2018 was unequivocally the year I started taking our household finances seriously. I got us set up through the first months of the year with all our accounts in budgeting software called “You Need a Budget” (YNAB) and made a household budget and largely stuck to it. The YNAB software is great, it is a …
Author Archives: Andy Kelly
New year, new hosting
It’s 2019 and I am working on remaking some of my relationship with the internet. I’m hoping to slow down, stop compulsively logging into everyone’s favorite trash website twitter dot com. My actual favorite website these days is Space Launch Report. I think I’ve struggled to do much more than receive the awful firehose of …
For its Own Sake
As a rule I’ve done more thinking about writing than writing in the last few years. I’ve thought also about my feelings about writing, about notions of ‘productivity’, ‘progress’, and at least a little about ‘work’. I aspire to be someone who contributes to the world of ideas, culture, and media in whatever small way …
Recent Reading – late summer 2018 edition
I spent a really lovely week this August at a cabin in the woods with family here in the adirondacks but far enough from home that it felt like travel. I spent a lot of time reading, as is right and proper for an internet-less lakeside cabin. I finished a ton of the books that …
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Comfort, Complexity, & Web Publishing
I’ve been using jekyll to publish this site sporadically for years. I have in the last year or two gotten a new computer set up with a publishing workflow that’s typical of sites on this platform: a local install of jekyll to build the site with a local copy of the markdown and associated files …