✅ Shipped: Build “Command Deck” - proper blog post about this to follow but man o day. So pumped.

😴 long but great day!

😵‍💫 days like today make me feel...weird. brain is all over the place. work is insane. i have creative bursts/thoughts hitting me but i can't do anything about them, so then my brain starts to worry about losing them. meh. all good stuff, just a lot.

🥱 Wednesday afternoon slump...phew!

🌐 brew install --cask finicky

🧯 yesterday was nothing but fighting fires...fingers crossed today allows for a more stable approach to getting things done.

🦛 shifting from Pirate Ship to Shippo. fun names.

💊 gonna need Monday to take a chill pill.

☕ Building this morning, connecting things. FastMail, PythonAnywhere, Stripe, Pirate Ship, Jekyll, GitHub, etc etc etc. Hello Monday!

🧠 brain has been in overdrive lately with the ideas. jotting down and making as much as i can to capture them as they come in.

📝 have a goal, and some late night time is required...

🛸 rewatching Andor season 2 with Mozzie.

👋 hey, Saturday! Nice to see ya!

🙂 a nice evening catching up with a friend. belated birthday cigars and manhattans.

☕ Good morning, my kind Internet friends across the globe :-) TGIF!

Fun 😍

🥃 what a day, what a week! Looking forward to wrapping up a few things tomorrow. Grateful log to pickup again shortly. Writing in general. Stay tuned :-)

💻 early morning tinkering before work (which will also include tinkering, just in a more professional manner).

🙏 feeling rested.

😴 sleep shall be sweet, I pray.

🤪 brain is all over the place today. In an extremely creative spot at the moment.

🥃 late but good night.

🏈 car session while mozzie is at flag football practice. tinkering. launching some redesigned things soon.

☀️ sun is shining this morning! A welcome sight, now we just need to temps to continue their climb.

❤️ appreciate my family putting up with me being such a nerd.

🥃 what a weekend! Yesterday started at 6:30am with work, then house and yard work followed by taking dinner to my grandmother. Today started at 5:30 for resurrection Sunday and the related gatherings. Taking a beat now before resting. Full week ahead!

📝 test...

🔊 wiring for sound

🔧 tinkering

☁️ overcast skies made for a bleak sunrise service earlier this morning. Was still a great service though, even if cold.

🌅 He is risen!

🌱 yard work Saturday!

💪 problems lately have been solved by giving them a night to rest, solutions being found readily each morning.

☕ early start to Saturday with work, unfortunately. Need to finish what I stated yesterday. Just a season.

😵‍💫 helping Lindsay with her statistics class...oh man. not for me.

☕ Having coffee with my brother and showing off my cool status update process.

☕ good morning! yesterday was not ideal, too much work and not enough present family time. hopeful that the weekend offers us what we need.

🔥 steak on the grill

🌧️ rainy today! more coffee required.

🛌 sleep lately has been terrible, or at least consistently terrible. First it was my shoulder waking me up all night, last night was my left shin (of all things). Need to figure it out, has been a few months of this.

🚀 awesome watching the Artemis II lunch!

😴 power nap!

🎭 Warmer weather means we are getting closer to Mind Steward Kids Theater! I help the camp run their registration, daily camp rosters, and other tech related things as they come up.

🐍 Python has become a goto for a lot of personal and work stuff lately. Not sure where it has been my entire life, not sure why I didn't use it before, but man am I glad to have gotten into it!

🚀 Later and later lately...but I do eventually get started on what needs to be started.

☕ ️ Hey there, Tuesday.

🔬 sometimes, after a long work day and an evening full of family time, staying up to tinker is a nice way to wind down.

⚙️ so much to automate so little time to do so.

📖 reading before bed: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles.

🙏 praying for a solid night of sleep!

☕ ️ time for coffee!

😴 time to rest, what a week!

✨ blown away by what is possible these days. definitely going to be sharing some of what I have built in a post later!

🥃 pouring a smidge more. Family is sleeping. I’m exhausted but have a few more things I want to tweak.

📺 later night, watched part of a docuseries about the Inca Empire with Mozzie.

🥃 Friday night! Time for a manhattan!

🚀 SSH pipeline a success, now testing the API key (second test :-) )

🧪 testing...

🌞 Back from two weeks in Florida. Had a great time with family and soaking up the warm FL sun!

Grateful Log for Tue, 03 Mar 2026

1. Up at 5:30 this morning to get a few work things in
2. A sad but good funeral and memorial service today
3. Successfully not working after getting home after the funeral

More words here.

🧹 getting up to 60 (Fahrenheit) today! Windows open, pre-mature but necessary spring cleaning!

🎬 Landed on watching Sum of All Fears with Mozzie. Always a good one.

🥃 squirreling all over the place this evening, not in bad ways, just my brain trying to calm down from the week but not able to find a spot to land. Manhattan while it works itself out. Prost!

⚙️ automating a bunch of things today 💪

Grateful Log for Wed, 25 Feb 2026

1. That first sip of coffee
2. The very fact that I wake up looking forward to that first sip
3. Today

Thoughts on each here.

☕️ that first sip!

Grateful Log for Tue, 24 Feb 2026

1. watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with Mozzie
2. progress being made on my largest (i.e. most important) annual presentation
3. connecting with Lindsay

More here.

🤿 my right AirPod went for a dip in our sump pit this morning. I retrieved it immediately...have let it air dry since...testing now...😬

Grateful Log for Mon, 23 Feb 2026

1. Looks like we received the low end of the snow forecast, around 4 inches.
2. Winter escape to Florida is quickly approaching.
3. Writing three days in a row.

More words on each here.

Posts that will get you up to speed:

• a line in the sand
• a wedding
• a few reps

(also, if I owe you money from a leather order you never received, just say so and I’ll make it right. that business is no longer at the moment, but I can get you your cash back).

full transparency: I forgot I had my omg.lol status linked to micro.blog. Not mad about it. I am slowly coming out of my hibernation. since I went quiet in October 2024: full reconciliation with my ex-wife, remarried in December ‘25. Will reply to replies in the morning. ❤️

🙏 Think I may have found a nice home for my gratitude log (that I hope to bring back). I, of course, need to add yet another place where I publish (because I love trying out new places to write and publish), and so this will reside there.

🌨️ The falling snow is melting as it hits the ground. So thankful for this!

🪙 2025 taxes filed.

📝 Filing 2025 taxes here in a moment, but first I'm going to write for a few minutes. Really want to start blogging more and I'm pretty sure journaling is going to be critical to getting me back to that point. Getting the words out is a muscle, and it hasn't been used in a very long time.

💭 There's a lot behind this, but I've been waking up to roll over for a while now. And recently an origins-unknown shoulder "injury" wakes me up with each movement of my arm. On this particular morning I gave up trying to get back to sleep at 4:30. Work projects taking up a lot of space in my mind, apparently, that's what I thought about immediately. And so I think I'll do something I haven't done since October of 2024: journal.

💸 One more account paid off. Onto the next!

🔥 2026 Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony - fun to watch as a family!

🎡 For personal and professional things that I do/track/manage, am at the point now where I'm looking to do daily review/input/maintenance of things that will support weekly/monthly cycles. Otherwise, if not daily, I feel like I'm constantly chasing my tail.

🧀 This Packers v. Bears game 😬