting down trees. It took an embarrassingly long time to get through a 6-inch diameter tree trunk. Then you'd have seen us dragging and pulling, grunting and sweating our way out of the forest and back to the house where we quickly realized it was still far too large. We have 12-foot ceilings here, but even with that I had to go back at it with the saw, taking off another foot or two from the base. 
-
-Then we dragged it in the front door and tried to stand it up only to realize it was still way too tall. I cut another foot off right in the living room, sawdust piling on the floor. Tried to stand it up again. Still too tall. Sigh. More sawdust.
-
-Eventually we got it down to size, but it's still so tall I can't reach the top of it.
-
-Somewhere in the midst of all that sawing I started wondering how it was we ended up cutting down trees for Christmas anyway. Rituals that involve destruction of the natural environment around you tend to make for short-lived civilizations. Just ask an Easter Islander. 
-
-It turns out Christmas trees are a relatively recent ritual. At least cutting them down. That habit was imported by the Germans about 150 years ago. Decorating with evergreen boughs -- a more sustainable approach -- goes all the way back to Greek times, possibly further. Of course the Greeks were celebrating the Winter Solstice, not Christmas.
-
-Massachusetts, place of bitter cold and, historically, bitterness, once outlawed any Christmas celebration other than a church service. A win for sustainability and trees, but a loss for, well, everything else. People were fined for hanging evergreens or decorating in any way. Because who wants all that joy around them? Not Massachusettians of days past. Christmas trees were too much fun for Puritans. Or maybe they just hated trudging out in the woods to get one. There were witches in those woods.
-
-We don't have any witches in our woods. So far as I have been able to observe anyway. Still, I wonder about these rituals we stumble through. I suspect they're far more important than we give them credit for. These stories we tell ourselves about ourselves shape us, they determine our behavior, our destiny to some degree, perhaps to a large degree. They feel like the kinds of things we should spend more time considering, but we don't. Or I don't. Not often anyway.
-
-That's what gives them their power. Those stories are there, shaping our existence whether we stop to consider them our not. For me it usually takes something to jar me into questioning my habits, like being tired of sawing. Why am I sawing again? What are we doing out in this forest full of witches in the (relative) freezing cold? 
-
----
-
-Technical note: the software that I wrote to generate, mail, and archive these letters may be a bit rough around the edges, for which I apologize in advance. I am sending this a week late because I needed to fix some last minute issues. But if you see anything completely, bizarrely wrong looking. Or you get 300 copies. Please do let me know. 
-
--s
diff --git a/pages/technology.txt b/pages/technology.txt
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+*Updated 02/21: I had to take out the part about not have a phone or a drone because I have those now. Does that make my a hypocrite? Maybe? Probably? Anyway, times change, etc.*
+
 Sometimes people email me to ask how I make luxagraf. Here's how I do it: I write, take pictures and combine them into stories.
 
-I recognize that this is not particularly helpful. Or it is, I think, but it's not why people email me. They want to know about at the tools I use. Which is fine. I guess. Consumerism! Yay! Anyway, I decided to make a page I can just point people to. There's no affiliate links and I'd really prefer it if you didn't buy any of this stuff because you don't need it. I don't need it. I could get by with less. I should get by with less. I am in fact always striving to need less and be less particular.
+I recognize that this is not particularly helpful. Or it is, I think, but it's not why people email me. They want to know about at the tools I use. Which is fine. I guess. Consumerism! Yay! 
+
+Anyway, I decided to make a page I can just point people to. There's no affiliate links and I'd really prefer it if you didn't buy any of this stuff because you don't need it. I don't need it. I could get by with less. I should get by with less. I am in fact always striving to need less and be less particular.
 
 Still, for better or worse. Here are the tools I use.
 
+## Writing
 ### Notebook and Pen
 
 My primary "device" is my notebook. I don't have a fancy notebook. I do have several notebooks though. One is in my pocket at all times and is filled with illegible scribbles that I attempt to decipher later. The other is larger and it's my sort of captain's log, though I don't write in with the kind regularity captains do. Or that I imagine captains do. Then I have other notebooks for specific purposes, meditation journal, commonplace book, and so on.
 
