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2026
I Miss Teaching
Aug 14Why Resetting my Music Library was the Right Move
Aug 10A Digital Reset
Mar 23Travel for Work and Pleasure
Feb 16Time To Move
Jan 30On Writing and AI
Jan 28Preparing for Cleanup
Jan 23Winter is Here
Jan 16I’m Ramping Up
Jan 9My Tech Career Has Now Been Longer Than My Aviation Career
Jan 7I’m going to embrace 2026
Jan 2
2025
2025 in Hindsight
Dec 31Merry Christmas
Dec 262 Months, 2 Years and a Lifetime
Oct 8Good Riddance, September
Sep 29Settling In
Sep 5Learning to Work From Home Again
Sep 3Revisiting How I Use Social Media
Sep 1August Has Been a Heck of a Year
Aug 29A New Week and A New Role
Aug 25Something to Talk About
Jul 16Rethinking Blogging
Jul 7I Want More
May 28It Was a Great Weekend
May 12I’m Finally Comfortable With My Tech
Apr 282 Years and a Lifetime
Apr 7Rejoining the World
Apr 2A Productive Weekend
Mar 10A Good Weekend
Mar 3It’s a Start
Feb 17Snowstorm
Feb 12All Tech Is Mostly The Same
Feb 10Another Weekend Has Come and Gone
Feb 3Anxiety
Jan 24Am I Doing Computing Wrong?
Jan 22I Miss Travel
Jan 17Weekends With my Dad
Jan 13How to Get Away From Big Tech - Again
Jan 10The Year of Less Shopping
Jan 8Longing for Linux (Again)
Jan 6There's More to Fitness than Steps
Jan 3Looking Ahead to 2025
Jan 1
2024
Looking Back on 2024
Dec 30The Holidays are Upon Us
Dec 2Blogs Are About Being Human
Nov 25I’m Tired of Superhero Movies
Nov 13It's OK to Tune Out
Nov 6My Favorite Gadget
Nov 1Focusing on My Health
Oct 23I'm back
Oct 21Good Riddance, August
Aug 30Back to the Office
Aug 19I’m Creating Again
Aug 16It Finally Got Us
Aug 14Looking for New Habits
Aug 12Back to an Office
Jul 8All Good Things Must Come to an End
Jul 3Changes And Festivities
Jun 28Words are Hard to Come By
Jun 14Happy Birthday, Mom
Jun 3So Long, May
May 31Happy Birthday Dad
May 22A Tourist In My Own Town
May 20Taking Time Off
May 15The New Sonos App is a Welcome Upgrade
May 8Trying New Tech
Apr 29Life is Looking Up
Apr 22We’re No Longer Florida Homeowners
Apr 17Not a Good Week
Apr 10Anniversaries I Wish Were Not
Apr 8I Won’t Miss Hurricane Season
Apr 5How my tech should be
Apr 3The Best Tech I Ever Had
Mar 29Learning to “live with it”
Mar 27Life is Weird
Mar 11All Tech is Bad
Mar 8Winter is Back?
Mar 6Our New Normal
Mar 4Old Friends
Mar 1The Storms No Longer Scare Me
Feb 28A New Work Computer
Feb 23It’s So Hard To Relax
Feb 19Safari Is Still My Favorite Browser
Feb 12Could This Site be Limiting Me?
Feb 9More Moving Woes
Feb 7No, I’m not buying an Apple Vision Pro
Feb 5I’ve Finished a Full Month of Getting Healthier
Feb 2Resuming Work Travel
Jan 31My Frustration With Tech
Jan 26Weekdays are Hard
Jan 24The Curiosity is Returning
Jan 19In Sickness and In Cold
Jan 17Time is Weird
Jan 15Hello Chicago
Jan 10An Ominous Start for 2024
Jan 5It’s 2024
Jan 1
2023
Good Riddance 2023
Dec 29The Move That Never Ends
Dec 27Merry Christmas
Dec 25Old Habits Die Hard
Dec 20DNS is Hard
Dec 18Rest in Peace, My Friend
Dec 15Mic Check… Is this thing on?
Dec 11A Quick Break
Oct 2Taking Apart My Space
Sep 29Another Year, Another Apple OS Upgrade
Sep 27A New Phone and a New Watch
Sep 25Preparing for New Tech
Sep 22Starting to Pack
Sep 18Preparing to Move and Hoping for Home
Sep 13Time for a Reset
Sep 1Time is Growing Short
Aug 28A Bright Spot
Aug 25Walking Away
Aug 23Chicago is Getting Real
Aug 21That Would be Amazing
Aug 11Another Piece of My Childhood is Gone
Aug 9A Good Move or a Bad Move?
Aug 4A Good Sign?
Jul 31What happened to happy?
Jul 17Finding Focus
Jul 12Learning Something New
Jul 5Completely Removing Twitter
Jun 30Can 2023 Just End Already?
Jun 26Another Birthday
Jun 21A 3-day Weekend
Jun 16It’s Time for a Digital Reset
Jun 14I Need to Fix This
Jun 9It’s Friday
Jun 2No more fighting my tech
May 31Ivory for Mac
May 26Back in Florida
May 22The Real Test Begins
May 10Florida really does make me sick
May 8Yes, I over-engineered my office
May 5Could this be failure?
