Bryan Robb

Word of caution: if you show up at my house unannounced on a holiday weekend, you may find me still in my underwear before 10.

Learning about custom routing and collections in Ghost. I’m thinking this might be the key to hosting two blogs at one address (micro and otherwise) while keeping their content separate.

Offloaded my new planning blog from a subdomain to its own domain. Hoping I didn’t break too much in the process.

I need to research easy-to-use (and free/affordable) data visualization tools for web publications, particularly map data. Looking like maybe Leaflet with Mapbox.

Today is my daughter’s 2nd birthday. It’s been a fun-filled year, and a joy watching her grow and explore the world! Happy birthday, little one!

Tech companies who use two-factor e-mail verifications where the numbers are visible directly from mobile banner notifications are doing god’s work. Few things are as unnecessarily annoying as having to click over to open the email to copy/paste.

Garden Notions

For the last five years or so, I’ve used the space next to my driveway for raised beds. I’ve got a 3,100 gallon rain cistern in my backyard and I hand dug a trench to the front yard for my drip irrigation system. It’s worked pretty well, but there are pros and cons. For starters, the beds are pretty close to the driveway, and my wife already ripped my bumper off once and tried to pass it off as if nothing ever happened (I caught it on camera).

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Couldn’t stand the guy or his cult, but I’ll concede Reagan got one thing right:

~If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

Currently experiencing the complete meltdown of the Fred Meyer curbside grocery pickup system. Been here almost 2 hours waiting on a pickup that was already an hour delayed.

My boss signed me up for this leadership development program over the next 3 months, and although I appreciate the content, it has filled my plate beyond capacity. Crazy week and I’m ready for a snow day.

I let the floor go while I was trying to keep the ship running the last few days. Cooking, laundry, dishes, homework, regular work, walking the dog, keeping the kids entertained, baths, etc. The floor is always the thing that gets so gross so fast, especially in the winter. I think I’m ready to hire a cleaner again. Even once a week would be glorious.

Power outage and a rough night’s sleep

We had some wind last night and it knocked out our electricity at around 1 a.m. My son was already sleeping in our bed, but my daughter woke up screaming bloody murder and wouldn’t go back to sleep, so I had to bring her into our bed as well. The worst part about power outages is that I can’t sleep without my CPAP machine anymore. I have a battery for it to get me by, but I must not have charged it after camping last summer.

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