I have to think of more imaginative titles for these posts. 99/100: a really good week; I just ran out of time on Sunday to get my daily sorting/fixing activity in. I’m still really enjoying the daily walks. When it’s warmer outside (like, just -5 or -10C) I find all sorts of creative ideas come […]
98% for my first week playing my game – and I didn’t entirely fail on those last 2 points either; if I was awarding half-points then I would have earned them. One of my daily activities is sorting and fixing stuff. I found my old Pac-Man and calculator watches. My Pac-Man watch came back to […]
Lots of catch up on… Went to the Midwest Gaming Classic the weekend before last, for my 3rd time. Once again, an enjoyable drive through northern Wisconsin. And again I stopped at the loneliest Subway in the world, halfway down the inexplicable beautiful divided highway that connects Superior, Wisconsin with Eau Claire, Wisconsin. There were […]
Yesterday was my last day in the IT department at work. I started there December 16th, 1996 as a student and became a real full-time employee on May 14th of 1997. Despite having the same job title all along, I’ve done a lot of different jobs over the last ten years: an Internet help desk […]
Happy New Year, all of you telecommunicators. We weren’t feeling 100% today, so we stayed home and had a lazy pajama day. Sorry that we missed Darren and Jenn’s party and our other friends there. Hope you guys had a good time. It’s been quite a while since I got any game programming done. I’ve […]
I finally managed to get to 10,000 words in my sort-of NanoWriMo. Even if I don’t make the target, it’s been pretty fun doing all this memoiring. The blog spam problem came back. It was just one guy who always left the name “Hi there”. I tried modifying the PHP code to ignore anything from […]
It’s amazing to think that it’s been a full year since Kyla was born. We had got up out of bed at about 2 a.m. to drive to the hospital, and only 8 hours later we were driving home with another little Harbron. The nine months of parental leave flew by; I’ve been back at […]
I’ve been getting a lot of comment spam over the last few months. It started maybe around June, after months of no spam at all. It then went away for a lot of August, but now it’s back to the point that I’m deleting dozens of spam comments every day. Rather than forcing people to […]
I’ve been back to work for two (short 4-day) weeks now, after my nine-month parental leave. I had a great time while I was off, fulfilling several life goals. But it’s also good to be back at work, with a new position and a new boss and plenty of potential future projects there that might […]
The SWRAP Chicago EXPO is cancelled this year, but we’re still going to have an event anyway – ECCC Chicago Expo, September 30, 2006. I’ve now put up two of my old Loadstar Letter articles on C64 programming – you can find them on my pages here. Might as well put in another plug for […]