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  • Senior Technical Project Manager – The Breakout Project

    Annie and I needed a break from our life in Guelph, and so over the course of December, I searched high a low for a new job that would give us a new start. I hunted for a position that would either allow me to work remotely so Annie and I could travel or an Read more

  • My Christmas Letter 2016

    Well, despite telling myself last year that I wasn’t going to move again in the winter, Annie and I moved again, but I’m getting ahead of myself… In January, I started a new job as Director of Technology at Fortrus Financial. The goal was to help modernize a quasi-financial business in terms of technology and Read more

  • My Last Day at Sandbox Software Solutions

    I knew for three weeks when my last day was going to be and I tried my best to prepare everyone at the company for my departure. I think I did an okay job as on my last day I had less than a dozen emails. And other than helping test some software and fill Read more

  • Unique Soda Pop Birthday Experience

    My wife gave me a six pack of glass bottle pops for my birthday. She knows that I enjoy trying out different sodas and we decided to review the half-dozen together. Here are those reviews. Anchor – Ginger Root Beer Orca Beverage Soda Works Mukilteo, WA Aroma Me: Root Beer Bottlecaps + ginger beer. Annie: Read more

  • Leaving Our Apartment and Starting Our Adventure

    Last night was the last night we get to sleep in our apartment in Guelph. Annie was never fully a fan of Guelph, using it mostly just as a place to sleep, but Guelph has been pretty good to us. Our apartment was pretty nice, and our location, while not in any of the same Read more

  • Homeless for the Holidays

    So this week my wife and I are moving out of our apartment. We almost lived here for two years, and that’s the longest I’ve lived somewhere for a while now. My wife and I started discussing what we would do if we couldn’t have children over two years ago when we first started trying Read more

  • The Past Year – My Hardest Yet

    Typically, I wait until the end of the year to do retrospective posts, but as I approach my thirty-fourth birthday, I am struck again by how insane this past year has been. A little over a year ago, we lost Lily, my wife and I’s first opportunity to be parents after trying for more than Read more

  • Higher Minimum Wage is Not the Answer

    In a world where automated technology is quickly becoming a realistic replacement to people, a higher minimum wage may only quicken job loss in a system not ready to help those affected. I know this might seem like an unpopular opinion, and I might be naive in my understanding of how the world works, but Read more

  • Birthday and Christmas Wishlist 2016

    So with a month until my thirty-fourth birthday, two and a half months until Christmas, and some upcoming travel plans, I’ve updated my wishlist on Wishlistr to give people ideas of what I most want. Some highlights include: a new belt, preferably a nice reinforced one some books or an Amazon or Google Play gift Read more

  • The Loss of Anika

    So much loss. Not even a year ago I had to write a post entitled The Loss of Lily, and now I’m back memorializing Anika. Unlike that time, I’ve been sharing my joy and trepidation about the pregnancy on this blog, hoping that it wouldn’t turn out like before. On September 15th, I had to Read more

  • Bed Rest for Annie and Anika

    So Annie went from being mostly on bed rest to full on bed rest a couple of weeks ago, and it has been very hard for everyone. Watching my wife struggle is never fun. Seeing her frustrated, isolated, and uncomfortable is hard. Trying to be there for her needs as well as my own has Read more

  • New Acadian.org Website

    Over the last couple of months, I’ve been spending some free time working with my sister and brother-in-law to update the website for the business that their father started and they’ve since taken over. The site was just HTML written over the years to present information about Acadians and sell Acadian genealogical records. There are Read more