The Rogue Prince

"You!” she gasped, upon entering the room, her heart hammering against her ribs as she saw the cloaked figure. “What are you doing here?” she began in dismayed astonishment. How had he gotten past her guards and circumvented the magic wards? “How did you get here? I sent…" "You sent assassins to kill me,” the …

Breaking Up with Evernote: Exploring a New Note-Taking Journey

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital tools, we often find ourselves tangled in a web of convenience, reliability, and changing priorities. Today, a significant shift occurred in my digital realm as I made a bold decision to bid farewell to an old companion: my Evernote subscription. Having relied on Evernote's versatile capabilities almost since its …

Learning to Rejoice in Trials for the Sake of the Gospel

So I'm preaching to myself here. I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. And most of the brothers, having become confident …

Windows 10 Login Screen Won’t Accept Input

I had a strange thing happen this morning after booting up a Windows 10 machine. The Login screen wouldn't accept any input. I changed out keyboards thinking the keyboard had an issue, but the new keyboard didn't work, and the old one worked fine when plugged into a different computer. Now, I'm not a software …

Selective Memory

I don't remember a great deal of the negative things in my life. Sure, I remember some, and I seem to have a great many hair shirts, but for the most part, my memories of hard times are vague. Going through old journals and blog posts, I have no memory of the things contained therein. …

Lay Down Your Life

"There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends." John 15:13 NLT To "lay down your life" does not necessarily mean to die. Death may come as a result, but that is an extreme result. To lay down your life means to surrender your rights, preferences, privileges, and submit yourself …

Forget the Road Not Traveled

Is your life anything similar to what you envisioned when you were younger? Are you where you pictured yourself five, ten, twenty, or forty or more years ago? Mine doesn't, and I'm not. But what does that matter? Is it of any consequence that my life now bears no resemblance to how I pictured it …

Explaining America

Today on YouTube I saw a video done by an Irish woman titled “10 AMERICAN Problems I'm TOO IRISH to Understand.” She, in turn, was pulling these items from a discussion on reddit titled “What's an American problem you're too European to understand?” Now, I’ve been an American for over four decades. What’s more, I’ve …

First Lean Coffee Recap

I went to my first Lean Coffee meetup today. It was amazing. Great conversation. Learned a lot. The group represented a wide range of people: Programmers, Scrum Masters, Testers, Product Owners, HR, Agile Coaches, etc. with both men and women in all roles. Great cross section. Here is my attempt to process some of what …

When Adding and Subtracting is Bad

"You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you." Deuteronomy 4:2 The violation of this injunction is obvious in the cults and heresies which do this explicitly (e.g. adding another testament, removing or re-writing …