Job change announcement - on June 3 my employment at Williams comes to a close (quite amicably). I have various plans and ambitions for post-Williams work / life, but I'm not moving on to a specific other job (though I am open to discussing things if you know someone whose looking). It's been a good run (about 13 years), I'm very glad to have had ( Read more... )

One of the things I find especially challenging is pushing things from the world inside my mind to the world outside (the so-called 'real world'). I grapple with understanding the factors that affect the difficulty of enacting that transition (I'm guessing most people are always dealing with that one way or another, if not always so explicitly). ( Read more... )

I've finally launched my kickstarter to get Mogul published ( Read more... )

Yes, it will get better, but right now it sucks.

We're all a bit tired much of the time these days and so we may be scarce at the festivities this year. We'll probably show up for a bit at E&D's thing on the 1st, and I'll probably be around for a little while at E&R's on the 31st. However, we'd be happy to receive drop-in visitors any day between noon and 4 pm as long as you're prepared to wash ( Read more... )

Our son was born 10 days ago, and it's been quite the life conversion. Of course, that comes as no surprise. One thing all parents agree is that having a child radically changes one's life. What I find so interesting is the ways it does so. Lack of sleep is certainly a part of it, but though dramatic it's not the real shift. Responsibility is ( Read more... )

We're trying to track down a problem with a website at work. We suspect it may be related to intermittent nonce timeouts causing occasional session refresh redirection. Or possibly the problem is elves. We could bring in brownies to clean up after the elves. However, brownies eventually turn into girl scouts, which can quickly overload the cookie ( Read more... )

There was a baby shower for us this past weekend, and one of the many great gifts we received is that someone else hosted it so we didn't have to worry about prepping beforehand or cleaning after. A giant thank you to all involved! In addition the baby shower itself, we took almost an entire day off from working on the house. We were up there for a ( Read more... )

Went to a local strawberry festival this morning and had real strawberry short cake (strawberries, biscuit, and sweet whipped cream and that's it) for breakfast, with a truly immoderate amount of strawberries. We've finally hit the time of year when the fresh fruit and produce is rolling in. We met some folks there by plan (shideem and M&S&S&L, and ( Read more... )

You know what today needs? It needs more love.

Via kouredios et al, a love meme: Reply to this post and I'll tell you one reason why I like you. Then put this in your own journal and spread the love.