8 minute readI’m not sure if I really knew what to expect before becoming a parent. I’m the youngest sibling, and didn’t have much experience with kids otherwise (I babysat once or twice). I mostly become a parent because Amanda and I mostly felt good about it, and were given the impression from church that it’s one of […]
Read More My Experience of Parenthood6 minute readWhile trying to listen to the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from home this weekend, I’m taking notes on things that strike me as important. Yes I can read all the talks online too, which is handy, but it’s nice to have my own list of important teachings. What’s […]
Read More October 2016 General Conference thoughts3 minute readI’m not sure if I’ve quite caught the bug, but I do feel some desire to know about my ancestors. But that feeling is certainly not shared globally, and I hadn’t always felt that way. What motivates me to do it: I can visualize my own descendants, and think of myself as an ancestor. I […]
Read More Why do we get into family history anyway?4 minute readMy last post was kinda a complaint about how tasks have sometimes been assigned to me at work. (Of course at church, where I’m currently serving as “elders quorum president” I’m kinda in the position of assigning tasks, and frankly I kinda stink at it. I’m so conscientious that I might offend someone somehow that […]
Read More What I like about my Work2 minute readAmanda and I are listening to “the great courses”, and the current course is “practicing mindfulness: an introduction to meditation”. I’m only 3 lectures into it, but here are my initial thoughts and notes: meditation is not what you think all religions use meditation to some degree (although Buddhism is certainly the most prevalent), but […]
Read More Meditation course notes 17 minute readI do computer programming for work (php and python nowadays). It sometimes frustrates me, and I’m sure my employers too, how long seemingly simple jobs take. Eg want to change a website’s font size? Seems like it should just take changing one setting somewhere from 10 to 11, right? Yeah that’s it… but don’t forget […]
Read More Things to Consider Before Assigning Me a Task< 1 minute readToday at church, someone gave a talk about humility which got me thinking.Humility, at the type we are encouraged to have, is not timidity, lack of confidence, or false modesty. I think as a youth, I was shy, timid, and probably had a lack of confidence. I’m not sure how I became like that. Maybe […]
Read More Humility thoughts< 1 minute readYesterday was Labor Day, and Amanda was looking for things to do with the kids while I worked basically as normal (really everyday is a holiday working from home, so most of us don’t usually take holidays off). She thought about taking them to “Tumble bums” (an indoor paid playground) in Langford. So she looked […]
Read More Fortunate error2 minute readAt church today, I gave a lesson in Elders Quorum, mostly based off President Eyring’s talk “O Remember, Remember” from October 2007 general conference. After we read a bit of his talk (especially the part that reads “…I heard in my mind ‘I’m not giving you these experiences for yourself. Write them down’…find ways to […]
Read More Church lesson that inspired this blog2 minute readAt the recent WordCamp I attended, one of the speakers mentioned how when you’re working on your own website or software, you’re never “done.” There’s always some way to improve it (also, there’s always some new bug you never noticed before, and some integration that makes a change that breaks it.) And that sounds about […]
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