2017's Brightest Spots

  • The continued patience, grace, kindness, and support of my mother and my wife. Especially when I least deserved it.
  • Traveling to Missouri to experience this year's total solar eclipse with my family. An awe-filling and spiritually profound event.
  • Iceland, my first trip overseas. An enthralling place so much more magical than I could've imagined. I've more than half a mind to go back again in 2018.
  • Finally moving from a neophyte programmer who took weeks to put together the most basic bits of code to an intermediate one capable of providing most of what I'm asked for within days, in no small part due to Treehouse's online courses, Paul Hudson's Hacking with Swift series of books, and, of course, Stack Overflow.
  • Regaining a level of health and strength I had convinced myself lost to age.
  • Seeing the office finally hit its stride and start giving back more than it's taking, thanks mainly to the hard work of my wife, Bertha, and the rest of the staff.
  • Trading in my van and having AC again after seven years without.