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 […]
Critical Drawing Skills
I’ve been slowly reading through the Walter Isaac biography about Leonardo Da Vinci. A fascinating book. It has made me think more about artistic skills and their importance to our overall ability to tackle complex problems creatively and critically, as well as to better convey those ideas to other people. The ability to think through […]
50 Year Apollo Anniversary
Hard to believe that it’s been 50 years since the Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. It’s a long time ago, before my time when all that action went down. The Apollo mission was created and launched with teams of inexperienced kids who were hired right out of college at the age of 21 and […]