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.