[ update: I made up my mind at the last possible moment. Decision at end of the post. ] I’ve been trying to decide something. Not anything important, mind you. Something silly and trivial, but … Read more
Yeah, yeah. I know I said I don’t do NY resolutions (esp not on 1 January). But I’m so inspired by Cate’s 2018 Liberation list! So here’s mine: Stop allowing myself to be dragged into conversations … Read more
I am bad at personal retrospectives. While I’d like to say it’s because I generally don’t do them until my birthday (vs. at end-of-year like most people), that’s not the entire story. It doesn’t matter … Read more
I knew a few weeks ago this was coming, sort of. I gave a talk at DevOpsDays where I said, “And a year ago I was about half-way through my very brief tenure at the … Read more
My mother-in-law used to tell stories about when she was a child, growing up “dirt poor on a tomato farm” in Arkansas. One of my favorites is about how they were visited by their “city … Read more
Three weeks ago(ish), I turned 43. I made some resolutions. Let’s review them, shall we? First, I said I’d stop hitting the snooze button. This one has been going not-so-great. Okay – total honesty time: … Read more
I’m not sure what kind of week I’ll have (probably great, but travel during Super Bowl Hell may not have been the best idea), but to prepare myself I’m sitting quietly on the couch with … Read more
We had put it off long enough. It sat there in the train case we use to hold our incoming mail, before it overflows and we perform our usual sort/recycle/shred cull. The yellow sheet was … Read more
