Announcement: New series and also at least posting something

Wow. Sure has been a long time, hasn't it? I sure had the best intentions when I started up this blog and I've certainly thought about those intentions whenever I check my credit card statement and remember I'm still paying to host this little

Quarantine Update #4

It's been a while, eh?

Quarantine Update #3

Smoke 'em if you got 'em

Quarantine Update #2

In my last post, I started with an ongoing count of how long we have been in quarantine, but Cara has informed me those numbers are actually incorrect. The timeline I gave was the last time we have seen friends in-person, but as Cara points out we actually began our

Quarantine Update #1

It has been a long time since we started quarantine here in Seattle. We started distancing and taking things seriously a while before it was mandatory, but I suppose the true count would begin the Sunday of the Democratic Debate on March 15th since this was the last day we

Getting Goonie - Part 1

After watching a friend's dog for over a week, we were ready to be home. Not that we didn't love watching the wee lab, Mara - in fact, quite the contrary. But sometimes you are just away from your little corner of the world for too

Quarter Mount Si - First Attempt

The day started like most others - waking up late. Cara and I had plans to attack Mount Si all week and I was very excited to get after it, although apparently not excited enough to actually get up at 7. The whole hike is about maybe a 5-6 hour

Dust Unsettles

Today I opened my company-issued laptop and took a look at my calendar. I had a morning filled with three meetings and then had the afternoon free. This would normally be a pretty standard day were it not my last actual day of work with Thrivent Financial, a company I

NextStep, Denver - Day 1

Several years ago one of my friends introduced me to her dad. She knew I was a software guy and she was pretty sure that's what her dad did, so she thought we might have a lot to talk about. At the time she turned out to be

Hello, World!

Where are you supposed to start with a blog like this? Do I write an actual story? Or do I make some long-winded technical or philosophical musing? I think many people would believe the first blog post sets the tone for the whole thing, but when was the last time