Now Archive: June 2022

  • 2nd Jun 2022
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Here is my Now page for June 2nd 2022. For my current Now page, go here.

  1. Traveling
    I’m currently on a 3500-mile road trek from where I live in the middle of Utah, through Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado. In that time, I’m speaking and attending conferences for work, visiting family, sorting and closing out the storage unit for my Mom’s possessions, and all sorts of related tasks such as distributing tax records to her former clients. I wish I had time to visit friends along the way, but because I am also maintaining my normal work schedule East Coast hours, alas not this time.

  2. Driving & Making Music
    As I drive, I’m making a ton of music! It’s been a while, and it feels good. Music is how I process and how I heal. Especially as I finally deal with my mom’s passing on an emotional level, there’s a plenty of processing and feeling and healing to do. Since I first learned to drive, my car has always been my safe space. Historically, it’s where I do the most rehearsing and experimenting and even lyric writing. This trip, I find myself recording a musical figure, then singing a few bars, crying about what I just sang, then singing a few more bars, then adding a groove or melodic underpinning, then singing a few more bars and listening back, and crying some more. It’s cathartic. I’ve really missed this.

  3. Data Modeling
    I’m about to attend the Data-Centric Architecture Forum in preparation for a new role I’m being stepping into at my job at ConvaTec. It’s a world I’ve watched from afar and toyed with on occasion, but never really done anything with. I’m quite sure that I’m not the person who should be doing this where I work, but there’s no one else to do it and I hope I can at least get things started on solid footing and then hand things off to the proper owner. I took a job at ConvaTec two years ago next month, and since then I’ve never really been able to do any of the work I was hired for because (among other reasons) our data is in such sorry shape. I’ve decided to stop waiting and inviting and complaining and instead roll up my sleeves and see what I can fix. I hope this conference will reduce the number of stupid beginner’s mistakes that I’m about to make, or at least make them higher quality mistakes!

Things that are on hold while I’m doing all the above include buying a plane which I’ll probably come back to later this month. I suspect it may be July or August before that transaction completes anyhow, due to some interesting elements of the paperwork and quirks of the owner. I still think it’s worth it and am on track, just slowly.

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