• Mia, 1.75 Years

    Travel, the outdoors, potty, attitude, friends, and surgery, oh my! Over the holiday season grandma paid us an extended visit and we also flew to NC to spend Christmas with my family. Mia loved boating and playing with her cousins. Mom and Dad loved having the extra help. Flying went relatively well – effortless on

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  • The most efficient way to type text in XCUITest

    With Xcode 13 and iOS 15, the standard typeText method became incredibly slow. So slow that I created an alternative using the pasteboard. This proved flaky and needed support code in order to succeed reliably (and it did): It was marginally faster, but when I’m doing the same thing hundreds or thousands of times seconds add

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  • Doing Less: Bike Team

    As of the end of January, I am no longer on my bicycle team board. I served six functional years over the past five actual years; two initially as web and communications director, three as president, and one of those presidential years also as web and comms after a board member moved. Double duty with

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  • 2021 Year In Review

    Not the year we were all hoping for, but we all have our health and family is well. This was more of  “just get through it” and we did. For the first time in a while, I kept a job for an entire calendar year and we didn’t have any real estate transactions! Very much

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  • Rafting the Tieton

    We finally got back on track with a rafting trip this year. We kept it “local” by visiting the Tieton just outside of Yakima with Wet Planet. The trip almost didn’t happen due to wildfires, as we were wearing masks just to breathe in town, but the skies miraculously cleared upon reaching the canyon. The

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  • Vacation long ago on Orcas Island

    I’m on a posting roll here, I can’t post my end of year wrap-up with any outstanding posts to do, so let’s get this done! Orcas Island. In the San Juan Islands and accessible only by boat. We rented a house way up on a hill with Rebecca’s mother and step-father to get away from

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