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It’s Summer!

I’m currently driving back from a week in the OBX with the family - the weather was hilariously bad (we really only got out on the beach for one day), but it was great time…

Re-writing my Blog Tooling and Naming it After my Dog

Well howdy there. It’s been awhile.

A Roguelike in Go

Some friends and I have started tinkering with building a Roguelike in Go - mostly for the fun of it, but at least partially to get some practice writing and thinking about…

I’m Back

It has been awhile, huh? I’ll try to get back to updating this space more frequently.

Summer 2021 Wrap-Up

And just like that, summer is over. It’s hard to believe that we’re diving headfirst into September already - luckily in Virginia the weather stays pretty nice well into…

Hot Corgi Summer - A Short List of Small Wonders

Today, my sister-in-law asked me what I’m currently most excited about. That is such a good question - its so easy for me to roll through life, just trying to make sure I…

Happy May!

Well friends, we made it to May! I don’t have a cohesive post here - but I was thinking about how different my world feels this May than it did a year ago. Last year I was…

Spring Roadtrip 2021

Erin and I just got back from an incredible road trip out west with some good friends from college. The trip started in Salt Lake City, Utah, where we celebrated another…

Mar 2021 Book Recommendations

Here’s the promised fast-follow with some additional books that I’ve enjoyed / found interesting.

Feb 2021 Book Recommendations

I suppose the last time I put up a list of recommended books was last summer, so this doesn’t really fit as a specific interval-of-time update. But given that it’s been…

Building a Dungeon Generator

I’ve recently been addicted to Supergiant Games’ release of Hades, a dungeon crawler which draws from a long lineage of roguelike games that emulate or draw inspiration from…

Some Reflections on Creativity, Faith, and Burnout During Covid-Times

Its become the single unifying cliche of 2020 to talk about the collapse of all of the creative ways we planned to make use of the global pandemic-induced staycation.…

A Quick Fall Music Update

I just wanted to do a quick post to try to minimize the interval between publications here - I’m trying to collect some thoughts for a bigger, more long-form thing, but…

A Final 2020 Summer Book Review - The Stand

Be Warned: Spoilers Ahead!

A 2020 Summer Book Report (If Reports Were Lists)

Again, as I’m figuring out how to do this blog thing, much credit goes to my friend Robbie’s post on what he’s been reading in the first half of the year. This seems like as…

A Scatterbrained Update

Erin and I just got back from a quick trip to White Stone, Virginia, which is nestled in a little crook between the mouth of the Rappahannock River and the Chesapeake Bay.…

Slice the Cake - Silly Band Name, Great Music

Over the past week (and especially after yesterday’s pseudo-live performance for UK Tech-Fest 2020, I’ve become re-obsessed with Slice the Cake’s prog-metal magnum opus, Odys…

A First Post

Well, I honestly don’t really know how to start this, so I’ll just jump in with a brief opener post: