Software engineer, hiker, and avid reader.

My expectations for 2022 were really low, but holly hell, it managed to not live up even to these abysmally low expectations.

I'm often angry at Amazon, but this time it's for a reason not directly related to their terrible business practices.

I've deactivated my twitter account recently in favor of Mastodon. Here's why.

This year I've run an experiment: I replaced the lawn in our backyard with a meadow. And it went pretty well!

Just wanted to say hi to those who found me here while rediscovering the internet outside of social media.

For the first time in a while, a trip felt truly like a proper vacation. The one that doesn't require another vacation to recover from it :))

I've managed to squeeze quite a few vacation days into this weird summer, and just over a week ago my wife and I went camping at the foothills of the Olympic mountains in Western Washington.

This week's hike report is not a report from a hike :) Every year, we go camping over the Father's Day weekend, usually to one of the KOA campgrounds along the Pacific coast. This year we camped at the Astoria KOA.

Another week, another hike. I almost forgot how rewarding it is to spend a few hours just walking through a forest, alone with my own thoughts!

When we moved into our new house, one of the first ideas I had for the backyard is turning it into a meadow. Here's what I'm doing and why I'm doing it.