You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Travel: Seaside, FL
Wonderful spring break trip to Seaside Beach, Florida. It is a quaint little town which was originally developed in 1981. The first building was the post office (pictured below) and subsequently the property around it was slowly developed. The extended development of Seaside, Watercolor and Santa Rosa beach is further protected from expansion thanks to large state park surrounding it called, Point Washington.
Here is a nice story on how the town developed: https://sowal.com/story/the-story-of-seaside-florida
Your 9-5 isn’t killing your dreams. Wasting your 5-9 is.
Some interesting quotes from Alex Hormozi (Co-founder of acquisition.com)
Your biggest threat isn’t your competition: It’s the mediocre version of you that you’ve accepted as good enough.
Rich people buy time. Poor people buy stuff. Ambitious people buy skills. Lazy people buy distraction.
Your 9-5 isn’t killing your dreams. Wasting your 5-9 is.
You must first become consistent before you can become exceptional.
Alex Hormozi
Travel: Philadelphia, PA
A long weekend trip with Ella to Philly for the North Easy Qualifier Volleyball Tournament. Not much sightseeing due to bad weather, but we made the most of it. Some of the trip highlights included a visit to Love Park, the Liberty Bell, Redding Terminal Market and Geno’s.
Bookmark: Open Source Charting Library
Happy to have stumbled across a new open source charting library for JS from the Apache Foundation. Having used everything from paid version of Highcharts.com, ChartsJS, Plotly to D3.js … it’s always a pleasure to find such a broad, well supported and extensive collection.
Looking forward to trying out this library in a new or existing project.
Apache EChartsApache ECharts, a powerful, interactive charting and visualization library for browserList: CNC Projects
Goodbye Canyon Lux
While prepping my bike for Leadville, I completely screwed up and managed to strip the hex head of the shock mount bolt. I subsequently used an easy out to get some grip on the bolt and start applying some rotational torque. In doing so, I missed the fact the bolt could be seized in the shock bushing 🙁 So while I thought I turning the bolt out, I was implying “pushing” the back of the shock stay outward, and it cracked the frame 🙁
Sweating I reached out to Canyon, explained the situation, and they kindly warranted it! Part of the claim process was to destroy the old frame so after ~ 4,814 miles, it’s gone in the trash can. Some good memories on this bike for sure!
Travel: Atlanta, GA
Big South volleyball with Charlotte and Ella. A hectic weekend with both of them participating. We stayed in the Hilton about 15 minutes walk to the Georgia World Convention Center.
DIY – Canyon Garmin Mount
My second CNC project on the Carvera Air is a Garmin mount for my MTB. I have 3D printed these in the past, but thought it would be a good introduction to CNC. I also made a small water bed to cut the Carbon Fiber in to avoid the nasty dust which is generally made when cutting or sanding it. Fun weekend project!
Things can and did go slight wrong 🙁 This is what happens if the glue does not hold!
List: Software
A list of applications which I have used extensively and relied on for various reasons, scenarios or situations.
| Software | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Winamp | Mp3 Player | No comment needed. A staple for many years along with the mesmurizing visualizations. |
| Sony Vegas | Video Editing Software | Used for many of my “home videos” starting in around 2002. Switched to Adobe Premier Pro in 2010 |
| Adobe Premier Pro & After Effects | Video Editing Software | Continued to create “home videos” using Premier. I think the plugins and integration with AE is what enticed me to move away from Sony Vegas. One of those plugins was camera tracking, which I used in the intro for one of the videos. |
| Evernote | Note Taking | After 14+ years of using Evernote as my “second brain” I switched to Obsidian in 2024. |
| Quicken | Finance | As of 2025, I have 22 years of financial transactions categorized and reported. I originally started tracking my expenses using Microsoft Money and shortly after switched to Quicken. |
| Adobe Illustrator | Vector Design | Compared to some of the others on this list, it is a more recent addition to my “often used” tools. I only really started seeing and understanding the value of vector based design once we got a laser cutter in ~ 2018. Having the ability to scale designs was a necessity and since, it has gotten more use compared to PS. |
| Adobe Photoshop | Photo, Graphic Design | Another long running constant in my suite of software I regularly use. I started with a free trial of Corel Draw (6?) in 1995 from a “Demo” version on the cover of the PC Shopper magazine, and then later switched to Adobe. (Around 4.0) |
| Filezilla | FTP | |
| Visual Basic / Studio | Code Editor | Another staple which I first was introduced to from a Demo version on the cover of a Computer mag ~ 1995 – version 4.0 or 5.0 was my initial introduction with some basic tutorials and sparked my love for software development 🙂 |
| Adobe Dreamweaver | Code Editor | Spent a ton! of time in Dreamweaver as my preferred web development IDE in the Web 1.0 days … |
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