Updates
August 2023
After a quiet summer, August got into full swing with lots of little trips around the western United States and a hint of autumn in the air. Checked out some new places around Napa and Sonoma counties, headed down to Vegas to see an amazing visual show, and another trip back to see the family in Colorado. Looks like September is going to be just a busy travelwise too!
Lots of work behind the scenes being done on Wanderlust Weather since last month's update. First, the not-so-super-duper-secret is that I am working on an app for the project that will come out as soon as I can finish ironing out the last few bugs. However, if you want a sneak peak, send me an email and I will get you hooked up with the beta that you can help break! Otherwise, spent a lot more time on the job search this month and Wanderlust Weather didn't progress as much as I would have liked.
After some feedback, I released a new version of my resume that I think looks and reads so much better!
July 2023
July was a quiet month for me, with travel costs at an all-time high (along with record high temperatures), it was a great time to get some projects done around the house and get some life sketched out.
Over the past month I've added some features I've always wanted from a weather app. Firstly, I added a Best Day score that helps you decided when to go do things. Hopefully over time this can become customizable, but for now it answers the question I get asked most as a meteorologist. Text message updates were also released this month for those that don't like checking their email. Finally, I started work on a native app for iOS (and hopefully not too far behind, Android) that will make using Wanderlust even easier! Lots of new features being added all the time, so check it out at wanderlustweather.com.
After announcing that I was starting to look for a job, its been quite the whirlwind since then. While I have interviewed at numerous places, but nothing has quite met all of my requirements yet. Once again, if you, or anyone else you know, is looking, please reach out to me or pass my name along!
June 2023
The last two months could be described as nothing short of chaotic, so sorry for the late update. The biggest news that came out of this time is that I am officially back on the market, in many ways. Additionally, there were a ton of travels to everywhere from Aruba, NYC, Southern Utah, and more!
After a few years to take a breath and put my feet up for a bit, I am finally back in the market for a job. While I spent the better part of June honing my resume and dipping my toes into the market, I am starting to beginning my search with earnest this month. If you are interested in chatting more with me about what I can do to help you, feel free to reach out!
Along with job searching, I finally am able to start working on a project I long have wanted to build. Wanderlust Weather is a weather forecast site, made just for world travelers. With time-limited home locations and forecasts sent to you just for when you are traveling, it's everything I wanted from a weather app, and hopefully some of you too. Lots of new features being added all the time, so check it out at wanderlustweather.com.
Swapped out the resume for a prettier and shorter version than the CV that was there before. Also made sure I added all of the trips I took in the past few months, along with the new airport and country I managed to make it to.
April 2023
With the neverending winter came another month full of skiing that felt more like the middle of winter than the middle of spring! That, plus the annual family trip to LA for the month, kept me busy for most of the month. Also, the work on sneaky summer projects continues.
Not many updates to the site this past month. Removed the link to my Mastodon instance because I found myself not updating it after the initial excitement over their waned.
March 2023
Headed over to France this month (and into the chaos) for a European ski adventure and, wow, the snow over there is just awful. Made worse by the fact that it just won't stop snowing back here in SLC. Also got a chance to finally attend Tomorrowland Winter after it being cancelled last minute in March 2020! Finally, started working on a few things behind the scenes which I will hopefully get to talk about more this coming summer.
Big update to the travel page this month with the return of images for each of my trips! Adds a bit more color to the page, and adds another step for me when I need to add a trip, but worth it! Now working through adding photos to past trips, which is turning out to be quite difficult back in 2006.
February 2023
It's been a month of enjoying the first real winter in quite a few years! Loving all the snow and getting some amazing turns in all month long. Looking forward to spending some time skiing abroad in the coming month!
The biggest updates this month came on the Bugtree side of things. I worked on refactoring the custom store I designed for selling our goods and transitioned it over to a new name, Tart Mondays. Right now it is just hosting the Maybird Coffee business, but over the coming months a few new product ideas are lined up.
January 2023
I am still in temporary retirement over in Salt Lake City for the next little while. With all of the free time, 2022 was a crazy year when it came to travel, especially with the world reopening more. I managed to visit 10 different countries this year, 6 of them for the first time. I also finally made it to Africa on a much delayed trip from 2020.
For the coming year, I have a lot of travel and skiing coming up as one of the best snowfall winters in over a decade is currrently upon us. Also starting to plan out some projects for the coming months as well. Here is to 2023!
Welcome to version 36. A new year, another year older for me, and another new version of my personal site. This version comes with the return of my journal and some long lost blog posts from years ago. Hopefully over the coming months I will have a chance to add more posts.
Also I added this new updates page to the site where I hope to keep a running list of changes made to this site and various other projects I am working on. My goal will be to update this log monthly, along with sending out a newsletter email around the same time.
