Mar 6, 2022

I went for a ride this morning. It is remarkable weather today. I rode 21 curves, and as the name implies, has 21 curves. It was a little wet out but still a lot of fun.

Mar 6, 2022

I put new tires on my 1999 Honda Nighthawk 750. I did it by hand, and It was not too hard.

Feb 25, 2022

“Redirecting…” is not a very helpful title 🤔

Or description for that matter 😂

Feb 25, 2022

Someone accidentally escaped the <br> HTML element 😂

It’s good to know even a $100 billion company makes mistakes.

Feb 21, 2022

I know there were at least 10 dumb mistakes that were made to get to this point. I got stuck in the very wet and leafy ground out at my cousin’s house. He came and rescued the day (or, by that point, night) and helped me get out.

Feb 21, 2022

I have been fairly busy lately, and I have fallen behind on a few things. Including the Swift and SwiftUI course I have been working on.

I have been trying to decide whether to move forward with it or not. It takes quite a bit of time dedication (about 1hr a day) and I’m a long ways of from behind able to actually profit from the time spent.

I’m thinking I’m better off focusing on the web for now. I started dabbling in Vue JS and I have a cool project that would make a good PWA.

Furthermore, I also don’t feel like getting into the whole Apple vs. developers issues right now. At the same time, though, I want to be able to at least have some control over my iOS devices by being able to write my own apps. The web is remarkable and powerful, but there are just some things you can’t do without a native app.

I restarted my Laracasts subscription, which is a fantastic resource for learning web development, so I want to devote more time to increasing my knowledge of Laravel and related technologies. Since I’m paying for it, I might as well take full advantage of it. Plus, I know enough about Laravel and Livewire to actually take on some small projects. It makes sense to dedicate time to something I can build a career out of now, rather than working on learning something I know very little about.

I started writing this post thinking I had already made up my mind… but now I’m back to not being sure what I want to do now 😂

We will see.

Feb 17, 2022

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Feb 12, 2022

I finished day #12 of 100 Days of Swift UI. I’m a little behind ☹️ but I’m still making progress.

Feb 12, 2022

I’m not sure how this trend has started, but now every company with a newsletter thinks it’s their job to tell everyone how to live out their daily life.

Like look at this email I received the other day from Feit Electric.

They make smart home devices, for Pete’s sake. I know it is just for marketing reasons, but every company does not need to be everything. Just continue making light bulbs. And if you can, make a really good light bulb.

Jan 27, 2022

Jan 26, 2022

I just finished Day #05 of 100 Days of Swift UI. Today was all about if and switch statements and the oh so helpful and elegant ternary operator.

Jan 26, 2022

We are having a great time skiing!

Jan 25, 2022

I finished Day #04 of 100 Days of Swift UI. Today was all about type annotation.

Jan 24, 2022

Yesterday I finished Day #02 of 100 Days of Swift UI, and today I finished Day #03. As much as I love PHP and JavaScript, I’m really enjoying Swift. It is interesting to learn a compiled language verses the interpreted languages I’m familiar with.

Jan 22, 2022

I just finished Day #01 of 100 Days of SwiftUI. I’m enjoying it so far.

Jan 21, 2022

I went back to Chris Green Lake around sunset to try to capture a few photos. They did not turn out as good as I was expecting, but it was fun and I can add them to my collection.

Jan 19, 2022

Here is a photo I got today at the lake. I just missed sunset. I might try to go back tomorrow after work and get a photo as the sun is going down.

Dec 28, 2021

YouVersion posted three verses under the title of “Verse of the Day”!

A day at the Ark Encounter

Dec 10, 2021

We arrived at the Ark Encounter about 15 mins before they opened. We purchased our tickets and then took a shuttle from the parking lot to the actual Ark Encounter.

The Ark was massive! It was remarkable to be able to walk through all three decks of the Ark and see the different exhibits explaining what Noah and his sons may have been doing while on the Ark.

A few things stood out to me. The first is that it would have been very dark in the Ark. The only light they would have had during the storm would have been a few candles or oil lights.

Another thing that stood out to me was that Noah and his family would have had to work very hard while in the Ark taking care of the animals. After spending 100 years building it, Noah was not even able to rest while on the Ark.

The last thing, which may be obvious to some, it would have smelled horrible in the Ark as it would have been all closed up and there would not have been much airflow.

We made some great memories and I came back with some fantastic photos.