Category Archives: Housekeeping

Update for 1/20/2019

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Andy

Health 😐 My intestines finally calmed down from the long gap in my ulcerative colitis treatments. That’s a relief, especially since I partly blame all my bathroom visits for the slow start to my projects this year. Only partly though. … Continue reading →

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Update for 1/6/2019

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Andy

2019 has started out strangely for me. Last week featured epic levels of procrastination and intestinal dysfunction. Conceptual modeling 😎 With an extra long blog post, a project retrospective, and some apartment tidying on my agenda for last week, I … Continue reading →

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Update for 12/30/2018

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Andy

Christmas 🙂 Part 2 of my Christmas vacation, with a catalog of my family’s traditions. Sunday Doughnuts that our dad picks up from a local shop. This is more of an every-Sunday tradition. I always get a chocolate covered glazed … Continue reading →

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Update for 11/18/2018

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Andy

TV 🙂 Sunday my friend Tim made his customary visit, and we watched the first episode of the 1994 Middlemarch miniseries to go with the book group I’m in at work. I was surprised at how well the episode captured the … Continue reading →

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Update for 10/28/2018

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Andy

Welcome to my (overly long) weekly update, where I review my activities on my personal projects and other life events from the previous week and preview my upcoming plans. People 🙂 Last weekend I drove to Wisconsin to visit my … Continue reading →

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Update for 10/14/2018

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Andy

Futurism 🤔 The futurism group met on Tuesday, and our topic was gaming and culture. For once it was a topic I was familiar with. We talked about the benefits and drawbacks of video games, PC vs console games, and … Continue reading →

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Update for 8/19/2018

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Andy

This update it’s books, books, and more books, even more than usual. Website 😐 First a little housekeeping note. People outside the US (and maybe some inside?) have been having trouble accessing the website, apparently because of some DNS problem … Continue reading →

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Update for 4/1/2018

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Andy

Music 🙄 To continue from last time, I was able to record from my MIDI keyboard to LMMS. But LMMS doesn’t have a way to export MIDI files. Something about the trickiness of the bass loops. But there is an … Continue reading →

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Update for 3/18/2018

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Andy

Board games 😎 Sunday to reward myself for surviving 40 years, I bought a couple of board games I’d had my eye on, a cooperative one called Magic Maze and a solitaire card game called Finished! My coworker wanted to … Continue reading →

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Update for 12/31/2017

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Andy

Christmas Highlights from my Christmas vacation, part 2. I was with my family at our annual gathering at our parents’ house. Sunday 🤔 Sunday morning we visited an Episcopal church we’d visited the previous year. It was just the liturgical … Continue reading →