Welcome to my personal homepage, as the header suggests, this is really just a culmination of various aspects of my life, some things I am proud of, others not as much. It’s a blog, WIP, and an uncultivated digital garden of snippets, interesting links, pictures, things that have inspired me, hobbies, projects, key moments, travel, work, and nostalgic lists of material, and immaterial things that have made me who I am.
Last Day @ SAP
Just over 11 years at SAP and can’t be more grateful for what I had, and accomplished. It was a great run but I am looking forward to joining Wells Fargo and taking on a new challenge. I am going to miss the folks I worked with, but staying in the SAP ecosystem, I hope to see and chat to the, on the odd occasion but from a slightly different customer perspective.
Onward 🚀
Some of my more memorable moments:
Race: 2026 70.3 Ironman Chattanooga
Another year back in Chattanooga, I knew I wanted to come back after the swim leg of the triathlon was cancelled in 2025, and I really enjoyed the course and the city.
My mom and I arrived on Friday afternoon after a beautiful drive through the Appalachian mountains and a short stop at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. We stayed very close to the start/finish which was convenient since it was her first time attending an event like this. I stayed there the year before with Wes and it an absolutely prime location. Saturday after bike check in and info session I drove the bike course and did some sight seeing. We went up Lookout Mountain on the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway (Steepest part is 75% gradient!) and had a short walk around Point Park. After multiple visits to Mellow Mushroom for carbs, race morning came pretty quick.
Bookmark: Lumara
3D Printing: Old (Prusa) vs New (Bambu Lab)
47km of filament and 41+ Days of printing 🙂 I will not miss the droning noise of the old printer, but it was pretty awesome for nearly 10 years! After running the cheap Bambu Lab ($399) P1S I am pretty amazed how far FDM printing has come. Probably should have done this a bit sooner.
Bookmark: Fault tolerance at its best …
Fun read: To take humans back to the Moon, NASA has engineered a “fail-silent” architecture that handles everything from cosmic-ray bit flips to total processor divergence.
https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer
Bookmark: App Infrastructure which resonates with me …
I recently came across a blog post that really resonated with me — it captures a philosophy I’ve believed in since I started building small companies and apps:
How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
The whole piece is worth reading, but the core idea is simple: keeping costs near zero gives you the same runway as raising a million dollars with a massive burn rate … but without the stress, the complexity, or the board breathing down your neck.
The one place I differ is on the database. I’m still firmly in the camp of running a managed Postgres instance, decoupled from the rest of the stack, rather than going all-in on SQLite.
Travel: ATL for 2026 Big South
Another long weekend visit to Atlanta, GA for the 2026 edition of Big South volleyball for the kids.
And another 3 days of hectic, non-stop action, since both of them were in different playing waves (one in the morning and one in the afternoon) but that let us equally watch both teams navigate their way through their respective pools. 1,500 Teams + 10 – 12 Players Per team = ~ 15,000 Athletes + Family = 40 – 50,000 People = One of the largest junior VB events in the US!
Sunday (Day 3) was particularly busy, since they both played at similar times but in completely different halls (+- 25 mins of solid walking between the two) this meant hustling from one side to the other.
Quote: Reminder from Mike
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face
Mike Tyson
Range Rat Instagram Posts
An archive of 135 Instagram posts, newest to oldest. Last updated March 2026.
2020 — Nov, Sep, Jul, Apr, Mar
2019 — Dec, Nov, Aug, Jun, May, Mar, Feb, Jan
2018 — Dec, Nov, Sep, Aug, Jul, Jun, May, Apr, Mar, Feb, Jan
2017 — Dec, Nov, Oct, Sep, Aug, Jul, Jun, May, Apr, Mar, Feb, Jan
2025
Dec 2025
December 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It’s been a minute … @cramermountainclub ⛳️🏌️♂️
📍 View location (35.230349813967, -81.084040364335)
2020
Nov 2020
November 27, 2020 at 06:53 PM
A #donaldrossdesign treat @midpinesinn …
November 01, 2020 at 06:10 AM
Sep 2020
September 08, 2020 at 08:18 AM
#17 Red Bridge Golf Club will test your wedge game … 90’ dogleg right with around 80 yards in, all carry to a small green. #dontchunkit #golf
90’s No Fear
I was recently fed a pretty nostalgic video on Youtube about No Fear, its history – and the rise and fall of the company in the 90’s. It was a brand I really resonated with. I had a bunch of the all black posters on my walls and although I wasn’t particularly extreme, a lot of the sports and interests I had were.
Bodyboarding, Motocross, Skateboarding were not the type of sports on the list to pick from at Selborne College. The brand resonated with me because it was edgy, a little off beat and had some rebellion in it – When looking back the slogans do have a touch of “cliche” or cheese in them, but they made the 13 year old me think long and hard about life, and any distraction from school work was easy to justify 🙂
After watching the documentary I spent some time scouring the web and found a few of the posters/slogans which I remembered. Fun times.
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