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personal
- A Twitter "bestof" List
The only content feeds I regularly peruse anymore are my RSS subscriptions and Twitter. I’ve been trying to pull away a bit more from looking at Twitter so often. This is a common problem these days that people are re…
- Quotes
A while back I started a text file for logging the best quotes I run across. I put up a page to document those here publicly. No sense in keeping good stuff to myself when I can share my favorites. A few highlights: "…
- Halloween
We had a good time trick-or-treating with the kids over at a friend's house in South St. Pete. Elyse and her friend from school had been planning together to do Halloween together, so we had to oblige. Everett will go…
- The Every Day Blog
Inspired by Fred Wilson’s AVC blog, I started posting something every day here last year on October 4th. The 1 year mark passed by and I didn’t even notice. It’s become such a part of my mental routine to keep up with…
- Netlify for Content Management and Hosting
We've been exploring options for adding a CMS to our Jekyll-powered website for Fulcrum over the last couple of weeks, looking for ways to add more content editor-friendly capabilities without having to overhaul every…
- Search the Archives
Since I've been posting here so frequently, it's gotten challenging to scroll through the archive to find links to things I wrote about before. Last night I worked on implementing a simple site search page that search…
- Labor Day
The kids had a great holiday — a beach day with their cousins, lunch on the beach together, then an evening playtime slash barbecue over at a friend's house for dinner. It was the first beach trip here at home since p…
- Suncoast Developers Guild
A few months ago I joined the advisory board of the Suncoast Developers Guild, a code school and developer community here in St. Pete. Our company has been involved with this group since back when they first launched…
- Fulcrum as a Personal Database
I use Fulcrum all the time for collecting data around hobbies of mine. Sometimes it's for fun or interests, sometimes for mapping side projects, or even just for testing the product as we develop new features. Here ar…
- Elyse 4.0
Elyse just had her 4th birthday this weekend! She picked out her own theme, her own cake, and wanted to have her party at Jump Station here in town. Tons of her friends and family came out, so it was great to see ever…
- Independence Day
We had a typical, yet action-packed day for the 4th. The kids had a sleepover with their cousins, so I did get about an hour of reading in total silence this morning, which was certainly not typical. But after that th…
- 18 Months Down
I just got back from a trip up to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville for the every-three-month scans cycle. MRI and CT scans clear with only a couple minor things to monitor. These weekends are always a bit of a mental "…
- Father's Day
I'm not a big holiday person, so I don't think much about it when something like Father's Day rolls around. Simple morning with the kids doing breakfast, then I spent most of the day over at the old place getting it p…
- Neighborhood Run Progress
I'm making quick work of the streets of Shore Acres. Yesterday I set up a quick and dirty local database that I could load the tracks into. I'm just using the GPX export feature on each activity and the ogr2ogr comman…
- Forming Habits
This year has been an experiment for me in how one goes about forming habits — at least those of the healthy, positive variety. We're all familiar with falling into negative habits and how easy that can happen. There…
- Tidal Resiliency
Yesterday evening I attended a community meeting in our neighborhood on the tidal resiliency plan the City of St. Pete is putting together to combat the periodic street flooding we get during high tidal or rainfall ev…
- Moving to Three Months
I still haven't published the long backstory on my cancer battle from 2017. It's still a work-in-progress. There's a draft going, but I want to make sure I do justice to the whole story properly, and it's a little har…
- The Breakthrough & Immunotherapy
I've been listening to the audiobook of The Breakthrough, Charles Graebel's book about the origins and effectiveness of immunotherapy for cancer treatment. There's been a draft post in my archive for months to tell a…
- Moving
We've now got the bulk of our essentials sorted through and moved over to the new house. There's plenty of work left to do to get our old house emptied and ready for listing, but the hard work is done. Now comes the f…
- Starting the Move
We've started moving what we can over to the new place. This weekend was our first free time to get some of it done, but we still had a couple of family commitments both Saturday and Sunday that occupied time. Between…
- The New House
We closed today on our new house. It's only about 10 minutes away from where we live now, but a nicer neighborhood, more space, a larger garage, closer to parks, with better school access for the kids. We're excited a…
- Hamilton
Today we got to see the touring production of Hamilton in Tampa. It's every bit as good as the hype. I'm a history nerd already, so the subject matter is right up my alley. I read the book a couple of years ago and en…
- Building a Link Archive
Since I started my daily writing routine a few months ago, I’ve posted tons of links to interesting things. Sometimes I do “link posts” (like this one), and I’ve been consistently doing my “Weekend Reading” series on…
- 2019
With 2018 in the rear view, it’s time to set some goals for 2019. Here are some things I want to focus on, and some markers to aim at by year end. Health Run 500 miles — At just under 10 per week on average, this feel…
- 2018 in Review
2018 was a good year, both personally and professionally. Rather than a long-winded post about everything that happened, here’s a brief summary of accomplishments, major events, family stuff, and travel. Personal Read…
- Fenway Park
A few weeks back I had an opportunity to catch a game at Fenway Park for the first time. That’s definitely a bucket list item checked off. Tim got tickets last minute, some great seats down past the bend on the third…
- The Map Collection
I’ve been collecting paper maps for years. It’s one of the few collection habits I’ve allowed myself to keep (well, including books). Some time back I wanted to inventory all of them. So I built an app in Fulcrum to l…