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As part of my 2022 goal to shift my work/fun balance to weigh heavier on fun things (like flying!), I decided to sign up for a concealed carry course a few weeks ago. I’m not a big firearms enthusiast, but I’ve been hunting and shooting as long as I can remember, and figured the course would be a good excuse to get back into the swing of things. I’ll give a brief review of the course in a moment, but for some quick background:

Just two days after my first iFly adventure, I went back for more! I found out that the 10-pack of rides I purchased during my first visit has to all be consumed in one future visit, so I bought a "return flyer" pack of three flights from the iFly Web site. Note to self: returning flights are cheaper than your maiden flight, but you still get the best discounts by buying flights in person.

At the end of December, my wife announced she was taking me out for an early birthday surprise. I was given no information except that I could dress casual, and that I should be ready to leave the house at a very specific date and time. As we headed out towards an unknown destination, I started trying to guess the surprise. I had previously announced that I really wanted to get a keyboard, but she didn’t know the specific model (plus every store nearby was out of stock due to holiday demand).

My wife and I recently celebrated an important "gotcha" day - specifically, the anniversary of adopting our first child, but also the memory of two pillar family members. Here's a little back story:

As a closing-in-on-40-year-old, it's weird (to seemingly just about everybody but me) that I had never been to Las Vegas until just a few weeks ago. I went there for a security conference my company sent me to, and I also had the privilege of giving a talk.

Lets start by having you take a look at this foam pit we rented for my sons' birthday party: Doesn't it look like a cavalcade of fun? A birthday party's wet dream? An outdoor utopia of laughs, high-fives and safe, family-friendly fun? Well, it wasn't any of those things.

Ok so I'm probably getting worked up over nothing, but during the eclipse last week, my truck's backup camera ceased to function. Seriously. A few hours prior to the eclipse it was working fine, but during the eclipse - and actually, for the rest of the day as well - the camera would only show this image: