Seems like a common thread for my life and writing here, periods of being good about my health and fitness followed by periods of sliding backwards. In August I was back up to 250lbs and not in a...
There are far too many places that we all have accounts for now, each one needing a password. Many people give up trying to remember passwords and pick one and use it, or some simple variation of...
https://sandy.mcfadden.blog/2024/02/19/how-to-deal-with-passwords/
We had a pretty good snow storm over the weekend. Everything was canceled including school today. This afternoon things cleared up a bit so Ezra and I got out to play some. Running around the sno...
Matt Mullenweg the CEO of Automattic, the company where I work, is turning 40 today. Happy birthday Matt. For his birthday he asked for people to blog so that’s what I’m doing. I figure he an...
One of my favourite Christmas traditions we have is that Jen and I each take our children for a one on one Christmas shopping date. We let them pick out and buy presents for their siblings and th...
https://sandy.mcfadden.blog/2023/12/16/christmas-shopping-dates/
Though this might not have been as far as a trip as some of our past Epic Road Trips like 2017 and 2018, it was still an epic trip. Jen was her three month sabbatical from work and I took some va...
Originally posted on Sandy's Photo Blog : The lions out front of the New York Public Library are called Patience and Fortitude. It felt like I needed both today, but didn’t have them. I like N...
https://sandy.mcfadden.blog/2023/07/01/new-york-public-library/
Yesterday we went and visited Sir Sandford Fleming Park again. Ezra loves this place. He calls the Memorial Tower a castle. It really is a beautiful area that we only recently started visiting. I...
https://sandy.mcfadden.blog/2023/06/11/sir-sandford-fleming-park-the-dingle/
Earlier today I made it home after my first work travel since January 2020. It’s been a long time since I’ve been away from my family like this, and I’ve never been away from Ezra like this...
Years of hard work paid off today for our basketball team the Valley Spartans. The young men captured the Division 2 Championship today for our Metro League basketball season. We finished the reg...
https://sandy.mcfadden.blog/2023/02/12/division-2-champions/