Updated 2025-11-02 (YYYY-MM-DD).
Family #
- The boys are doing great in school.
- Jonathan's birthday party this year was groovy monkeys. Stephen's was Link from Breath of the Wild.
- Both boys are absolutely in love with Legos, and in general building stuff.
- Steph has reacquainted herself with reading and puzzles.
- We all love art. Only Steph doesn't have an art bag (yet).
Home #
- We love our home. It is a backlog of projects.
- I have finally started turning the upstairs where I work daily into more than just storage.
- Now that fall has come, I want to work on our courtyard.
Hobbies #
Video Games #
- My minecraft world that I play for the boys reached day 102--the longest running world I've ever played, I think.
- My last progress on Breath of the Wild's Master Mode was to collect the first memory. I still don't have the champions tunic.
- I am on the last battle of the first chapter of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles.
- I think am in the last dungeon of Link's Awakening (the remastered version on switch) but am missing an item I think I need to get through it, somehow.
Board Games #
- I should write more about this on notes.
- The boys are playing tsuro a lot right now.
- Stephen and I play a lot of Guild of Merchant Explorers.
- Jonathan and I play a lot of Monkey Palace or 800 Pound Gorilla.
Projects and Other Work #
Happy Acorn Ventures #
At the start of this year, I started Happy Acorn Ventures. For most of the year, it has sourced income through contracting. In October, it made its first product dollar.
Programming #
BASM #
One weekend in October, I wrote a very small assembly machine that is silly and not very useful, but I'm still proud of it.
Cog #
Cog has proven an interesting enough project that I've now worked on it for nearly six months, slowly adding features.
- parses HTML and prints a DOM
- parses CSS and prints a CSS hierarchy
- can print just the text nodes from a page (newest feature)
Spyglass #
I originally wrote this in python, but will probably port it to rust. This is a very basic document indexing and search utility. It was built to integrate with Cog.