A half-empty glass kind of guy
We had a very nice weekend and spent almost a full day on Saturday as a family together, which is not that common any more since our son left for college. We have somewhat of a tradition to either drive up or down between Portsmouth, NH to Cape Elizabeth, ME. Along the way we do some Antique shopping and have a lobster at Two Lights point on Cape Elizabeth. The week leading up to it and also on the way I made several jokes (at least I think they are funny) that point out or play on the negative in that moment.
Read more →Blessed be your name
This blog was meant to be about coding, management and Christianity. Lately it seems to turn more into thoughts about Christianity and how they apply to my life. At work I’m working on a prototype for an ETL solutions and I wanted to write about some of the challenges that go along with it. However, this post will be more on the spiritual side again. Maybe something technical next week.
Read more →To be humble, one needs to act humble
“To be humble, one needs to act humble” - makes sense, doesn’t it? Except, that I don’t know how to do that. I heard or read it somewhere, probably in a sermon and it stuck with me. It is one of those phrases where one says of course or that is obvious. Humility, like most, if not all spiritual qualities require relationships to be expressed or demonstrated in. One can have a humble mindset, which is the necessary pre-requisite for being humble, but only in the context of an interaction with others, humility really manifests itself through action.
Read more →The Curse of Coding
I always loved coding and writing software and have done it in varying intensity for the last 35 years. This number by itself is scary. I suppose it matches my temperament as an introvert very well. It allows me to focus on a problem intensely and I love it when the pieces of a puzzle fall into place or, after a while of debugging, the cause of a problems becomes finally clear.
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