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The last year has been difficult for me physically. In August, I tore my right calf muscle playing soccer with my kids. During the long recovery and physiotherapy from that injury, I strained the MCL in my left knee. I was asking too much of my left leg while my right was healing. The recover from this second injury extended into early 2021. As someone who has always been very active, the immobility that came with these injuries was difficult.
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Family life can be busy, especially with a couple of tweens and dogs. Staying on top of the appointments, athletics, birthdays, and to dos can be challenging.
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Our dog breed of choice is the miniature dachshund. They are adorable, loving, and highly… portable? That portability does create some challenges around the house, though. When you want to treat your furbabies as equal family members, that means they should get access to all the furniture, right? All the beds and sofas at a minimum. To accomplish this you need ramps and/or steps. There are options available in the market for purchase, but in our experience, most of them are poorly made, too expensive for what you get, or don’t fit perfectly with your furniture.
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My goodness, jimkirk.org has gone through so many iterations over the decades. You read that right. Decades.
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I’ve been quiet over the last couple of months because I’ve been going through a job change cycle. About a decade ago, I promised myself that every 5 years, I’d at least have a look around to see if there was something else that might interest me. The thought process behind this was relatively simple:
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It’s hard to believe that Alicia and I have been at home, trying to work, for almost a year. I don’t think many of us had this one on our 2020 bingo card. The time seems right to take a step back and share some thoughts on this experience.
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New Year’s Day seems like the perfect time for a family announcement. We are pleased to share that we have a new addition to the family. Daisy has joined the household as our second furbaby.
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I’ve been using laptops for over 20 years and during that time, I’ve seen them evolve from chonky bricks with shitty screens and poor battery life to thin, light, capable portable computers. More recent developments in this space have made me less interested in laptops than ever before and this isn’t just the result of the pandemic and that #WFH life… this trend started back when I got my hands on the Dell Latitude 5285 in 2017… To me, this is when things starting going downhill.
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Family life can be busy, especially with a couple of tweens and dogs. Staying on top of the appointments, athletics, birthdays, and to dos can be challenging.
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We are a household of gamers. Alicia and I date back to the Nintendo days and now we have offspring who love games like Minecraft and Roblox. When we come together in the living room to game together, we play titles like Overcooked and platformers like Rayman. We’re more of a PC gaming family than a console family… so this has resulted in a couple of Home Theatre PCs (HTPCs) with gaming capabilities being deployed to our two largest televisions. So when you add these two to the gaming PCs on my desk and in each of the kids’ rooms… we’re up to five in the house. What’s wrong with that?
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I’m going to nerd out a bit in this post. If that’s not your jam, leave now or forever hold your peace.
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I never thought for a moment that I would end up in management. I was the introverted, hands on keyboard geek who got his start on the technical support side of the business. A few stars aligned (or collided) that fundamentally altered my career trajectory. I occasionally make reference to being “tricked into management”, so I thought I would tell the tale. I hope to tell it in a way that may help others who are unsure of where their technology careers may take them.