Posts Tagged ‘autobiography’

25 Random Things About Me

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

I was recently tagged in one of those chain letter things on facebook by my friend Blake Hall. I’m supposed to post 25 random things about myself and then tag 25 other people. Well, I’m not tagging other people but I thought it would be fun to post.

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January 2009 Updates

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

So it seems this post falls exactly one month from my New Years Resolutions post. I thought I’d regale you with some updates.
Today I signed up for the Beginning Rock Climbing course at Planet Granite. I’m pretty impressed with what I’ve seen of the place so far. I start my first of [...]

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New Years Resolutions

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

I’m not really one who does the yearly resolutions and this year is no different.
Lately I’ve been in the midst of a lot of self reflection. I guess moving across the country and starting a new life does that to a guy. So I don’t really think of the following “resolutions” as anything [...]

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My weight loss

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Since April 2008 I’ve been dieting and exercising, mostly dieting. I weighed more then I ever had before at a whopping 265 lbs. Not an ideal situation.
I decided to attempt to lose weight, not really sure how I was going to do it. I started out with the South Beach Diet which [...]

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Adjusting to California

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

So I’ve been a resident of California for just over three weeks now and things are going well. I have most of my IKEA furniture assembled and most of my boxes unpacked. I’ve been kind of lazy with things lately but that’s OK.
PBwiki is really great. Everyone I work with [...]

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Last Day at Netconcepts

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Friday was my last day at Netconcepts. It wasn’t very emotional because this has been building up for about a month now. My first phone interview with PBwiki was on September 5th, I was in CA interviewing in person September 19th and I put in my notice on September 24th. I’ve had [...]

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Moving to California

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

So after 27 years in southern WI, I’m moving to California.
I’ve just accepted a position with http://www.pbwiki.com as a junior developer. I start there on October 20th, so it will be a crazy couple of weeks preparing to move.
I’ve wanted to move to the bay area for quite some time, and this was finally [...]

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First Day Visiting San Francisco

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

For those of you that don’t know. I’m in San Francisco for a few days because on Saturday I’m attending Startup School at Stanford. So I took some extra days off so I could explore San Fran.
Today I got out to San Francisco without any issues. Had to get up at 3am [...]

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A Brief History of Me Programming

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

I’ve been programming in one form or another for as long as I can remember. Since my family got it’s first computer when I was five I couldn’t have programmed much before that. However I knew DOS well enough to help teachers with their computers in first and second grade so I was [...]

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This is why my coworkers love me

Monday, August 1st, 2005

James says:
Mr. Hugs…how do I get into our ATS internet page and update info? Username/password?
Pepsi Achiever says:
Well first you need to find Mr. Snuggles the update elf. Then answer his three riddles. Once you do that he will give you the magic key that can unlock the secret hollow in the land [...]

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