Well that was a garbage filled burning train wreck. I almost dare not look back for fear of being Medusa’d by the wretched catastrophic turd buffet that was last year. I’ve never written a year in review post before. Why start now? Well a lot happened, that’s why. A lot that I haven’t talked about […]
I run operations at a software company called Sandhills Development and one of my responsibilities is planning our occasional team retreats. I wrote about some of them before including our 2017 All Hands and our 2019 All Hands. For the past few years our fully distributed team has been getting together in-person at least once […]
On August 29th, 2017, our daughter Abigail was born. We brought her home from the hospital a couple days later and, though I can’t recall the exact day, were very soon after surprised to discover a stray cat on our doorstep. Now, we’d been living in the same house here in Jackson for over eight […]
I should post more often. When so much time has passed it’s difficult to summarize all that has transpired. I don’t even know where to begin. I’ll start with a little context for the current situation. Back in early 2017, Ashley and I had been among the eligible and waiting adoptive families at a local […]
This is a weird time. For all of us. Fortunately for myself and my family, we just so happen to live a lifestyle and have personalities which are well suited for surviving periods of mandated isolation. My heart goes out to the many, many people who have it so much harder than we do. I’m […]
I am currently employed at a distributed software company and work most of my days from my home office. During my work days, I am taking part in frequent virtual meetings and also podcasting a little. For a while now, I’ve wished for a way to conveniently and clearly signal to the rest of my […]
Yesterday at WordCamp Ann Arbor 2019, I hosted three rounds of WordPress Jeopardy as a fun way to conclude our event. To make it possible I created a beginner, an intermediate, and an advanced Jeopardy game using a free tool I found called Jeopardylabs. I worked pretty hard on the questions and so in the […]
Last month the entire Sandhills Development team gathered together in Keystone, Colorado for our annual team meetup. This was not the first team meetup for the company but was different than anything in the past for a few reasons: The meetup was for five whole days. It was not tacked onto a conference. All employees […]
More than five years ago I started a marketing company. Today I’m officially leaving it. It took two years to figure out that running a marketing agency wasn’t really my true calling in life and then three years after that to fully come to terms with this truth and act on it. Starting today, I […]
Almost four weeks ago now on October 15th at roughly 11:30pm I found myself laying down in bed, completely exhausted. The reality sunk in slowly that WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016 was over and officially in the past. I experienced a whirlwind of emotions from joy to relief to apprehension to anxiety before quickly falling into a very….very […]
There are many things in life I consider indisputable facts. Any food can be made better by wrapping it in a tortilla. Adam Sandler makes exactly 18.73 times more money than his contributions to human history warrant. Evil Artificial Intelligence exists today in the form of printers. Ohio sucks. Talent is not required to succeed in the entertainment […]
