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General updates and things that frankly do not fit anywhere else.

Sunset on the Nookta lupine at Geysir
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Photos: Geysir

There is not one thing I can say about the Geysir hot spring area that already can’t be found in any basic search for the Golden Circle.

That won’t stop me from trying, of course.

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Lessons learned photographing Iceland

My wife and I traveled to Iceland in June. In the final month preceding the trip, we were watching just about any video we could find on Iceland, and I realized how unprepared I was to capture the beauty that would backdrop our trip.

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Roll For It! By Calliope Games
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Tabletop

Review: Roll For It!

I am a big fan of board games as an alternative to video games for kids, especially in the post-Catan tabletop era. And while my boys will never choose board games over electronics, they do appreciate the Catans, Tickets to Ride, Clanks! and Forbidden Islands of the world. (Sadly, however, not Carcassone, but that’s another […]

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Michael, at Þingvellir (Iceland), June 2019
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Stay At Home

A flying leap

Early this year, I took a giant leap. Well, that’s not exactly true. My family took a giant leap. Together. My wife’s partner retired, requiring her to take on more responsibility at work, drastically changing the dynamic of how we were to provide care and support for our sons.

The choice was rather obvious–but not easy. Dad was going to be a stay-at-home parent. Now, if you say “stay-at-home-dad” to anyone old enough to remember the mid-80s chance are that a particular Michael Keaton movie comes to mind…

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“What have you been doing since July?”

“Can you tell me what have you been doing since July?” It’s a fair question, and one I’ve heard quite a bit. Those that know me are aware that I was thrown a curve in the last week of July when the Okanjo laid off me and a few co-workers. They are great people who […]

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New site design

Today, I launched the new site design. It still runs off of a self-hosted WordPress installation, but the theme is built with Angular 2. The foundation is based off of a great primer by Stuart Kenzel. It utilizes the second version of the WordPress Rest API plugin, and using Angular-CLI. I did add a couple […]

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The growing pains of cutting the cord, Part 1: Background

[Note: If you have already cut the cord or have done any amount of research into cutting the cord, a lot of this may seem rudimentary or obvious. This was written as setup for some later posts that get into a few more specific issues, so that those specific posts were not weighed down by […]

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