The family and I watched Die Hard this evening. The Christmas season has finally started.

It seems like it took an emergency for my neighbor to finally connect my computer to the printer my wife bought a month ago. I print so little these days.

Occasionally, I will say something funny or thought provoking and my wife says in need to put it in a book. This is something that we have started to call The Book. I wonder if there is an audience for this sort of stuff beyond the 6 people in my house.

My daughter and an example of how things change. A few years ago, she wouldn’t go outside because that is where the bugs are. Now, when it come to it, she is the brave one of her sisters.

I have spent a couple of hours working on my Python programming skills. I can understand why the author of the book I am learning from emphaizes practicing all of the time.

When the work memos are sent out, I get confused between exempt and non exempt. What are some staff exempt from?

I have deep admiration for those who have a strong sense of self discipline. I had that for a while and it is very difficult to get back, even though you know that you have been there before.

I have had my driver’s license for over 30 years. I got my first and only ticket act the beginning of the year and it was issued by a traffic camera and a computer.

I went for a run in the rain this morning. It has been a while since I have done that and I didn’t realize how much I missed it.

Tomorrow at work, they are providing lunch. For 600 people, it will look like a feast. Hopefully, something will be there that I can eat.

When you have 4 children, it is hard to figure out the monthly budget. When you have 4 daughters, wedding budgets become the stuff of nightmares.

My wife was trying to use a Shark stick vac and it wasn’t working well. She took it apart and cleaned out the stuff that didn’t make it to the receptacle and cleaned out the filters. She went from using a vacuum cleaner to being the vacuum cleaner.

I stumbled across a blog post I wrote a while back and didn’t publish. It is written in Markdown and my current platform doesn’t support it. I need to move into this decade.

When I was a kid, I was told that I had horrible handwriting and that I needed to work on my penmanship. The problem was that no one explained how to work on penmanship. I have been journaling by hand, in cursive, since the beginning of the month. I am not writing for speed or on a deadline. I am just letting my pen flow with the words. Turns out, my writing is not as bad as I always thought.

Often times, people think that their jobs are mundane. I know that I have had that thought about my work at times. I have been working in my career for 25 years. Sometimes, I cannot believe that I am old enough for that to be the case. The airplane that crashed in China last week is an aircraft model that I worked on. Even though I personally didn’t work on any system on aircraft that would have caused the crash, it triggered a perspective change. My wife and I were talking about the accident and she asked me if I think about how the stuff I have worked on has impacted other people’s lives. Getting people to where they are going to see a baby relative for the first, or in time to say last goodbyes. A couple starting a new life after the stresses of getting married. Newly graduated high school students on their way to the next page of their stories. I am not working in aerospace anymore. I have moved on to a new industry now where how people are effected is more directly realized. I have come to realize that it is important to look for areas where one makes a difference as opposed to wishing that they were apart of making changes elsewhere.

I keep hearing that people use the mobile phones as their primary computer. I found out today that my mother in law is doing it since her laptop broke. I am thinking of trying it for a month. Has anyone tried this? Were there any pitfalls?

For the rest of the year, I am going to state my age as 7 squared.

When I was a kid, my mom would buy clothes with the thought that I would grow into them. I am at the point in my life where I have clothes that I will shrink into them.

Sometimes, the best sort of days is just being a home with the family. No one you have to see and no place you have to be.

I am not a resolution person. I am more theme driven. My theme for this year is The Year of the Footprint. I am taking active steps to improve on the negative footprints on my self and improve my footprints in the world.