Posts
2023 Year in Review
Dec 22, 2023
This year has really been all about Scout… Raising a puppy turned out to be more than we expected. He’s finally starting to settle on his own at night and will wander off to take a nap once in awhile. We did have to do enforced naps for quite awhile. We also hosted Thanksgiving for the family this year and deep fried a turkey for the … 10th time I think.
Read MoreScout's training
Feb 4, 2023
Scout’s training has been slowly progressing and we’re finding it helpful in general. He now knows: sit (lay) down spot (as in, “go to your spot” / place training) paw / other paw stay recall is getting pretty strong (come) starting to get the hang of leash walking We recently started working with a professional trainer with him. He helped us with paw, strengthening stay, recall, and leash walking so far.
Read More2022 Year in Review
Dec 15, 2022
Big snowfall in January. Got to use the plow to clean off the driveway and sidewalk which was fun :) Promoted to Senior Manager at work as part of my performance review. Brought Scout home Year in Review Series
Read More2 years working from home
Mar 12, 2022
Today marks the 2-year anniversary of when my employer sent us home due to COVID. COVID-19 U.S. Stats for 2022-3-12 Total Cases: 79,641,006 Total Deaths: 966,978 COVID-19 U.S. Stats by date
Read MoreStarting to exercise
Jan 29, 2022
Bought a rowing machine from Ergatta over Christmas. I’m not sure what I’ve done to myself… My legs are jello when I get off it.
Read Morehomed
Jan 16, 2022
I recently had an idea for application to help on my home network. It’s called homed. I have various services / devices running on my local network like my DiskStation where we store a lot of our backups, photos, etc along with things like a Wiki where I take notes on things or the self hosted version of VSCode and more. Since I’m running all these services1, and want to access them from the public internet, it made sense to have some sort of a landing page so I could quickly get to them and I was using Authelia to require a log-in in order to access any of them2.
Read More2021 Year in Review
Dec 15, 2021
It’s been about 10 years since I’ve posted one of these, but I thought it might be good to give it a shot again. So, here goes… 2021 started off with a fair amount of uncertainty. Coming out of the first year of the pandemic in 2020, we’d heard news of a vaccine possibly becoming available. It did, and in March/April, Carrie and I were able to get appointments for our doses.
Read MoreSeptember 8, 2021
Sep 8, 2021
We had been given a ‘return to the office’ plan of returning yesterday, but then that got moved to November 2nd. Given the uptick in cases for the Delta variant, folks are wondering if that will be moved. I won’t be surprised if it does move, and generally I’m ok with that. I’m fairly happy with working from home. Vaccination rates are still too low, just keeping this all prolonged longer and more dangerous than it needs to be.
Read More