Lots of things have happened since the previous kragen-journal post.

Today we got temporary residency in Argentina for 12 months. For the
previous year we'd only had "residencia precaria", precarious residency,
which could be revoked at any time and in any case was only valid for
three months at a time. I shaved my head to celebrate.

A number of dear friends have visited us, including some family members.

We helped out a bit with Wikimania 2009 (especially Beatrice.)

I turned 33.

My former roommate Payton Whitaker died after a long illnes. I hadn't
talked to him in many years.

Last week my client launched <http://knx.to/>, the site I've been
working on with them for more than a month. It's a way to search through
your contacts on a number of different social networks at once, and even
though it's an interactive web site, it doesn't store any private
information out "in the cloud" --- it's all on your own machine.

My dad gave us a little netbook, which is proving extremely useful.

The list of things I did for the first time in my 32nd year is around
here somewhere, along with a shorter list of things I did for the first
time in my 33rd year. After some polishing, I'll post them.

I seem to be in good health, but now I have this huge paunch.  I've been
dancing contact improv lately, which has been wonderful and physically
challenging.

I translated a poem from Spanish:
<http://canonical.org/~kragen/cosmologya.html>.

During the early part of the North American swine flu, I wrote an essay
called "How False Rumors Cost Lives"; I've been told it's good:
<http://canonical.org/~kragen/costs-lives.html> 

Several of my friends have had the swine flu, but so far all have
recovered without incident.

I'm not aware of anything having been stolen from me or Beatrice this
year, which is a nice improvement over the last few.