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How am I supposed to summarize a week that includes the last three days of a good trip to Netherlands, but also includes bringing home Desti's ashes? Not gonna try.

This part of the trip (three days out of a 12-day trip) was spent in Amsterdam, with a side-trip to Tilburg. (That was just N and me, on Tuesday. N and j made a separate side-trip to Leiden Monday because j hadn't seen it.) Tuesday also included a face-to-face visit with our immigration lawyer. Up to now it's only been Zoom.

I'm going to try to do an actual trip report on Going Sideways, which will probably get partially mirrored here. (Partially, because my workflow doesn't make it easy to include images or formatting.)

After we got back I noticed that one of the zippers (the one that opens the expansion section) on my Travelpro suitcase was separating; another (on the back panel) had lost its pull some years ago. So I promptly fell into a rabbit-hole looking at luggage. That deserves a separate post as well. That 23" Travelpro rollaboard has served me well for over a decade (I don't know how long becase this blog doesn't go back that far. But I know that it wasn't the first Travelpro I've owned, either.)

Travel tip: the Our House "Immersive Dance Music Experience" (about the history of "house music") is LOUD -- earplugs are required. It also has flashing lights.

Rabbit hole report: somebody elsejournal was complaining about losing a day's work thanks to a browser or Google docs glitch. That reminded me of something I'd recently read about called Local-First Software (see more under Thursday. Also look at "offline first".) Or just use git, with your choice of text editor and either HTML or markdown for formatting. You can back it up for free on GitHub. (I know I've written about this several times; maybe I'll give it another try some tie.)

( Notes & links, as usual )