the company i work for had their very first hackathon last year, and has since decided to make it an annual event. a bunch of teams of 1-3 people draw random ideas for an application to develop, and they spend a 10-hour day building the application for either android, iOS,…
a couple months ago, i had to start getting my plans figured out for how i was going to schedule my maternity leave from work. after talking to other working moms and moms-to-be, i decided to work the last couple weeks until my due date strictly from home, take 4…
since i was little, i can remember my dad doing his planning in spreadsheets. budgets, loans, everything. i never really considered it much until i actually had things to keep track of. once i was out of college and entirely on my own, i suddenly had everything to keep track…
seriously, dude. there are some crazy ones in google play. and as the number of apps i have available increases, so does my number of wacky emails. some guy actually wrote me an email just to tell me that i was stupid. this weekend, an issue came up that affected…
i hadn’t realized it until recently, but for the last 2 months or so, i’ve driven in almost pure silence. to work, from work, even when i drove to north carolina. that was 4 and a half hours of straight silence. i can’t think of the last…
over the last several weeks, my rib pain has turned into… skin pain? i guess? i’ve googled it dozens of times and asked my doctor, and she assures me it’s normal. and that nothing can be done until the baby comes out. which seems to be the answer…
despite all the bad luck i’ve been having lately, i can surely say that brett and i are unbelievably lucky to have such amazing friends and family. this baby is going to be spoiled rotten. my stepmom and my dad hosted our baby shower last month. honestly, i did…
not too many weeks ago, my monitor died. last week, my memory went bad. the brand new memory i had just bought. also last week, the adapter on external hard drive #1 died. it turned out not to be the actual drive (thank god), but the stand that it sits…