This week tried to throw a lot at me to make me lose my shit: more laundry center woes, tropical storm remnants, car issues, deadlines at work, distractions at work, and overwhelming amount of tasks at work and home. Fortunately…
Not my favorite week. Work was overwhelming. The washer/dryer saga continued. And the weather downright sucked. But that week is behind me. All I can do is put my head down, tackle the to-do list at work, and make more…
My work week was almost entirely meetings. Rough. I made up for it by plenty of walks and enjoying the time off. The daughter came over Friday night for dinner. Then we walked down to King Street for some ice…
We started the week with our contractor having to rip out our shower in the bathroom we just had re-done. We had hoped to save a few bucks and keep the existing shower insert, but he found some water issues…
Quite a busy week actually. Besides normal home life, work, and school, we also just seemed to have done a lot. We went to Penny Post because the Traveler’s Notebook stamp caravan stopped there this week. We got a print…
Ugh, this week. It started off busy and just ramped up from there. Things are progressing at the new house just fine now. The packing is progressing too; I found an old visa from my trip to the USSR in…
Lots of focus on work and school this week, so I mostly just unplugged in the evenings. The wife and I have been getting up early to do longer walks with the dogs, so I’ve been physically tired as well.…
If you didn’t read my last post, I had a WordPress emergency. I’ve gotten it back to about 90%, but the most recent images are in a strange state. I have to decide what (or if) I want to do…
I’m really enjoying the Fall colors this week. Fall is my favorite time of year and October is my favorite month. The wife, the son, and I picked up some Philz coffee and went for a walk through Four Mile…
Busy week of work. We’re re-focusing on some of the basics and trying to get everybody on board with some of the changes happening around the office. I love the direction we’re going and I see our team being very…
My wife is an elementary school teacher. She’s currently in her 12th year of teaching in our county. Before that she was a preschool director and a Child Protective Services (CPS) social worker. Clearly she loves helping and guiding children.…
I had my first negative COVID test last week, twelve days after my first positive test. I was laid up for almost a whole week, then worked from home the second week because I would tire easily. I’m now on…
I’m reminded almost daily how bad social media can be. Most notably with neighborhood groups filled with a mish-mash of random levels of idiot. You know you don’t HAVE to respond to every post you see, right? You don’t even…
Approximately a month ago, a teammate and I updated a process to request account changes on various networks that we control We automated everything and are running it through our ticketing process so we can approve and audit the requests…
I’m in a cranky mood today. I do my best not to pass that along to folks I interact with, but I apologize in advance if I fail. I’ve been ruminating about various things and for some reason all the…
I saw a post in a Facebook group for my High School alumni which showed this map of German beers from each state. This led me down the rabbit hole of investigating the German states a little more, since I…
A couple pet peeves I didn’t realize I had reared their ugly heads this morning in the Costco gas line. People who get back in their car after starting the pump. I know the chances of static electricity sparking the…
Hey! Welcome back. I know it’s been a while. I’ve been pretty busy. How about you? The wife and I took a train up to New York on Nov 20th to celebrate our 25th anniversary. Lots of walking, shopping, eating,…
I took an “intelligent risk-taking” course through work. One of the topics discussed was the “availability bias” when trying to determine risk of something we don’t know. The way our brains work, we try to recall examples of that thing…
Like most people on the internet, I go through phases in which I’m sick of social media. It doesn’t do anything other than make me angry. Everybody is wrong and I can’t do anything to prove they’re wrong (or they…
Testing out a new “newsletter” style format for this post. I’ll try compiling all my thoughts, updates, links, etc. and posting them once per week (or so). So, let me know what you think of the format. Maybe it’s stupid.…
That’s training for a half marathon. Get it?
Writing down the things that come to my head while trying to stay safe during COVID-19 lockdown. I started a diary post for week 27 but never got around to finishing and publishing it; so some of those thoughts are…
Putting my random, rabid thoughts down on “paper” for the world to see while we all have this shared pandemic experience. One of my pet peeves is pickup trucks that back into the parking spot and hang over half the…