 I'm not all that picky about notebooks, if they have paper in them I'm happy enough. I used to be very picky about pens, but then I sat down and forced myself to use basic cheap, clear black ink, Bic-style ballpoint pens until they no longer irritated me. And you know what? Now I love them, and that's all I use -- any ballpoint pen. Ballpoint because it runs less when it gets wet, which, given how I live, tends to happen.
 
-### Camera
+### Laptop
 
-This is what everyone wants to know about. I use a Sony A7ii. It's a full frame mirrorless camera that happens to make it easy to use legacy film lenses. I bought it specifically because it was the only full frame digital camera available that let me use the old lenses that I love. Without the old lenses I find the Sony's output to be a little digital for my tastes, though the RAW files from the A7ii have wonderful dynamic range, which was the other selling point for me. One day when the A7Rii gets cheap enough I may pick one up because the dynamic range is even better.
+My laptop is a Lenovo x270 I bought off eBay for $384. I upgraded the hard drives and RAM, which brought the total outlay to $489, which is really way too much to spend on a computer these days, but my excuse is that I make money using it. 
 
-That said, none of the A7 series are cheap cameras. If you want to travel you'd be better off getting something cheaper and using your money to travel. The Sony a6000 is very nearly as good and costs much less. In fact, having tested dozens of cameras for Wired over the years I can say with some authority that the a6000 is the best value for money on the market period, but doubly so if you want at cheap way to test out some older lenses.
+Why this particular laptop? It's small and the battery lasts quite a while (like 15 hrs when I'm writing, more like 12 when editing photos, 15 minutes when editing video). It also has a removable battery and can be upgraded by the user. I packed in almost 3TB of disk storage, which is nice. Still, like I said, I could get by with less. I should get by with less. 
 
-### Lenses
+The laptop runs Linux because everything else sucks a lot more than Linux. Which isn't too say that I love Linux, it could use some work too. But it sucks a whole lot less than the rest. I run Arch Linux, which I have [written about elsewhere](/src/why-i-switched-arch-linux). I was also interviewed on the site [Linux Rig](https://linuxrig.com/2018/11/28/the-linux-setup-scott-gilbertson-writer/), which has some more details on how and why I use Linux.
 
-All of my lenses are old and manual focus, which I prefer to autofocus lenses. I like the fact that they're cheap too, but really the main appeal for me with old lenses was the far superior focusing rings. I grew up using all manual focus cameras. Autofocus was probably around by the time I picked up a camera, but I never had it. My father had (still has) a screw mount Pentax. I bought a Minolta with money from a high school job. Eventually I upgraded to a Nikon F3 which was my primary camera until 2004. While there are advantages to autofocus, and certainly modern lenses are much sharper in most cases, neither autofocus nor perfect edge to edge sharpness are significant for the type of photos I like to make. 
+## Photos
 
-One thing about shooting manual lenses is that there are a ton of cheap manual lenses out there. I have seen amazing photos produced with $10 lenses. Learn to manual focus a lens is like opening a door into a secret world. A secret world where lenses are cheap. The net result of my foray into this world is that I have a ridiculous collection of lenses. And we live in a bus, lord knows what I'd have if we had more space.
+### Camera
 
-That said, about 90% of the time I have one of two lenses on my A7: a minolta 50 f/2 or a minolta 55 f/1.7. I bought the first for $20, the second for $60. About 90 percent of the images on this site were taken with one of those lenses.
+I use a Sony A7ii. It's a full frame mirrorless camera that happens to make it easy to use legacy lenses. I bought it specifically because it was the only full frame digital camera available that let me use the old lenses that I love. Without the old lenses I find the Sony's output to be a little digital for my tastes, though the RAW files from the A7ii have wonderful dynamic range, which was the other selling point for me. One day when the A7Rii gets cheap enough I may pick one up because the dynamic range is even better.
 
