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  1. My favorite music as of October 2024

    Written on 10/29/2024 and tagged: favorite music

    The artists, albums, and songs I can’t stop listening to … lately anyway.

  2. My favorite music as of June 2024

    Written on 6/5/2024 and tagged: favorite music

    Two and a half years later…

  3. You’re beautiful, call me sometime

    Written on 4/26/2024 and tagged: fun, Sharon

    I heard she was going to the nearby coffee shop to meet a new colleague of hers at 2pm, which gave me an hour to think about how I might slip her my phone number.

  4. Snow Me

    Written on 4/2/2024 and tagged: Noah, photos

    A book about snowmen, by Noah (age 8)

  5. CSS your RSS with XSL, LOL

    Written on 1/11/2024 and tagged: tip, web development

    Have you ever tapped an RSS/ATOM feed link?

  6. Don’t wash electronics

    Written on 12/28/2023 and tagged: memories, photos, tip

    A lesson learned when I was six years old.

  7. Watch charger, meet iPhone

    Written on 12/26/2023 and tagged: technology, tip

    I’m the kind of person that learns about neat tech stuff long after everyone else has, so brace yourself as I tell you about some neat tech stuff you probably already know about.

  8. 2023’s most visited pages

    Written on 12/22/2023 and tagged: fun

    A review of the most highly trafficked pages on my site in 2023…

  9. Noah’s to do list

    Written on 12/5/2023 and tagged: Noah, photos

    Noah had some things to do last night (and they’re so incredibly cute).

  10. Default Apps 2023

    Written on 11/26/2023 and tagged: technology, apps, web development

    The apps I default to for various things in 2023.

  11. Cape Cod 2023

    Written on 6/26/2023 and tagged: fun, travel, photos

    We went to the Cape this past weekend for an end of school mini-vacation.

  12. Getting older

    Written on 5/5/2023 and tagged: parenting, Noah

    The cute stuff doesn’t last forever.

  13. A seven year old’s grocery list

    Written on 4/6/2023 and tagged: Noah, photos

    Noah helped us write another grocery list and it’s perfect.

  14. My job history

    Written on 11/29/2022 and tagged: life, log, web development, work

    My friend Johannes and I were recently chatting about the jobs we had before becoming web developers.

  15. pspsps

    Written on 11/3/2022 and tagged: fun, photos, vehicle

    One of my favorite stickers…

  16. Funk’s old brother

    Written on 8/14/2022 and tagged: Sharon, fun

    Right about now…

  17. A six year old’s grocery list

    Written on 7/30/2022 and tagged: Noah, photos

    Noah helped us write a grocery list and it’s perfect.

  18. Ten and a half

    Written on 5/31/2022 and tagged: life, memories, parenting

    On this day, back in 1989, my dad passed away at 30 years old.

  19. Our COVID-19 log

    Written on 5/25/2022 and tagged: life, log, parenting

    COVID-19 finally struck and this is how it went…

  20. 2022’s garden boxes: start

    Written on 5/16/2022 and tagged: photos, yard

    The start of this year’s garden boxes.

  21. Smooth snailing

    Written on 5/15/2022 and tagged: photos

    We have a few snails in our fish tank, and I saw this one sailing across the surface. The iPhone 13’s macro photo mode captured a nice shot.

  22. Jonathan’s first book

    Written on 5/7/2022 and tagged: Jonathan

    Without any encouragement or knowledge on our part, our eight year old son wrote a book.

  23. A dinner opinion

    Written on 3/20/2022 and tagged: parenting, food

  24. Tacoma log

    Written on 3/12/2022 and tagged: vehicle, log

    This feels dorky but, eh, why not?

  25. A log of the books I read

    Written on 12/22/2021 and tagged: books, log

    A book log, if you will. A blog, if you must.

  26. My favorite music as of December 2021

    Written on 12/17/2021 and tagged: favorite music

    The artists, albums, and songs I can’t stop listening to … lately anyway.

  27. A typical weekday: second half of 2021

    Written on 12/4/2021 and tagged: typical weekday, life

    This is the first entry in a series about what I do during a typical weekday.

  28. A drip coffee maker brewing / timing tip

    Written on 11/5/2021 and tagged: food, tip

    Slow down, you coffee addict.

  29. Patriot (TV show)

    Written on 9/27/2021 and tagged: tv show, rant

    This is an angry entry about an amazing show…

  30. “I didn’t see any stooges”

    Written on 8/13/2021 and tagged: parenting

    …is what our 7 year old said 90 minutes later.

  31. My favorite music as of July 2021

    Written on 7/13/2021 and tagged: favorite music

    The artists, albums, and songs I can’t stop listening to … lately anyway.

  32. There are a bunch of us!

    Written on 3/23/2021 and tagged: fun

    In a rare moment of boredom, I searched the internet for other Marc Amoses and found these fine people…

  33. My favorite music as of March 2021

    Written on 3/16/2021 and tagged: favorite music

    The artists, albums, and songs I can’t stop listening to … lately anyway.

  34. If it rained food

    Written on 3/5/2021 and tagged: food

    If you could turn rain into one type of food, what would it be?

  35. An adventure in United States healthcare

    Written on 1/10/2021 and tagged: rant, healthcare

    I know this is minor compared to what others have dealt with, but it’s the worst I’ve experienced … so far.

  36. A near miss

    Written on 1/9/2021 and tagged: memories

    Being lazy might’ve saved my life?

  37. Add DuckDuckGo-powered search to your website

    Written on 7/7/2020 and tagged: web development

    HTML that enables your visitors to search your website via DuckDuckGo.

  38. Our new Intex pool

    Written on 7/6/2020 and tagged: yard, pool

    Photos of us setting up a 12' wide Intex pool, including ground preparation.

  39. One-egg cooking pot

    Written on 6/17/2020 and tagged: parenting

    Every night, as we tuck-in our kids, our four year old says to me…

  40. Hot peanuts recipe

    Written on 6/3/2020 and tagged: recipe, food

    A recipe for hot peanuts that I came up with through trial and error.

  41. The definition of success

    Written on 5/30/2020 and tagged: success, life

    A nice reminder of what’s important in life, and what isn’t.

  42. Writing again

    Written on 5/29/2020 and tagged: writing

    It’s been a long time since I’ve written a personal blog post.