June 7, 2022
I now own a generator. I have avoided it for so very long, taking the hits as they come. But now I own one. And like anything with backups, I’m waiting for when I can try it out. Such is the life of backups, always waiting to be used, but never needing to be used unless it’s an emergency.
June 6, 2022
I had the longest streak running in writing, it’s the second time I had a long one going, this one was for 883 days, I was closing in on that magical number and then Mother Nature stood up and said – “Not today.” Seriously that is what happened. And we are back at Day 4 on the way back to 1,000. Such is the life of a streak, easy to start, difficult to maintain, a bummer when they end, and then, sitting there, waiting to be started once more.
May 31, 2022
The list isn’t going anywhere, it’s not getting smaller, it’s only growing. That’s what lists do. They grow. And they keep growing. Until we start working on them. Until we start checking off the items on them and making progress towards them. They can be big, daunting, and insurmountable. Until we start working on that first item, and then the next, and then the one after that. Until they are all done.
May 25, 2022
Software is changing fast and the docs are not keeping up. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, going back to when I first started programming when all I had were a litany of books spread out across my desk and that’s the only place where the answers existed. Because you know, no blogs were out there. But now, programming languages are changing so fast, code is being pumped out at unprecedented rates and we don’t know what works or where it works. I spent two days last week looking to answer a base question
May 21, 2022
You have two choices; Start Over. Walk Away. Both take courage, there is no right one to always go with, you might use one over the other depending on the scenario. The hard part is knowing which choice to make when the situation requires it.
