New Edition Day

Now with 100% more babies!

Happy Birthday to The URI! Zone, which turns 21 years old this month! As a special promotion for turning 21, anyone who visits my house during the month of August will get a free craft beer (as long as I have one in the fridge at the time of the visit).

This month marks the first full year of my "three updates per week" rhythm which I found much more pleasant and doable than five per week, and prevented me from running with retarded post ideas like "List Day: 5 Other People Named Brian". Looking ahead, I plan to keep posting three times per week, mainly about things I'm up to day-to-day and things I enjoy that you might enjoy too.

There will also be an obligatory quota of posts about babies for people who like babies, but I want to make sure that it's not babies all of the way down. There are enough pure "parenting blogs" out there already, and I have no urge to attract the sometimes toxic communities that tend to spring up around those types of blogs. We're going to raise our kid in a judgement-free bubble with the space to make mistakes and learn along the way.

So, welcome back to all of my old readers, and welcome anew to all of the lurkers I've accrued since my popular demo tape, MAIA, dropped on July 6. Introduce yourself in the comments section and maybe I'll write about something you're interested in!