This post is my first attempt to wrap my head around the strange and dangerous days we all find ourselves immersed in currently. That and my climb back up off the forest floor, with the healp of friends, and back up into the trees to see the sun break across…
Category: personal
Category for personal observations and writing.
With hiking season coming up, a rather long absence from strength training and the benefit of a humbling lesson while climbing some peaks in the Smoky Mountains last year, I decided it was time to go back to the gym. It’s funny though, most people have the motivation to do…
So I am writing a series of posts on diversity in the technology field. And, as usual, my gaze is fixed on the bigger picture which sort of makes me look like I put on giant saucer-shaped glasses leaving me with big black pupil filled eyes. It’s all about the…
This past week was a busy one trip wise. Also mentally being split between client-facing work in Cleveland during the first half of the week, home for the very middle and then in Sandusky Ohio for my very first Code Mash conference which my company sent some of us to…
Eddie and I rented a cabin at Lake Hope for Thanksgiving so we could go off and celebrate another year together. 2019 was not without some ups and downs however, we faced all of those together. That’s all a couple, who has been together for almost 28 years, can ask…
This post is about how I have chosen to deal with venues and outlets where my online activity had become a conduit of misinformation, criticism, and conspiracy by a collection of commenters who wanted nothing more than to hijack my audience negatively. There is a dark side, for me, regarding…
This post is about making food choices while celebrating Thanksgiving as a heart attack survivor. It can be wrought with a ton of advice, some of which is conflicting in a person’s head, which leads toward fear and self-loathing. However, it does not have to be like that. So it’s…
There’s a lot to be said about tradition. One of mine is running the Hot Chocolate 15k here in Columbus mid-November. This year I sort of had some shifting physical priorities and switched from running to hiking, and a little weight training to support mountain inclines with a full pack…
I started on a new client job working with .Net which is really great. I’ve been enjoying coding more and more lately while taking a break from architecture and more esoteric aspects of systems design. The rain is coming down today in soft sheets while everyone has been up at…