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The Great Consolidation of 2023
I like to think that I’m a neat and organized person. And with physical things, I’m really good. But when it comes to digital things, I’ve got clutter everywhere. Files on the desktop and downloads folder that need to be properly filed. Videos that need to be archived on an external raid hard drive. But…
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Happy New Year!
Everyone says that the last two years have been dumpster fires, with everything being cancelled / changed from COVID, but I think last year was a pretty great year. Here are just a few of the good things that happened to me and my family in 2021: I took a 40+ hour online JavaScript boot…
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Out with the old
I blew out my old basketball shoes on Wednesday night at open gym. The toe split out and I had to resort to duct tape to finish out the rest of the games. I’m pretty sure I had these in college, so I think I got my money’s worth 😀
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Moving to a WordPress VIP Developer Role
As of today, July 19th 2021, goal has finally come true, I’m switching roles at Automattic. This year was finally the year when I made time for myself and spent hundreds of hours over nights and weekends learning JavaScript. Today, I start as a Developer Apprentice in the VIP division. I’m no longer in support…
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Bought it again
With interest rates being so low, we refinanced again (we’ve only lived here 18 months). We used Ally Bank to refinance and was able to lock in an interest rate of 2.375% for a 15 year! The savings from the previous 15 year loan at 3.5% will be more than $35,000.
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The annoying click
A few weeks ago, a friend used our car to drive the kids home and they suggested they wanted to watch a movie (which we never use, since ugh DVDs are awful). The disc was loaded incorrectly into the CD drive and it wasn’t in the tray right. It’s a six disc changer and if…
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Surprise Guest Today
One of my good college friends flew down from the Indian Lake area (about 75 minutes away) to deliver a jacket he posted on Facebook. He’s a pilot for American Airlines and has been flying on the weekends to get more hours so he can move up to bigger planes (and higher salaries). The kids…
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Take me back to Florida
We spent 10 glorious days in Florida in January. I snuck some dumbbells in the back of the car and it was so nice to do some workouts outside, in perfect 70 degree weather.
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How much longer will it run?
How much longer will it run? 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix. We’ve had it for more than a decade and have put on nearly 200,000 miles. I’d like to get a pickup, since my commute is six miles taking kids to school. And I’m tired of taking the car seats out of the SUV all.the.time. Maybe…
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House Update – November 2018
We started the month off anticipating that we would be moved in by month’s end, but due to a few delays, everything wasn’t finished up. One of the big delays was about the driveway. The engineers had spec’d the driveway to be a width of ten feet wide, but the HOA covenants states that all…
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Oil Change Time
You use a hammer when changing the oil, right?
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More Miles
When our car hits another milestone, I like to take a picture, so I can estimate approximately miles we drive. Here’s the latest miles:
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Crazy Sleeper
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Grate thoughts on CrossFit programming by my colleague Nick.
CrossFit Programing: Are We Doing Too Much?
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Great financial advice from my friend Tim. And you don’t have to be a pharmacist to read 😉
http://yourfinancialpharmacist.com/home_buying_realestaterph/
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Exciting news from WordPress.com
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Nashville Recap
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First CrossFit CompetitionÂ
Today I participated in our gyms annual CrossFit competition. It was really hard. Yeah, really hard. But it was fun too. We were on teams of four, two guys and two girls. And I agreed to be on a RX team, which is basically signing up for pain 😜 Here were the four events. Event…
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Great ideas from my coworker Hannah to be on time in a virtual world
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Indians vs Reds
Er, Lake City Captains versus the Dayton Dragons. Beautiful day for a baseball game, especially when the box seat tickets were free 🙂
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So You Want to be a Happiness Engineer, Huh?
Great thoughts on what skills and abilities are needed as a Happiness Engineer by one of my colleagues.
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Learning to do a proper handstand.
I need to get back to my handstand work. I was doing well until our baby disrupted our schedule.
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Princess K’s Birthday Photos
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I Know You’re Mad at United but… (Thoughts from a Pilot Wife About Flight 3411)
I don’t follow the news much (or ever!), but I did hear about the United story. Very informative article by a pilot’s wife.
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Little Polar Bear
Preview of our new born photoshoot today.
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Brand Camp University, WordPress and TechTown Detroit partner to bring 100 Detroit businesses online
Fun event that I participated in a few weeks ago in Detroit.
