The projects continue to pile up in a never ending list of things that need to be worked on. The scope of things to do has gotten to the point where I need to do some proper planning on dependencies and costs for the bigger things that I cannot do on my own. Last weekend […]
House Work
Things never seem to slow down. The list of items needed to be worked on for the house is growing faster than I can get to working on them. The endless work has left me me no time to do the things that I want to spend my time on. There is so much to […]
Lost Time and 2020 Goals
Between the house renovations and the job, my available free time has evaporated and all the side projects and personal goals have been abandoned. The commitments I made to blogging, journaling, drawing, reading, exercise, podcasting, video editing, and coding have fallen to the wayside. Even this blog, I’ve had a consistent practice of weekly blogging […]
Winter Biking
Back when I was working in Calgary I started biking to work through the winter season. It gets cold and dark which necessitates a number of changes to how to commute by bike. Now that I’m a 5km distance to the office instead of 30km it’ll be reasonable for biking in. So I’m getting back […]
Change Begets Change
It’s amazing just how much making a change can trickle to other changes in life. Moving and a new Job are things that can kick off a cascade of other impacts. This year I did both of those things. Switching from a self-employed, and renting back to employed in a normal 9-5, and owning + […]
Building a Kitchen
Over the past month, it has been the most hectic and crazy period in recent memory. We have been slowly moving everything out of our old house and into the new one, while at the same time, ripping out and building a new kitchen, painting all the walls, trimming the trees, cleaning the gutters, assembling […]
Beast Mode
It can be amazing what is possible to accomplish in a day, week, month or year with the right motivation and habits. My life is documented in over 1500 blog posts on this website. My weekly routine for blogging has fallen to the wayside the past little while because of – new house purchase, packing, […]
New House + More Responsibility
This past week has been one of the most stressful in many years. I do not recommend buying a new house, while at the same time trying to backfill for three of my senior team members who have successively left the company. New house: we got what seems like an unbelievable deal on a house. […]
Finished a Game – First time in a Decade
For the first time in maybe a decade I played a game all the way through to the finish. I don’t have much time to play games, but I’ve been chipping away at Portal 15 minutes at a time. Not sure if it was intentional, but it seemed a little too easy. Like geared towards […]
A Vague Update
Unsure what to write about today… this has been happening a lot lately. Books that I read and hobbies are the driving force behind having creative and interesting things to write about on this blog and for the last couple of months work has been consuming most of my time and thoughts. It can be […]