19 year old me: I know all these Magic: The Gathering cards by their artwork. Who needs to actually read card text?

41 year old me: fuuuuuuu

#mtg

At #phptek I had the pleasure to meet @john, organizer of the event. I showed him my amazing PHPTek baseball and he liked it so much he offered to 3d print a stand for it. It arrived and it is amazing! The baseball is definitely competing with the hammer for coolest item in my #php memorabilia collection!

Thank you so much for the stand and elephpant! It is greatly appreciated.

Easily the coolest programming memento I own.

#phptek had us get baseballs signed by sponsors. I thought why stop at sponsors? Let’s just get everybody I can to sign it. So I did! I wish I had enough space to get every attendee, but alas I’m running out of real estate. Thank you to everybody that made PHP Tek a wonderfully memorable experience!

I had asked my wife to woodburn a custom design into a piece of wood that would get turned into a desk surface. Hopefully for a desk I'll use the rest of my career as a software developer.

I'm super pleased that it is finally put together! I have so much more surface area and I think it looks great! I have a unique, only-one-like-it desk that I'll cherish for the rest of my life.

We got a Boxer puppy recently, here he is laying with our Labrador retriever.

The puppy and the cats, off screen, are now in cahoots with one another. A cat, or cats, will knock something off the counter which the puppy will then chew on or run off with.

I love it! Teamwork makes the dream work.

Over the weekend my wife and I visited a local antique market and I found something I think is pretty neat... a cribbage board made into a truck! When my mom was alive we'd routinely play cribbage and seeing this brought back a flood of memories.

The truck itself is clearly handmade and well constructed. There's no visible screws or nails, everything detaches, and it rolls across the table.

I'm excited to teach my wife how to play cribbage and use it!