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Home Screen Feb 2017
I like to keep my iPhone apps to a minimum so the apps that I use daily, get real estate on the home page. Everything else is in a folder on the second page and if I need one of those apps, I pull down from the top and search. Notice the phone app isn’t…
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Homemade Pretzels
Not quite the right shape, but these gluten free pretzels were a nice after dinner snack.
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Pretend Trips
Because sometimes you have to pretend to go to the store, on the steps, with a giant monkey.
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Best Nine
These images don’t convey all the awesomeness of 2016, but it does a good job hightlighting the past 365 days. Summary of the pictures left to right, top to bottom 1 – Our little girl announcing that she will be a big sister next year 2 – Normally bedtime is a struggle at Team Hartzler Headquarters,…
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WWWP5K in Whistler
Five kilometers. So many stories. via Community Recap: Automattic’s Worldwide WordPress 5K — WordPress.com News
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Field Notes: Podcast Movement 2016
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Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites
Finally the secret is out, we will be registering .blog addresses soon.
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2015 Christmas Letter
Merry Christmas from the Hartzler’s
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Fake Window Seat
On our flight to New Orleans, I got stuck in the last row in the window seat. Also on this flight the PA system didn’t work and the flight attendants had to use a bull horn to communicate. First time for everything 🙂
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Happy Birthday Melody
Happy 30th Birthday to my wonderful wife!
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Anniversaries This Week
Over the last two days I’ve celebrated two anniversaries when it comes to WordPress. Yesterday, December 2nd, was my second anniversary at Automattic. It seems like a few short weeks ago that I was just starting and learning the ropes on how to be a Happiness Engineer providing support for WordPress.com. Now I’m knee deep learning about…
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November 2015: Monthly Review
I’m going to start publishing a monthly recap at the end of each month detailing my habits, projects, and tinkerings. Inspired by my coworker Jeremey (I’m mimicking his format). It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted last, I guess I got a bit lazy after my consecutive streak ended. It’s time to start the streak again. November…
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Bike riding with a toddler
We have a pull behind carrier for my bike so we can go on a bike ride as a family. Last year, we could only go on short rides as Kenley wasn’t too big of a fan of staying strapped in. Now that she is bigger, she plays with toys while we rides and looks…
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Pre-Nap Selfie
Got to spend all morning with this cutie 🙂
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Hands on with the iPhone 6s
I’m a big fan of Apple gadgets, especially new iPhones. Last Friday, I got the new iPhone 6s 64GB in Silver. My last phone was the 5s and I see some major improvements with this new version. TouchID is fast. Like wicked fast. I cannot use my thumb to press the home button otherwise I…
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Apple Picking Pictures
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Apples Galore!
Yesterday we picked 60 pounds of apples. Today we turned the apples into applesauce and apple butter. We started at 12pm and finished at 9pm and made: 11 quarts of applesauce 10 pints of applesauce 17 cup size jars of apple butter (8oz) 24 jelly containers of apple butter for favors as a baby shower…
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Convenience of DVR
We had a busy day today: riding bikes, picking apples (pictures to come tomorrow) and hanging out with friend from college. I’ve been trying really hard to ‘cut the cord’ and give up cable, but there’s two reasons I haven’t as of yet: DVR Sports Since we were busy today, I wasn’t home to watch…
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Our Current Savings Goal
Last week, I was at the Financial Blogger’s Conference. The event had a huge expo hall with lots of innovative banking/investing companies. One booth I stopped at was one for Simple Bank. They are doing some really cool things, including not allowing you to write a paper check from your account. They also featured an…
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Tools I Use to Update My WordPress Sites
This week on my weekly podcast, I share the six apps/services I use to make updates and changes to my website. DesktopServer GitHub App DeployHQ MigrateDB Pro Sublime Text CodeKit To hear the how I use each item, listen to Your Website Engineer podcast, Episode 250
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Home from Vacation
We had a blast last week in Florida. It was relaxing to hang out by the pool all week. Here are a few images to highlight the week.
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Elmo Chairs
Kenley and her buddy in matching Elmo chairs.
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Tom & Chee
I am a big fan of the TV show Shark Tank and like supporting products/services/restaurants. Today we got to enjoy grilled cheese sandwiches from Tom & Chee; a Cincinnati original backed by Barbara Corcoran. My BBQ bacon grill cheese was quite delicious and my dad tried a donut burger, which he said was also good.
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What differences do you see?
Much like yesterday’s post, what differences do you see in the left and right images? Kenley has grown up so much in a year’s time!