Lissa spent a good part of yesterday weeding in our huge iris bed in the front yard, picking through the plants. "It's like getting reacquainted with old friends," she said.

I had the same feeling this morning when I saw a pair of killdeer on my morning bike ride. It's finally getting warm enough to ride outside in the mornings, so I've been heading up the bike path along the flood control channel. There's a big bend in the channel where the water slows down and drops silt, and it turns into a little wetland every year, despite the flood control people's best efforts to keep it scooped out. That's where the killdeer hang out, pretty little birds with a white collar and a cheerful song. Old friends.

With Nautilus 1.0.whatever essentially out the door, I'm starting to focus on improving gnome-db2html2, though I feel like what I'm doing is more like hospice than anything else. gnome-db2html2 needs to die in favor of something more elegant for rendering our GNOME documents, but it will be of this Earth for a while longer, so we need to make its final days as comfortable as possible. I give it six months to live.