-At the wide end of the spectrum I have a Canon, the FD 20mm f2.8, and a Minolta 28 f/2.8 that I use in cities. For portraits I use the Minolta MD 100 f2. For animals and birds I have a Tokina 100-300mm f/4 which happens to be minolta mount so I use a Minolta 2X with it to make it a 200-600mm lens. It's pretty soft at the edges, but since I mostly use if for wildlife, which I tend to crop anyway, I get by. Among my other lenses is this crazy Russian fisheye thing I bought one night on eBay after I'd been drinking. It's pretty hilarious bad at anything less than f8, but it's useful for shooting in small spaces, like the inside of the bus.
+That said, none of the A7 series are cheap cameras. If you want to travel you'd be better off getting something cheaper and using your money to travel. The Sony a6000 is very nearly as good and costs much less. In fact, having tested dozens of cameras for Wired over the years I can say with some authority that the a6000 is the best value for money on the market period, but doubly so if you want at cheap way to test out some older lenses.
 
-### Laptop
+### Lenses
 
-My laptop is a Lenovo x250 I bought off eBay for $300. I upgraded the hard drives and put in an HD screen, which brought the total outlay to $550, which is really way too much to spend on a computer these days, but my excuse is that I make money using it. 
+All of my lenses are old and manual focus, which I prefer to autofocus lenses. I am not a sports or wildlife photographer so I have no real need for autofocus. Neither autofocus nor perfect edge to edge sharpness are things I want in a lens. I want, for lack of a better word, *character*. I want a lens that reliable produces what I see in my mind.
 
-Why this particular laptop? It's small and the battery lasts quite a while (like 15 hrs when I'm writing, more like 12 when editing photos, 15 minutes when editing video). It also has a removable battery and can be upgraded by the user. I packed in almost 3TB of disk storage, which is nice. It does make a high pitch whining noise that drives me crazy whenever I'm in a quiet room with it, but since I mostly use it outdoors, sitting around our camps, this is rarely an issue.
+One fringe benefit of honing your manual focus skills[^1] is that you open a door to world filled with amazing cheap lenses. I have shot Canon, Minolta, Olympus, Nikon, Zeiss, Hexanon, Tokina, and several weird Russian Zeiss clones. In the end I sold almost everything but my Minoltas. Minolta Rokkor lenses tend to reliably produce results closest to what I imagine when I look at the scene.
 
-Still, like I said, I could get by with less. I should get by with less. Old EeePCs are excellent bargains on eBay for instance.
+Roughly 95 percent of the time I have one of two lenses on my A7II: a Minolta 50 f/2 or a Minolta 55 f/1.7. I bought the first for $20, the second for $60. About 90 percent of the images on this site were taken with one of those lenses. I prefer the 50mm for non-people images and the 55mm for portraits.
 
-The laptop runs Linux because everything else sucks a lot more than Linux. Which isn't too say that I love Linux, it could use some work too. But it sucks a whole lot less than the rest. I run Arch Linux, which I have [written about elsewhere](/src/why-i-switched-arch-linux). I was also interviewed on the site [Linux Rig](https://linuxrig.com/2018/11/28/the-linux-setup-scott-gilbertson-writer/), which has some more details on how and why I use Linux.
+I also have a Canon FD 20mm f/2.8, and a Minolta 28 f/2.8 that I use in cities. For portraits I use the Minolta MD 100 f/2. For animals and birds I have a Tokina 100-300mm f/4 which happens to be Minolta mount so I use a Minolta 2X teleconverter with it to make it a 200-600mm lens. It's pretty soft at the edges, but since I mostly use if for wildlife, which I tend to crop anyway, I get by. I also have a crazy Russian fisheye thing I bought one night on eBay after I'd been drinking. It's pretty hilarious bad at anything less than f/11, but it's useful for shooting in small spaces, like the inside of the bus.
+
+I also recently reverted to film by buying an old Minolta 35mm rangerfinder, the AL-S. I primarily shoot Tri-X 400 and develop it myself using Ilford chemicals.
 
