As mentioned in my post Reboot, I’ve been working on a Full-Stack development course. Let’s check in after a month? I’ve completed 7 of the 53 lecture hours, reviewing HTML and mostly learning CSS for the first time (the age of CSS is when I stopped “doing” code-based web-dev – I’ve always been capable of hacking it, but now I get it). I’m trying…
TL;DR I think I need knee surgery, I set a PR of 10:28, 17:59 5k attempt still on for May. First test of the year? Complete! Running hasn’t been going well. I believe it all stems from my skiing knee injury in college for which I never got proper treatment (outside of PT – I’m certain I should have had the surgery). My whole…
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…
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…
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!…
Well, kind of. We attempted to depart Portland early Christmas morning, but the guy who ran the jet bridge into our plane had other plans. After a two hour delay, our flight was cancelled. We were rerouted to San Francisco and an eight hour layover. We finally arrived at our hotel at 11pm as opposed to 11am. Alaska made it somewhat alright by refunding…