TinyHatchet - Minimum Viable Logging. A pretty good pun for a super minimalist log aggregation tool. Now with stylesheets! HowChristlike - a bot to help you track and improve you spiritual health Showlet (retired) - a cloud platform to deliver digital signage and education (built to replace an aging patient education system used by IT clients) Relate (retired) - a personal CRM. Dropped when I realized that Monica already did pretty much everything I wanted

A month or two ago I decided I was going to finally build a mobile app I was wanting for a long time. Since I have very little time with work and family stuff to do, I would usually get an hour or so on it. But being honest, it felt like I was pulling teeth. I really do not like mobile development, mostly because it’s in languages and paradigms I’m not used to.

My wife and I were talking about her ADD the other day and she brought up the lack of intrinsic motivation that comes with ADD. I thought back to the most successful time she has had regarding goal accomplishment, and it was a time where we were rewarding her for success. We came up with the idea to try that again on the thing she is struggling with the most right now, eating at home.

A couple of weeks ago I shared with my wife a frustration I was having, closely related to my last post. I would get really stressed and start feeling bad any time she would ask to spend money and I had to say no. As we unpacked my frustration, I realized I was actually feeling guilty about two different things. First I was feeling guilty about not making enough money, and then I was feeling guilty about not managing our finances well enough.

So I was just listening the latest episode of Beginning Balance, a podcast by Jesse Mecham and Mark Butler. Right now our budget is very tight. I wouldn’t say I’m living paycheck to paycheck, but it is much closer to that than I would like. A lot of our money goes to food, and a significant portion of that in fast food because my wife just doesn’t have the energy to cook at home.

It can be super hard when my wife is having a depressive episode. Pretty much every time I would get home and find her in a nonfunctional depressive episode, it would lead to me getting discouraged or even depressed myself. I hate seeing people sad or discouraged. I immediately try to look for the positive, to encourage, to move forward. Unfortunately I would immediately start thinking of all the things that I had to do to make up for her not functioning – taking care of our daughter, cooking food, walking the dog, cleaning the house, doing the laundry – and immediately get overwhelmed.