(updated 2024-09-01)
Home
The excess paint we gifted to the contractor hadn’t been used yet, so we traded and now I have the right paint but more than I can easily store. It’s like we really live here; all my remaining projects are little clean-up or organizational things, window treatments, building a workbench – power puttering. But I’ve found a few unexplained parts while cleaning: a largish machine screw in the kitchen that doesn’t seem to have a home there and an awkwardly-sawn off plastic spacer with a “24” molded into it. There’s still plenty to figure out, like how best to clean shower glass.
Family
The girl has a plan and is putting it into action. That’s all I want as a father.
Work
After leaving Belkin for Concentric Sky, Concentric Sky for Cayuse, then getting laid off about year later, I quickly landed at Invoca; it has been a year and three quarters and fun so far. The core task is steering an inward-looking (and engineering-dominant) culture and a powerful but fragmentary product toward actual customer-centricity.
Body
After accidentally pulling a 400lb deadlift twice a while back I’m doing it on the reg, so my interim goal of 450 is near enough to be enticing. That or I should lose 25lbs to get to pulling 2x bodyweight. (Hint: that’s the right answer – lose the spare tire.) So I’ve started logging my food. There’s not much more boring than being told about someone’s diet or exercise program, save maybe their dreams, so I’ll stop there.