Category: Personal
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Closed mouths don’t get fed
Closed mouths don’t get fed. I’m not sure when I started to internalize this or where I initially read it. But, it’s something that has stuck with me for some time. Phrased differently, one might use: You don’t get what you don’t ask for. Or: What’s the worst that can happen? You get told “no”?…
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Bike Ride with Sara
Sara isn’t really a fan of riding motorcycles. Last time I took her, just around the block, she spent a large majority of time repeating, “I don’t like this.” So, I was super excited when she agreed to go for a quick bike ride this past weekend.
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Germany Candy Haul
This year marked the third time that I’ve been at Cloudfest in Rust, Germany. Ever since James Grierson introduced me to these Smarties while at my first Cloudfest, it has become a tradition to bring home as many as possible. This year, I brought back a whole pack of 20.
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The things we remember and Bing
I often find myself trying to reference a person or movie in a conversation but I can’t quite remember the name. This recently occurred for me when I was wanting to reference Ready Player One, so I gave Bing the information that I could recall and it helped me remember. 😄
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Coffee shop musings
Sara at Collective Coffee during a break from work.
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Rewiring outlets
We recently closed on a house on February 1st. The most annoying thing about the house is that nearly all of the outlets are two-prong and there’s not seemingly any ground wires run throughout the house. With much of our electronics now being three-prong, we needed to upgrade the outlets, which I used as a…
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Puppy kisses
I spent December 8th-12th in Port Clinton for the Winter Airgun matches. When we came back from several days away, I had to give our now 7-month-old puppies some love.
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Portugal Road Trip 2022
This past June, following the Crew meetup in Porto, Sara and I rented a car and drove from Porto to Lisbon. We stopped at several places along the way as well including Nazare and Sintra.
