Of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: "Stancil was right again."

Yesterday: Held my friend's baby and she almost fell asleep on my chest

Today: Spectacular sunrise and a hawk in my backyard.

Life's been good to me so far

Off all next week - wrapping random stuff up, making sure the contractors are in a good spot for next week, and then I'm OUT. Need this break!

A week of spinning wheels - sometimes you really need to step back and evaluate if you're totally overthinking a solution. A lesson often taught!

No greater feeling than having a squeaky appliance, and instead of getting frustrated or throwing WD-40 at it, busting out an allen wrench, tightening one or two bolts, and BAM smooth and silent!

Definitely could have used one more day over the weekend! I also definitely could have managed my time better...

#woodshopweekends cutting board for a Christmas gift.

We millennials got way too worked up over early social media - people posting food pics was the best and we said it was cringe, bad job by us!

So it's time to bring it back. Tonight was beef stew and lordy did it come out fantastic!

Feature flagging is really really cool, but it does introduce more fragmentation into your system - now there's another moving piece to check, another place for things to go wrong.

Its an awesome tool, and I highly encourage using it - just make sure its well documented!

Recap for today: Do not attempt to autowire static fields! If you find this, correct it - and then wonder how it didn't throw a NullPointerException already.

One of my resolutions is to post more - not poast (there's a big distinction there), but to share more stuff about my life to try finding other folks with similar interests. This is how the social internet was first envisioned. Post about work, projects, hobbies - just share!

Today at work :: More activation of our major release. The crazy effort we've put in gives me confidence to keep on activating.

Lesson: Put your nonprod code under prod strain when you can - that's the best test!