What Hobbies Should This Engineer Consider After Retirement?
I don’t know when or how it started, but the drive to customize and brag about the results has been with humans long before I was born. Today we usually call it a hobby, something that has become increasingly important to me in my retirement. Age, improved...
Duolingo, How To Enjoy Learning A Language
Today I completed my 76th consecutive Spanish lesson with Duolingo. Why Spanish? Why Duolingo and why is the number of days important? This isn’t my first attempt to learn a new language. My work brings me in contact with a number of different languages and while I...
Betrayal at Neverwinter Mod 6
(If you’re not into MMORPGs, Neverwinter mod 6 in particular, do yourself a favor and skip this.) You say you want me to help you kill a dragon? Times must be worse than I thought when you have to scour taverns to get a group together. Still, like myself, I know that...
Improving My Writing Means I Have To Write
When I started writing this blog, I had two goals, improve my writing and become comfortable sharing parts of my life. Well, there was also the lure of becoming rich and famous through my writing but reality set in quickly. Writing for a living takes a lot of work....
Gamification, Another Management Fad?
I like my job, I really do. In order to ensure I continue to like my job I avoid a lot of topics that I would like to write about because my management might not see my point. This is one of those topics. One of the stronger engineering traits is the ability to see...From the Doghouse -It’s all about them
A look at dogs having fun!
Short Stories
With posts like these, ever wonder what kind of fiction I would write?
