Making the most of things when stuck at home for the last couple of weeks, and plans for the next while. I’ve been chipping away at various small projects. I’m looking for things that I can get done with the things I have at hand and not going to the store. One of the recent […]
The Frequency of Disaster
In the midst of the current global crisis for COVID-19, I was reminded just how often we have found ourselves in Bug-in situations over the last decade. We have been personally impacted by 4 significant events in the last 12 years. In 2018 a tornado ripped through a power distribution station in Ottawa knocked out […]
Making Things Happen
There’s a limit to the things a single developer can accomplish as part of a project. I get a great deal from checking things off my todo list. You can write great code and propose great ideas, but there’s a limit to what a single person can accomplish without a team. A team can accomplish […]
Addicted To House Renovations
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, […]