Making an extra cup of coffee this morning after staying up late last night shooing a bat out of our bedroom!

My poor boy is sick with a 40ºC fever today. It breaks my heart seeing him not himself.

Pure joy.

Curren sending trains down ramp

Curren smiling

Tough week with the old house. The only steam radiator condensate line that went under our basement floor sprung a leak. Repair work around other super old piping caused subsequent leaks. Fortunately, everything is back in order now as temps have dropped below freezing again.

I love our old house and neighborhood (and being close to the center of the city) but this was an expensive week!

Congrats to everyone who matches at Geisinger today! We have the Res Aux website filled with homes to rent or buy in Danville.

Today I sent out a newsletter talking about everything I’ve been working on for the last 15 months.

My son holding a book

My little reader

This is a welcome new feature in iOS.

First visit to Science Central! ?

My son looking at a model of Jupiter

Before we left Pennsylvania last summer we did a family photo session in Harrisburg to celebrate my son’s first birthday and commemorate our time in the state. I never got around to posting the photos online so I was excited to see our photographer blogged them this week. Take a look!

Quote from Company of One 📚

If you have an idea for starting a business that requires a lot of money, time, or resources, you’re mostly likely thinking too big. Your idea can be scaled down to the basics – do it now, do it on the cheap, and do it quickly – and then iterated upon. Start without automation or infrastructure or overhead. Start by helping one customer. Then another. This puts your focus on helping people immediately with what you’ve got available to you right now. Work on things like sales funnels and automation when it no longer makes sense to personalize your interactions with customers in surprising and delightful ways.

– Paul Jarvis, Company of One (pg. 22)

Another day, another Slack call, and it would seem Joel and I have started another company.

Loving the new King’s Kaleidoscope single The Rush – one song in three parts. ?

It’s February and my Penguins are in second place despite their rough start. Any NHL fans on Micro.blog? Maybe we can get the 🏒 emoji added to the Discover section.

Last year, Grid & Arrow built a custom piece of software in Laravel to solve a specific customer’s email delivery problem. Today, we’re launching it to the world hoping to find a few new companies that would benefit from it.

If you’ve been trying to use email marketing platforms to upload a spreadsheet and send an email blast with mixed success, take a look at our landing page.

Good morning from the Polar Vortex! It’s -14° F with a windchill of -39° here in Fort Wayne.

My first time taking my son to the Fort Wayne Botanical Conservatory. I loved it – it felt like standing outside except without the cold and wind.

Curren sitting at Botanical Conservatory

Looking forward to reading Company of One by Paul Jarvis after seeing it recommended by numerous people on Twitter. I was the first person to check it out from my local library. 📚

I wrote the world’s tiniest WordPress plugin that converts all posts published with a format of “standard” to have a format of “status”. It might be useful to you if you’re feeding your Micro.blog with a WordPress feed.

I’ve been using 1Password for years, but this course from The Sweet Setup was still filled with lots of little things I didn’t know about.