Beach blogging

This update dedicated to beat_the_beaver.

So I'm in New Jersey with my family, both immediate and extended -- there's something like 22 of us around? It's pretty awesome. There are people here I haven't seen in six years -- I didn't even recognize one of my cousins at first. Tragically the average geek quotient in my extended family is lower than in my immediate family, which in turn is lower than in the dorm, so I get laughed at even more than normal when my comment on an efficiently packed room is "dense". I just barely resisted making a metastability joke about an ambiguously closed door, realizing that the audience probably would not appreciate it. MIT folks, I miss you guys. :P

The water is warm -- for the ocean, at least! -- and the waves were huge, especially today since the wind was strong. My brother was in the water twenty feet from me shouting "come over here!" and I was swimming as hard as I could and ducking under the waves when they came and digging my feet in and just generally doing my best to go against the waves and the undertow and failing miserably for about ten minutes before I gave up, got out, walked down the shore past where he was and went back in on the easy diagonal. The ocean is pretty awesome, in all senses of the word.

And now I'm going to shut down the laptop and go back to enjoying the terrific weather and the company. ;)