Whew, it feels like June has both taken forever and absolutely flown by, so let’s take a look at what I actually did. Homestead We managed our semi-monthly trip to Callahan’s, which is always fun, to pick up chicken supplies and a starter batch of red wigglers to start cultivating for…

Monthly Review, April 2022 WHEW. May only has one more day than April, but it felt twice as long. I actually did a whole bunch more stuff than I thought I would, while still not getting a bunch of things I wanted to do done! Let’s see what that looks like… Homestead I’m still working…

This month felt like it just blazed on by—I can barely recognize it as a month that’s passed, but somehow we seem do have done a whole bunch of stuff over here, so let’s get cracking. Homestead I’m still puttering through my Rockingham todo list—I take care of the smaller jobs…

Hey, third month in a row! This might just become a habit, after all. Health The beginning of the month felt a little rough, body-wise. The whole pandemic thing hasn’t been great for me (or, you know, anybody), and I feel like I’m still physically recovering from the long bouts of…

Well, we did better than last year, weather-wise at least. Had a few cold fronts move through Texas, bringing us down to an unreasonable 18ºF or thereabouts for a while. But the power stayed on, we stayed warm, and the chickens just fluff up and pay it no mind. We…

I don’t really do monthly reviews, even though I have a recurring “Do a damn monthly review” task in my todoist. What am I even reviewing? Haven’t I just been sitting around doing nothing? Well, friends, I think that’s what we’re here to find out. Work This is the first month…

Work Still working as Lead Instructor for the Software Engineering live program at Flatiron School. Our cohorts run for fifteen weeks, with between a dozen and twenty-ish students each—we were going through some restructuring of the remote programs, and I wound up being shuffled around some, so I wound up teaching…

An incomplete list of stuff to try to make your writing suck less so you write good 1. Quick Search and Replace Just do a simple find for these words, and straight up cold delete them. Replace them with something better only if you absolutely have to. This will solve like 65% of your problems. Words to delete …