May 1I Miss You Mom
Apr 28Life is Hard
Apr 10Another Week is Done
Apr 7The fast pace of change in tech
Mar 31Hiding boosts in Ivory for Mastodon
Mar 29Porto, Portugal: Our 1st trip abroad since 2018
Mar 27First impressions of traveling again
Mar 22Stepping back from the web
Mar 20New doesn’t mean “more productive”
Mar 13My post schedule is too rigid
Mar 6My Mastodon Anniversary
Mar 3Finding Energy
Mar 1Tuning Out is Hard
Feb 24So long my friend
Feb 22It’s OK that I can’t use Linux for everything
Feb 20The power to fix productivity
Feb 15Use your strengths
Feb 10The Perfect Mastodon Client for Me
Jan 25It’s time to be simple again
Jan 20Writing Is The Point
Jan 18Getting Used To Linux Apps Again
Jan 11My Obsession With Tools Isn’t Healthy
Jan 9Back to Work
Jan 6Hello 2023
Jan 2
2022
Looking Back on 2022
Dec 30So Many Bad Options
Dec 28A Tale of Finance Software Woes
Dec 26Time To Reduce My Reliance On Big Tech
Dec 19Advanced Data Protection is a Great Feature
Dec 14Ready for the Holidays
Dec 12A Full Year of 10,000 Steps: Done
Dec 2Yes, I Do Have Much to be Thankful For
Nov 25Still Searching for Focus
Nov 21I need to stop worrying about my tools
Nov 18The House Is Quiet Again
Nov 16A Long and Valuable Week
Nov 11Thoughts On Mastodon and Twitter
Nov 7Focus is Hard
Nov 4Two Years Without Beer
Nov 2100 Book Goal – Complete
Oct 31Day After Day
Oct 28Summer is Back
Oct 24I’m OK With No Tech Posts
Oct 21Visiting Family
Oct 19The Future is Very Dark
Oct 17Will We Finally Get Modern Internet?
Oct 10Home But Still Waiting
Oct 5It’s Time To Move
Oct 3Waiting To Return
Sep 30It’s Crunch Week and I’m Tired
Sep 26The Joy of Writing
Sep 23Shopping For Better Writing Software
Sep 14Just Push Publish Isn’t Always Easy
Sep 7I’m Not Getting A New Phone… And That Is Exciting To Me
Sep 5I Love My Work but I Do Miss Writing Code
Aug 24All Tech Is Garbage
Aug 22Let’s Go
Aug 19My Little Escapes
Aug 15Anxiety Is Hard
Aug 10Finding Peace At Home
Jul 29Adding A New Daily Habit
Jul 25So Much Time and Nothing To Do
Jul 221 Year of Regular Blogging
Jul 20Writing Is Hard
Jul 11A Week Off Social Media
Jul 6Social Media Is Not Activism
Jul 4It’s Time For A Social Media Break
Jul 1Choosing To Be… Happy?
Jun 22Another Birthday
Jun 20Is Winter Coming, Again?
Jun 17It’s Time To Stop Playing The Game
Jun 15Looking Back at My Writing
Jun 10Summer
Jun 8The Writing Is The Point
Jun 6So Much For Modern Technology
Jun 360 Books
Jun 1Writing Code For Me
May 30It’s Time for Help
May 27The Little Things
May 20Back to Work
May 18My Life as an Imposter
May 4Finding Motivation to Write
Apr 22I miss teaching
Apr 20Don’t Forget To Shop Around
Apr 18131 Days
Apr 8Dreading the Endless Summer
Mar 28Venturing Out
Mar 21Wellness Day
Mar 18The Impossibility of Minimalism
Mar 142 Years
Mar 11How Much Is Enough?
Mar 9A Welcome Break During Bad Times
Feb 25The Perfect Office?
Feb 18There Should be More to Normal than Escape
Feb 7Three Months Soda Free
Feb 4Hello February
Feb 2Enjoying the Season
Jan 28Finding Home
Jan 24Hopes and Dreams for 2022
Jan 3
2021
So Long 2021
Dec 31Finding Your Groove as a Remote Worker on Vacation
Dec 22I am Thankful
Dec 10Generating New Blog Post Ideas
Dec 8Regular Blogging – 5 Months Later
Dec 3Bye Bye Dev Work and Hello Engineering Management
Dec 1Travel Is Stressful
Nov 29Happy Thanksgiving
Nov 24Thoughts on Building a Fitness Habit with Technology
Nov 12Welcome Back, Fall
Nov 10Now For The Real Diet Challenge
Nov 3The Year Without Beer (For Real)
Nov 1The Travel I Dream of The Most
Oct 15A Great Big Planet… and Nowhere To Go
Oct 8Homesick
Oct 4Yes, A College Degree is Still Worth It
Sep 15Thoughts On My Blogging Schedule
Sep 6Comments are Back
Aug 16My New Normal
Jul 11