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Writing a Novel is Hard

Last year, one of my goals or aspirations was to finish the novel I had started. Needless to say, while I most certainly made progress on it, I didn’t even finish a first draft. To state something that should be beyond obvious, writing a book is hard!


Fandom

I'm a huge Philadelphia Phillies fan and a baseball fan. Over the years I've collected a collection of Phillies fitted caps of various different styles. One of the caps I bought was a modern replica of a 1929 Philadelphia Athletics hat complete with World Series patch on the side of it. It got me thinking a bit about how we choose what team to follow and become a fan of.

Hockey Shootouts

In the NHL, in the regular season, if a game is still tied after the end of the overtime period, the game is decided by a best of 3 shootout where a skater gets a free shot on the goalie. It then moves to a sudden death shootout. I’m not a fan of them. It feels gimmicky and removes the team aspect of the game. In my beer league, slightly different story.




On Tanking

I'm a Philadelphia sports fan. Through the good seasons, and the bad, I'm always cheering on the Philly teams. For the Phillies and Eagles, times have been great. Phillies are competitive and are playoff contenders. The Eagles just won the Super Bowl. For the Flyers and 76ers on the other hand...



Tackling Home Projects is So Fulfilling

This past week our dryer stopped working. Our dryer came with our house and is easily 30 years old, thought probably older. We had repaired it before, but this time around, my father in-law, my wife and I could not salvage it. We might have been able to jury rig something, but it probably wouldn’t hold for that long. It was time to replace the dryer.

Data Models & Tech Debt

This past week at work we ran into a weird bug. It was one of those bugs where everyone’s trying to replicate it with mixed success. Most of the time it works just fine, but every so often it fails with no clear indication as to what’s different about the failure case. It took a while, but we were finally able to identify the cause and it presented us with a slight headache.

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