Articles for category: Drive

April 28, 2025

Greg Thomas

The GPS Got it Wrong

I had my first experience a while back with my GPS saying one thing and the roads saying the other. In this case, the picture on the GPS displayed a highway sign that said “left is south, right is north” on the road ahead – “left is north, right is south”. I would have loved to taken a picture of this juxtaposition but at that point in the road, I had cars behind me during rush hour. Everything that we think is perfect, no matter how many trials it has been through, can get it wrong. We followed the GPS,

April 27, 2025

Greg Thomas

I miss our Old Van

They don’t make any vans anymore. We have all these modular vehicles that try to be a van while at the same time trying not to be a van. But when you have young kids, a van was the best vehicle you could have – you never had to worry about how many kids you could hold and how much of their stuff you could take – the answer was always the same – all of it. Anything and everything could last. When we upgraded from one van to the other I distinctly remember the car salesman coming back in

April 25, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Best is Yet To Come

If you’re not feeling it, if you’re stuck in the mire, if there are currently more questions than answers, that means a few things. You’re asking the questions instead of ignoring them, invariably there will be more. You’re past the excitement phase of “let’s do this” and are now into “let’s work on this” That feeling you have, is because you now see the road ahead of you, it’s clearer than it was before when you first started, it might not be as short, but it is there – and you’re on it. If it was easy, everyone would be

April 20, 2025

Greg Thomas

Fill the Feeder

When the feeder gets empty, there is nothing to eat. You can try to time the filling with the feeder with when it gets to its near empty point, maintaining that perfect balance of “full but not full enough”. Or you can always fill the feeder with new ideas, new code, new words, new suggestions, new work, etc. When the feeder is full, you don’t have to worry about it getting empty.  You don’t have to worry about it running out, because there will always be something there. And most importantly, you don’t have to worry about it running out.

April 19, 2025

Greg Thomas

Re-establishing Routine

Routines get broken. Work. Vacation. School. Unexpected events. It happens, the routine breaks, and now it lies on the floor laughing at you. You have a choice, leave it there, laughing, or pick it up and make it work once more – because it did before.

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