As I was walking along the 16th street mall, enjoying the beautiful weather, I was pondering a few changes I want to make in my life. There are some that I've been trying to make for a long time, liking making time to delve deeper into my spirituality. But there's one big one that I just realized I need to make ( Read more... )

I know that I normally save this kind of thing for my weight journal, but I absolutely have to celebrate this. For the first time in 6 years, I weigh less than 300 pounds! I know that sounds shockingly obese to some of you, but the rest of you know just how huge an accomplishment this is for me. I have been slowly but steadily gaining weight for ( Read more... )

I am very good at starting things. I can start a new project with vim and vigor and all of the enthusiasm and motivation in the world. However, I am not so good at actually finishing things. I am quite horrible at it, actually. I can’t count the number of projects that I’ve left unfinished in my lifetime. There are stories that I started to write, ( Read more... )

Okay, a few more bits that I wanted to remember from Fort Morgan ( Read more... )

Here are a few random thoughts from our trip to Fort Morgan and the foster/adoption training ( Read more... )

Erin and I went on a dual adventure this weekend. Well, actually it's more like two-adventures-in-one. We had our first night away from Colin. And it was because we were in Fort Morgan for a foster/adoptive parenting training class ( Read more... )

Okay, so after so many years of saying that I want to be a database administrator, I suddenly realized that dba really isn't my dream job. This came as a huge surprise to me! I was sitting at my desk at work, setting up an account in Oracle, and thinking to myself how much easier it is to work in Oracle on a UNIX machine (where sqlplus behaves more ( Read more... )