my journey, destination unknown
On this snowy (fingers crossed), slow Friday at work, I set myself a simple project. Get DOcplex up and running on our home computer, a Mac. First, what is DOcplex? IBM® Decision Optimization CPLEX® modeling for Python (aka DOcplex) makes it possible to model optimization problems using Python. Once a problem is modeled in Python,…
Thrive, Project 45, and the monthly projects in my Happiness Project … so many projects! In reality, they are all facets of the same project, guiding me to finish or give up old projects and move forward on the ones that are most important to me. December’s main theme was Health & Self-Care. Unfortunately, that…
We managed a couple of celebrations this week… Coming up this week: 2: Ratification Day, Georgia and National Cream Puff Day Georgia printables Eatocracy: National Cream Puff Day Cream Puff recipe 3: Drinking Straw Day and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Birthday and National Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day and Fruitcake Toss Day “Not all those who wander are lost.”…
Here we are closing up the year 2016. And as people do, I’m thinking about what has gone by and how to plan for the new year ahead. 2016 was my year of CREATE. improvement. While I’m not sure that overall I’m that much more creative, I did try. I took a few photography classes….
About two years ago, I had crossed enough items off of my forever long to do list that I could start taking Phelix out to hike at Davidson-Arabia. Our once a week hikes grew into twice or thrice a week hikes, time and weather permitting. I feel so very much alive when I’m there in…
We managed a couple of celebrations this week… Coming up this week: 26: Kwanzaa and National Candy Cane Day and Boxing Day 27: National Fruit Cake Day and Make Cut Out Snowflakes Day 28: National Chocolate Candy Day and Card Playing Day 29: Pepper Pot Day and National Get on the Scales Day 30: National…
We managed a couple of celebrations this week… Coming up this week: 19: National Hard Candy Day and National Oatmeal Muffin Day Oatmeal Cream Cheese Muffins 20: National Sangria Day and Go Caroling Day 21: Winter Solstice and National Kiwifruit Day black bean chili chocolate yule log cornbread garlicky greens 22: National Date Nut Bread…
We managed one celebration this week… Coming up this week: 12: National Poinsettia Day Poinsettia Day 13: National Cocoa Day Hot Cocoa 14: Monkey Day and National Bouillabaisse Day Monkey Day Bouillabaisse with Roasted Yellow Squash Chickpeas 15: National Cupcake Day The Best Lemon Cupcake Recipe Ever Red velvet cupcakes 16: Chocolate Covered Anything Day…
We managed one celebration this week… Coming up this week: 5: Repeal Day and International Volunteer Day and National Comfort Food Day 6: Microwave Oven Day and National Gazpacho Day Gazpacho 7: International Civil Aviation Day and National Cotton Candy Day 8: National Brownie Day Cocoa Brownies 9: National Pastry Day and Christmas Card Day…
Create, Project 45, and the monthly projects in my Happiness Project … so many projects! In reality, they are all facets of the same project, guiding me to finish or give up old projects and move forward on the ones that are most important to me. November’s main theme was Finances. But things got busy…
We managed one celebration this week… Coming up this week: 28: National French Toast Day 29: National Lemon Cream Pie Day and Giving Tuesday 30: National Mousse day Chocolate Mousse December: 1: Eat a Red Apple Dayand World Aids Day 2: National Fritters Day and National Mutt Day Zucchini & Corn Fritters National Mutt Day…
We managed a couple of celebrations this week! Coming up this week: 21: World Television Day and Pumpkin Pie Day World Television Day 22: National Cashew Day 23: Espresso Day and Eat a Cranberry Day Eat a Cranberry Day National Espresso Day 24: Thanksgiving and Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day 25: National Parfait Day and…
We managed a couple of celebrations this week! Coming up this week: 14: National Pickle Day and National Spicy Guacamole Day and Claude Monet’s birthday 15: America Recycles Day and National Raisin Bran Cereal Day 16: National Fast Food Day 17: Homemade Bread Day and World Prematurity Day 18: National Vichyssoise Day and Mickey Mouse…
We managed a couple of celebrations this week! Coming up this week: 7: Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day and Hug a Bear Day 8: National Cappuccino Day and National Harvey Wallbanger Day 9: National Scrapple Day and Cook Something Bold Day 10: National Vanilla Cupcake Day 11: National Sundae Day 12: National Pizza With Everything…
Create, Project 45, and the monthly projects in my Happiness Project … so many projects! In reality, they are all facets of the same project, guiding me to finish or give up old projects and move forward on the ones that are most important to me. Octobers’s main theme was Travel. I haven’t gotten to…
We managed a whole bunch of celebrations this week! Coming up this week: 31: Halloween and National Caramel Apple Day November: 1: Dia de Los Muertos and National Vinegar Day and National Deep Fried Clams Day 2: National Deviled Egg Day and Cookie Monster Day 3: National Sandwich Day and National Men Make Dinner Day…
We managed three celebrations plus Rob’s birthday this week! Coming up this week: 24: National Bologna Day and Good and Plenty Day 25: National Greasy Foods Day 26: National Pumpkin Day 27: American Beer Day 28: Wild Foods Day and Global Champagne Day and National Chocolate Day and Frankenstein Friday 29: National Cat Day and…
I did not manage any celebrations this past week, unfortunately. Coming up this week: 17: National Boss’s Day and National Pasta Day 18: National Chocolate Cupcake Day 19: National Seafood Bisque Day 20: National Brandied Fruit Day and National Suspenders Day 21: National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day 22: National Nut Day and International Caps Lock Day…
I managed a couple of celebrations this past week! And a photo too! Coming up this week: 10: National Cake Decorating Day and National Angel Food Cake Day 11: National Coming Out Day and International Day of the Girl and National Sausage Pizza Day 12: National Gumbo Day 13: National Yorkshire Pudding Day 14: National…
Another new experience for me. I’ve really been stepping out of my comfort zone lately and pushing myself to try all sorts of new things. The TEDx conference, a Python meetup, guitar lessons. And now glassblowing. I’ve driven by the studio in Decatur for years now, but I have never actually been in. When I…