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In case you haven't seen the announcements elsewhere, the Kickstarter campaign for my novel, The Wayward Astronomer is now live! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kafelnikov/the-wayward-astronomer-a-dreamkeepers-story https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kafelnikov/the-wayward-astronomer-a-dreamkeepers-story https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kafelnikov/the-wayward-astronomer-a-dreamkeepers-story https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kafelnikov/the-wayward-astronomer-a-dreamkeepers-story I cannot express properly how much this project means to me. This book is my life. Please consider backing the project, or at the very least, spread

Hi everyone, In the next couple of days I will be leaving my apartment in California and moving to Midland, Texas as part of my company's relocation. I'm not a native Californian. In fact, like most people at XCOR, I'm an import. I was born in Connecticut, grew up in Rhode Island, went to college in Florida, and I've spent the first 5 years of my professional career in California. Admittedly, I have mixed feelings about leaving. Over the past few years I've grown comfortable with the setting, and it's been great to visit amazing places like Yosemite, San Francisco, and San Diego. I've swam in the Pacific Ocean, climbed mountains, hiked trai