5 Kids, 1 Wife, 1 Grandchild

  My (relatively) new digs at Materion. A month or so ago, I moved out of the office I had occupied for nearly four years. It was a literal ...

It was a pretty typical Tuesday in mid-June, if a somewhat exhausting one. Up before 5am, get dressed for the gym, have some coffee and do m...

  When Terry and I were first married in 1992, one of the upstairs rooms in our house was designated "the computer room," but it w...

My company's headquarters building is undergoing some pretty extensive renovations, so they kicked us all out and told us to work from h...

This is my office at Materion. I spend a lot of time here (and I like it). Back in December I had a post here about how much I enjoyed my co...

One corner of the haven that is my home office. That's our new-ish cat Cheddar in the lower right corner. One of the things that attract...

I prompted the AI Blog Post Image Generator with "white guy in a sweater" and I love the result. This fake person perfectly convey...

I don't know exactly when it started, but these days I regularly experience work meetings in which I am the oldest person in the room. I...

When I began my career, I worked at a newspaper. My summer office attire was a t-shirt and shorts. If I was feeling fancy, it was a pair of ...

This just made me laugh. As an employee, I'm about as low-maintenance as they come. You don't have to worry about much if I'm on...

I've dropped some weight over the past few months. Nineteen pounds as of yesterday, to be exact. I won't get into the weight loss th...

Today is my first day of work in more than four months. I am, as you may have noticed, extremely excited about this fact. Part of the reas...