Author: johnmarkos

  • New Year’s Resolution 2014

    My New Year’s resolution for 2014 is to outsource more unrewarding activities, starting with laundry. I spend far to much time on laundry. We hire cleaners to come every week, and Sara tried to get them to do our laundry, but it turns out they’re not very good at it. They’re OK at folding, but…

  • It’s OK to read ten books at a time

    For a while I thought it was a bad habit, but now I’ve decided that it’s actually a good thing. In fact, I’m wondering if it’s a kind of intellectual Darwinianism, to read multiple books at once. The one I spend the most time on — the one I actually finish — that’s the one…

  • Sing Along Sound of Music

    Today we went to a sing along Sound of Music at the Castro Theatre. Sara’s parents came, and we brought the kids, too. It was really fun, although the movie is a bit long. Afterwards, we went to SOMA Streat Food. I had meatballs from our friend Adam’s truck. We brought some meatballs home, and…

  • Saturday

    When my kids were really little, I felt as though weekends were extra-stressful, because I spent much of the day taking care of kids. Now, weekends are starting to return to their previous feeling of relaxation. Today, I spent much of the day working on a problem in browser-based JavaScript. I’ve mostly used JQuery, so…

  • 43

    I turned 43 yesterday, and we had friends over for wine tasting and cards. It was fun. Today I spent most of the day hanging with the kids, although I did get out of the house on my own for a little bit for a run. For dinner, I made pasta, and I did a…

  • Decluttering

    We’re doing a big decluttering project in our house. This morning I started by organizing our bike boxes, which were a huge mess. I got rid of a lot of old, broken bike equipment. Next, I got rid of most of JH’s Lego manuals, finding the online versions and recycling the paper ones. We also…

  • Go meetup

    Today I went to my first Go programming language meetup, at New Relic’s offices in San Francisco. The view from the office was quite lovely, and as I was walking back to my own office, I saw a beautiful view of the Bay Bridge art installation, the Bay Lights. From the number of people who…

  • Not a very good blogger

    So, I’ve been blogging pretty regularly for several months now, and I think I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not much of a blogger. The main problem seems to be that I’m writing about nothing in particular. The writing’s mostly for my own benefit, and there’s no unifying topic that would draw people in.…

  • Learning phase

    Several of my Beeminders have to do with learning, and I feel as though I’m really starting a serious learning phase. I have a hard time focusing myself on one thing at a time, nevertheless, and I may end up spreading myself too thin. Once I did try reading only one book at a time,…

  • On vacation in Northern Wisconsin

    The kids and I are at my family’s cottage on Lac Courte Oreilles. My parents are also here, and my in-laws visited for a couple days as well. This morning, my father and I took a dip in the lake at 6:45 am. It was 47 degrees Fahrenheit outside!