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I spent the better part of yesterday making a script to auto-generate gophermaps for my phlog. It looks for entries in each subdirectory and creates maps for the corresponding months and years, as well as a top-level map. The top-level map features individual entries from the most recent month, then links to previous months in the current year, and finally links to previous years. That way recent entries are highlighted without cluttering the top-level map with potentially hundreds of entries in the future.
The script is quite crude and slow, but for the purposes of simply having a functioning tool, it works well enough. I decided not to refactor it today.
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This morning I heard the first mourning doves of the year.
The metropolitan area I now live in is the same one my paternal grandparents lived in for decades, but I grew up in a small town a few hours to the south. There were no mourning doves in my hometown, so the only times I ever heard them as a child were when we'd visit my grandparents. I came to associate the sound with their house, and today they remind me of some of my most cherished childhood memories.
I realized today that I've now lived in a city with mourning doves for almost fifteen years. I hear them every spring and throughout the summer when they migrate south. But while I've made some fantastic memories while living here, I don't associate the sound of the mourning dove with any of them. The only memories that come to mind when I hear one are those of my grandparents' house.
I'm not sure why my mind has refused to connect the sound of the bird with anything else. Memory formation is quite strange.
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