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84% Gym Attendance!
Today is Day 100 of 2019 and my “score” is 84% or in English, I have been to the gym and closed the rings on my Apple Watch 84 times out of 100. So back when I was going to … Continue reading
Five thousand posts!
Well that kind of snuck up on me. I wish I could’ve timed it better to coincide with a better life event such as my 20th anniversary as an official Apple employee (next week) or something more worthy (wedding, birthday). … Continue reading
April is here with a new header!
On this day 30 years ago, the Internet as we recognize it got rolling with the implementation of the World Wide Web. Today it’s rather ubiquitous and only elderly people bother to put the three Ws or ‘http://’ in front … Continue reading
The UK and its inept gov’t get an extension
In short, the people of the UK are so screwed. If they think their has-been empire will rebound from all they’re going to lose trading with the rest of Europe, they’re also delusional. According to On the Media, some of the … Continue reading
Elaborate Health Assessment 2019
This ordeal, and I will call it that, was way more work for me than any physical exam. It involved me doing a stair-stepper thing for three minutes (good thing I exercise, I would’ve dropped dead sooner), a plank (I … Continue reading
Longest official streak ends at 52 days
I blame exhaustion caused by Daylight Savings Time for bringing my streak to an end. Better to take a sick day now before something much worse and more crippling happens. However, I’m not bummed. I actually look forward to starting … Continue reading
1979: The move to Springfield, IL
This month’s header is a picture of Illinois’ capitol building which is mostly at the center of Springfield, IL, the place where my family moved to 40 years ago in March. There was another, smaller place that the state government … Continue reading
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Perfect Month and first competitive challenge successful
About every February, my employer issues an exercise challenge but I think it started around the introduction of the Apple Watch. If I’m wrong, those in the know, tell me, unlike Faux News, I’m willing to admit errors. Somara has … Continue reading
Another exercise milestone and factoid
The new progression bar under the calendar this month is something Somara twisted my arm into doing. It’s called the Close the Rings Challenge and it happens at work every February. Everybody who wants to participate forms teams of four … Continue reading
New glasses arrived today!
I know this sounds trivial but I put this off for at least a year. The good news is that my right eye remains the same and the left only had one notch of decline. I owe this success to … Continue reading
Maybe karma is real
What a great weekend I had and I have to say it’s all due to being nice to children. Now you’re like, well Steve, you’re supposed to be nice to children. Of course, but I was nice to them in … Continue reading
One hundred hours!
This February Somara twisted my arm into participating into this year’s Close the Rings challenge, it’s the newer bar graph on my site you may see. These days it’s mentioning how close I am to the bronze achievement. Even before … Continue reading
Catching up again, let’s hear it for antibiotics!
Picayune slow down again thanks to a sinus infection probably caused by the relatively sudden shifts in our wonderful weather. The downside of Austin recovering from the Polar Vortex getting loose. It took me a while to finally put it … Continue reading
1994: Arriving in Austin for the first time and 25 years!
Holy crap! Twenty-five years have just blitzed by already but at least this time, another quarter century of my life has been more under my control and somewhere I want to be unlike the hellholes the parents dragged me to. … Continue reading
Welcome Aaron!
He’s finally here! The new addition to our friends’ family, the Colemans! Named after his great grandfather, a wonderful man who fought for Texans of stripes. According to another friend in the circle, I think Robin, the new big sister, … Continue reading