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In the E-Vill:

Courtesy of mapmyride.com and google, a bird’s eye view of my cycling path to work:

It looks far, but that’s only 5.4 miles, about 25% of which is on the Brooklyn Bridge bike path. Maybe 10% of it is outside marked bike lanes. NYC is a terrible place to drive and a wonderful place to bike.  Where else would you see traffic lights just for bikes?

This one had to be broken up into multiple galleries:

Israel Part 1 – Before the wedding: Gush Etzion, Herodium,  lots of Jerusalem

Israel Part 2 – The wedding, at a kibbutz near Jerusalem

Israel Part 3 – After the wedding: Beit She’an, Galilee, Tsfat, Haifa, Dead Sea

I’ll write more if I get a chance.  For now, the captions will have to do.

Cyprus pics are up here.

Israel pics will come shortly.

I posted up a new album of photos from Kim’s visit here and a long-overdue trip to California.

Prepping the house to install a floor is oddly like trying to back up a computer to reformat it but not quite having enough spare hard drive space. Unfortunately, it’s not a problem that can be fixed with freeNAS; the solution was to make the kitchen impenetrably packed with furniture, and then throw out what didn’t fit. And convert those cheap bookshelves into a stand for the circular saw.

Anyway, floating floors are fairly simple, given that:

1. Even after getting a couple opinions on what the pictorial instructions could possibly mean, you’re happy to just go at it without really knowing.

2. You have enough patience to endure knee pain and put on band-aids so that you don’t bleed on the pretty new floor from the cuts it gave you.

3. Your respiratory system can successfully filter out the burning laminate dust the circular saw spews out.

And here are the pictures.