-### phone/tablet/drone/wrist tracking device thingy
+---
 
-Yeah I don't have any of those. I'm one of those people. I pay for everything in cash too. Fucking weirdo is what I am. I told you you didn't want to know how I make stuff.
+And there you have it, the technology stack. I am always looking for ways to get by with less, but after years of getting rid of stuff, I think I have reached something close to ideal.
 
-But there you have it, my technology stack. I am of course always looking for ways to get by with less technology, but I think, after years of getting rid of stuff, I reached something close to ideal.
+[^1]: If you've never shot without autofocus don't try it on a modern lens. Most modern focusing rings are garbage because they're not meant to be used. Some Fujifilm lenses are an exception to that rule, but by and large don't do it. Get an old lens, something under $50, and teach yourself [zone focusing](https://www.ilfordphoto.com/zone-focusing/), use the [Ultimate Exposure Computer](http://www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm) to learn exposure, and just practice, practice, practice. Practice relentlessly and eventually you'll get there.
diff --git a/raw-workflow.txt b/raw-workflow.txt
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--- a/raw-workflow.txt
+++ b/raw-workflow.txt
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ So you want to take better pictures.
 
 A few things to note:
 
-* I am not a professional photographer. I have been making photographs for 35 years now, but I've never tried to make a living at it, nor do I have any interest in doing that. If you want to learn from a professional photographer, search for one and see if they have classes.
-
-* There is no single "correct" way to make a photograph. Most of my favorite photographs—both my own and those of others—have technical flaws. I am not interested in whether an image nailed the focus or has a perfect histogram.
+* I am not a professional photographer. I have been making photographs for 35 years now, but I've never tried to make a living at it, nor do I have any interest in nor any clue how you do that. I am just having fun.
 
+* I am not trying to make fine art prints. Photography to me has always been in service of or to illustrate a story. Occasionally I manage a photograph that tells a story on its own, but that's rarely a goal. Usually I am shooting with the idea that the image will supplement words,  stand on its own.
 
+* There is no single "correct" way to make a photograph. Most of my favorite photographs—both my own and those of others—have technical flaws. I am not interested in whether an image is tack sharp, has a perfect histogram, or is even in focus. I am interested in whether or not it tell a story. Which is ironic considering point two. But that's how it is.
 
