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  • This all began with an Atari 400 (technically with an Atari 2600)

    Every single time I pull up a terminal window and begin typing “ssh -l” I feel like such a hacker ? “Morpheus, I’m going in!”

  • My skills assessment for .NET C# 4.5 and SQL 2012 programming

    This was a 51 question test. As someone who mostly works in Adobe’s ColdFusion and PHP, I’m not ashamed of this at all.

  • Exercise…what a way to begin the day!

    Completed a rowing workout. It calmed my mind. Gave me focus. Helped me plan my day.

    Of course it helped listening to Crazy Mama by J.J. Cale on Pandora https://pandora.app.link/tQQWeeV6jsb

  • Awoke

    It’s 6am and I awoke with a panic attack. Going to exercise then do some administrative work then spend the day applying for jobs like a machine.

  • Productivity

    Spent the day nose down in the WordPress codex on a WooCommerce Storefront theme and building a Max Mega Menu into the store. Beautiful plugin. Day of PHP and CSS.

  • Inspiring myself to practice daily by sharing my juggling on Instagram

  • It’s resume day!

    A bout of insomnia left me with only 4 hours of sleep last night. However, I’m caffeinated and focused on getting resumes and cover letters written. Resumes and cover letters are not my forte.

  • Ready to hit the ground running

    Me: “This will be a productive day!”

    Internet: “eh, about that. I’m down right now.”

  • WooCommerce fun

    Today I’m working through applying a Mega Menu to a Storefront theme in WordPress’ WooCommerce.
    8.5 hours later… I’m rather pleased with the changes to the site today.

  • It’s Tuesday

    Today is all about WordPress and WooCommerce.

  • It’s Monday

    Doing a security audit on myself and decided that perhaps I should update some of those passwords I haven’t changed in 15 or more years.

  • I’ve begun watching non-English television

    I just watched “Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes” and despite not speaking Japanese I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great story. Well acted. Great cinematography. And it appears to have been completely filmed on…iPhones! I need to start practicing kanji again. If you watch it, hang in for the credits to see how they filmed some scenes.

  • Success!

    My development environment is working again for PHP. Next step: lunch then setup automated testing and deployment.

  • It’s Sunday

    What am doing? Continuing to work on my dev environment on my Macbook. When I replaced my dying hard drive and upgraded to macOS Big Sur, my development environment quit working. Yesterday I ran brew doctor and actually evaluated the errors. Turns out my Mac was stuck on an update. After cleaning up LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents (yes, I was running 4 antivirus packages), clearing some caches, reseting some plists, and rebooting, I was able to install the OS update, brew upgrades, and new command line tools. Today I continue to get my development environment functioning optimally as well as installing some automated testing and deployment tools.
    Tonight our 12 person crew has a wrap up meeting to discuss the good and the bad of the 14 day trip we took out west that included 4 days near the Grand Tetons in Curtis Campground and 9 days in the back country of the Bridger-Teton Wind River Range that took us to 11,000 feet above sea level and hiking in snow in July.
    Today’s book: “Clean Code – A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship” by Robert C. Martin

  • No echoes

    The people I want to talk to are all gone.