Ehhhhh. That was mediocre and kind of disappointing. An easy read because young adult, but lacking cohesion or much interesting, and full of forced and terribly written romance. If you’re a Hunger Games fan you obviously have to read it, but nobody else should. Highlights: “Own it.” “Your family and friends, that’s your real life.”
A little late on this one (only by a touch over a week!), but I’m not going to start missing these now. Bad precedent. Luckily, they’ll get shorter on words. This month Mia began cooing, smiling, laughing, and deciding to be an amazing baby at all times (sleeping 8+ hour stretches at night!) other than
My first Asimov! Not sure how this hit my radar, but I was told it was a must-read. Turned out very well, but I’m not chomping at the bit to continue the trilogy (and more). I’ll surely get to them, but the story arc jumps ~50 years every chapter so there’s not a lot of
A quiet month for the blog, but not one for us. On May 8th in Room 8 at 8pm on the dot, we made an amazing little addition to our family. Clocking in 7lbs 4oz (50% percentile) and 20.5″ (98th percentile), Rebecca and I proudly present Mia Ruth! Mia was a late addition to our
With the baby arriving tomorrow and being fit, rested, and expecting that to all go away very quickly, I decided to do a mile time trial. The last mile I raced was in 2013. I was in ~19:00 5k shape, but also 7 years younger. I ran a 5:22. Obviously I’m in much better 5k
Work I’m working! For the past month I’ve been ramping up at Skyward as a mobile automation engineer. Unlike my last few roles, I’ll be able to get my hands dirty with manual testing as well, which is something I’ve been missing. I go on paternity leave tomorrow so I haven’t accomplished much, but I’m