Tag: life.

So much for writing all about my teaching journey, huh?

It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted anything here–don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about you all; it just turns out that the first year as a teacher is extremely time-consuming.

I first made this announcement on my LinkedIn, but I felt it was appropriate to post something specific and more detailed here because the amount of support I have received from you, the tens of readers of my blog, has always been overwhelmingly positive.

The first computer I ever owned was an HP Pavilion 7850 desktop tower that I picked up at a thrift store for $16 at the start of my Junior year of high school in the Fall of 2003.

A short while back, I picked up one of those newfangled folding phones so I could (ostensibly) read more. This purchase obviously went against my “single-purpose devices” and “offline-first technology” rules, but I got caught up in a wave of techno-consumerism that ended up inspiring additional purchases of new wireless...

Give yourself some credit. You’ve come a long way since your first job, and still have a long way to go until your last.

I have a confession to make: I fail a lot.

It’s been about a year since our (extremely elderly) dog passed away and the house has been feeling too quiet for too long (despite the children that also inhabit it). So this past weekend we took a trip to the local animal shelter to “just visit the dogs” and ended...

Ask anyone over the age of 30 when “the turn of the century” was, and I would wager that you are nearly as likely to get the year 1900 as you are 2000.

I did it. I jumped on a bandwagon.

Whelp, I didn’t have to wait long before that “one last blizzard before spring” prediction actually came through.

One day in and I’m already exhausted.

This is happening for you, not to you.

It’s been a few weeks since I published my last Sunday Reboot. In fact, I’ve published just about nothing in February altogether.

I was at coffee with a close friend on Friday, and the subject of reading came up.

Happy Sunday, friends.

Happy Sunday, friends!

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about authenticity.

Well, we’ve officially made it through the first week of the new year, and I’m already celebrating some personal wins.

Alright, so… I missed my Sunday Reboot again.

For the last 3 years or so, I’ve been volunteering to support the Computer Science curriculum at my neighborhood high school.

Merry Christmas, all!

I’ve always struggled with work-life balance.

My wife and I have been talking about moving a lot lately.

Finishing the reboot a bit later than I anticipated. Apparently sticking to a newly self-imposed schedule is hard when the rest of your life is decidedly unhappy with recurring weekend plans.

Whelp, this weekly post is off to a great start. As you may have noticed (or probably not, because who’s really reading this anyway?), I missed last week’s edition of The Sunday Reboot (also known as the very second Sunday Reboot).

I’ve long been fascinated by the concept of weekly roundups. They’ve always felt like a great distillation of thoughts and intentions for the coming (or closing) week, and while I’ve enjoyed reading them from other writers, I’ve been hesitant to start my own through some irrational avoidance of “copying” someone...

I have a confession to make: I fucking love automation.

I know that I’ve written about this subject before, but can I just say that I love “obsolete” technology?

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything for myself.

If you follow a lot of personal blogs, I’m sure you are drowning in year-end roundups, retrospectives, and resolutions; I’m sorry to say, this one isn’t going to be much different. It’s such a clichéd post that, looking back on last year’s retrospective, I said almost exactly the same thing....

A few Saturdays ago—the singular calm day I got between the chaos of Thanksgiving and the subsequent eternity two weeks of my entire family getting every seasonal illness under the sun—we went to a local holiday market (its first year back after being shut down by the pandemic). While it’s...

I’m at Denver Comic Con Fan Expo this weekend. Actually… I’m sitting in my hotel room across the street right now, writing this post (which, despite how lame it might sound, sitting at a hotel desk at seven in the morning is turning out to be one of my favorite...

I have two kids and, if I’m being honest, I’m tired all the time.

It’s an odd quirk of life that the older you get, the less you feel like you know. A decade ago, you wouldn’t have been able to convince me that I wasn’t as smart as I thought I was, but now you’d have a hard time convincing me of the...

Welcome to my 2021 retrospective!

Last year, right near the beginning of the pandemic, my family and I started enjoying going on drives. Nothing was open, so there wasn’t really anywhere to go, but we have the benefit of living in an area with a lot of nature to take in. While we occasionally parked...

“There is a limit to the time assigned to you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.” — Marcus Aurelius

I’m not much of a morning person. I like the concept of mornings, “a new day filled with new opportunities,” but as a sleep-deprived parent working too many jobs I have a habit of starting my day in all the wrong ways. Why do things the right way when doing...

This is a collection of thoughts that started formulating in my head towards the end of the last year. With everything that has happened recently—global pandemic, political violence, racial injustice, tiger king—I’ve been feeling a fair amount of anxiety over the world we are leaving for our children.

Spotify. Hulu. Netflix. Amazon Prime. Evernote. Dropbox. Google Apps. iCloud. Stop me when you get the point. There was a time in my life where I did everything the hard way. Not because I was inefficient, or stupid, but because it provided me opportunities to learn a ton about how...