I packed up my home office yesterday and moved all my NASA IT equipment into the office today. After getting settled in, I put up this joke board on the outer wall of my desk to be a little speck of joy as we adjust to the new normal.
Posts in "microblogs"
Today held happy water-themed beginnings. It was my daughter’s first time peeing in a full-sized toilet and her first day of swim lessons.
No need to read between the lines on the latest email to feds about “What did you do last week?” They moved on to open mockery. I will say, despite all the ill-will and distraction thrown at my colleagues, it has been inspiring to see everyone stick to the mission and deliver on our work.
New site feature! I added a sidebar for recent microblogs. This will only appear on desktop, not mobile devices.
I updated the link styles on my blog:
- removed underlines from links for readability
- added a box-shadow animation when hovering links for enjoyability
I pushed changes to Fed Meetup this morning! Users can now save their searches and export results to a CSV file. My coworker is using it to plan group travel for his new team at NASA. It’s nice to see it still getting some use, and it may be getting more use in the near future!
My latest attempt to be less distracted by my phone is printing articles on a piece of paper that I can fold up and carry in my wallet. Going to try to read these instead of using my phone and falling down the rabbit hole.
I just looked through all my old blog post ideas and drafts. There are some fun ideas I forgot about in there. There is one titled “Demustyfication” that has been a draft for a long time. I just can’t seem to get it where I want it, but it keeps tugging at me. I wrote about it back in April.
“Everything depends on everything and we don’t know anything!”
- my wife, while we decide on basement finishes
This perfectly describes software development.
My dad gave me his old 45 pound dumbbells so I:
- got excited
- made a list of the exercises I could do with them
- tried all the exercises
- crossed about half the exercises off my list because I can’t do them
45 pounds is heavier than I remember… Got some work to do. 💪