Now — 2024
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Sunday, 13 October 2024
The feeling of fall has arrived to Durham. We are aligned as a family to have the “best fall ever,” and so our energies and activities are focused to this end. Pumpkins have been picked. Wardrobes have been rotated. Cold-weather recipes have returned. Spooky stories are being told. Fresh bread is baking in the oven. It is all good.
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Magnolia is live! More to come.
Wednesday, 17 September 2024
In the home stretch on a major product launch. Some exciting things to share soon.
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Tweaking my site…AGAIN.
Tuesday, 6 June 2024
Navigating the AIscape. As I work with a team to make the best use of the available tech, the thing most on my mind is how information design practices will react. For the last two decades, the major filter through which digital information design has passed is the search engine — information design anticipates how pages and files are indexed and ranked. How will this change now that a very different kind of bot will read our pages before humans do? This, for now, is part of the conversation around Agentic Design…
Monday, 15 April 2024
Summer is here… early. 87° and very ☼. It was a lovely weekend here in Durham. A few solid art hours with my older kiddo produced a few images I’m excited about, plus lots of nice memories. I’m proud of how observant and inquisitive she is. Some of the images from this weekend will end up in my visual journal post this coming Saturday.
Monday, 1 March 2024
I added a new section to my Archive where I am putting images from my visual journal, grouped by week.
Sunday, 3 March 2024
I’m realizing that I care far more about craft than I ever realized I did. This is a good thing. A lot is coming into focus.
Sunday, 25 February 2024
March is on the horizon; things have not settled down. But it’s good to have things to do.
Sunday, 14 January 2024
The first six weeks of the year have been intensely busy. Looking back over my notes, I’m realizing that this might be an emerging trend; the last four years have all had similar first quarters at work: massive change, incredible team-wide effort to meet new needs, long hours. If the trend holds, things will have settled down by March.
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Personal Projects
These are things that I want to finish before the end of the year.
| Project | Status |
|---|---|
| Back Up Cloud Photo Archive | 45% done |
| Laundry Room Remodel | Not Started |
| Build new shelving | Not Started |
| Install new dryer | Not Started |
| Clear out old shelving | Not Started |
| Remove old door frame, sand and repaint threshold | Not Started |
| Purchase new dryer | Not Started |
| Design and build wall-mounted tool panel | Done, 2/25/24 |
| Office Remodel | Done |
| Design new shelving and desk setup | Done, 4/19/24 |
| Source materials | Done, 5/10/24 |
| Build new shelves | Done, 6/04/24 |
| Re-hang acoustic panels | Done, 2/19/24 |
| Paint ceiling | Not Started |
| Patch cracks and holes | Done, 6/14/24 |
| Build new panel frames | Done, 2/18/24 |
| Take down acoustic panels | Done, 2/18/24 |
| Basement Remodel | Done |
| Assemble and install | Done, 11/27/24 |
| Make Cuts | Done, 11/12/24 |
| Clean out basement | Done, 5/01/24 |
| Purchase Lumber | Done, 1/14/24 |
| Design | Done, 1/13/24 |
| Take Measurements | Done, 1/05/24 |
| Build new kitchen shelving; reorganize kitchen storage | Done, 1/28/24 |
| Rebuild new den shelving | Done, 1/28/24 |
| Design and build temporary desk riser | Done, 1/21/24 |
| Build media library shelf insert frames | Done, 1/21/24 |