One of my favorite things to do is cook. I was lucky enough to grow up in a home with fresh cooked meals prepared nightly (not including Friday pizza night of course) – and so shortly after college when I found myself living out on my own, I began to try to teach myself how [...]
Being a full-time web developer and all around tech geek, I spend a lot of times with various electronic gadgets that interact with almost every waking moment of my life. And considering I use my iPhone as an alarm clock, I guess I depend on several of them when I’m sleeping as well. Once you [...]
The first week of 2011 has come to an end, and my what a week.
A visit to the oral surgeon on Monday confirmed that I had a cavity in one of my wisdom teeth, and based on the dentist’s recommendation, I opted to have all four wisdom teeth removed at once. As luck would have [...]
An old school-mate of mine who happens to share my interest in web design and serial entrepreneurship recently completed a challenge he devised called 100 Goals In 100 Days. The concept is simple – list out 100 goals, and complete them in 100 days. As someone who recognizes the power in setting goals – this seemed like a great [...]
2010 is rapidly coming to an end, and it’s time to review the past year and plan out the next. I’m pretty obsessed with planning out my life – especially when it comes to travel. I find that if I can plan my adventures out far enough, they not only always come to [...]
I’m flying down to San Francisco at the moment – 20000 feet in the sky – writing a blog post on my iPad. In fact, minus a few obvious items like clothes and an assortment of travel size bathroom products – I brought little more than my iPhone and iPad on this trip.
I didn’t even [...]
When I was twenty-three years old, I packed up what I could into my Honda Civic and drove out West with my girlfriend and good friend to Oregon, sight-unseen to start a new life. I quit a good job at a university, and with about $1000 to my name, headed West with abstract thoughts [...]
Of the many things I love about the apartment I’ve called home for several years now – the breathtaking view of the Portland city skyline is the highlight. Looking out from my bedroom, I can see all of downtown Portland, behind it the rolling west hills, and before it the lower industrial Southeast. In the [...]
On our second to last day in Ireland, my father and I negotiated the Ireland busing system, and purchased two tickets to Ardee, a small village about an hour and a half north of Dublin. The bus would apparently stop a five minute walk outside of the main town – and another bus would [...]
On Sunday I was cleaning up my apartment, and decided the two Netflix DVDs sitting on top of the stereo had been here long enough (unwatched) – so I packaged them up and on Monday dropped them in the mailbox on my way to work. I arrived home today to have two new DVDs waiting [...]
