Category Archives: Life maintenance

Update for 12/23/2018

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Andy

Fiction 😎 I’m taking a break from my software development books to explore some steampunk. I started with the pre-steampunk Steam Man of the Prairies. It was a decent adventure story. After that I whipped through Mortal Engines by Philip … 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 →

Posted in Business, Chapel, Fiction, Goal map, Holidays, Housekeeping, Life maintenance, Music composition, People, Programming, Project management, Projects, Weeknotes | 2 Comments

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 9/16/2018

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Andy

People 🙂 My brother Michael’s visit continued on Sunday. He was in town to see the head priest of their new church plant get ordained. I tagged along and got to see my old work friend and his family, who … Continue reading →

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Update for 9/9/2018

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Andy

Life maintenance 🙂 It’s been a little over a month since I moved, and I still haven’t unpacked. But my furniture is in place, and now I’ve moved my boxes out of the middle of the living room and into … Continue reading →

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Update for 9/2/2018

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Andy

Life maintenance Apartment 🙂 I settled on a furniture layout for my apartment. It’s based on a set of furniture that includes pieces I don’t have yet. My thought is I can place the ones I already have and then … Continue reading →

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Update for 8/26/2018

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Andy

Website 🤔 The .net domain is at its new registrar now, so hopefully the DNS issue or whatever it was has cleared up. My non-US visitors can tell me. Life maintenance 🤔 In my 3D home design software I’ve been … 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 8/12/2018

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Andy

Life maintenance 😏 I’ve gotten over my bad feelings left over from the move and from a sense that I don’t belong in my nice new place. What helped was the idea of rebelling against it to make it a … Continue reading →

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Update for 8/5/2018

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Andy

Life maintenance The move is done. Even with help from friends, it was an awful enough experience that next time I won’t mind paying movers to do it for me. My studio apartment of the past 11 years. Somehow it … Continue reading →