 ### Take Control of Your Camera
 
diff --git a/src/indie-web-co.txt b/src/indie-web-co.txt
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+Here's a disturbing factoid: **the world’s ten richest men have made $540 billion so far during the pandemic.** Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' worth went up so much between March and September 2020 that he could afford to give all 876,000 Amazon employees a $105k bonus and still have as much money as he had before the pandemic started ([source](https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621149/bp-the-inequality-virus-summ-250121-en.pdf)).
+
+What does that have to do with code? Well, some of my code used to run on Amazon services. Some of my money is in Jeff Bezos' pocket. I was contributing to the economic inequality that Amazon enables. I decided I did not want to do that.
+
+But more than I didn't want to contribute to Amazon's bottom line, I *wanted* to contribute to someone's bottom line, the emphasis being on *someone*. I wanted to redirect the money I was already spending to small businesses, businesses that need the revenue.
+
+We can help each other instead of Silicon Valley billionaires.
+
+Late last year at [work](https://www.wired.com/author/scott-gilbertson/) we started showcasing some smaller, local businesses in affiliate links. It was a pretty simple idea, find some small companies in our communities making worthwhile things and support them by telling others.
+
+One woman whose company I linked to called it "life-changing." It's so strange to me that an act as simple as pasting some HTML into the right text box can changed someone's life. That's amazing. I bring this up not to toot my own horn, but to say that every day there are ways in which you can use the money you spend to help real people trying to make a living. If you've ever charged a little for a web service you probably know how much of a big deal even one more customer means. I want to be that one more customer for someone.
+
+My online expenses aren't much, just email, web hosting, storage space, and domain registration. I wanted to find some small business replacements for the megacorps I was using.
+
+I did a ton of research. Web hosting and email servers are tricky, these are critical things that run my business and my wife's business. It's great to support small businesses, but above all the services have to *work*. Luckily for us the forums over at [Low End Talk](https://www.lowendtalk.com/) are full of ideas and long term reviews of exactly these sorts of business -- small companies offering cheap web hosting, email hosting, and domain registration. 
+
+After a few late nights digging through threads, finding the highlights, and then more research elsewhere on the web, I settled on [BuyVM](https://buyvm.net/) for my web hosting. The owner Francisco is very active on Low End Talk and, in my experience for the last three months, is providing a great service *for less* than I was paying at Vultr. It was so much less I was able to get a much larger block storage disk and have more room for my backups, which eliminated my need for Amazon S3/Glacier as well[^2]. I highly recommend BuyVM for your VPS needs. 
+
+For email hosting I actually was already using a small company, [Migadu](https://www.migadu.com/). I liked their service, and I still recommend them if the pricing works for you, but they discountinued the plan I was on and I would have had to move to a more expensive plan to retain the same functionality. 
+
+I jumped ship from Migadu during Black Friday because another small email provider I had heard good things about was having a deal: $100 for life. At that price, so long as it stays in business for 2 years, I won't loss any money. I moved my email to [MxRoute](https://mxroute.com/) and it has been excellant. I liked it so much I bought my parents a domain and freed them from Google. Highly recommend MxRoute.
+
+That left just one element of my web stack at Amazon: domain registration. I'll confess I gave up here. Domain registration are not a space filled with small companies (which to me is like 2-8 people). I gave up. And complained to a friend, who said, try harder. So I did and discovered [Porkbun](https://porkbun.com/), the best domain registrar I've used in the past two decades. I moved my small collection of domain over at the beginning of the year and it was a seamless, super-smooth transition. It lives up to its slogan: "an oddly safisfying experience."
+
+And those are my recommendations for small businesses you can support *and* still have a great technology stack: [Porkbun](https://porkbun.com/) (domain registration), [MxRoute](https://mxroute.com/) (email hosting), and [BuyVM](https://buyvm.net/) (VPS hosting).
+
+The thing I didn't replace was AWS CloudFront. I don't have enough traffic to warrant a CDN, so I just dropped it. If I ever change my mind about that, based on my research, I'll go with [KeyCDN](https://www.keycdn.com/pricing), or possible [Hostry](https://hostry.com/products/cdn/). 
+
+I also haven't found a reliable replacement for SES, which I use to send my newsletters. I wish Sendgrid would spin off a company for non-transational email, but I don't see that happening. I could write another 5,000 words on how the big email providers totally, purposefully fucked up the best distributed communication system around. But I will spare you. 
+
+The point is, these are three small companies providing useful services we developers need. If you're feeling like you'd rather your money went to people trying to make cool, useful stuff, rather than massive corporations, give them a try. If you have other suggestions drop them in the comments and maybe I can put together some sort of larger list.
+
+[Note: none of these links are affiliate links, just services I actually use and therefore recommend.]
+
