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As I turn this website from devdaily.com into the more personal alvinalexander.com, I'm sharing more personal information here as well. This includes my interests in music.

Lately I've been listening almost exclusively to the album Ophelia, by Natalie Merchant. Here are a few of my favorite tunes from that album:

Ophelia:

Kind and Generous:

Like many other people, during the months of December and January I reflect on the year that's passed, and come up with some goals for the next year. Over the years this has led me to:

If you're thinking about giving to a charity this year, please consider giving to the Zen Foundation. Our organization has one simple purpose:

"The Zen Foundation will freely distribute classic Zen books to libraries, schools, healthcare facilities, and other locations where people can discover Zen."

With this mission, we hope other people will discover Zen in the same way we did: By stumbling onto one of the classic Zen texts, flipping through the pages, and beginning to wonder.

For reasons shown in the following image, I decided it was best to leave Santa Fe last night, and drive back to Colorado:

That weather doesn't look too bad, but people were scattered all over the sides of the road when I drove down to Santa Fe on Monday, and there was only one lane open on I-25, and there was also at least one fatality.

Just a quick note today that now that this website has my name on it (no longer devdaily.com), I'm adding a photo gallery to the site. You can either click on that link to see the gallery, or click the photo below:

Enjoy!