Remember what I said about updating this site more? Yeah. I really ought to do that. I mean I wrote this thing last month and I’m just now posting it. Sorry. In any case, I thought I should at least write down my thoughts on participating in my first jazz jam this – well, when I drafted this it was this – week. I could go into great depth describing why I wanted to participate and all the prep involved – and did in my first draft of this post – but for the sake of “brevity” I’ll leave that for another time.

Last week I bought a MacBook Pro. Today I received it in the mail. Shocking how that works. I wanted to write down my thoughts on the experience and why I decided to bankrupt myself for a laptop. To address the very expensive elephant in the room: I purchased a refurbished 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro from Amazon as they were selling a few for $1500. For those that are fortunate enough not to know: that is relatively cheap for a MacBook Pro.

Hey. It’s been a while since I’ve actually posted anything. I’m sorry. I’ve been pretty busy lately with work. The new job isn’t great, but it isn’t bad. I’m somewhat respected at work, and I’m gaining the respect and trust of my colleagues, both junior and senior, pretty quickly. I’m really happy about that. I’m a little peeved that it’s a mostly Windows environment and that the only language I’m allowed to program in is Powershell.