Today starts the Ann Arbor Art Fair (technically a collection of 4 art fairs that intersect at various streets and NO ONE but the individual fair staff care AT ALL about that technicality). Also, because Art Fair is essentially a people-watching event for locals, the inevitable scorecard emerged. I haven’t seen a new one in […]
It happened. We sold the house, we closed, we moved. Hard to believe it’s been almost a month since we left Chelsea. I don’t miss the house at all. I’m sure someday I’ll have fond memories, but it’s a burden gone for the time being and I’m glad to have it behind me. That said, […]
Ok, this page is something other. It’s not the blog, it’s also not my professional work. No one wants to read training materials, business plans, or requirements documents anyway (although, they’re pretty good). This is where I drop stuff—stories, pictures, illustrations… whatever I feel like sharing. Everything will be Creative Commons licensed in one form […]
Our house is for sale (call our agent if you’re interested!). This is Day 50 of it being on the market. We thought we had plumbed the depths of ennui before this process began but we were so very, very wrong. To date, we’ve had about 12 showings, 2 open houses, and almost no interaction […]
Today is the ninth anniversary since we closed on our first house. We were supposed to be here for 2, maybe 3, years. But here we are almost a decade later, stuck in a starter house we probably should never have bought in the first place. Why? Having a house–well this house anyway–is exhausting. The […]
I’m Ryan. This site is almost entirely vanity, with a touch of learning tossed in. I live in Ypsilanti, MI and work for the University of Michigan (no, I will not be able to help you get tickets). Everything on this site is my opinion and not that of the University. On the “who is […]
I’m done with WordPress. After being compromised, again, I’m done. No matter what security extension I install, no matter how automatic the updates, no matter what I tweak, WordPress continues to be compromised. I even went so far as to nuke the install, the database, and the users for both with my host only to […]
Yesterday I paid off my last student loan. It took nearly 16 years to do so, a stretch of time that, frankly, is embarrassing. I financed my college education completely on my own; my parents held to the belief (in the mid-90s) that one could still pay their way through college. You couldn’t, there wasn’t […]