Category: General
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Going to Visit Gael This Weekend
Annie’s mom hasn’t been well. She suffered another noticeable decline and has been in the hospital for over a month now. Annie and I are looking forward to seeing her, though reading reports from other people’s visits, while slightly humorous, they are quite sad. She has been having difficulty differentiating…
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Learning to Make Video Games
I really want to learn to make simple video games. I watched Quill18 create his latest Ludum Dare competition game, and was super inspired. When the theme was announced, I immediately thought of an idea. I went to try to make it in Unity and Game Maker Studio 2 and…
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Creating a Card Game
I’ve been working on creating a card game for a few months now. The idea has been bouncing around in my head for over a year, and when I tried to translate it into a game that I wanted to make, I realized I didn’t have the skills to make…
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Anti-Smoking Drug Helping My Depression
I can’t believe I haven’t written a blog post about this already. As many of you know, I write pretty openly about my battles with anxiety and depression, and I am happy to say that Wellbutrin has been super effective for me. A little over five months ago, I started…
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The Breakout Project: Absolutely Amazing
In less than four and a half months, I went from learning about an idea that Innovate Kingston had for The Breakout Project to being one of the people that helped pull it off. I can’t believe that the first event is now behind me. I am happy to say…
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Hyperspeed Job Update: Three Weeks In
So I’ve been through three weeks at Innovate Kingston working on The Breakout Project. It has been a busy three weeks, to say the least. The first few days were brain dump meetings with board members and transferring ownership/control of many IT accounts to me. I also redeveloped the event…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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