Alright it's been long enough that it's time for me to just acknowledge that and get on with it. So this is me just trying to get this recap out of the way. I need to clear my mental pathways, so let's do dis. I know for sure that I want to explore at least one topic separately in a later post, but perhaps I'll reflect on others at a later date as well. Apparently I have some sort of superhuman capacity for delayed gratification, because it took me months to finally buy and build a gaming PC. With a friend to help pick out the parts, I started to purchase them as they came on sale after Christmas, completing the full set of purchases weeks later. Having a gaming rig is pretty great! I'm really enjoying the Firefall beta. It's nice to feel myself getting better at shooters. My...

I got married! It was fun. :) That was over a month ago, but it took a long time to mentally care about anything else for a while. I didn't even really care as much about my birthday, and I love my birthday. Even though we kept the reception super low-key, there was still a lot of planning involved, and that stuff takes effort. Plus I had a lot of family in town for about a week and a half surrounding the big day. It was great, everything went pretty much perfectly and we were relaxed during all of it, but afterwards I kind of wanted to just crawl into bed, both mentally and physically. Christmas was awesomely low-key as well, and that's over, so it's time to look ahead to new things to occupy myself. I'm also looking forward to a couple of vacation days away next week; a...

I've had this domain for a while now, and I purchased it with the "Get Back in the Kitchen" title always in mind. It started out as a personal recipe database application that I was building in PHP/Symfony. The idea was literally to put myself back in the kitchen and learn more about cooking, ingredients, costs and nutritional data -- a personalized way to figure out our meals and store our recipes in a single format online instead of across 10 cookbooks. The "kitchen" also had another meaning for me: get back into non-work coding. As a developer, you have to always be learning and sometimes it's hard to get started without a focused project that you're excited about.But since then, several other (awesome) projects have taken up my precious free time. (I don't have a link for how much time my wedding planning has taken up, sorry.)Over the last...