Every year, for many years, I’ve made a photobook of the past year for Vicky as an XMAS present. You can click to view the 2012 edition.
Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
How can I help you?
March 6th, 2011
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Back in September of last year, I decided I was spending entirely too much time doing things I wasn’t enjoying — commuting for an hour to Berkeley via BART to spend equal parts of my time doing project management on tragically underfunded projects, participating in marathon executive meetings, and digging around a decade-old PHP/Oracle/ActionScript/Perl codebase that preferred [...]
XMAS Card 2010
December 24th, 2010
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Today I present the Atkinson family’s 2010 Christmas card! Handwritten cards? So last century. Photo cards ordered and sent from Shutterfly? So last decade. E-cards? Not good enough. This year I decided to create a big project for myself and it turned out pretty weird. Good and weird and funny (I hope). I created the [...]
Car Damaged, Repaired
August 30th, 2010
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In June, I was rear-ended on my way home from work. I’d been doing the Martinez-to-Berkeley commute via I-80 for seven years, so I was probably due for some teenager to run into me. Neither of us was hurt. I was stopped and she wasn’t looking. Since I pay for collision insurance, I knew I’d [...]
