Category: General
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An entirely unscientific study of Facebook usage as evidenced by birthday wishes per year
And that, friends, is my longest post title ever. Hypothesis Facebook usage is in decline as evidenced by a sharp decline in the number of birthday wishes received this year. Method Visit Facebook Activity Log, copy + paste from top to bottom of “Others’ Posts To Your Timeline” from approximately February 14-17 (we can assume a few belated or coming in under the wire…
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Reboot
For the third time in three years, I’m being laid off. This time my company is shutting its doors. A good portion of folks are already gone, but I’ve been given two months to wrap up my work, document it, and hope someone at a firm specializing in maintaining failed businesses will be able to pick it up and make use of it. ?♂️ Two…
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Plywood monitor stand
I’ve long been fascinated with woodworking. This past weekend I tackled an incredibly simple project with some scrap plywood from some shelving I put into one of our closets (I don’t consider that a woodworking project since there was zero polish involved). This was a great first project because my tools are limited and it’s stupidly basic. I present you my new monitor stand!…
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2019 Year in Review
An excellent year. Life Became President of my bike team. Sold her house. Started a great new gig. Bought a house. Got married. Got a 2nd cat. Losses My recipient passed away in September. This was kind of hard on me. Travel The Dalles/Maupin for New Years and a race (January) Mt. Hood/Parkdale for a V-day/B-day ski weekend (February) Breckenridge for ski trip w/…
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And then we got a kitten
Growing that family… Meet Kitt (formerly known as Andrew). This post continues the “and then” theme from the We bought a house and We Got Married posts. All of these things happened in a matter of weeks. It was crazy. A week after the wedding (two months ago), I surprised Rebecca with a visit to the Oregon Humane Society, conveniently a mile or so from…
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And then we got married
October 17, 2019 was the date. We, along with around a dozen family members descended upon Tumalo Lake Lodge (amazing – do stay there) for a three day celebration that couldn’t have gone much better. On Thursday, we married just before 4pm on a dock by the lake. It was a very informal ceremony that we had to literally run to make as the skies…