Revelry Reverie

My baby turned nine years old today! It’s hard to believe that it was nine long years ago that Grant hurtled into this world, because sometimes it feels so short – though also sometimes it feels every minute of nine years. I love him so much, and I’m so proud of him. He stayed home…

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Automattic! WordPress, the open source project, turned 22 this year, and Tumblr turned 18 in February. Twelve and a half years ago, I joined Automattic. And it turns out today marks 15 years since I started my first WordPress.com site! 4% of Automatticians started before me (approx 60 people),…

Grant’s new medication has been working really well for him. It’s let him get organized in a way heretofore unimagined, and possibly to be feared. He’s organized, he’s got a plan, and he’s bossy as hell. The other day he “picked me up” after work (aka, came into my office and stared at me until…

I was reading And Then There Were None today, and Agatha Christie described the start of the storm on Indian Island as rain hissing down. Sitting in my office having just finished my lunch, I closed my eyes, and yes – the sound the rain was making outside my little window did sound like hissing.…

My daughter’s team is at the Odyssey of the Mind World’s competition in East Lansing, Michigan. I am with her! Since I can work from anywhere, I’ve been working from my dorm room (lol), and joining the team for things like the opening ceremony and some meals. Their long-term problem presentation is in about 40…

Grant bought me a necklace for free the other day from a neighbor’s yard sale. It was a quarter, but the neighbor let him have it for free. Grant tried to take him a quarter, but he wouldn’t take it, which was kind. And then Grant tried to help him sell, which I put a…

I saw that some people looked at this post today: https://wp.me/p2kj51-l9 And it made me realize that even before Grant got obsessed with Oliver Jeffers (we have many of his books, including a few that are pretty existential), we returned to his stories again and again. No real point to this post, I suppose! Just…

I got a new role at work today. On Wednesday, nearly a full week ago, we were all rocked by a 16% layoff. Tumblr was hit pretty hard, and we lost a lot of great people. We were also fortunate in that we kept more people than Tumblr needed, and found other roles for them…

I was playing with chatgpt with the kids, and we had fun with the image rendering feature. Each kid wanted something a little different. They gave me general direction and I prompted chatgpt – these aren’t the prompts. Henry: “have it look just like me, maybe a little brighter, but like totally neutral face.” Result:…

Grant wanted us to take a photo of us in our matching shirts, in front of “the nicest spot in our house” (the fireplace). He has good instincts!