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…
Category: personal
Category for personal observations and writing.
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…
Ever since I’ve been hiking, and spending more time outdoors, getting lost has always been one of my biggest fears. Which is odd, because some of the best times can be found 5 miles up some trail where you realize you went the wrong way in the first place. I…
What would you do for someone you love? What if it hurt like Hell and never offered any relief? What if every week you were providing assistance you had to question yourself, “Is this what my friend would want?” Well, I’m not alone and this story is nothing new. Many…
Summer is drawing to a close and, looking back, this was a great big one personally. I shifted from hiking during the June, July & August for the most part in favor of going car camping and meeting up with old and new friends. There were a couple of exceptions…
This post is about how I’ve managed my CAD, the information I have taken in from my Dr’s, trial and error, plus a status of where I’m at four and a half years later. So, I had my annual cardiologist visit today. I was late to this because of a…