+[^1]: This is something I'd like to do more, unfortunately there are not cottage industries for most of the things I write about (cameras, laptops, etc). Still, you do what you can I guess.
+[^2]: I have a second cloud-based backup stored in Backblaze's B2 system. Backblaze is not a small company by any means, but it's one that, from the research I've been able to do, seems ethically run and about as decent as a corporation can be these days.
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+## Edisto 2021-02-24
+We spent Christmas as Edisto and every morning it didn't rain I walked this short loop in search of marsh birds. It cuts right through the marsh on wooden planks, which I always find troubling, disrupting an animal a thruway like a marsh all so we could get a closer look at it. At the same time, well, it is nice to get a closer look. 
+
+I did this walk early in the morning, before breakfast. Usually right about dawn or a little before, using the birds around camp as my clue when to hit the trail. I came upon a pair of Hooded Mergansers twice rounding a bind corner, startling all of us. 
+
+Every morning the same Belted Kingfisher was out in the middle the of the marsh squawking as it fished. The last day there was hardly any bird life about. When I stepped out on to the marsh walkway a shadow passed over. I instantly knew it was a bald eagle. Its presence was unmistakable long before I could get my binoculars on it to confirm the feeling.
+
+Aside from birding, I did the trail each morning to stretch my feet, which were hurting from long days spent walking in the soft sand near the shore. 
+
+After the first day, when my heels began to hurt so bad it was difficult to finish up this sort walk, I started going barefoot. 
+
+Walking barefoot made me completely understand the barefoot running shoe craze. You can feel so much more. Wearing shoes (or even flop flops) all the time we forget that the bottom of our feet can be a sensory input. Go for a walk barefoot and you'll remember -- possibly in a very painful way -- that the bottoms of your feet have something to tell you about the world.
+
+It's nice to feel the ground beneath you. It's strange to think that for however many hundreds of thousands of years we felt the ground beneath out feet. At most we might have had sandals or moccasins, fur-lined in the winter, but never padded. The bare earth was right there underfoot. The best shoes you could make were essentially barefoot shoes. 
+
+And then in the span of a few dozen generations in the west, daily contact with the earth disappears. Even more striking, the notion of daily contact with the earth becomes so remote that we re-invent the idea with "barefoot" shoes. But really? Why stop at a thin-soled shoe? How about no shoe? It's easier. It's  cheaper.
+
+Since this walk I've tried several barefoot shoes, but none feel quite a good as being barefoot. Something about ll the strange synthetic fabrics leaves my foot feeling sweaty and clammy at the same time. There are certainly trails that would be tough on bare feet, but whenever I find one that's not, I plan to leave my shoes at home.
diff --git a/walks/edisto-marsh-walk.txt b/walks/edisto-marsh-walk.txt
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-We spent Christmas as Edisto and every morning it didn't rain I walked this short loop in search of marsh birds. It cuts right through the marsh on wooden planks, which I always find troubling, disrupting an animal a thruway like a marsh all so we could get a closer look at it. At the same time, well, it is nice to get a closer look. 
-
-I did this walk early in the morning, before breakfast. Usually right about dawn or a little before, using the birds around camp as my clue when to hit the trail. I came upon a pair of Hooded Mergansers twice rounding a bind corner, startling all of us. 
-
-Every morning the same Belted Kingfisher was out in the middle the of the marsh squawking as it fished. The last day there was hardly any bird life about. When I stepped out on to the marsh walkway a shadow passed over. I instantly knew it was a bald eagle. Its presence was unmistakable long before I could get my binoculars on it to confirm the feeling.
-
-Aside from birding, I did the trail each morning to stretch my feet, which were hurting from long days spent walking in the soft sand near the shore. 
-
-After the first day, when my heels began to hurt so bad it was difficult to finish up this sort walk, I started going barefoot. 
-
-Walking barefoot made me completely understand the barefoot running shoe craze. You can feel so much more. Wearing shoes (or even flop flops) all the time we forget that the bottom of our feet can be a sensory input. Go for a walk barefoot and you'll remember -- possibly in a very painful way -- that the bottoms of your feet have something to tell you about the world.
-
-It's nice to feel the ground beneath you. It's strange to think that for however many hundreds of thousands of years we felt the ground beneath out feet. At most we might have had sandals or moccasins, fur-lined in the winter, but never padded. The bare earth was right there underfoot. The best shoes you could make were essentially barefoot shoes. 
-
-And then in the span of a few dozen generations in the west, daily contact with the earth disappears. Even more striking, the notion of daily contact with the earth becomes so remote that we re-invent the idea with "barefoot" shoes. But really? Why stop at a thin-soled shoe? How about no shoe? It's easier. It's  cheaper.
-
-Since this walk I've tried several barefoot shoes, but none feel quite a good as being barefoot. Something about ll the strange synthetic fabrics leaves my foot feeling sweaty and clammy at the same time. There are certainly trails that would be tough on bare feet, but whenever I find one that's not, I plan to leave my shoes at home.