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For some strange reason, I’ve always wanted to drive a car to 200,000 miles. My first car, was a Pontiac Sunfire (1990) that I gave to my sister when it had 150,000 miles on it. My next car, a Pontiac Grand Am (1995), made it to approximately 177,000 on it before I sold it. My…

Back in December of 2014, I tried to blog every day for a month, which was a complete failure. Looks like I posts 5 times in the first 5 days, then three times after that. I’m going to give it another go this month, September 2015. I’ve got a bit of traveling this month, which…

https://me.sh/5qzwf50/1it Spring is finally arriving in Ohio!

Yesterday I had the opportunity to be on the local NBC channel to talk about the upcoming WordCamp Dayton event. It’s hard to believe how much time goes into getting ready for a 4 minute live segment on the show. A few days before the event, Gery Deer and I emailed back and forth about…

Every Friday, I have a reminder to update 10 of my passwords to my online accounts. I value the safety of my identity and want it to be hard for hackers to create chaos in my online life. Back in the day (pre college), I used to have one password and I used it for…

Today I am starting a challenge of posting daily to this blog for several reasons: – I’m very bad at blogging and need a reason to regularly post – I need to familiarize myself with all of the different options to post to WordPress, especially mobile and the WordPress app

Who knew playing on an empty laundry basket would be so much fun?

First and last bike ride of the season for Kenley in the pull behind carrier.

If you’ve been following the last few posts, I’ve highlighted the changes in our backyard. As of a few weeks ago, it’s finally finished. Here are a few more pictures during the construction: We are incredibly pleased with our new outdoor space and excited for the cool fall weather to use the fire pit. Now,…

What do you do if you have a dozen zucchinis in the house? You bake them into brownies. #NotQuitePaleo #SoGood

My sister-in-law and her fiancé are getting married tomorrow and here’s the view from my position up front with the groomsmen.

Pulled all the weeds in my raised flower beds and planted tomatoes and eggplants.

This is by far the easiest / best way to shop with a toddler. No awkwardly heavy car seats shifting from arm to arm and no huge strollers running into display racks.

Our car has hit the 180,000 mark. Officially the most miles on any car I’ve owned. Here’s to 20,000 more

I’m pretty sure I could eat this meal every night! Brown some ground beef, sauté some veggies and throw it over rice or cauliflower rice and enjoy. Tonight’s version includes pineapple, carrots, peppers, asparagus, and celery.

This weekend, my college roommate and his wife traveled from Columbus to hang out with us for a few hours and to meet Kenley face-to-face (as we’ve previously only Skyped). Today, a friend from our church came over to hold her during the day so mommy could sleep and daddy could work. We’ve had dozens…

Kenley is being silly wearing her hat that Aunt Ashley gave her 🙂

Tonight my wife was inducted into the Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA) Board of Trustees with a semi-formal dinner banquet. Now I’m not normally drug (no pun intended) to these types of things, but since we have a brand new baby that’s getting 100% of her nutrition from Mommy, I got to attend. For this special…

As most of you know, I’m a huge WordPress fan, even so much so that I now work for Automattic, the company behind WordPress. For the last few years, I’ve had a goal of contributing to WordPress core. Basically I wanted to find a bug in the code somewhere and notify the team and have…

Yesterday I got a call from our credit card company validating an $8.90 charge to a glass stemware company in Alabama, uh, no. After a few minutes on the phone and validating all the other recent charges were legit, the card number was shut down. It’s not a big deal, I don’t have to pay…

2014 is going to be an incredible year for the Hartzler’s. In additional to expanding our family with our daughter on approximately February 28th we will be adding two brother-in-laws and a niece and a nephew! Melody’s sister is getting married in June and my sister is getting married in the fall (date, TBD). Our…

Hot chocolate with home made marshmallows. Can life get better? I submit it can not.

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