2023 Project 52 – 32/52
Busy week. We had the P!nk concert at Nationals Ballpark on Monday. We saw “The Play That Goes Wrong” at the Kennedy Center on Friday. Went to the Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Convention Center in DC…
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2023 Project 52 – 28/52
Big news this week. First, I finished my hellish Secure Software Development course. I was at the point where I was hoping for a “C” in the class. The professor apparently curved the grades and I got a “B+”. Woohoo!…
2023 Project 52 – 4/52
2023 Project 52 – 3/52
Busy week for it being a shorter week. Date night with the wife. Finished a couple books. Went to the eye doctor. Went to a cloud security workshop.
2023 Project 52 – 2/52
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Short week of work. I took a couple days off and we drove up to Philadelphia to spend some time at the Christmas Market and visit a few favorite spots in the city. Because the wife is off work for…
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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…
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Unlike last week, this was a pretty busy week. Work and school were pretty typical, but we did a lot at home. My birthday was last week, so the family spoiled me with presents and cake. We got to go…
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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…
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This week was simultaneously long and went by quickly. I guess it *felt* long during the week, but when looking back it went by quickly. Lots of business at work and home. At home we have a couple projects in…
28/52
A short week back at work was helpful; providing a soft landing after vacation. Next week will be my first full week in three weeks though … so wish me luck. I stopped at World Market this week while waiting…
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On Memorial Day we visited the DC Mormon Temple (which is actually in Maryland) for their open house. They recently did renovations and before they reconsecrate the temple they open it to visitors. Very interesting. A lot of animal related…
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A mostly uneventful week of adjusting to a normalish schedule again. After a curve, I ended up with a B in my Algorithms class. Huzzah! We went to Cobbler Mountain Ciders this weekend. It was hot, but still fun to…
Honoring Those Who Serve
First and foremost, thank you to all who have served in our armed forces for your service. Thank you to the families who support them and the sacrifices they’ve made as well. My father was a POW in Vietnam. His…
Psychology, Prosperity, Politics, and Productivity, oh my.
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…
Mask Mandates Make Many Mad
The past week or so has been a busy whirlwind of life getting in the way. Busy at the office. Busy with schoolwork. Busy at home. So some things just had to go to the backburner, like posting a blog.…
Fed Up With Facebook … Again
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…
Catchphrase
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.…
Books I Read in June 2021
I track what I read in Goodreads, but I wanted to start writing a little more about each book and keep track by the month on this blog. Goodreads is nice for the annual challenge, but I don’t really use…
Book Review: Leviathan Wakes
I left my book at home when we went on vacation a while back. We stopped at a bookstore and I picked this up on a whim. I hadn’t watched The Expanse on Amazon Prime, but had it in my…