What I'm Doing Now
A snapshot of what's actually going on in my life and head at this moment.
Life Right Now
Still holding down the fort in Shakopee, MN - out in the southwestern metro, where the suburbs meet the prairie and traffic occasionally involves farm equipment.
Home base is a full house: married, two boys (13 and 18), and the kind of controlled chaos I've learned to call "normal." My oldest is wrapping up his senior year and heading off to college later this year - which is simultaneously exciting, terrifying, and a little surreal. Proud doesn't quite cover it.
My younger one is 13, which means I have exactly zero quiet evenings for the foreseeable future. Wouldn't change it.
What I'm Building
Two projects in perpetual rotation, as always:
The never-finished, always-evolving thing you're reading right now. Posts go up when inspiration strikes - or when I've finally debugged something interesting enough to write up.
The veteran gaming community I own and run. The site is always being poked at, expanded, or rebuilt in some corner. The Discord is active and that's what keeps the lights on.
Currently Consuming
Reading
Watching
Playing
On My Mind
The future of AI. It's everywhere and unavoidable at this point - and I mean that in both the annoying and genuinely fascinating ways. I'm spending a lot of time thinking about where it actually fits: what it changes, what it doesn't, what risks get undersold, and what potential gets overhyped. No clean conclusions yet. That feels appropriate.
On the practical side, I've been actively digging into:
This is a /now page. What's here reflects what's actually happening, not what I'm aspiring to.
Curious about the gear and tools behind all of this? Check out my /uses page.