On the 7th my son turned 7. The following day made 17 years since my dad passed. I’ve been trying to find this old picture I love. I only found 1/2. I was sure it was around here somewhere. At one point I even had the old polaroid. What happened? Where did it all go? […]
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Spin Up
It’s been a minute. I’d planned on updating the server anyway. Then it went down. Green light. Go. Let it rip. Giving spinupwp.com a try. Wow… I just looked at the info for my Digital Ocean Droplets and the old server went up exactly 7 years ago. And a little guy’s about to have his […]
Lifecycles
Oh man do I know how to crash. You should see all the ways. I’ve got the scars to prove it. An old friend even got it on video once. Back in high school when everything was just starting to go digital. We had our mountain bikes over at the firestation where my grandpa used […]
Backward Dreams Aloud
A chapter is about to end. It is our last full day on this beautiful farm. We have lots to do. Packing and cleaning. We hear a hurricane is coming, though I haven’t even taken the time to read the news about it. We’re trying to get out before it comes. Tomorrow we head to […]
Rebuilding the Pyramid
The abstract has structure too. A base on which things are built. It’s simple physics. If the foundation loses its structural integrity, there is risk of collapse. I’m an engineer, I should understand that. But what I was doing felt too much like floating. Why worry about physics if I’m defying gravity? But I wasn’t. […]