As I move through middle age, I find one of the things I value most is focus. My family and I lead active lives. Not busy in a keeping-up-with-the-Joneses way, but busy in an engaged embracing-life sort of way. My wife and I work full-time and our kids complement school with a host of after … Read more
“Go To Sleep Baby Yoda” Perfectly Captures the Torture of Putting a Toddler to Bed: Yeah … it’s pretty much exactly like that. The Unseen Enterprise-D: Forgotten Trek documents the portions of the Next Generation’s Enterprise that we never saw on the show. It’s filled with fan and concept art for areas like the main shuttle bay, the ship’s many … Read more
My weekday morning routine is a work in progress. Always has been, always will be. I tinker with it from season to season to accommodate the changing needs of family, work, and myself. There area few constants to the routine, the most essential are (in no particular order) Wake up. Waking up is mandatory as without … Read more
My work MacBook Pro needed to go back to the mothership for repairs, so I’m working with a loaner Mac for the next week or two. It’s a minor inconvenience, but it does remind me what my essential apps for the Mac. Here’s the big list of apps I installed on the loaner this week … Read more
Back in March I learned about bullet journals from a post by Berin Kinsman. Bullet journals are a type of journal that’s focused on quick-hit journal entries that are easy to add. Events, to-dos, random thoughts — they all go into the journal. As you complete things, you cross off their bullets. If you don’t … Read more
I’m searching for a new messenger bag. My current go-to bag is a red backpack from L.L. Bean, but I need something more professional for the day job. Also, with my broken ankle I find that my backback makes me top-heavy; I need something with better weight distribution while I’m on crutches (which is for about the … Read more
It’s time to declare victory over budgeting. Or more truthfully, victory through budgeting. Over the last decade or so my wife and I took a few runs at setting up and sticking to a family budget, but they all faltered. This past year we succeeded. What worked this year? It was all about the envelopes … Read more
I’ve got a lot on my plate. Or rather, plates. I won’t recite it all here because it starts sounding like a pity party, but trust me … it’s a lot. And it’s a lot to keep track of. For the last month or so I’ve been trying out a new strategy for keeping track … Read more
Earlier in the summer Evernote limited their free service to only allow syncing between two devices. This severely hampered my Home Mac/Work Mac/iPad/iPhone workflow, and led me to try some other services: Google Keep and SimpleNote. I don’t begrudge Evernote their decision; I was the sort of user who was costing them money without providing … Read more