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Updated: 15 September 2024

Travel

September 2024: Work trip to Dayton, Ohio.
August 2024: Backpacking trip in Grand Teton National Park with Meera and a friend from work. Got to add two more states (Idaho and Wyoming) to my list of Where I Have Been.
July 2024: Went home to Virginia for my dad’s retirement party
June 2024: Attended iSpaRo in Luxembourg. Afterward, Meera joined me to visit Amsterdam and Belgium. Three new countries for the list in one trip!
May 2024: Attended ICRA and the IFR Lectures in Yokohama and Musashi-Kosugi, Japan, respectively. Saw Fernando for the first time since he left SwRI.

Writing

Working on completing my Chapter by Chapter series for VerseNotes.

Published (9/66): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
Completed: Joshua
In Progress: Judges

Reading

I have a live list of books in progress as well as a (mostly) complete list of books I’ve read and micro-reviews of them.

Over the last two years, I’ve been trying to read more non-fiction. I’m a fantasy/sci-fi junkie who doesn’t mind re-reading the entire Dresden Files or Stormlight Archive series when a new book comes out, so finding high-quality non-fiction to read and then sitting down with it takes focus.

Favorite new fiction: Assassin’s Apprentice (I know I’m late to this series! Here’s my micro-review anyway.

Favorite new non-fiction: Cal Newport’s Slow Productivity (my micro-review).

Work

Director of Robotics at SwRI. My 2024 vision is, “I elevate the lives and careers of my coworkers.”

Tuck

Tuck is our dog. Here is a random recent picture of him: