Daily Coping 10 Jan 2023

Today’s coping tip is to make time to do something kind for yourself. Learning to better take care of myself is something that I’ve been working on throughout the...

T-SQL Tuesday #158–Implementing Worst Practices

Not that I’m looking to do this, but that’s the invitation from Raul Gonzalez this month. This is the monthly blog party where we write on a topic chosen...

Daily Coping 9 Jan 2023

Today’s coping tip is to look back at a previous coping tip that required planning and evaluate how it helped. One of my tips in December was to listen...

Forgoing Tech Investments

SouthWest Airlines had some issues, possibly because of their technical debt and lack of investment.

The Time Conversion

Daily Coping 6 Jan 2023

Today’s coping tip is to do something outdoors today. Enjoy nature. I’m writing this a few days ahead, so I’m using an activity I did over the weekend. The...

Goals for 2023

This is the goal setting post for 2023. The previous ones were: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 As with previous years, I’ll break these into three categories: career, personal,...

Outlining Goals in 2023

Last year I set a bunch of goals, and I thought I did pretty good working on them. Not amazing, but pretty good. This year, I want to attack...

Solar Projection v Estimates

We got a solar system in 2022 to try and fix some of our power costs and hedge against the future. We were fairly confident it would work well,...

The Best and Worst Tech of 2022

Steve looks back at the best and worst technology in 2022.